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:

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