The Joy of Science

The Joy of Science is a popular video and audio course series, consisting of 60 lectures, each 30 minutes long, presented by Robert Hazen of the George Mason University and the Carnegie Institution of Washington. The course, first introduced in 2001, is part of The Great Courses series, and is produced and distributed by The Teaching Company, located in Chantilly, Virginia, in the United States.

Background

As the Clarence B. Robinson Professor at George Mason University, Robert Hazen developed innovative courses to promote scientific literacy in both scientists and non-scientists. In a collaboration with physicist James Trefil, he wrote three undergraduate textbooks: The Sciences: An Integrated Approach (1993), The Physical Sciences: An Integrated Approach (1995), and Physics Matters: An Introduction to Conceptual Physics (2004). Hazen used these as the basis for a 60-lecture video and audio course called The Joy of Science.

Description No. Title No. Title No. Title 01 The Nature of Science 21 Introduction to Chemistry 41 The Atmospheric Cycle 02 The Scientific Method 22 The Chemistry of Carbon 42 The Rock Cycle 03 The Ordered Universe 23 States of Matter and Changes of State 43 What Is Life? 04 Celestrial and Terrestrial Mechanics 24 Phase Transformations and Chemical Reactions 44 Strategies of Life 05 Newton's Laws of Motion 25 Properties of Materials 45 Life's Molecular Building Blocks 06 Universal Gravitation 26 Semiconductors and Modern Microelectronics 46 Proteins 07 The Nature of Energy 27 Isotopes and Radioactivity 47 Cells–The Chemical Factories of Life 08 The First Law of Thermodynamics 28 Nuclear Fission and Fusion Reactions 48 Gregor Mendel, Founder of Genetics 09 The Second Law of Thermodynamics 29 Astronomy 49 The Discovery of DNA 10 Entropy 30 The Life Cycle of Stars 50 The Genetic Code 11 Magnetism and Static Electricity 31 Edwin Hubble and the Discovery of Galaxies 51 Reading the Genetic Code 12 Electricity 32 The Big Bang 52 Genetic Engineering 13 Electromagnetism 33 The Ultimate Structure of Matter 53 Cancer and Other Genetic Diseases 14 The Electromagnetic Spectrum, Part I 34 The Nebular Hypothesis 54 The Chemical Evolution of Life 15 The Electromagnetic Spectrum, Part II 35 The Solar System 55 Biological Evolution – A Unifying Theme of Biology 16 Relativity 36 The Earth as a Planet 56 The Fact of Evolution – The Fossil Record 17 Atoms 37 The Dynamic Earth 57 Charles Darwin and the Theory of Natural Selection 18 The Bohr Atom 38 The Plate Tectonics Revolution 58 Ecosystems and the Law of Unintended Consequences 19 The Quantum World 39 Earthquakes, Volcanoes, and Plate Motions Today 59 The Ozone Hole, Acid Rain, and the Greenhouse Effect 20 The Periodic Table of Elements 40 Earth Cycles–Water 60Science, the Endless Frontier

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