Discover science's most fundamental branch in this course that covers Newtonian mechanics, thermodynamics, electromagnetism, optics, quantum theory, and more.
Overview
Syllabus
- By This Professor
- 01: The Fundamental Science
- 02: Languages of Physics
- 03: Describing Motion
- 04: Falling Freely
- 05: It's a 3-D World!
- 06: Going in Circles
- 07: Causes of Motion
- 08: Using Newton's Laws-1-D motion
- 09: Action and Reaction
- 10: Newton's Laws in 2 and 3 Dimensions
- 11: Work and Energy
- 12: Using Energy Conservation
- 13: Gravity
- 14: Systems of Particles
- 15: Rotational Motion
- 16: Keeping Still
- 17: Back and Forth-Oscillatory Motion
- 18: Making Waves
- 19: Fluid Statics-The Tip of the Iceberg
- 20: Fluid Dynamics
- 21: Heat and Temperature
- 22: Heat Transfer
- 23: Matter and Heat
- 24: The Ideal Gas
- 25: Heat and Work
- 26: Entropy-The Second Law of Thermodynamics
- 27: Consequences of the Second Law
- 28: A Charged World
- 29: The Electric Field
- 30: Electric Potential
- 31: Electric Energy
- 32: Electric Current
- 33: Electric Circuits
- 34: Magnetism
- 35: The Origin of Magnetism
- 36: Electromagnetic Induction
- 37: Applications of Electromagnetic Induction
- 38: Magnetic Energy
- 39: AC/DC
- 40: Electromagnetic Waves
- 41: Reflection and Refraction
- 42: Imaging
- 43: Wave Optics
- 44: Cracks in the Classical Picture
- 45: Earth, Ether, Light
- 46: Special Relativity
- 47: Time and Space
- 48: Space-Time and Mass-Energy
- 49: General Relativity
- 50: Introducing the Quantum
- 51: Atomic Quandaries
- 52: Wave or Particle?
- 53: Quantum Mechanics
- 54: Atoms
- 55: Molecules and Solids
- 56: The Atomic Nucleus
- 57: Energy from the Nucleus
- 58: The Particle Zoo
- 59: An Evolving Universe
- 60: Humble Physics-What We Don't Know
Taught by
Richard Wolfson
