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Understanding the Universe: Part 1

...with Alex Filippenko

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Taught by five-time winner of “Best Professor" on campus at the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. Filippenko, this course, equivalent to a full-year intro college course to astronomy, boasts lectures that teach astronomy using physical examples to help students understand planets and other aspects of space.

Dr. Filippenko includes nearly 300 short videos in his 96 30-minute lectures to help students understand certain happenings in space, as well as size differences between planets, stars, moons, and more. Major concepts, methods, and discoveries in astronomy will be examined in such depth and explained so clearly that nearly anyone could use this program to its full potential.

Dr. Filippenko will go all the way back to constellations sketched by the ancients, all the way up until modern advances in discovering and exploring space, and everything in between. He uses objects and makes analogies that are easily able to be reproduced, and his enthusiasm in the classroom is enough to keep even the most restless of students on the edge of their seat. If you're looking for a complete introductory course to astronomy to really learn from and enjoy, this is it and more.

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This video was added to our catalog on March 02, 2007 in Academic::Science: Physics & Engineering.

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