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  • those stupid cunts not paying him attention at the end when he does that card trick, so rude

  • if you want to really enjoy this lecture then i'd say take at break at 30:00 and watch some funny video in another tab, really refreshes your mind

  • actually the angle for maximum range is a little more than 45 degrees, it is about 47 degrees. i may be wrong, but then my former teacher is wrong. he said that my mathematical prove was correct. if you shoot something at an angle 45 degrees, then the gravity has immediately effect on that object. so it lifts of at 2 degrees less than 45.

  • @valentijnraw :) your funny

  • good video very informational. Look up hotep he was the true master.

  • stop feeding the trolls, care that he knows proton and neutron

  • Great lecture, thank you.

  • Great lectures.

  • Holy shit demonic possession at 20:00..... lol Is there a Catholic priest in the house?

  • How old are these students!? I'm in sixth grade and I already know all this (spacetime curvature, E=mc squared formula, quarks, protons, neutrons, electrons, orbitals, atoms, molecules, infinitesimal point, you name it). Sometimes I wonder about the intelligence of people nowadays.

  • @Comshoin "The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge, but imagination." - Albert Einstein

    Look up the definition of intelligence you smart kid.

    Show's how much you know :) hahaha

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  • @Comshoin You have to understand that in school you cover every possible aspect of education.When you entercollege you specialize in certain field.You have an entire book in you higher studies for every paragraph you have in school(especially grade 7-10).In school they give you some knowledge about everything and then when you grow up you decide what you choose from.While most of the guys at your age dont know what the hell is going on in school,its wonderful that you know these things already

  • @Comshoin many courses start from basics, to ensure deep understanding on the subject matter before delving into the complex stuff like relativistic or quantum physics. Also not everyone majors in Physics, but they may need understanding of some of the content for say GeoPhysics or BioPhysics. Also just because you know about something, doesn't mean you have understanding.

  • @Comshoin you're a young naive grade sixer. you may know of all these things such as the tau neutrino that go's hand in hand with the six quarks as one of the six leptons, you may know of how a electron orbits around a central body of atoms that are made up us six possible quarks, but that is where your knowladge ends, you have no idea where to go from just knowing the vocabulary. and if you could tell me why E=mc^2 then i would be very minorly impressed. don't say smart people are not.

  • @Comshoin you also say you name it. Tell me what is inside a black hole? Why does the strong nuclear force work, how does life exist? Please don't go out thinking you’re a genius with a little memory trick. Your pseudo-intellegence is almost annoying. Think of it this way. There are always smarter people. Don’t display your lack of knowledge. "Give every man thine ear, but few thy tongue" (Polonius, Hamlet) and for the sake of being melodramatic, you'll learn when you're older.

  • @Pyrotoman You crushed his dreams of becoming the next Albert Einstein.

  • skip 19:30 to 20:30 if you have headphones like I do :'-(

  •  lol

  • @joeglimmix you're a dick

  • I dont think a lecturer should say um so mutch and if he put some color dye in the watrer for the water jet then maybe all the students can see the water jet more clearly.

  • 18:50 just a second??

  • Oh shit I freaked out when he screamed into the mic.

  • Oo he draws nice circles

  • Mr.Boarder we cant use planetgravity for spaceshipacceleration to mars !

    . the reason is you have to leave our planet to mars like you leave our planet to space above our atmosphereboarder.

    type me a link

  • Muller is a good educator. I use his techniques myself and also I steal a couple of his ideas.

  • i was watching this at night and when he screamed it scared me sooo much hahaha

  • a discus throw wouldnt be easier with a direct wind, only to one side with spin utilising gyro motion to amp the up spin based on the direction of spin come on..

  • 57:48

  • @XxGypsySniperxX I like how you've mentioned on your bio that you've been to Berkley. That's called wishful thinking.

  • @XxGypsySniperxX It's nice that 1) there's no such thing as an astor. 2) It's spelled Stephen 3) Books/novels are nothing for professional physicists. You want to be looking at papers and journals.

  • This shits easy Im 13 and have read all steven hawking books,novels. I am gonna be a Theoretical Astor Physicist

  • @XxGypsySniperxX Astor Physics is tough.

  • @XxGypsySniperxX When are you planning to building an atom smasher or a particle accelerator of your own and look for anti matter.

