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  • So get to the point - you hang on the same thing for too long. Laboring the point too much.

  • relevant to my statistical thermodynamics course :P

    great lecture !

  • why do the students have to ruin the lecture with there stupid questions

  • can you please answer this as if im 10yr old if u shot a bullet from gun on moon (1)would the bullet keep going or (2) drop down vertically after it ran out of steam or (3) just act the same way as on Earth Thank you and no im not a Scientist

  • @tonymajjc the bullet wouldnt fire because guns need oxygen too fire. but theoretically if a bullet was fired it would continue moving forever because there is no friction in space.

  • @tuoice

    If the bullet was able to fire on the moon, it wouldn't keep moving forever, it would fall. Friction has little to nothing to do with it.

  • @tonymajjc Air causes that friction. Like wind, there is actually a density that is very observable, gravity pulls (like a universal magnet: gravity).

    (But please, try using Capitals, comma's and (.) like when you talk. You can't hold enough air to say all that without stopping. ;) )

  • @tonymajjc

    1) whether the bullet kept going would depend on how fast the bullet was going.

    2&3) the moon still has gravity, it just has less of it than the earth does. so the bullet would act the same way as it does on the earth, only it wouldn't need to go nearly as quickly to escape the moon's gravity, due to the fact that the moon has almost no atmosphere (less atmosphere means less friction) and less gravity than the earth.

  • @tonymajjc

    If you were able to fire a bullet on the moon, it would act almost the same as a bullet on earth. Things don't 'run out of steam', if it's moving then it'll move forever. The thing that makes bullets stop is when gravity pulls them down. The bullet will accelerate to the moon and stop when it hits the surface. I can produce the maths too if you'd like.

  • Why does he always say you need position and velocity to determine all positions of a particle into the future? don't you also need the acceleration (or the forces acting on the particle)?

  • @mushigoya By knowing the position of all particles, you know the forces acting on the particles

  • I'm 16 :)

  • @vinigretzky97 And?

    

  • @JesterGren or

  • @jesseortiz666x I am 15.....

  • those students who have to ask stupid questions to show how smart they are ruin the video

  • i cant able to understand last 10 of the class

    they have created a cycle which is quit confusing

    i have created a cycle with the help the Dr.Susskind example

  • i have created a cycle with the help the Dr.Susskind example first he said H H--->H HT----->H TH----->T TT----->T H^H^H which is HH H^T^H which is TH T^H^T which is HT T^T^T which is TT if HH starts it goes to HH no velocity is required cause it stay at rest if HT starts it goes to TH +(positive) velocity is required cause it changes its position if TH starts it goes to HT -(negative) velocity is required if TT starts it goes to TT on velocity again it it rest
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  • I think the Very last sentence about third derivative equations is very important. I really think that is the future of physics.

  • Is this the first lecture for a college physics 1 course? I'm going to take Physics 1 & 2 next year, so I want to do a little review.

  • @dodgerguy1981

    I'm not sure what Physics 1 & 2 is, but I could probably help you

    This is the framework of analytical mechanics, and depending on the institution, is typically a 200 or 300 level course.

    I would think Dr. Susskind would teach mainly graduate students, and based on some of the topics within the lecture, it seems that this is an advanced graduate course on some of the fundamental axioms of physics under the framework of mechanics. He is speaking about interpretation here, not basics

  • @dodgerguy1981 This is a continuing education course, not a regular college course.

  • i just came here to see what nerds are up to these days xD

  • In the last Law bit the correct sequence was HH toH, HT to H, TH to T, and then TT to T

  • Hey I am trying to self teach myself the principles of basic physics before start of second term. As we are going to start Geophysics. I have no background of high level Maths nor physics and have interest. I would like to ask of your help as to would this video help me or do I need a more subtle approach?

  • I wouldn't say it was an ego game on my part, it was never about my ego, it was always done in a jesting way, so perhaps "berate" was the wrong word to use.

    The frustrating part of having these "irrelevant" questions asked is that they must usually be answered regardless, because some students merely hearing them would require the answer or else be further distracted, so simply saying "I'll answer that outside" would leave it lingering in the minds of the "bystanding" students.

