Lecture 1 Modern Physics: Statistical Mechanics

Leonard Susskind introduces energy, entropy, temperature, and phase states as they relate directly to statistical mechanics.

Lecture 2 Modern Physics: Statistical Mechanics

Leonard Susskind overviews elementary mathematics to define a method for understanding statistical mechanics.

Lecture 3 Modern Physics: Statistical Mechanics

Leonard Susskind reviews the Lagrange multiplier, explains Boltzmann distribution and Helmholtz free energy before oulining into the theory of fluctuations.

Lecture 4 Modern Physics: Statistical Mechanics

Leonard Susskind explains how to calculate and define pressure, explores the formulas some of applications of Helmholtz free energy, and discusses the importance of the partition function.

Lecture 5 Modern Physics: Statistical Mechanics

Leonard Susskind discusses the basic physics of the diatomic molecule and why you don't have to worry about its structure at low temperature. Susskind later explores a black hole thermodynamics.

Lecture 6 Modern Physics: Statistical Mechanics

Leonard Susskind explains the second law of thermodynamics, illustrates chaos, and discusses how the volume of phase space grows.

Lecture 7 Modern Physics: Statistical Mechanics

Leonard Susskind lectures on harmonic oscillators, quantum states, boxes of radiation and all associated computations such as wavelengths, volume, energy and temperature.

Lecture 8 Modern Physics: Statistical Mechanics

Leonard Susskind lectures on a new class of systems, magnetic systems. He goes on to talk about mean field approximations of molecules in multidimensional lattice systems.

Lecture 9 Modern Physics: Statistical Mechanics

Leonard Susskind picks up on magnets, phase transitions, and mean field transitions. He goes on to explain chemical potential.

Lecture 10 Modern Physics: Statistical Mechanics

Leonard Susskind deals with such topics as inflation, adiabatic transformation and thermal dynamic systems.

Lecture 1 Quantum Entanglements, Part 1

A basic definition of what constitutes a physics system, a classical system and a quantum system.

Lecture 2 Quantum Entanglements, Part 1

Basic Concepts Spin, Dirac, Observables - electron spin, Dirac notation, probability, observables.

Lecture 3 Quantum Entanglements, Part 1

Sigma Matrices, Calculate Probabilities - quantum mechanics is calculation of probabilities, eigenvalues and eigenvectors, Sigma matrices.

Lecture 4 Quantum Entanglements, Part 1

Sigma Matrices & Probabilities, Entangled State - probability of finding an electron in a particular state, entanglement - simple definition.

Lecture 5 Quantum Entanglements, Part 1

Review Sigma Matrix, Entangled States, Bell's Theorem, Quantum Clone.

Lecture 6 Quantum Entanglements, Part 1

Definition of basis vectors, Sub-spaces, Review of classical probability, 2 Slit Experiment.

Lecture 7 Quantum Entanglements, Part 1

Review 2 Slit Experiment, Probability, Entropy, Quantum Density Matrix.

Lecture 8 Quantum Entanglements, Part 1

Density Matrix, Classical Definition of Entropy, Entanglement, How States Change with Time.

Lecture 9 Quantum Entanglements, Part 1

The Hamiltonian, Energy, Schrodinger Equation, Einstein's photon equation, Spin in a magnetic field.

Lecture 1 Quantum Entanglements, Part 3

Lecture 1 of Leonard Susskind's course concentrating on Quantum Entanglements (Part 3, Spring 2007).