  • Omg..... I better sit in the front, cause I can't see a thing!

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  • Some Army Artillery uses a kind of system known as a Mortar. Mortar tubes use an extremely high angle (one in which the shell travels on an arc that is so steep that it lands far shorter than it would if launched at a 45 degree angle). This "lobbing" trajectory allows the shells to land closer than traditional "howitzer" systems. It also has the added advantage of allowing the crew to hit targets at higher elevations from above (where armor and cover is usually weakest.

    -An Army guy.

  • @BigDickandLittleJon "Defilade Firing" is what they call it. Also useful for when a target is blocked by another object, like when a target is on the opposite of a hill from the gun/mortar, or placed in ditch as the shot can not be made straight on.

    -An ex-Navy guy

  • what makes me mad?I wish. I had a chance. to sit in this room

  • Thanks Professor Muller!

  • Great lecture ,,thank you .

  • my only question is why he had to explain the acceleration of gravity. every person should know it's 9.8(roughly)m/s and 32 feet/sec. if your going to berkeley, surely you already know the acceleration of gravity.

  • it is called an arch

  • what about explosives and concussion waves..?

  • He's a great teacher tbh. But I find the inaccuraty and simplicity quite weird. He's teaching stuff that I learned when I was 14. How old are the students?

  • hahaha...well he must be guessing that those students have forgotten about that!

  • Where did you learn? I'm sure youre not US

  • @girocraz

    Im finnish

  • This is a university lecture? Seriously?

  • Why do you ask may I ask?

  • Actually I take that back, he's a good teacher, and it seems like a great course. I was just thrown off by the hole rounding -9.8 m/s2 thing. Also how he said Gq1q2/r2 isnt important (basically). Those are all things that are pretty basic in Grade 12 physics... But anyway, my mistake.

    btw, turn to christ? how about no...

  • Hmm...Answer it yourself, then I'll answer it. Never heardof brain hacking, we aren't computers to be hacked, but you can trick by using social engineering, nope that technique can be used to gain info without technology but needs skill

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  • he put it in mph so that the students could relate to it.

    and isnt the reason if u shoot that water into the air it uses all of its velocity to go up and once it uses its velocity gravity takes affect and pulls the water back down

  • I want to clarify the difference between military and civilian GPS is because since the GPS system was developed by the military, they put in a system where they can scramble the system or give false data which the military GPS can decode. Now so many commercial airlines and civilian org. use the GPS they won't do this in practice. That is the difference. Not because a tank can drive over it...... (Source: Military service and experience with PLGR)

  • since satellites are constantly falling are they constantly accelerating?

  • @Budman4life They are accelerating which does change their trajectory (causing the satellites to stay in orbit and not fly off into space), but I think relative to the ground they do not increase in velocity.

  • Yes, but in constantly changing direction.

    Imagine a X,Y diagram with vertical and horizontal velocity along its axis. Put an object in this system with a pre-defined total velocity of 100(whatever unit you like).

    If velocity straight up along the Y axis=100, and you make the objects path curve to run parallel to the X axis, the object has accelerated along the X axis, without changing it's total velocity.

    Acceleration is change in velocity OR DIRECTION

  • G=6(10to the -7th) um................i dont think so lol

    G=6.67(10to the -11th)

    G is the universal constant for gravity

    g=9.81m/s/s....? why would u even put it in mph!?

  • excellent professor. you get what you pay for.

  • His lectures are great!

    Giving examples during the explanations make it much more enjoyable and educational.

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  • Professor Muller, Your lectures are great.

  • Can anyone explain why the moon's orbit is moving further away from the earth each year? Since the moon in not accelerating what is causing it? Logically because of tidal forces the moon should drag against the earth, slow down and because of gravity get closer to the earth each year not further away. What is causing this? Because of accretion the earth and moon's gravity should get slightly stronger over millions of years, that too should cause the moon to get closer over time.

  • I guess it's because it's orbital velocity is greater than what earth can handle, only a tiny bit... Maybe... ;)

  • I do not think so, mainly because there need be a new force at work which was not considered. This unaccounted force is pushing the moon away, counteracting the force of gravity. What known force found in the lab fits this observation? Mason Peck of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, USA, has received a grant to study the idea, which is based on the fact that magnetic fields exert forces on electrically charged objects.

