Cover three centuries of brilliant thinkers as an award-winning professor takes you step by step through landmark concepts in physics.
Overview
Syllabus
- By This Professor
- 01: The Great Ideas of Classical Physics
- 02: Describing Motion - A Break from Aristotle
- 03: Describing Ever More Complex Motion
- 04: Astronomy as a Bridge to Modern Physics
- 05: Isaac Newton - The Dawn of Classical Physics
- 06: Newton Quantified - Force and Acceleration
- 07: Newton and the Connections to Astronomy
- 08: Universal Gravitation
- 09: Newton's Third Law
- 10: Conservation of Momentum
- 11: Beyond Newton - Work and Energy
- 12: Power and the Newtonian Synthesis
- 13: Further Developments - Static Electricity
- 14: Electricity, Magnetism, and Force Fields
- 15: Electrical Currents and Voltage
- 16: The Origin of Electric and Magnetic Fields
- 17: Unification I - Maxwell's Equations
- 18: Unification II - Electromagnetism and Light
- 19: Vibrations and Waves
- 20: Sound Waves and Light Waves
- 21: The Atomic Hypothesis
- 22: Energy in Systems - Heat and Thermodynamics
- 23: Heat and the Second Law of Thermodynamics
- 24: The Grand Picture of Classical Physics
Taught by
Steven Pollock