  • He's a certified genius. These proud clowns insist on trying to appear intelligent by asking the silliest questions and fail miserably each time. It's a privilege to be taught by Susskind. You are not supposed to try and outwit the man in mechanics 101.

  • @commentOshimasu I thought Susskind was a genius, too, until he jumped on the multiverse bandwagon.

  • Wow, some of those concepts (especially during questioning) went completely over my head...

    Damn.

  • @JLXOutlaw JLX, knowledge is cumulative. This course requires a good working knowledge of calculus and first-year college physics. If you were to study group theory first, then everything in this lecture would be simple for you. If you're really interested, don't give up. If you have questions, PM me and I'll help you.

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  • @JLXOutlaw If you're interested, MIT has excellent lectures on single variable calculus, introductory physics, multivariable calculus, linear algebra, and differential equations. If you complete those, you'll be well prepared for Susskind's full lecture series.

  • yawn..

  • the students are annoying as hell... it would be nice if they could just shut up.

  • thank you for putting these on here stanford, sharing is caring, would love to have all of your classes to understand more, thank you!

  • aaaah i recognize this guy he did a talk on TED :P

  • @Ytubeisonline

    I had it the other way, I recognized him on TED. Because I watched his lectures! :D

  • 9:46 666

  • I understood the first four lectures of  MIT's classical mechanics ,however i'am having trouble with this.Should i continue with that or is there any easy way to understand this?

    Please Reply Guys.Please I'am Badly need some advice.

  • @treeandplant I'll help. What is your background in math and physics?

  • @acr08807 Thank you so much for the response.I'am planning to learn from the beginning.I was stuck with my personal problems all these days.

  • Classical mechanics is where it's at.

  • does anyone know where you can get the problem sets for this course? I found the midterm and final, but not the homework sets...Just trying to brush up..

  • buy a HD-Cam !!!!

  • Great lecture, I love how you explained it in such a simplistic way.

  • i just finished the 1 minute part of this video. i will watch this again after i finished playing games. heheh

    playing first before study. thats the beauty of Youtube University.

  • @roniepao as if you'll watch the rest.... the reason why this is legal first of all is because most people don't follow through with it notice how for lecture 2 the views exponentially drop. 2nd you can't get a degree from youtube.

  • Youtube University is the best.

  • why are all the tards interrupting him with all these stupid questions? let the genius speak. love it when he answers one whiners question with "ok".

  • хули на английском? по-русски давай!

  • @20218381 I love mat.

  • wtf was with the question at 15:40...class dummy

  • Back in the day: you were lucky if you could read.

    Modern day: free Stanford classes.

  • This is intresting.

  • oh i get it... nevermind. hes just doing the difference in the force over time = mv right? and since he has that differnce in f it give him a difference of the velocity thus acceleration. right?

  • sorry.... diferentiations* how does he get the acceleration from f(x)=mv? this somehow involves calculus? or am i just missing something....

  • im confused with these difernciations. do I need calculus to understand the rest of this course?

  • @zalorthethird Yes.

  • I feel like you had to take high school physics first before watching this :(

  • lol the students are making it more difficult that it needed to be

  • Susskind is brilliant. He makes it very simple and easy to understand.

  • 29:30 you want to be able to predict what is going to happen in any given interval in a room full of people? good luck :P I suspect that this guys thinking is sort of deterministic, but i can bet you that one person lifts his hands, and the prediction of where all molecules in a class room is going to be, is going to be wrong. but that is beside the point i know.

  • A simple point about predictability versus deterministic: In chaotic systems small uncertainties about the starting state amount to big differences between prediction and what actually happens quite fast, so that after a short time, predictions are not useful any more.

  • ok im done torturing my brain now bye

  • It's like music. I teach music and post videos on it frequently. This is a lot like chords progressions in music.

  • Time cannot begin. Without time, how can anything begin?

  • @JesterGren Everything has a beginning... It's just, we don't know how somethings began.

  • @monsterhunter99 Anything without time would be equally timeless. It can not be 'before' or 'after'. It can only exist as imaginary numbers exist on the number line. We can claim ignorance, but there is no reason to act against logic or the principles of physics.

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  • @JesterGren How do you know whether time can begin?

