Ask HN: What is a good lecture series on physics?

Posted by jakewins on Wednesday January 17, 2024 @01:29PM
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My wife and I are looking for a video lecture series on physics we could watch in the evenings. Something like the Feynman lectures - broad - but recorded as video.

Is there a “undergrad physics 101” that you particularly enjoyed?

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Re:Ask HN: What is a good lecture series on physics? by GrumpyYoungMan on Wednesday January 17, 2024 @02:15PM (#39032070)

I'd suggest "The Mechanical Universe", which was an excellent series of video lectures developed at Caltech in the that covers undergraduate physics.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8_xPU5epJddRABXqJ5h5...

It was created in the '80s and broadcast on PBS and it still holds up well today.

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Re:Ask HN: What is a good lecture series on physics? by kesavvaranasi on Wednesday January 17, 2024 @01:37PM (#39031612)

Leonard Susskind's The Theoretical Minimum is a favorite of mine. There's a series of lectures on Youtube that accompanies the books.

Check out L.D. Landau's Course of Theoretical Physics if you're open to reading a textbook.

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Re:Ask HN: What is a good lecture series on physics? by AnimalMuppet on Wednesday January 17, 2024 @01:40PM (#39031643)

At least some of the Feynmann lectures are available on video. (All of them, I think, but I could be wrong.)

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