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Advanced physics series. A tour of the universe / [presented by Rachel Webster].
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Astrophysics.
- Cosmology.
- Genre:
- Lectures.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (34 minutes)
- Other Title:
- Tour of the universe
- Astrophysics : a tour of the universe
- Place of Publication:
- Blackburn, Victoria : Rees Films, 2009.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Original language in English.
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- Astrophysicist Rachel Webster, a Professor at Melbourne University, reviews key aspects of our current knowledge of the Universe and topics that excite students.
- Contents:
- Astronomy as a science
- Our Solar System: the two-body problem
- Stars
- Blackbody radiation
- Stellar evolution
- Light from stars
- The Milky Way
- Dark matter
- Other galaxies
- A model for structure formation
- Density, and what it tells us
- Redshift
- The Big Bang model.
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed August 04, 2015).
- OCLC:
- 919204659
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