  • @acr08807 "to begin" is a concept which alone makes sense without time. However, beginning is something that doesn't make sense unless it is framed by time. Began, begin, will begin all have no meaning without time, so with there ever being an instance without time nothing would be able to do anything, including begin. To put it simply, verbs happen in time.

  • amazing how we can watch university lectures on the internet nowdays

  • @ProducShuns Too bad we can't graduate from them.

  • 240p we meet again.

  • i love how he talks explicitly.

  • See this is why I like the internet its like college except its free and you make your own schedule.

  • I wonder if he could explain how building 7 collapsed? I bet he can do a better job than that bogus (NIST) report.

  • *scratches head*

  • thnx sir! now i understand classical mechanics little bit.

  • i think classical mechanics is really easy!!

  • @absolutemes spot on bro.

  • these kids asking questions him questions are scrubs

  • I would say the statement time evolves continously is paradoxical, because there are intervals within time which are also continual. The same way that inbetween 1 and 2 it would be possible to place an infinite amount of decimal numbers in an infinite amount of variety and no matter what is put there is always a midpoint inbetween the next 'pulse' and the previous, 0 to 1 is .5 as an example and it can be divided by two infinitely, also 1.11 inbetween each 1 is an imaginery distance/interval.

  • @pawnshopr

    Whether time evolves continuously or not, that's the premise upon which classical mechanics is based - at least according to Prof. Susskind.

    You may be right, of course. Time might occur in discrete packets just like matter 'seems' to. But definitely not in classical mechanics.

  • @PLecN yeah I know :d we assign deterministic rules in order to create contants that we use as a foundation for other mechanics.... but in our realm there will always be random bell curves... But back on topic, I could even place "there will always be random bell curves" as some kind of determined law because 'always' would place the rule and it would be continually random as to where there will be a bell curve. So in a sense it does evolve continuously but also at the same time it does not.

  • @PLecN im just on a tangent sorry lol this guys completely right im not arguing just being random pretty much xD

  • @pawnshopr Yes, that's why my nose never touches the wall when when I walk across the room dividing each subsequent space in half; plus, I'm still waiting for Achilles to catch that Tortoise!

  • @fc2122 when when? Okay I don't really understand what you mean to express with all those words. Namaste.

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  • i love how nearly every statement he makes, he follows it with another statement clarifying/descrbing something he said in the previous statement. so 20 thoughts later you finally undestand what he meant 20 thoughts ago lol

  • Great lecture but i feel kind of bad for the guy; the questions asked by the students just seemed really nitpicky and not really having to do with the concepts susskind was presenting. Maybe it's just me.

    Great lecture (series) all in all. It still blows me away that resources like this are so freely available nowadays.

  • @roygbiv610 you understand physics well?

  • @roygbiv610

    Its not just you, its the one thing I miss least about college, both being a student and a teacher, and that one thing is when students ask distracting and inconsequential questions that say "to-MAY-to" when the professor says "to-MAH-to", many times (presumably) to hear their own voices. Its very, very annoying, and the one tiny island of satisfaction I found when dealing with it was to berate the students that did so in my classroom.

    Case in point: Using words like "bifurcate".

  • @PazGuerro that makes you a dick. students should have an environment where they can ask questions. have you forgot why you were employed and paid. you sound like an employers worst nightmare, a workshy and self indulgent tosser on someone elses dollar.

  • @derwall2005

    Perhaps I am a dick, but I received positive comments from all of my students, and one of the biggest compliments to me was that I made learning "comfortable".

    Students should ABSOLUTELY ask questions, but one thing they should NEVER do is disrupt, interrupt, or distract other students, and when you ask questions that do not apply to the topic on hand, or that merely satisfy your own ego, you are a distraction to my other students and to the lecture.

  • @PazGuerro They said "bifurcate" because they didn't know the word "subgroup," and they clearly didn't understand what Susskind was driving at. If your idea of dealing with questions from people who didn't get it was to berate them, forget being a bad teacher, you're just an asshole.

  • @acr08807

    Actually, I clearly stated that it came only to students who were regular distractions to other students by asking questions more appropriate during office hours. Grasping the concepts I presented was of course priority number one for me.

    And yes, I am an asshole, but I still received very positive reviews from my students, so perhaps I am merely misrepresenting what actually went on in my classroom?

