[The Great Courses] Michael E. Wysession - The Science of Energy_ Resources and Power Explained (2016, The Teaching Company)

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1、TopicSubtopicScience&MathematicsEarthSciencesTheScienceofEnergyResourcesandPowerExplainedCourseGuidebookProfessorMichaelE.WysessionWashingtonUniversityinSt.LouisPUBLISHEDBY:THEGREATCOURSESCorporateHeadquarters4840WestfieldsBoulevard,Suite500Chantilly,Virginia20151-22

2、99Phone:1-800-832-2412Fax:703-378-3819www.thegreatcourses.comCopyright©TheTeachingCompany,2016PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmericaThisbookisincopyright.Allrightsreserved.Withoutlimitingtherightsundercopyrightreservedabove,nopartofthispublicationmaybereproduced,storedino

3、rintroducedintoaretrievalsystem,ortransmitted,inanyform,orbyanymeans(electronic,mechanical,photocopying,recording,orotherwise),withoutthepriorwrittenpermissionofTheTeachingCompany.MichaelE.Wysession,Ph.D.ProfessorofEarthandPlanetarySciencesWashingtonUniversityinSt.Lo

4、uisr.MichaelE.WysessionisaProfessorofEarthDandPlanetarySciencesatWashingtonUniversityinSt.Louis.HeearnedhisSc.B.fromBrownUniversityandhisPh.D.fromNorthwesternUniversity,bothinGeophysics.Anestablishedleaderinseismologyandgeoscienceeducation,Dr.Wysessionisnotedforhisde

5、velopmentofnewwaystovisualizethepropagationofseismicwavesandtousethosewavesincreatingthree-dimensionalimagesofEarth’sinterior.TheseimageshaveprovidedscientistswithinsightsintothemakeupofEarthanditsevolutionthroughouthistory.MuchofDr.Wysession’sseismologicalresearchha

6、sfocusedondeterminingthecompositionofEarth’sdeepmantle,particularlytheenigmaticboundarybetweenEarth’srockymantleandliquidironoutercore.Dr.Wysessionhasreceivedmanyawardsforhisresearchandteachingandhasbeenaleaderinuniversityeducationreform.Hehascoauthoredmorethan50refe

7、reedscientificpublicationsandmorethan20textbooks,includingthegraduate-leveltextAnIntroductiontoSeismology,Earthquakes,andEarthStructureandtheK–8educationalprogramInteractiveScience.Dr.WysessionledtheEarthandSpaceSciencesteaminthewritingofthenewnationalK–12NextGenerat

8、ionScienceStandards,whicharerevolutionizingtheteachingofscienceinprimaryandsecondaryschools.HeisafrequentguestontelevisionandiiScie