Lecture 3 | Modern Physics: Classical Mechanics (Stanford)

Posted on February 21, 2009
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Lecture 3 of Leonard Susskind’s Modern Physics course concentrating on Classical Mechanics. Recorded October 29, 2007 at Stanford University.

This Stanford Continuing Studies course is the first of a six-quarter sequence of classes exploring the essential theoretical foundations of modern physics. The topics covered in this course focus on classical mechanics. Leonard Susskind is the Felix Bloch Professor of Physics at Stanford University.

Complete playlist for the course:
http://youtube.com/view_play_list?p=189C0DCE90CB6D81

Stanford Continuing Studies: http://continuingstudies.stanford.edu/

About Leonard Susskind: http://www.stanford.edu/dept/physics/people/faculty/susskind_leonard.html

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9 Responses to “Lecture 3 | Modern Physics: Classical Mechanics (Stanford)”

  1. ikanrajah on February 21st, 2009 11:43 pm

    The sound repro sux! some lectures are loud enough this one’s so soft! dont Stanford check its otuputs for quality? coming from an ivy league, this sux!

  2. Frostalzzz on February 23rd, 2009 3:17 am

    heh, exactly the same here. I got my engineering degree last year(after 5 long hard years) and I felt that some courses(obviously tailored to engineering studies) weren’t giving us the complete picture. Most stuff we saw on quantum mechanics, langrangian, Hamiltonian, …
    were giving on a fairly superficial basis and always left me with some questions.
    Now I’m following a master in Physics in my spare time while working as an analog design engineer.

  3. jmc8197 on February 24th, 2009 3:17 pm

    I have a degree in electronic engineering, but take an interest in physics as a hobby.

  4. FoolHarvey on February 27th, 2009 7:49 am

    …this is not an undergraduate class…the people in this class have paid money to be in the company of an emminent physicist. I think the lectures are great…I have a degree in electrical engineering though…whats your background ?

  5. jmc8197 on February 28th, 2009 4:12 pm

    reminding him that he’s lecturing to undergrads

  6. jonnylazer on March 3rd, 2009 3:03 am

    is that telling Lenny about physics…tut tut

  7. jmc8197 on March 5th, 2009 5:04 pm

    He doesn’t emphasise that the Euler-Lagrange equations are fundamental to classical mechanics because they can be derived from the Principle of Virtual Work and Newton’s second law. Since the Euler-Lagrange equations can also be derived form the Principle of Least Action, then the Principle of Least Action is just another reformulation of classical mechanics, and not a postulate of physics.

  8. FarFromEquilibrium on March 7th, 2009 7:57 pm

    why is lecture 2 private??

  9. janfrinta on March 11th, 2009 1:59 am

    where is lecture 2?

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