Course guidebook includes professor biography, statement of course scope, lecture outlines and notes, timeline, glossary, biographical notes, and bibliography.

The Course Guidebook includes a glossary and bibliographical references.

"English novelist and scientist C. P. Snow classed certain scientific ideas with the works of Shakespeare as things every educated person should know. The lectures in this series explore the fundamental discoveries and principles of the physical and biological sciences - physics, genetics, biology, astronomy, chemistry, meteorology, thermodynamics, and more - providing a comprehensive and integrated introduction to all of science. The Joy of Science, through enhancing an understanding of the physical world, offers a source of endless wonder and intellectual joy."

DVD CONTENTS:

Part I.

Disc 1.
Lecture 01: The Nature of Science
Lecture 02: The Scientific Method
Lecture 03: The Ordered Universe
Lecture 04: Celestial and Terrestrial Mechanics
Lecture 05: Newton's Laws of Motion
Lecture 06: Universal Gravitation

Disc 2.
Lecture 07: The Nature of Energy
Lecture 08: The First Law of Thermodynamics
Lecture 09: The Second Law of Thermodynamics
Lecture 10: Entropy
Lecture 11: Magnetism and Static Electricity
Lecture 12: Electricity

Part II.

Disc 3. Lecture 13: Electromagnetism

Lecture 14: The Electromagnetic Spectrum, Part I
Lecture 15: The Electromagnetic Spectrum, Part II
Lecture 16: Relativity
Lecture 17: Atoms
Lecture 18: The Bohr Atom

Disc 4.
Lecture 19: The Quantum World
Lecture 20: The Periodic Table of the Elements
Lecture 21: Introduction to Chemistry
Lecture 22: The Chemistry of Carbon
Lecture 23: States of Matter and Changes of State
Lecture 24: Phase Transformations and Chemical Reactions

Part III.

Disc 5. Lecture 25: Properties of Materials
Lecture 26: Semiconductors and Modern Microelectronics
Lecture 27: Isotopes and Radioactivity
Lecture 28: Nuclear Fission and Fusion Reactions
Lecture 29: Astronomy
Lecture 30:The Life Cycle of Stars

Disc 6.
Lecture 31: Edwin Hubble and the Discovery of Galaxies
Lecture 32: The Big Bang
Lecture 33: The Ultimate Structure of Matter
Lecture 34: The Nebular Hypothesis
Lecture 35: The Solar System
Lecture 36: The Earth as a Planet

Part IV.
Disc 7.
Lecture 37: The Dynamic Earth
Lecture 38: The Plate-Tectonics Revolution
Lecture 39: Earthquakes, Volcanoes, & Plate Motions Today

Lecture 40: Earth Cycles: Water
Lecture 41: The Atmospheric Cycle
Lecture 42: The Rock Cycle

Disc 8.
Lecture 43: What is Life?
Lecture 44: Strategies of Life
Lecture 45: Life's Molecular Building Blocks
Lecture 46: Proteins
Lecture 47: Cells: The Chemical Factories of Life
Lecture 48: Gregor Mendel, founder of genetics

Part V.

Disc 9
Lecture 49: The Discovery of DNA
Lecture 50: The Genetic Code
Lecture 51: Reading the Genetic Code
Lecture 52: Genetic Engineering
Lecture 53: Cancer and Other Genetic Diseases
Lecture 54: The Chemical Evolution of Life

Disc 10.
Lecture 55: Biological evolution, a unifying theme of biology
Lecture 56: The fact of evolution, the fossil record
Lecture 57: Charles Darwin and the theory of natural selection
Lecture 58: Ecosystems and the law of unintended consequences
Lecture 59: The ozone hole, acid rain, and the greenhouse effect
Lecture 60: Science, the endless frontier.

SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIAL
Concordance to the Science Content Standards of the National Science Education Standards
The Periodic Table of the Elements
Timeline
Glossary
Biographical Notes
Bibliography

Producer, Andreas Burgstaller ; editor, Sal Rodriguez ; content supervisor, Ann Waigand.