  • What force that was not considered? What evidence do we have for this force?

    And... Magnetic fields exert forces on electrically charged objects. Yeeees... But isn't that quite old news, or did you write an error? ;)

  • This guy is an idiot. He doesn't talk about centripetal acceleration, or how the vertical displacement before a projectile is launched affects the resulting horizontal displacement. I know this isn't mathematics based but come on.

  • We COULD go to MIT or similar things, but they don't go through as many things. Because this isn't mathematics based, we get to learn a lot of things quickly - rather than going in to the depths of certain things... This is our form of social science... ;)

  • @kaner333 He's obviously intelligent, he's giving a lecture to people that have very little interest in real physics however.

  • Since it is conceptual, why bother with the math. Concentrate on the concepts..which he does well..nobody cares about math at that point. Also it is apparent that physics is not proved by demos but just writing stuff on the board. Let's get over the math AND the demos if he is just going to throw chalk in the air.

  • The mathematics is a such a fundamental part of physics, that you'd have to learn some of it, even for the conceptual understanding. Besides, a four year old could do the maths he shows. E=hv , E=mc^2 , these are things important for the conceptual understanding.

    The demos are more likely to stick with you as a memory... What better way to show that 1+1=2 then that of the apple-addition? ;)

  • This muller guy is such an egotist. I've looked at his other lectures and looked at his websites and he is always talking about himself. Great class but the guy can be annoying.

  • Dude... I disapprove! Stop misliking people... It's stupid.

  • Essence of space is that it actually avoids matter and that is what gravity is. It is a feature of space caused by matter not the other way around.

  • You will never find the graviton and you will never unify the forces until you understand what I've written.

  • I'm not sure if he fully understands geology with his whole oil = less gravity?? (as the oil is actually stored in the rocks which are typically a sandstone or limestone) but other than that it was an awesome talk.

  • im sitting my standard grade physics on tuesday (dont know what the equivalent is in US, but im 15 to give you an idea) and most of this stuff i already knew or was able to grasp it. i really like the way he teaches it though

  • Where do you live?

  • The reason for not understanding is the missing step. If I explained to you, and but left out a key step, then you would have great difficulity understanding it. This has a lot of basic concepts in a sense. Hardly any advance equations. Most of this I have also learned (I am 15 aswell) Or atleast that is my understanding.

  • Yeah it's not really meant to be an intense course. Just a high-level overview to give those otherwise disinterested in physics exposure to the precepts.

  • i am glad to find out if there is a black hole we wont be sucked in :) just plunged into darkness

  • omg i new everything from this lecture like in eightth or nineth class omg Like i will never travel to usa to study.

  • yeah because harvard, stanford, princeton, yale, are just pure awful schools. stay where you are and get a more quality education. (/sarcasm)

  • patsosas - I don't know why you think you are so smart. You can't even spell. You should be embarrassed.

  • I really don't think american students are that dumb. This must be a class for non-physics majors, like arts students.

  • i do agree in the UK alot of this stuff i did at High school level apart from the math

  • The class is called Physics for Future Presidents. It's an introductory course for non-physics majors who need a general overview of physics.

    I knew all of this stuff by ninth grade, and I live in the U.S.

  • no offense but still in europe we studied gravity in sixth grade in ninth grade we finished electricity, electromagnetism .

  • Many students at my high school also learned of E&M in ninth grade, but only certain students were permitted to do that in a course called Algebra-based Physics.

  • I am in Canada, we also studied gravity in 6th grade, and fished off electromagnetism, and eventually the general theory of relativity and quantum mechanics by 8th grade. However, we did electricity, circuits, applications and so forth in 9th grade. It all differs from school board to school board, but what really matters is that all of the basic knowledge which we have the right to possess is given us by the time we graduate is it not?

  • Yes, that IS what really matters to us and is what is most definately not accomplished because we live on a farm controlled by those so rich they don't appear on "the world's richest" lists, and their aims are not our aims. Its diminuitively called 'Hegemony' (eg Chomsky) but more properly addressed as New World Order or Whore of Babylon etc. video.google The Secret Behind the Secret Societes or Forbidden Secret etc.

  • hmm so do you understand gravitoelectromagnetism? smart ass.

  • Nothing interesting its commonly used only for for slowly moving particles In testin facilities.

