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Lecture 1 | Modern Physics: Quantum Mechanics (Stanford)

Posted by Admin in Tuesday, April 13th 2010 25 comments already

Lecture 1 of Leonard Susskind’s Modern Physics course concentrating on Quantum Mechanics. Recorded January 14, 2008 at Stanford University. This Stanford Continuing Studies course is the second of a six-quarter sequence of classes exploring the essential theoretical foundations of modern physics. The topics covered in this course focus on quantum mechanics. Leonard Susskind is the Felix Bloch Professor of Physics at Stanford University. Complete playlist for the course: youtube.com Stanford Continuing Studies: continuingstudies.stanford.edu About Leonard Susskind: www.stanford.edu Stanford University channel on YouTube: www.youtube.com

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25 Comments Already

jurruk Said,

April 13th, 2010 @9:39 am

@zbosox: a degree may very well limit your mind, not expand it.

Zubinen Said,

April 13th, 2010 @9:50 am

@harvellt That’s pretty much the case for anyone with a graduate degree. Simply put, the better educated you are, the more opportunities you have.

harvellt Said,

April 13th, 2010 @10:06 am

@Zubinen That’s true but its also nice there are plenty of jobs out there that pay people with physics degrees pretty well.

Zubinen Said,

April 13th, 2010 @10:16 am

@harvellt To a true physicist, an understanding of the universe is worth more than all the money in the world.

HolyMith Said,

April 13th, 2010 @10:51 am

Do you guys know that this professor was one of the pioneering string theorists? Quite kool.

mrieducationcompany Said,

April 13th, 2010 @11:27 am

If you want to give us an idea of what the audience look like why not turn the camera 180 degrees?

david28175 Said,

April 13th, 2010 @11:58 am

@playsvideogames only if you want to be known as einstein the 2nd. good on ya buddy

EarnForexMoney Said,

April 13th, 2010 @12:21 pm

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hammerofharpel Said,

April 13th, 2010 @1:18 pm

@barbahaba
I turned on the google subtitles and it was quite hysterical. Photon is interpreted as book which is obviously because photon isn’t in the sound dictionary of the program.

dirksucks Said,

April 13th, 2010 @1:53 pm

At 1:24:00 this guy write a vector space is not a set. Wrong. A vector space is a set endowed with operations that satisfy properties. A vector space is a special kind of set. Boo-yah.

r1ccardo Said,

April 13th, 2010 @2:50 pm

hate it when a lecturer doesn’t get to the point…

13l1zza12d Said,

April 13th, 2010 @3:43 pm

What is the question at 0:44:33 ? If somebody knows it, please tell me.

martini4948 Said,

April 13th, 2010 @4:02 pm

Thanks

barbahaba Said,

April 13th, 2010 @4:08 pm

this is a great lecture really good examples
and if by any chance u watch this dont use the subtitles cause they replace the words with words that sound the same but not with the same meaning.
pretty funny actually

superbrando90 Said,

April 13th, 2010 @4:28 pm

complex numbers are normally expressed like this:

a+bi where i is the square root of -1.

dooolian Said,

April 13th, 2010 @5:02 pm

@coolguy6075. Stick at it and never stop asking questions about the world around you. You will end up with an educated mind, a great job and have loads of fun along the way.

coolguy6075 Said,

April 13th, 2010 @5:11 pm

It was introduced by Carl Friedrich Gauss and a value of a unit of the complex numbers is denoted as ‘i’, and set equal to the sqrt of (-1), wich can not be presented on the real line.

coolguy6075 Said,

April 13th, 2010 @6:01 pm

I’m twelve, and i watched all the MITOpenCourseWare physics courses, and all of the mathematics needed, inqluding linear algebra, and am trying to obtain the idea of quantum mechanics, and general relativity, but, unfortunatly, i have slamed my face in a wall when i had no answer for the meaning of QM, and espetialy the meanig of Einestein’s relativity in modern day technology, or any other science, or art.

Burdell22000 Said,

April 13th, 2010 @6:54 pm

If he´s actually asking others about it he should learn self-determination first and then, yes, QED

kain1510 Said,

April 13th, 2010 @7:11 pm

@playsvideogames

If he can understand it, absolutely.

playsvideogames Said,

April 13th, 2010 @7:41 pm

Is it okay for a 15 year old to be learning about Quantum Mechanics?

tommyXBOX360 Said,

April 13th, 2010 @8:02 pm

Srry but wat is a complex number, I’m Dutch and I don’t know what the english meaning of the word is???

Pastafarealist Said,

April 13th, 2010 @8:51 pm

I understand the basics, but should I continue watching these videos even if I haven’t finished taking all my math courses yet?(I’m also learning math ahead on my own)

jameilious Said,

April 13th, 2010 @8:54 pm

I understand why there are minima of a double slit experiment – using huygens theory etc…

But what explains how the photons *know* the other slit is open, there aren’t loads of waves if 1 photom… How does it work? Sorry if this is coming up as I keep watching lol

harvellt Said,

April 13th, 2010 @9:08 pm

100 people to take this class so amazing. I can barley scrape enough undergrads together to get them to teach quantum next fall so I can graduate.