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  • Over 1 hour to explain that heat is a result of the vibration of atoms...

  • use a toyota commercial to explain the energy of a meteor.......that's a paddlin

  • I may have a cure for the Bohr/Eintsein Debate. If anyone can point me in the right direction, that would be great. I have information that will turn Quantum Physics on it's head. Please contact me.

  • physics for retards xD

  • @taurkron I take it you haven't read the replies to my post from several months ago! Expect an angry mob with pitchforks....... Some may even hold them at the right end! P.S. The politically correct term is 'non-physicists'.

    It should be called 'Physics for people who want to pretend they know something about physics'

  • I am an artist and when I create a work of art it takes energy and is a process over a period of time ∆E ∆t ≥ h/2π. There is always uncertainty ∆×∆p×≥h/4π of how the art work will turn out in three dimensional (4π spherical) space the position of the lines and curves π on the canvas. Every movement I make will have to start at the quantum level and will have an uncertainty of momentum and position therefore is Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle the same uncertainty we have with any future event?

  • Sorry but I thought I was watching a physics lecture from a fairly important university.

    I'll just go back to my crazy world of accuracy and respect for your audience.

  • @ElvishJumpSuit It is not a mathematic heavy course. It is about understanding the general principles of physics, relax Einstein.

  • @ElvishJumpSuit

    Oh, quit your pedantic whining. You're so accurate? then the video description.

    The intended audience is non-scientists.

    Clearly UCBerkley wants to inform the public at large - in general outline - on what physicists are working on.

    Just because Feynman did something similar years ago, doesn't mean it shouldn't be done ever again.

    Besides, this series is didactically superior for the layman, than Feynman's

    bye bye

  • @phnaargos If my understanding is correct, Feynman intended his lectures on physics to be taught to freshmen and the freshmen complained it was too difficult and his lectures were attended by advanced students and faculty.

  • @wowthungsten Hi, thanks for the info

    So for people without a physics background the Feynman lectures are simply too advanced, and they're better off watching this series.

    (I think Feynman is great btw, I was just reacting to this annoying person here on the comment list.)

  • I couldn't get past the first five minutes....

    My first groan was when he wrote m/sec

    (I have to tell twelve-year-olds off about that one)

    No 'secs' in Physics!

    Then all the nobbing about with the equipment.

    Then the 'microfiche' notice in a tiny point size.

    Then the feedback (an expert in physics should not be having feedback issues)

    If you want a good physics lecture series seek out Richard Feynman's lecture series (no gimmicks - just the facts, from a true genius)

  • @ElvishJumpSuit

    Perhaps this is not the appropriate field for you. This is not a platform to berate or argue ad hominem, as the information is of value here. Professor Muller's validity and accuracy hold no correlation to his ability to express those concepts, and therefore should not be addressed in contest. If his style is too difficult for you to focus on the abstract concepts posited, Steven Holzner has a book you may be able to follow.

    Judge this fish by his ability to swim, not fly.

  • This is too easy, look up Walter Lewin's lectures!

  • @flamurkasa Well aren't you a smarty pants! lol

  • I loved this, thank you so much. Looking forward to watching the rest. :)

  • Future Presidents? :)

  • he looks a bit like Adolf Hitler :D

  • that is why dont buy a mac at the beginning...

  • @Shizmixin Screw that macs kick ass.

  • @Shizmixin I dont feel like watching an hour long video to find out, whys that? :)

  • One great physics teacher. Wow I wished he was my teacher!

  • 6:57

  • I want him as my teacher

  • Great lecture, demonstration, and teacher, but the sound track is off!

  • does anyone know the textbook used in this?

  • Yup I would fail this class. 

  • @shagy2k5 and he's one of the better instructors i've seen so far, so imagine how is it like to have a bad one... XDDD

  • I wish all my my professors were as good as this guy is. Instead I am stuck with mumbling morons that read a textbook verbatim and then make us copy powerpoints. I hate my school..

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  • professor Muller looks like RANDY MARSH from SOUTH PARK!!!!

  • explination for god i just had a vision a original thought: a miracle, the outer is the source not the inner just trust me factor that in for everything it all makes sense. think about it. think the original is always gods matrix and we look out see siloquets and stars help us see things outer. think the universe like a hologram a human would look out and be blinded by the outer wall and quote unqoute god is the matrix creator

  • I'd hate to be doing physics in the USA and have to learn all the metric units :( Metric ftw.

  • I can't believe i found this lecture and the many others from Berkeley.

    I can't believe that they have such a thing on youtube.

    And now i can't believe that the entire internet is not full of such material.

    This is the saddest realization of my life.

    Thank you Berkeley!

  • the video was very informative

  • Very interesting and informative. Thank you.

