Susskind Theoretical Minimum/Supplemental Courses
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A restoration of a good index into the lectures of Leonard Susskind (Stanford).
Select from: All Courses Core Courses A (2007-2009) Core Courses B (2011-2013) Supplemental Courses
Supplemental Courses
Quantum Entanglement (2006)
[edit | edit source]Relativity (2007)
[edit | edit source]Particle Physics 1: Basic Concepts (2009)
[edit | edit source]- Lecture 1 - Particles and light
- Lecture 2 - Quantum field theory
- Lecture 3 - Quantum fields and particles
- Lecture 4 - More quantum field theory
- Lecture 5 - Energy conservation and waves
- Lecture 6 - Dirac equation and Higgs particles
- Lecture 7 - Angular momentum
- Lecture 8 - Spin
- Lecture 9 - Equations of motion of particles and fields
- Lecture 10 - Field Lagrangians and path integrals
Particle Physics 2: Standard Model (2010)
[edit | edit source]- Lecture 1 - Particles fields and forces
- Lecture 2 - Quantum chromodynamics
- Lecture 3 - Group theory – part 1
- Lecture 4 - Group theory – part 2
- Lecture 5 - Gauge fields and symmetry
- Lecture 6 - The weak interaction
- Lecture 7 - Spontaneous symmetry breaking and Goldstone bosons
- Lecture 8 - The Higgs field
- Lecture 9 - The Higgs field and fermions
- Lecture 10 - Renormalization and the running of coupling constants
Particle Physics 3: Supersymmetry and Grand Unification (2010)
[edit | edit source]- Lecture 1 - Renormalization concepts, and dimensional analysis
- Lecture 2 - Fermions and bosons
- Lecture 3 - Propagators and renormalization of mass
- Lecture 4 - Symmetry and Grassmann numbers
- Lecture 5 - A first supersymmetric model
- Lecture 6 - Supersymmetry building blocks
- Lecture 7 - Lagrangians that preserve supersymmetry
- Lecture 8 - Generalizing supersymmetry to 3+1 spacetime, and QFT
- Lecture 9 - Supersymmetry breaking and an introduction to grand unified theories
- Lecture 10 - GUTs, the SU(5) representation, proton decay
String Theory and M-Theory (2010)
[edit | edit source]- Lecture 1 - The historical origins of string theory
- Lecture 2 - Mathematics of string motion
- Lecture 3 - The energy spectrum of strings
- Lecture 4 - Closed strings and the level matching rule
- Lecture 5 - Bosonic strings
- Lecture 6 - Strings with spin
- Lecture 7 - Fermionic strings and path integrals
- Lecture 8 - Conformal mapping and string scattering
- Lecture 9 - Strings in compact dimensions
- Lecture 10 - T-duality, D-branes and modeling field theories
- Lecture 11 - String theory wrapup - see the Lecture 1 of the next course
Topics in String Theory / Cosmology and Black Holes (2011)
[edit | edit source]- Lecture 1 - String theory wrapup - this is the last 11'th lecture of the previous course
- Lecture 2 - Special relativity and string theory - the first lecture of this course
- Lecture 3 - Black holes
- Lecture 4 - Black hole horizons
- Lecture 5 - Black holes and light
- Lecture 6 - Black hole entropy
- Lecture 7 - Black hole entropy 2
- Lecture 8 - Horizons
- Lecture 9 - More black holes and horizons
Higgs Boson (2012)
[edit | edit source]Advanced Quantum Mechanics (2013)
[edit | edit source]- Lecture 1 - Review of quantum mechanics and introduction to symmetry
- Lecture 2 - Symmetry groups and degeneracy
- Lecture 3 - Atomic orbits and harmonic oscillators
- Lecture 4 - Spin
- Lecture 5 - Fermions: a tale of two minus signs
- Lecture 6 - Quantum field theory
- Lecture 7 - Quantum field theory 2
- Lecture 8 - Second quantization
- Lecture 9 - Quantum field Hamiltonian
- Lecture 10 - Fermions and the Dirac equation