free physics video and audio courses

Free Physics Video and Audio Courses

In all my posts if I have multiple items to post, I will categorize

them based on their difficulty.

Descriptive introduction to physics:

* Physics for Future Presidents (Berkeley)

* Course website

No prior physics is required. Moreover, even if you are a physics

major, you will find that most of the material is new. Physics majors

spend so much time learning the math and to abstract calculations that

they often do not get to the important results. This course is now

open for physics majors too, in fact, is is an excellent supplement

for your other physics courses.

Classical Mechanics:

* Physics 8.01 (MIT)

* Course website

In addition to the basic concepts of Newtonian Mechanics, Fluid

Mechanics, and Kinetic Gas Theory, a variety of interesting topics are

covered in this course: Binary Stars, Neutron Stars, Black Holes,

Resonance Phenomena, Musical Instruments, Stellar Collapse,

Supernovae, Astronomical observations from very high flying balloons

(lecture #35), and you will be allowed a peek into the intriguing

Quantum World.

Introductory Physics

* Physics 8A 001 (audio only)

* Physics 8A 002 (audio only)

Introduction to forces, kinetics, equilibria, fluids, waves, and heat.

This course presents concepts and methodologies for understanding

physical phenomena, and is particularly useful preparation for upper

division study in biology and architecture.

Electricity and Magnetism:

* Physics 8.02 (MIT)

* Course website

In addition to the basic concepts of Electromagnetism, a vast variety

of interesting topics are covered in this course: Lightning,

Pacemakers, Electric Shock Treatment, Electrocardiograms, Metal

Detectors, Musical Instruments, Magnetic Levitation, Bullet Trains,

Electric Motors, Radios, TV, Car Coils, Superconductivity, Aurora

Borealis, Rainbows, Radio Telescopes, Interferometers, Particle

Accelerators (a.k.a. Atom Smashers or Colliders), Mass Spectrometers,

Red Sunsets, Blue Skies, Haloes around Sun and Moon, Color Perception,

Doppler Effect, Big-Bang Cosmology.

Vibrations and Waves:

* Physics 8.03 (MIT)

* Course website

In addition to the traditional topics of mechanical vibrations and

waves, coupled oscillators, and electro-magnetic radiation, students

will also learn about musical instruments, red sunsets, glories,

coronae, rainbows, haloes, X-ray binaries, neutron stars, black holes

and big-bang cosmology.

Symmetry, Structure, and Tensor Properties of Materials

* 3.60 (link to video lectures) (MIT)

* Course website

This course covers the derivation of symmetry theory; lattices, point

groups, space groups, and their properties; use of symmetry in tensor

representation of crystal properties, including anisotropy and

representation surfaces; and applications to piezoelectricity and

elasticity.

I will post other links in a few days.

Related Posts

* More Physics Video Courses

(Includes physics for non-science majors, mechanical universe

lecture series, elementary college physics, and astrophysics)

* Even More Physics Videos and Video Lectures

(Lots of Richard P. Feynman lectures, compexity and chaos,

universe in a nutshell, black holes, life in space, states of

matter, chemistry of interstellar space, electricity and

magnetism, nanophysics and many others)

* String Theory, Quantum Computation and Others

(Includes 3 hour video series of The Elegant Universe - the theory

about unifying all four fundamental forces and the string theory,

various lectures from princeton university on black holes and

others, historical perspectives of Hans Bethe and quantum

computation by David Deutsch)