  • now these are "future presidents"???...of ??? Chad??? Reunion island???

  • energy is energy.

    wow. now i finally get it ¬¬'

  • FREE JAGGI SINGH!

  • @Shukria123 why ??????

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  • @BabyioHienua908

    why in the name of sweet holy firetruck would you come onto a physics lecture to ask that?...

  • your not asleep are u? hello? lol

  • In the HBO miniseries "John Adams" there is just that scene where the English fire their cannons on Boston, but they kept the sound delay, so when Abigail (John's wife) watches from a cliff a couple miles away, we see the delay.

    ...Just felt like sharing, popped into my head when he said it. (Great series BTW, everyone should watch)

  • I love these videos, but I'm confused. According to prof. Muller's explanation, modern atomic power plants are supposed to remain safe in case of failure, but that seems not be the case with the power plants in Japan right now. What is happening in the Japanese powerplants? I'm being forced to review my previously favorable opinion about atomic energy.

  • @racastilho that's a flaw in the designation of the building, rather than the atoms itself

  • @racastilho Governments make power plants ridiculously safe these days (apart from Ukrainians).

    P.s They built that reactor at Fukushima over 40 years ago

  • @racastilho

    There are many designs, the one Japan used was cheaply GM made from about 30 years ago if i recall correctly. The backup generators failed, which is a different issue really. The radioactivity from Coal plants is higher than nuclear reactors in the air. The US has a few reactors like the ones in Japan, but we don't have Tsunamis. Nuclear power shouldn't be abandoned because of safety issues though. People die from coal mines too, like my grandfather did.

  • This is amazing stuff! Dr. Miller is awesome!  I remember I used to enjoy my Physics class in high school (math was a different story), but this guy is great!

  • Man this guy rules. I have a really stupid question though.. what allows alpha particles to break away from the radioactive atom? shouldnt the electrons keep the protons there? I assume Im missing an important aspect of QED, but yeah, just wondering. please enlighten me! :D

  • I take it this is Physics for non-science majors - at least I hope that is the case here cause it is more like a Discovery Channel course would be. Not sure what value this kind of course would be given you can get the same highlevel review by watching Nova or similar shows. Given the cost of tuition, I can't see the benefit.

  • @notfauxnooz The course is called physics for future presidents, and it does exactly what it says on the tin.

    You should read descriptions.

  • "Mathamatics is the gate and key to the sciences"

  • very interesting. thanks.

    "imaging radars" +"mathforum" google.com.

  • All that about back story about temperature was total BS. Not that it really matters for a working physicist, but Celsius for example wasn't made up by the French and he could've written 0 kelvin = -273,15 C instead of just -273. I know it's nit picking, but in the long run stuff like this will make a difference.

  • "Physics 10: Physics for Future Presidents. Spring 2006. Professor Richard A. Muller. The most interesting and important topics in physics, stressing conceptual understanding rather than math". Yeah lets not take any chances and actually teach kids math.

  • @h0wud0in2 There's no point taking a physics course if they leave math out of it. There is no way to practically use any of this information without knowing the math behind it. Everyone that is doing this course is wasting their money unless they're purely doing it because they find it interesting, in which case they're wasting their money as there is no reason for them to have to be examined on it and without the examining aspect you can get all the teaching for free.

  • @9hello123 that was exactly my point. There is no physics without math

  • Even professors can't master technology.

  • i do IB physics HL and this shizzel is easy ^^ =P but very cool to watch =)

  • brilliant instructor, I wish all professors were this interactive

  • Physics for future presidents? Such knowledge will require the search for truth. Truth is the anti thesis to politics.

  • lol its ironic u say u see the light first and then the sound in this video u hear the sound first and then the light...what does that mean?

    lol propably some encoding problem i guess

  • i like when commenters visit here to tell us how they have made some great new physics finding

  • those rich students dont seem like appreciation this great lecture

  • Very informative! Thank you a lot.

    The sound delay is a little annoying though.

  • thers a sound delay in the video lol

  • the only problem is that Berkeley is full of faggots. Gay people are real annoying. Trust me i thought it be cool to have a gay friend, but its not.

  • if i can hear what he's saying before i can see him say it, does that mean he is negative (seconds/5) miles away?

  • @tehKap0w no

  • if i can hear what he's saying before i can see him say it, does that mean he is negative seconds/5 miles away?

  • Is this guy smart?

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  • i the sound out of sync to any of you or does it just take a couple of seconds to get to my ear lol

  • im 12 wats dat

  • Educational forums for the masses like this will be the salvation of america and the world. thank you so very much for this, and to all those that attempt the like. GIVE A MAN A FISH, FEED HIM FOR A DAY; TEACH A MAN TO FISH, FEED HIM FOR A LIFETIME.

