Directed by The Great Courses

Ron B. Davis Jr

Refine your portrait of one of science's most iconic images and crucial organizational tools in 24 lessons that combine instructions with experiments and animated lab demonstrations. Emerge from this course with a fuller portrait of the periodic table and field of chemistry more broadly

Rated TVPG

Mode of access: World Wide Web

Episode 1

The Periodic Table: Our Menu of Matter

Episode 2

From Triads to Tables and the Role of Protons

Episode 3

How Electrons Shape the Table

Episode 4

Periodic Trends in Element Properties

Episode 5

The Origin and Distribution of the Elements

Episode 6

Elements Break Down: Radiation and Fission

Episode 7

First-Row Opposites: Hydrogen and Helium

Episode 8

Sodium, Potassium, and the Alkali Metals

Episode 9

Magnesium, Calcium, and the Alkaline Earths

Episode 10

Enormous Variety on the Table's Right Side

Episode 11

Noble Gases: The "Lazy" Unreactive Elements

Episode 12

Halogens: The Most Reactive Nonmetals

Episode 13

Why Oxygen and Nitrogen Are Irreplaceable

Episode 14

Complexity of Carbon, Sulfur, and Phosphorus

Episode 15

Silicon and the Metalloid Diagonal

Episode 16

Aluminum, Tin, Lead, and Other Weak Metals

Episode 17

The Table's Great Divide: Transition Metals

Episode 18

Colorful and Durable Early Transition Metals

Episode 19

Magnets and Catalysts of the Middle Transition

Episode 20

From Coins to Toxins: Copper to Mercury

Episode 21

Rare-Earth Elements: Surprisingly Abundant

Episode 22

Nuclear Fuel: Thorium, Uranium, and Plutonium

Episode 23

Creating the Transplutonic Elements

Episode 24

Superheavy Atoms and the Transfermium Wars