Modern Physics: A Free 6‑Course Introduction by Stanford’s Leonard Susskind

For the past two years, Stan­ford has been rolling out a series of cours­es (col­lec­tive­ly called Mod­ern Physics: The The­o­ret­i­cal Min­i­mum) that gives you a base­line knowl­edge for think­ing intel­li­gent­ly about mod­ern physics. The sequence, which moves from Isaac New­ton, to Albert Einstein’s work on the gen­er­al and spe­cial the­o­ries of rel­a­tiv­i­ty, to black holes and string the­o­ry, comes out of Stanford’s Con­tin­u­ing Stud­ies pro­gram. And the cours­es are all taught by Leonard Susskind, an impor­tant physi­cist who has engaged in a long run­ning “Black Hole War” with Stephen Hawk­ing. The final course, Sta­tis­ti­cal Mechan­ics, has now been post­ed on YouTube. The rest of the cours­es can be accessed imme­di­ate­ly below. (The cours­es also appear in our list of Free Online Physics Cours­es, a sub­set of our col­lec­tion, 1,700 Free Online Cours­es from Top Uni­ver­si­ties.) Six cours­es. Rough­ly 120 hours of con­tent. A com­pre­hen­sive tour of mod­ern physics. All in video. All free. Beat that.

Mod­ern Physics: The The­o­ret­i­cal Min­i­mum

  • Clas­si­cal Mechan­ics — YouTube
  • Quan­tum Mechan­ics — YouTube
  • Spe­cial Rel­a­tiv­i­ty — YouTube
  • Ein­stein’s Gen­er­al The­o­ry of Rel­a­tiv­i­ty — YouTube
  • Cos­mol­o­gy — YouTube
  • Sta­tis­ti­cal Mechan­ics — YouTube

Relat­ed Con­tent:

The Feyn­man Lec­tures on Physics, The Most Pop­u­lar Physics Book Ever Writ­ten, Is Now Com­plete­ly Online

What Made Richard Feyn­man One of the Most Admired Edu­ca­tors in the World

‘The Char­ac­ter of Phys­i­cal Law’: Richard Feynman’s Leg­endary Course Pre­sent­ed at Cor­nell, 1964


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  • Gullit says:

    I love those lessons I have physics as a hob­by ( which means I real­ly love it ), there is no such beau­ti­ful thing as physics ( and math­e­mat­ics of course ). It real­ly amazes me how those high school teach­ers can make their stu­dents hate math and physics, when i was at high school ( not long ago ) i used to hate math too but when i began to study it by myself i start­ed to see its beau­ty, now i have a cou­ple of friends at uni­ver­si­ty that love physics too so we hang out about every week­end to talk about physics and math ( ok, you can call me a nerd, i don’t care any­more ). Thanks for point­ing out a lot of great mate­r­i­al here.

  • aldo says:

    i need a lot of these videos to help me in physics because i have a hard time to remem­ber it in school

  • Anil jayswal says:

    i need a lot of these videos to help me in physics because i have a hard time to remem­ber it in school

  • cherramie says:

    Help me to do a research in mod­ern physics in title Elec­tro­mag­net­ic Radi­a­tion?

  • William Varenas says:

    These videos are awe­some!!! I can not tell you how much I love the lec­tures and expla­na­tions for the core of mod­ern physics!!! Thank you so much for these won­der­full videos-can’t wait for more!!!

    Sin­cere­ly,
    Bill Vare­nas

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