  • hmm so a theory that unifies gravity with electromagnetism isn't interesting? If something that einstein tried to do for 30 years but failed to succeed doesn't interest you, i'm incredibly curious as to what does.

  • It's not really a unification, though... It's only a valid approximation under certain conditions, right?

    It'd be hard to truly unify gravity with any of the three other forces, due to the fact that we haven't even got a well established theory of quantum gravity... ;)

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  • Presidents<ninth grade education

  • Why the gravity on equator is less intense then in poles? Why the moon doesnt fall on earth?

  • I love these lectures, i can't wait for college.

  • lol from what i know this lecture its for law students, so the level, i muts say its way to high for them, but yea, it explain all very good.

  • physics lectures for law students!!wtf!! I SEE ,IF A SATELLITE PLUNGES TO EARTH AND TAKES OUT A BLOCK OR TWO THEY' CAN LAUNCH A CLASS ACTION AGAINST GRAVITY...

  • Richard Feynman and Murray Gell-Mann were both americans. If you don't know them then you know nothing about the history of physics. We have great physics programs in various different colleges. We just have terrible high schools. No child left behind is code for "lets dumb down the high schools so every idiot can get an A with little intelligence and let the smart kids' minds go to waste"

    Smart kids are forced into a dumbed down curriculum so the less intelligent kids can pass.

  • That doesnt mean you are allowed to be an A Hole about it. It would be nice to learn that with all of YOUR intelligence you might be able to learn a little about courtesy.

  • Heh heh...Yea, that's why we are the lone super-power, the strongest economy and the best standard of living in all the world. Other-than-that, I suppose your'e correct

  • The US doesn't have the highest standard of living in the world.

  • Oh please, tell us all what third world dictatorship surpases the U.S. for standard of living?

  • Well, it's not a third world dictatorship, but Norway.

  • well most of Europe.

  • You're stupid simplas. If you were smarter, you might understand that it's a global economic decline, and that it's a domino effecting the whole world. Lets say a rubber factory goes under in Germany, the effects can be felt around the would in very little time depending on how big the factory is. Now some factory in Brazil will go under too now that they don't have someone to buy their product. See how it work guy? BTW the U.S. doesn't like war anymore, we all hate that Bush did what he did.

  • Six sick slick slim sycamore saplings.

  • This guy is wrong G=6.67x10^ -11

  • he didnt say that was exact...get a hobby

  • I hate those unappreciative students that jolt up when they the know the class is coming to an end. Want to smack them over their heads!

    He is a great teacher, and UC is a great school. They should consider themselves lucky.

  • I hear you. Even if one doesn't find this interesting, one should show proper respect to the teacher. Too bad college is more about partying than learning...

    (personally I think these lectures are great!)

  • I wish the camera guy was more awake while filming. It would have been nice to get closeups when the professor wrote something on the board and it also would have been nice to have things in focus. Still a great lecture. I learned a lot.

  • I did it this topic two years ago, it was fun!! University Of Tennessee, Faculty Of Engineering, Department Of Aerospace Engineering.

  • And now you design air. Congratulations.

  • He even says that students dont need to know F=GmM/rr - Whay they dont need to know it? It is sooo important and it is so basic...

  • The lectuure is great. But one thing I don't understand, those things which he show are sooo easy, I can't believe that students in USA learn those things at University... . Lecture is great, interresting, but those thing are very simple....

  • Yes, it is intentionally a LOW LEVEL Physics course for those who are not very Mathematically inclined. It is NOT supposed to be your standard Stage One University Physics Course.

  • @rijkent55 I understand its meant to just be the basic concept... But really whats the point? If they don't have to understand absolute basic algebra, there is no use to having any of the concept. There's no application for it.

  • lol like... "oil"

  • awesome

  • if you had listened to what he said you'd know that he meant the people who died of cancer inflicted by the radiation that WEREN'T recorded since they just looked like normal cancer patients.

    wikipedia most probably only mention the ones that died in direct cause of chernobyl.

    he explained this perfectly. you didn't understand it. ergo, it's your own fault.

  • Big Thank You to Dr Muller and UC Berkeley for putting this on youtube. Hope you students appreciate the quality education you are getting. What a great professor to have. Call me a nerd, but this is great video.

