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Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Learn the secret for measuring the masses and lifetimes of subatomic particles that exist for roughly a trillionth of a trillionth of a second. Using the Higgs boson and top quark as examples, Dr. Lincoln draws on a simplified version of Einstein's mass-energy equation and Werner Heisenberg's uncertainty principle to infer detailed information about truly ephemeral entities.
62) The Evidence for Modern Physics: How We Know What We Know: Episode 9,Capturing the Ghostly Neutrino
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Hear the story of the neutrino, the ghostly particle that passes through you at the rate of one quadrillion per second, with no ill effects. Neutrinos are created copiously in nuclear reactions and are fiendishly difficult to detect. Pinning them down took great experimental ingenuity, especially since neutrinos turn out to be quick-change artists, often transforming their identities in flight.
63) The Evidence for Modern Physics: How We Know What We Know: Episode 10,The Search for the Higgs Boson
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
As a member of the research team, Dr. Lincoln recounts the discovery of the Higgs boson, one of the major science stories of the past half century. Predicted in 1964, the Higgs particle wasn't experimentally confirmed until 2012. Trace the path to this triumph, as physicists narrowed down the properties of the elusive particle and utilized powerful particle accelerators in the hunt.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Few claims of physics are as absurd as that empty space is writhing with "virtual" particles -- a foam of particles, antiparticles, and photons that appear and disappear with riotous abandon. Learn how Heisenberg's uncertainty principle gives rise to this phenomenon of getting something from nothing, and discover that it is a crucial consideration for engineers creating microelectronics.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Professor Kleier helps you to make sense of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (APG), which botanists now use to classify flowering plants. You'll learn how APG came about, what it does, and why it's so important to field botanists. Then you'll explore the six guiding principles for naming a plant species.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Draw on the astonishing facts about the universe you've already learned in this series, then add observations from recent satellite missions, and reach exact conclusions about the size and age of the universe. One thing you discover is that the diameter of the entire universe is at least 500 times larger than the visible universe. Since we can't see that far, how do we know?
67) The Evidence for Modern Physics: How We Know What We Know: Episode 19,How We Know Dark Matter Exists
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Dark matter is the conjectured substance that outweighs ordinary matter by five to one. However, we can't see it, nor can anyone say what it is -- at least, not yet. The first clues to the existence of dark matter was in observations of stars and galaxies in the 1930s. Since then, the evidence has mounted. Consider alternative explanations and reasons to believe that dark matter is indeed real.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
General relativity predicts that titanic events such as colliding black holes cause the fabric of spacetime to ripple with gravitational waves. Join the search for these signals produced by rare events that are all but undetectable by the time they reach Earth. The existence of gravitational waves was inferred from observations in the 1970s and finally confirmed by detectors in 2015.
69) The Evidence for Modern Physics: How We Know What We Know: Episode 20,How We Search for Dark Matter
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Dig deeper into the quest to understand dark matter. Start by ruling out plausible early explanations, including that dark matter is invisible ordinary matter like cold hydrogen gas or rogue planets. Also rebut some popular exotic theories. Then Dr. Lincoln outlines current experiments to pin down this elusive substance, among them his own work with high-energy particle accelerators.
70) Elon Musk
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The astonishingly intimate story of the most fascinating and controversial innovator of our era--a rule-breaking visionary who helped to lead the world into the era of electric vehicles, private space exploration, and artificial intelligence.
Publisher
Penguin Young Readers Licenses, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Llama Llama is excited to go camping with his friends, but Euclid isn't convinced that a night without all of gadgets could be any fun.
72) DOLL-E 1.0
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Charlotte has a talent for anything technological, so when she receives a doll as a present, she upgrades it with a few spare parts and some code to create a new and improved friend.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"The origin story of the revolutionary driverless car, from concept to its present status, told through the stories of the key innovators by the Wired reporter who has covered this story for the past five years"-- Provided by publisher.
76) Tractor wars: John Deere, Henry Ford, International Harvester, and the birth of modern agriculture
Author
Publisher
Matt Holt Books, an imprint of BebBella Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ten years of infertility issues culminate in the destruction of music therapist Zoe Baxter's marriage, after which she falls in love with another woman and wants to start a family, but her ex-husband, Max, stands in the way.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Formats
Description
This "alarming, believable, and utterly consuming" (bestselling author Dan Brown) thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of the Natchez Burning trilogy and the Penn Cage series explores the terrifying possibility that the next phase of human evolution may not be human at all...
Trinity. The government's top-secret supercomputer is an intelligence beyond comprehension—and a nightmare beyond humanity's worst fears....
Trinity. The government's top-secret supercomputer is an intelligence beyond comprehension—and a nightmare beyond humanity's worst fears....
79) Outrage
Author
Series
Singular menace volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Knowing their lives are at stake, Shay and Odin Remby race to stay one step ahead of Singular Corp in their efforts to expose the company's secret and highly unethical experiments.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Continue your study of machine learning and language by seeing how computers not only read text, but how they can also generate it. Explore the current state of machine translation, which rivals the skill of human translators. Also, learn how algorithms handle a game that Professor Littman played with his family, where a given phrase is expanded piecemeal to create a story.
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