Susskind Theoretical Minimum
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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
All Courses
Core Courses A (2007-2009)
[edit | edit source]Classical Mechanics A
[edit | edit source]- Lecture 1 - State diagrams and the nature of physical laws
- Lecture 2 - Newton's laws, principle of least action
- Lecture 3 - Euler-Lagrange equations, symmetry and conservation laws
- Lecture 4 - Symmetry and conservation Laws
- Lecture 5 - Lagrangians and Hamiltonians
- Lecture 6 - Hamilton's equations
- Lecture 7 - Liouville’s theorem
- Lecture 8 - Motion in an electromagnetic field
- Lecture 9 - Poisson brackets formulation
Quantum Mechanics A
[edit | edit source]- Lecture 1
- Lecture 2
- Lecture 3
- Lecture 4
- Lecture 5
- Lecture 6
- Lecture 7
- Lecture 8
- Lecture 9
- Lecture 10
Special Relativity A
[edit | edit source]- Lecture 1 - Inertial reference frames
- Lecture 2 - Principle of least action
- Lecture 3 - Invariance of the laws of nature
- Lecture 4 - Lagrangian mechanics
- Lecture 5 - Conservation of charge and momentum
- Lecture 6 - Relativistic wave equation and conservation laws
- Lecture 7 - Invariance under gauge transformations
- Lecture 8 - Gauge theory
General Relativity A
[edit | edit source]- Lecture 1 - Newtonian Gravity and the equivalence principle
- Lecture 2 - Tidal forces and curvature
- Lecture 3 - Essential tools: tensors and the metric
- Lecture 4 - Tensor mechanics
- Lecture 5 - Covariant differentiation and geodesics
- Lecture 6 - The flat space of special relativity
- Lecture 7 - The Riemannian curvature tensor
- Lecture 8 - Equations of motion in curved space
- Lecture 9 - Gravitation in the Newtonian approximation
- Lecture 10 - Energy-momentum tensor and Einstein's equations
- Lecture 11 - Accelerated coordinates
- Lecture 12 - World lines and Schwarzschild solution
Cosmology A
[edit | edit source]- Lecture 1 - Geometry of the expanding universe
- Lecture 2 - Newtonian and Friedmann-Robertson-Walker cosmology
- Lecture 3 - Structure of the universe
- Lecture 4 - Background microwave radiation
- Lecture 5 - Cosmological curvature
- Lecture 6 - Surface of last scattering
- Lecture 7 - Cosmological inflation
- Lecture 8 - Big omega
Statistical Mechanics A
[edit | edit source]- Lecture 1 - Conservation of information, energy, entropy, and temperature
- Lecture 2 - The mathematics of statistical mechanics
- Lecture 3 - The Boltzman distribution and fluctuations
- Lecture 4 - Helmholtz free energy and the partition function
- Lecture 5 - Diatomic molecules and black hole thermodynamics
- Lecture 6 - Second law of thermodynamics
- Lecture 7 - Harmonic oscillators and quantum states
- Lecture 8 - Magnets
- Lecture 9 - Phase transitions and chemical potential
- Lecture 10 - Thermal radiation and inflation
Core Courses B (2011-2013)
[edit | edit source]Classical Mechanics B
[edit | edit source]- Lecture 1 - State diagrams and the nature of physical laws
- Lecture 2 - Newton's law, phase space, momentum and energy
- Lecture 3 - Lagrangian, least action, Euler-Lagrange equations
- Lecture 4 - Symmetry and conservation laws
- Lecture 5 - The Hamiltonian
- Lecture 6 - Hamilton's equations
- Lecture 7 - Liouville s theorem
- Lecture 8 - Poisson brackets
- Lecture 9 - Electric and magnetic fields 1
- Lecture 10 - Electric and magnetic fields 2
Quantum Mechanics B
[edit | edit source]- Lecture 1 - Introduction to quantum mechanics
- Lecture 2 - The basic logic of quantum mechanics
- Lecture 3 - Vector spaces and operators
- Lecture 4 - Time evolution of a quantum system
- Lecture 5 - Uncertainty, unitary evolution, and the Schrödinger equation
- Lecture 6 - Entanglement
- Lecture 7 - Entanglement and the nature of reality
- Lecture 8 - Particles moving in one dimension and their operators
- Lecture 9 - Fourier analysis applied to quantum mechanics and the uncertainty principle
- Lecture 10 - The uncertainty principle and classical analogs
Special Relativity B
[edit | edit source]- Lecture 1 - The Lorentz transformation
- Lecture 2 - Adding velocities
- Lecture 3 - Relativistic laws of motion and E = mc2
- Lecture 4 - Classical field theory
- Lecture 5 - Particles and fields
- Lecture 6 - The Lorentz force law
- Lecture 7 - The fundamental principles of physical laws
- Lecture 8 - Maxwell's equations
- Lecture 9 - Lagrangian for Maxwell's equations
- Lecture 10 - Connection between classical mechanics and field theory
General Relativity B
[edit | edit source]- Lecture 1 - The equivalence principle and tensor analysis
- Lecture 2 - Tensor mathematics
- Lecture 3 - Flatness and curvature
- Lecture 4 - Geodesics and gravity
- Lecture 5 - Metric for a gravitational field
- Lecture 6 - Black holes
- Lecture 7 - Falling in to a black hole
- Lecture 8 - Formation of a black hole
- Lecture 9 - Einstein field equations
- Lecture 10 - Gravity waves
Cosmology B
[edit | edit source]- Lecture 1 - The expanding (Newtonian) universe
- Lecture 2 - Matter and radiation dominated universes
- Lecture 3 - Geometries of space: flat, spherical, hyperbolic
- Lecture 4 - Cosmological thermodynamics
- Lecture 5 - Vacuum energy
- Lecture 6 - Dark matter and allocation of energy density
- Lecture 7 - Temperature history of the universe
- Lecture 8 - Baryogenesis
- Lecture 9 - Inflation
- Lecture 10 - Inhomogeneities and quantum fluctuations
Statistical Mechanics B
[edit | edit source]- Lecture 1 - Entropy and conservation of information
- Lecture 2 - Temperature
- Lecture 3 - Maximizing entropy
- Lecture 4 - The Boltzmann distribution
- Lecture 5 - Pressure of an ideal gas and fluctuations
- Lecture 6 - Weakly interacting gases, heat, and work
- Lecture 7 - Entropy vs. reversibility
- Lecture 8 - Entropy, reversibility, and magnetism
- Lecture 9 - Tbe Ising model
- Lecture 10 - Liquid-gas phase transition
Supplemental Courses
[edit | edit source]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