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 (my day job). 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, and you can also find it on iTunes in video. The rest of the courses can be accessed immediately below. 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 (Fall 2007) iTunes YouTube
- Quantum Mechanics (Winter 2008) iTunes YouTube
- Special Relativity (Spring 2008) iTunes YouTube
- Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity (Fall 2009) iTunes YouTube
- Cosmology (Winter 2009) iTunes YouTube
- Statistical Mechanics (Spring 2009) iTunes YouTube
PS If you live in the San Francisco Bay Area, you should consider checking out Prof. Susskind’s new course. It will take a yearlong look at new revolutions in Particle Physics, and how important theories will be tested by the Large Hadron Collider in Europe. His course begins next week. Learn more here.
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imagine if internet, video cameras had been around when albert einstein, enrico fermi, were alive.
we can see albert einstein lecture today
newton’s the guy i wanna talk to. inventing differential eq’s and a good means to solve them (power series), is pretty much our EVERYTHING.