Sixty lectures of thirty minutes each by Robert M. Hazen, Clarence Robinson Professor of Earth Science at George Mason University, and researcher at the Geophysical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution of Washington.

"English novelist and scientist C. P. Snow classed certain scientific ideas with the works of Shakespeare as things every educated person should know. The lectures in this series explore the fundamental discoveries and principles of the physical and biological sciences - physics, genetics, biology, astronomy, chemistry, meteorology, thermodynamics, and more - providing a comprehensive and integrated introduction to all of science. The Joy of Science, through enhancing an understanding of the physical world, offers a source of endless wonder and intellectual joy."

Part I.
Disc 1.
Lecture 01: The Nature of Science
lecture 02: The Scientific Method
Lecture 03: The Ordered Universe
Lecture 04: Celestial and Terrestrial Mechanics
Lecture 05: Newton's Laws of Motion
Lecture 06: Universal Gravitation

Disc 2.
Lecture 07: The Nature of Energy
Lecture 08: The First Law of Thermodynamics
Lecture 09: The Second Law of Thermodynamics
Lecture 10: Entropy
Lecture 11: Magnetism and Static Electricity
Lecture 12: Electricity

Part II.
Disc 3.
Lecture 13: Electromagnetism
Lecture 14: The Electromagnetic Spectrum, Part I
Lecture 15: The Electromagnetic Spectrum, Part II
Lecture 16: Relativity
Lecture 17: Atoms
Lecture 18: The Bohr Atom
Disc 4.
Lecture 19: The Quantum World
Lecture 20: The Periodic Table of the Elements
Lecture 21: Introduction to Chemistry
Lecture 22: The Chemistry of Carbon
Lecture 23: States of Matter and Changes of State
Lecture 24: Phase Transformations and Chemical Reactions

Part III.
Disc 5.
Lecture 25: Properties of Materials
Lecture 26: Semiconductors and Modern Microelectronics
Lecture 27: Isotopes and Radioactivity
Lecture 28: Nuclear Fission and Fusion Reactions
Lecture 29: Astronomy
Lecture 30:The Life Cycle of Stars

Disc 6.
Lecture 31: Edwin Hubble and the Discovery of Galaxies
Lecture 32: The Big Bang
Lecture 33: The Ultimate Structure of Matter
Lecture 34: The Nebular Hypothesis
Lecture 35: The Solar System
Lecture 36: The Earth as a Planet

Part IV.
Disc 7.
Lecture 37: The Dynamic Earth
Lecture 38: The Plate-Tectonics Revolution
Lecture 39: Earthquakes, Volcanoes, & Plate Motions Today
Lecture 40: Earth Cycles: Water
Lecture 41: The Atmospheric Cycle
Lecture 42: The Rock Cycle

Disc 8.
Lecture 43: What is Life?
Lecture 44: Strategies of Life
Lecture 45: Life's Molecular Building Blocks
Lecture 46: Proteins
Lecture 47: Cells: The Chemical Factories of Life
Lecture 48: Gregor Mendel, founder of genetics

Part V.
Disc 9
Lecture 49: The Discovery of DNA
Lecture 50: The Genetic Code
Lecture 51: Reading the Genetic Code
Lecture 52: Genetic Engineering
Lecture 53: Cancer and Other Genetic Diseases
Lecture 54: The Chemical Evolution of Life

Disc 10.
Lecture 55: Biological evolution, a unifying theme of biology
Lecture 56: The fact of evolution, the fossil record
Lecture 57: Charles Darwin and the theory of natural selection
Lecture 58: Ecosystems and the law of unintended consequences
Lecture 59: The ozone hole, acid rain, and the greenhouse effect
Lecture 60: Science, the endless frontier.


SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIAL
Concordance to the Science Content Standards of the National Science Education Standards
The Periodic Table of the Elements
Timeline
Glossary
Biographical Notes
Bibliography

DVD.

English.