  • This is a great video, but I have a question. Last week I saw my GSI and he was totally hitting on an undergrad while I was trying to ask him about kinetic energy. He just said, "Here's some kinetic energy" and he threw an empty beer can at me. Was he being ironic, or was I really supposed to learn something from that?

  • 4) Did you know that a disease is a living entity? By accepting any disease, you permit it to stay in your body aka you allow yourself to be sick. By rejecting the thought of being sick, you get rid of your illness faster. Remember, the more you talk about your problem (any problem), the more control you give it over you, the longer it will stay with you.

  • Damn, college is going to be easy.

  • George Bush got a D in this class (after his Daddy called). D = Degree = Daddy. God bless the Republicans, because Intellect certainly didn't.

  • this ideo is violating the laws of physics... the speed of sound seems to be faster than the speed of light. wtf

  • @greffin6 The speed of sound is 330 meters/sec and the speed of light is 300,000 meters/sec. Light is 1,000x faster.

  • @GunsNRosesbitches

    I can't really remember what i was thinking when i posted the comment but  i think he makes a mistake................. 00:13:21

  • @GunsNRosesbitches Actually its 300,000,000 m/s! So lights 1,000000 times faster!

  • @musicalgenius1234 Whoops, what a silly mistake I made. Thanks for correcting.

  • @greffin6 it's called video reproduction and delay.

  • @greffin6 It really depends.

  • Really weird and entertaining physics course. It's really sad that traditional physics courses are so focused on the math, the principals behind are easily forgotten. Too bad we can't have one balanced course. Oh well.

  • @Basaltq proper physics course have to be focused on the math. There is no way to understand complicated physics, by anyone. All that can be done is use the math.

  • a particle now is likely to be a multiple particle late i mean ofc hehe

  • and thusly have no reaction to another with a higher state of energy

  • absolute temperature would then be the smallest size a particle could have based on its molecular make up

  • how about this, solids actually have larger areas of influence (for individual energetic particles) to those around them, they dont bounce around more, they cant move or slip past they actually get bigger in there influence or is that exactly the thing..

  • why are these 20+ year old students learning such basic physics?? this is what i did at school when i was about 14 and isnt telling my anything new and im only 17

  • @mojojojoe100 this class is for non-majors..."Physics for Future Presidents"

  • college education for free :)

  • "Gravitons". What a BS hypothesis. Almost as bad as string theory.

  • @fluff125 Why?

  • This was very good! Thank You!

  • Professor Richard A. Muller. i know what dark matter is. It is a theory that makes absolute sense in the science world. Who should i go to to announce this? because i can't risk telling anybody in case they steal my theory and end up getting all the credit for one of the biggest discoveries in science. (to anyone reading this comment, who should i go to?)

  • @Dec2012omg Mail or email your idea to a college professor. But they probably will not reply because of there mass amount of emails.

  • @Dec2012omg post it on youtube and tell the world the theory is your's and your vid will be ur and only proof.

  • Free education..sweet :)

  • @Ecite I remember back in high school when that was a bad thing, now it's awesome.

  • F=ma ... dW=Fdx ... dW/dt=Fdx/dt=Fv =mav=m(dv/dt)v=d/dt(mv v/2)

    Therefore, dW/dt = dEc/dt or dW=dEc where Ec=mv v/2

    That is it. Greetings!

  • what is he talking about gravitons or gravitron? i thought gravity was a bending of space-time.

  • @eah2119 Einstein's General Relativity isn't, as yet, an incontrovertible fact, thus it remains a theory, and in that same sense, the graviton is also a theory. Neither are proven factual, just yet.

  • @eah2119 It's a bit more complicated than that, but in the Standard Model it is believed gravity is conveyed by the graviton (believed as in not proven yet). It does not necessarily mean space is not warped by the graviton as well. The two theories don't mesh however, so each theory has to describe gravity in its own way. This is one of the biggest problems in physics  today.

  • Why does he keep saying Gravitons, they haven't been observed yet.

  • @theinsane102 He says "according to quantum theory", before he starts describing the 'spring' as Gravitons, so I don't think he is claiming that they exist.

  • @BeaversAreNotSneaky Oh, ok thanks.

  • @theinsane102 no problem

  • If every high school and college physics professors were of his calibre, civilization would be far more advanced. His philosophy on science is truly inspiring. Thank you Dr. Muller

  • did he just catch somebody sleeping ?

    0:55:30

    "epic" :)

  • This series will satisfy my hunger for physics during summer break!

  • motion on a level smaller than the molecule is NOT "quantum", in the sense that the scale of the atom also may be perceived relative to the scales of the molecule and of the "quanta". In the sense of temperature and 0 K, I cannot praise this lecture enough: you can no more achieve a negative motion than you can conceive of completion beyond 100%- these values are arbitrated: nature does not give us the words- these brave scholars must wade through the colloquial to express the universal. bravo!

