Lecture 4 | Modern Physics: Classical Mechanics (Stanford)

Lecture 4 of Leonard Susskind's Modern Physics course concentrating on Classical Mechanics. Recorded November 5, 2007 at Stanford University.

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Lecture 3 | Modern Physics: Classical Mechanics (Stanford)

Lecture 3 of Leonard Susskind's Modern Physics course concentrating on Classical Mechanics. Recorded October 29, 2007 at Stanford University. Principle of least action, lagrangian, conservations laws and symmetry.

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Lecture 2 | Modern Physics: Classical Mechanics (Stanford)

Lecture 2 of Leonard Susskind's Modern Physics course concentrating on Classical Mechanics. Recorded October 22, 2007 at Stanford University. This Stanford Continuing Studies course is the first of a six-quarter sequence of classes exploring the essential theoretical foundations of modern physics. The topics covered in this course focus on classical mechanics. Leonard Susskind is the Felix Bloch Professor of Physics at Stanford University.

Conservation of energy, conservation of momentum, finding the local minima of a function, principle of least time, principle of least action, lagrangian.

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Modern Physics: Classical Mechanics (Stanford) Lecture 1

Lecture 1 of Leonard Susskind's Modern Physics course concentrating on Classical Mechanics. Recorded October 15, 2007 at Stanford University.

This Stanford Continuing Studies course is the first of a six-quarter sequence of classes exploring the essential theoretical foundations of modern physics. The topics covered in this course focus on classical mechanics.

Phase space, determinism, conservation laws.

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