Lecture 8 | Modern Physics: Special Relativity (Stanford)

Lecture 8 of Leonard Susskind's Modern Physics course concentrating on Special Relativity. Recorded June 9, 2008 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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[nirvana1108]

Thanks a lot professor Susskind. Your lectures were really helpful!

[69erthx1138]

Dr. Susskind is a great teacher in these areas, a master of his field.

[Neo55378008]

I was interested too in why B is used for magnetic field, so I googled it for my students. When Maxwell wrote his papers, he listed his topics, and then lettered them. The vector potential was the first thing he talked about, then the magnetic field (hence A and B) :-)

[nirdeshreddy92]

thank u for the upload

[huntmatuk]

@WizardofCalculus I should have waited before I posted!!! I wasn't aware that it was possible to change the sign convention. I first came across electromagnetism in my geometry course as a curvature of a line bundle.

I am doing another course in the maths departtment at UCL, and he spent the first third talking about distributions!! I think I will need to go to the physics department!!!