Lecture 6 | Modern Physics: Classical Mechanics (Stanford)

Lecture 6 of Leonard Susskind's Modern Physics course concentrating on Classical Mechanics. Recorded November 19, 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.

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[cngzsn]

Just a comment on the last question, which concerns about the order of the conjugate pair, p and q, in the definition of the Poisson bracket. If the order is changed so that the Poisson bracket is defined accordingly, this would result in a sign change in both of the Hamilton's equations. As long as one preserves the sign asymmetry (one negative, the other positive), this would simply correspond to a redundant formulation of classical mechanics, underlying reason being the time-reversal symmetry

[avocadomilk2010]

video/audio syn off in the last 10mins or so

[MrJonkelp]

very interesting video thanks

[willbirful]

brilliant video

[xtremetom180]

shame the vid+sound sync died at end

[grunder20]

Overeducated by the discussion. Great mentor!

[thetricon69]

Over emphasis on friction.

[cngzsn]

@avocadomilk2010

Second law of thermodynamics is a statistical law. Underlying equations of classical mechanics, which deals with the dynamics of a single point particle, are time-reversal invariant.

[avocadomilk2010]

@cngzsn that would be ok if physical systems are invariant under time-reversal, but they are not? c.f. second law of thermodynamics.

[Ferrus91]

How many times does he need to discuss friction!!