  • @MaralizeLegawana I would say the same thing about you, since you didn't get what I said in the first place. What you said just wasn't sarcasm.

  • @MaralizeLegawana Do you really think that I think that that is what he said? It was a joke. A ruse. A rib. Your passive-aggressive stupidity really drags the fun down.

  • do americans get physics earlier or does it start at university?

  • @geganobo You can take physics at college level.

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  • You'll never know how much videos like this will be appreciated by the masses. I speak for many when I say... "Thank you!".

  • "I'll tell you when it's not about what you're being taught" WHY CAN'T MY TEACHERS BE LIKE THAT?! RATHER THAN "oh you don't need to know that" :|

  • WOW, this lecture was all over the place.

    Check out Walter Lewin's lessons. They are more structured and easier to follow.

  • wtf is this like what class?!?! or I men how old are people listening there cos in Finland some of thees things are thought to you from 3rd class when you are like 9 or 10 years old. Of course all of the things are not told as young but still in those schools that are compulsory so it is till 16 years old.

  • @roossi

    Yeah Finland has Science down pat. Now to get that pesky English language thing under wraps!

  • 10 - 1 atoms Heat

  • Lovely video

  • thank you so much! although this is alot higher than im doing at the moment, this has helped me so much for my physic gcse exam ^^ thanks again!

  • @darnlvl3 Right, even though you don't understand it all, it makes you more aware of the vocabulary, which helps you understand the topic better.

  • @darnlvl3

    i had that exam too last friday. how did you find it?

  • Fire walking is possible because of the low thermal conductivity of the coals and the short period of contact between the walker's feet and the coals, not sure where he heard about the sweat thing. Who knows though, he is Richard Muller - Master of the Universe.

  • He sure likes to talk about nothing too much.

  • You give this out for free, knowledge? How benevolent, UCBerkeley.

  • yeah we all learnt this at gcse - but its a refresher thing, and hes a great lecturer.

  • The guy's processor can't even handle an unclear video.

  • at 1hr and 6 min hes talking about the Leidenfrost effect ! haha

  • Seems to me that vibration transmits sound energy well before heat energy can lag over (or transmit)! Try a small gasoline explosion it causes larger air pressure first with limited heat lagging over despite combustion, it can sound loud though! By the way, that meteorite was sideways and not emitting light energy at that size; fictional and poorly researched (they have real ones on YouTube)?

  • Hey Sleepy. give up youll never find it, its virtually impossible and u just wont find it,

  • I don't get it, what is that Physics for future presidents program? Why are people in a university learning stuff they should know since 15-16yo?

    I wouldn't say I didn't learn anything, some of that was pretty interesting, but overall that was physics for teens...

    btw: "when the liquid expands, it will weight less" that is just not true, and he kept using the weight concept instead of density :[

  • @sinekonata you're right. and he used Ebonic math.

  • @sinekonata I think that he realizes that most of if not all of the students already know the information. I think the first class for most courses like these are meant to be reviews. If you want more college level material then skip to the later lectures.

  • This video is so out of synch that it appears as if sound moves much quicker than light! love it.

  • love to be in that class, what physics class is this?

  • i wish they had pyhsics class at my school

  • @zachfresh You don't go to a school with a physic class? What kind of school are you attending? Even heavily religous schools often have physics (they just exclude biology).

  • His explanation of what gravitons are is the most bullshit thing i've ever heard

  • yup gotta agree with ya

  • @TheHomelessCripple Why is it bullshit?

  • Think of the underlying law of nature.

    Consider its astounding inferences and implications.

    The single, underlying law ... of nature! Not merely of physics, chemistry, psychology, biology, etc., but of all fields of inquiry known to humankind. The law we can all relate to, identify, understand and apply.

    Ask yourself. What is the underlying law of nature?

    Delight in the question. Have fun in the process of finding the answer firsthand for yourself.

    Google it, as a start.

  • Gravity.

  • @TedDGPoulos That's the biggest load of pseudo-science philosophical bullshit I've ever read.

  • @schnappy00

    I take it you have ruled out the existence of the underlying law of nature.

    Is this an accurate assessment?

  • @TedDGPoulos Until you define the law of nature how can i comment on the plausibility on the existance of such a law?

    ;)

  • @schnappy00 Simple. Use the same premise you did in forming your original assumption.

    This, however, shows that you originally dismissed the underlying law of nature out of hand. After all, you dismissed it out of hand in your original comment.

  • There' a useful rule of thumb that an object of a certain mass traveling at 3 km/s has kinetic energy roughly equal to the potential energy contained in the same mass of TNT.

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