Lecture 5: The Chemical Revolution and the Nature of Matter
What is the nature of matter, and how did we come to understand the\nchemical elements and atomic structure? This lecture is a brief and\nselective overview of the history of our understanding of the nature of\nmatter and chemistry. We will also introduce spectroscopy and\nradioactivity, two very powerful tools that came out of the chemical\nrevolution that are crucial for the inquiry in this class into the\nquestion of life on other worlds. Recorded live on 2009 Sep 29 in Room\n1005 Smith Laboratory on the Columbus campus of The Ohio State\nUniversity.