    Regardless, some students speak to hear their own voices. Agreed?

  • @PazGuerro You can also speak with students outside class instead of berating them. Berating isn't education, it's playing an ego game, just like talking to hear your own voice is.

  • I cant draw them endlessly it would take forever. LOL!

  • very good explanation of classical mechanics which comparises mainly of nutonian mechanics i loved the vedio.

  • At what frame rate does the universe move?

  • Do physicists actually consider this when postulating laws? It's a damn shame a part of the lecture is missing, this is great stuff. =/

  • @AleifrLeifrson I do consider this when postulating laws but still its not very useful later on in the process.

    PhD

    Astrophysicist.

  • @AleifrLeifrson We consider the underlying idea behind this lecture, symmetry groups. It's hard to give a simple description, but every conservation law is linked to a symmetry (something that doesn't change) in physical law (for example, conservation of energy is a consequence of physical laws being the same at all times).

  • @AleifrLeifrson Everything that Susskind says between defining a state and discussing the relationship between dimension of a state space and the order of the differential equations of physical laws can be summarized in one sentence: States form a group under physical law. Since he doesn't assume that his students know group theory, he has to take more time to explain. Group theory (including its branch, representation theory) is one of the most useful tools in theoretical physics today.

  • Someone explain this? If you have a rule saying H > H and T > T. That's a totally acceptable rule according to the video.

    How does it come then, that when you add information the rule becomes invalid and non regressable. Namely by creating the sets HH>H, TH >H, TT>T and HT > T.

    In this rule the previous rule is still valid, yet as a whole it becomes invalid. Does this mean that if I find the second 'pattern', I should dismiss it and go for the more simplified previous rule? Seems strange.

  • @Rantoro You can always write down a rule that sends a two-bit state to a single-bit state like the one you mention (HH -> H etc) but it won't be a valid 'law of physics' because a valid law must send two-bit states to two-bit states even to be considered.

  • @PLecN Makes sense to dismiss the example I gave as invalid rule as whole. Does seem odd that a trivial change in the premise, 2bit to 1bit wouldn't be an option in science :D I guess that's why there are rules hehe :)

  • @Rantoro It will become more obvious later in the course that this is a technical requirement.

    In order to describe the state of a particle say, you need two bits of info - position and momentum at a given instant. If u know the state now and want to predict the future state, u need to plug two bits into a 'rule' and get two bits out. If only one bit comes out - position say - then u can't predict the state, since state means both position *and* momentum. (I think that makes sense !!)

  • @PLecN Measurement problem

  • @Rantoro in classical mechanics we have strict determinism. That is given a state and the laws you should be able to find out previous state(or future state).

    In the rule you describe HH and TH both evolve to H. So in case you are given H you can't find whether it came from HH or TH. Thus the system you described isn't deterministic. However in a system which has the law H>H and T>T , we can find out past/future state given present state.

    Susskind calls this conservation of information.

  • Excellent presentation of compressed concepts

  • tails tail goes to tails tail?

  • This video is very useful.

  • I like this video.

  • Thank you for sharing.

  • I viewed one of Prof Susskind's lecture in which he stated that all physics depends on a change of energy. My hs physics teacher said the same thing way back. When I study physics now, I keep this in mind whenever we study any concept....

  • As soon as he started writing equations my mind became foggy

  • Is this Physics 40, or 60 at Stanford?

  • Hmm the concepts here seem quite advanced to me. I self taught myself up to vector calculus so I understand pretty much all the maths here, but I'm having troubling following the concepts at this abstract level. Perhaps one or two more specific examples throughout the course would have helped me greatly.

  • @Liaomiao

    I could do a video or something if you'd like some help

    give me an example of something you don't quite get and I'll do my best to explain it with an example or two?

  • With respect to the level of depth are these courses on par with undergraduate education in physics? I'm talking about all of Professor's Susskind's lectures up to String Theory.

  • @Liaomiao

    Pretty much no level. These lectures are interesting, but they aren't really up to par with academic courseloads, especially without the "work" and tests one would normally have to do. These lectures are more like what light-reading/(reading for fun) is to actually putting work and study into a textbook. Not saying that the content is trivial, it's just that this isn't how school is like.