  • is my vison ok or is this video 1 hour long o.O

  • This teacher is so great! I can't believe people actually can't wait for him to finish before leaving the room. I'd stay and listen to him for a couple of days and forget about eating, drinking or going to bathroom.

    The way he explains stuff is amazing, I wish I had teachers like that.

  • lol about that hallow sphere i was about to ask him that if i was in the class if that would be the same mass.. cuz I figure without taking any physics classes that the gravity is by the size of the object with little mass in center to balance out everything not the mass inside it.. and i was right! heh

  • wdf did he freak out for

  • This stuff is so cool. What a great teacher

  • These videos are awesome.

  • I'm having a ball watching these videos. Autodidacticism rules.

    Why is everyone being so nationalist? Knowledge is for everyone it's not different for each country it should unite human beings.

  • yeah, thats right.

    but many of these scientist are from other countrys.

  • WEll, we did this in IB Physics 11. projectile motion, 45 degree yields maximum range. This is common sense.

  • lol we did this in 9th grade science

  • a 37 year old in 10th grade?

  • im 16.

    i probarly just wrote a fake birth.

  • I'm an american, and I have to agree with you. We ARE dumb.

  • I'm sure there are a lot of dumb people in Denmark too. Same as there are many dumb people in the US and in Germany, where I live.

  • actually the Danish people is ranked 2. best in the world, when were talking school and reasearch in science.

    were overdued by finland :p

  • Thanks :D

  • I guess those peoples are not willing to learn "high&tough" physics. It's "physics for future presidents" and since politics don't have to be really wise these lectures are not difficult. However I quite enjoy it.

  • sadly there's a mistake

    G=6.67*10^-11

    but still it's very good lecture

  • i really shouldnt complain about anyone's grammar. i feel bad

  • These are great lectures! :)

  • great lecture

  • Whomever asked the artillery question: its not 45 degrees. You're professor is correct when describing the use of tables in the field artillery. The bollistics of the round and charge used determine the optimum range--some rounds are even rocket assisted (rocket assisted projectile or RAP) all have the optimum range determined by a tabular firing table--45 degrees is NOT optimum.

    You're thinking mortars.

  • youre right, but misspelling ballistics does not help your case.

  • Are you kidding? It should be proof that I'm a dumb artillerymen.

    Why is it that when people point out my misspellings they usually do so in an improperly formulated sentance? "Y" is this!?

  • man TLT's got HORRIBLE spelling. tlt's a good person; however, just bad with the tough stuff in grammar

  • and buddy, whomever?

  • I leveled buildings and jumped out of airplanes. I have two bronze stars and a shrapnel collection. Using the objective form of a pronoun in place of the nominative form on a forum that is little better than a text messaging system doesn't really concern me.

    Note: are you seriously trying to correct my grammar with a barely coherent sentance? "Buddy?" You must be from California.

  • FAIL

  • Are people actually trolling on the UC Berkley lecture videos? Interesting.

    I thought this was a physics video but it appears the intellectual giants prefer grammar.

    We can talk physics when you're ready to learn more about square weight, propellant temp, and MET...I guess that's after you read up on pronouns.

  • But still, it seems that you actually do it on purpose: "sentance"??? WTF??? (It's called "sentence")

  • I love getting castigated for spelling by people who are incapable of crafting a proper English sentence. Again, do people really come to UC Berkly lectures to troll?

  • Trolling can be done everywhere. What's more, this is a public website, with no comment moderators. And don't forget that with the new Audio Previews is way more fun to type silly things :P.

    BTW, I like how you corrected yourself.

  • I love how people resort to loquaciousness whenever there intelligence is questioned.

  • what does it mean "physics for future presidents?'". what are these students? law students or what?

  • Can someone please tell me, how old are those students? Was the lecture interesting for the students?

  • I hate how he just throws out arbitrary numbers and "facts" all the time saying its close enough, but I guess its ok since these future presidents dont really have to know anything. However what I really dont like is the way he put down Anders Celsius' contribution to the celcius scale in one of the earlier lectures, saying it was some sort of french scheme. Oh, and why the hell cant you americans just adopt the SI-units? they are better in every way.....

  • he's trying to make it easy to understand, and math can make things boring. if the concepts are interesting, the students will explore the mathematical part on their own. and about the si units. i agree, but it's hard to change the minds of 300 million people

  • Awesome.