  • i love this guy!

  • what is the mathematics he used there? sorry for my wrong grammar...

    I completely understand the words, but not the board work.

  • @niconikko graph theory

  • I just want to say that I am so grateful that these lecture series are made available. They are very very helpful.

  • I loved this, thank you! Why spend a fortune in university when you can just learn this stuff for free on youtube, learn what you're good at beforehand so when you do get a degree you not only know what you'll enjoy or be good at in university but be knowledgeable enough through online lectures to score well at the end.

    It was embarassing though when the douche in the audience kept interrupting though, I imagined the professor saying "If you don't shut up I'll give you cement shoes asshole!"

  • HES GREAT...LOVE THE LECTURE

  • Is this lecture series complete?

  • Is this lecture series complete? If not is it going to be complete?

  • @sgsawant . Yes this lecture series is complete. It is part of a Stanford series - Modern Physics:A theoretical minimum. Please visit the wikipedia article of Leonard Susskind. There in a section called lectures, the order in which the lectures were broadcast are given. Apparently there is some goofup in the lecture titles. As the lectures on quantum entanglements also cover special relativity . :)

  • I hate physicists.

  • @Grimmjow567 what are you, some math major?

  • @TheOvermaster Nah.

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  • huh?

  • The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics by Leonard Susskind is a good book to read to get some background on the lecturer. He mostly studies general relativity, concepts in quantum gravity, and formulation of relativistic problems in string theory like black holes. In the book, he tells like his background, life story in relation to several physicist including Hawking, and his theoretical contribution to black hole theory.

  • his students lack imagination , it is really more important than knowledge

  • I like how I can fast forward him, unlike my real professors.

  • @Terrakinetic and rewind him.:P

  • This man is very intelligent, he puts it in simple terms, that even I can understand. I'm 18 and in high school, still at the time in my life where I never thought math would be interesting, but this is an exception to that rule.

  • @YouGoByeBye Its an unfortunate thing... In schools it seems math teachers are certainly interesting in explaining HOW to do math... but simply not interested in explaining it in a form that creates a picture in the students mind of what the hell is going on.

    Nobody can be seriously asked to hold abstract rules in their head without being shown what is going on. Later on they can see that picture in the math...but at the outset there is no frame of reference.

  • @MumblingMickey This is a physics class in which theory is more important than the mathematics behind it. The students are expected to understand the math already given that there is a prerequisite for the course. Physics by nature is applied mathematics.

  • @XxBrian88xX yeah erm... I think I sort of already got that...several decades ago... lol!

  • @XxBrian88xX

    Physics is way harder than applied mathematics. Applied mathematics requires no physical intuition or experimental verification.

  • @frostwow

    ???

    

  • @wosclub I didn't get it either.

  • @frostwow What the hell are you talking about?

  • @JmSantos78 from what i got ( witch isn't much) all he is saying is that nothing is just guna switch it self in to anything else. gold can't become lead. ...... i think

  • he looks like john malkovich and sounds like the grandfather from king of queens

  • I have no choice. We're going to have to... add velocity into the equation.

  • I am subscribing right away:)

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  • he wastes alot of time

  • @TheCrappyaccount None of our opinions matter. Least of all, yours.

  • this guy is always talking about flipping coins and rolling dies. that is a red flag for a gambling problem

  • @joeglimmix Or a Statistical Mechanics freak

  • @joeglimmix it is actually a very common example, in statistics for example, because both have very limited possible events and are thus easy to examine. Im only at 3 minutes by now but just felt like i'd leave the comment right now...

  • @Martcapt haha i was just joking. actually, i am a statisician myself so I have done my fair share of homework problems involving dice and coins :)

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  • I love how sometimes he calls the pen and the white board "chalk and blackboard".

  • @paulojunior201 politically thats correct. Its "Pollitically UNCORRECT" to say black board or white board,

    or "Ba ba BLACK sheep , have you any wool." It's actually "Ba Ba RAINBOW sheep"

    Political correctness is stupid

  • @paulojunior201 That shows the kind of teacher he is. The good old fashion kind :D

  • @paulojunior201 : Its good that u noticed, but let's respect to his explanation.