Susskind Theoretical Minimum/Core Courses A Content

Classical Mechanics A

 * Lecture 1 - State diagrams and the nature of physical laws
 * Lecture 2 - Newton's laws, principle of least action
 * Lecture 3 - Euler-Lagrange equations, symmetry and conservation laws
 * Lecture 4 - Symmetry and conservation Laws
 * Lecture 5 - Lagrangians and Hamiltonians
 * Lecture 6 - Hamilton's equations
 * Lecture 7 - Liouville’s theorem
 * Lecture 8 - Motion in an electromagnetic field
 * Lecture 9 - Poisson brackets formulation

Quantum Mechanics A

 * Lecture 1
 * Lecture 2
 * Lecture 3
 * Lecture 4
 * Lecture 5
 * Lecture 6
 * Lecture 7
 * Lecture 8
 * Lecture 9
 * Lecture 10

Special Relativity A

 * Lecture 1 - Inertial reference frames
 * Lecture 2 - Principle of least action
 * Lecture 3 - Invariance of the laws of nature
 * Lecture 4 - Lagrangian mechanics
 * Lecture 5 - Conservation of charge and momentum
 * Lecture 6 - Relativistic wave equation and conservation laws
 * Lecture 7 - Invariance under gauge transformations
 * Lecture 8 - Gauge theory

General Relativity A

 * Lecture 1 - Newtonian Gravity and the equivalence principle
 * Lecture 2 - Tidal forces and curvature
 * Lecture 3 - Essential tools: tensors and the metric
 * Lecture 4 - Tensor mechanics
 * Lecture 5 - Covariant differentiation and geodesics
 * Lecture 6 - The flat space of special relativity
 * Lecture 7 - The Riemannian curvature tensor
 * Lecture 8 - Equations of motion in curved space
 * Lecture 9 - Gravitation in the Newtonian approximation
 * Lecture 10 - Energy-momentum tensor and Einstein's equations
 * Lecture 11 - Accelerated coordinates
 * Lecture 12 - World lines and Schwarzschild solution

Cosmology A

 * Lecture 1 - Geometry of the expanding universe
 * Lecture 2 - Newtonian and Friedmann-Robertson-Walker cosmology
 * Lecture 3 - Structure of the universe
 * Lecture 4 - Background microwave radiation
 * Lecture 5 - Cosmological curvature
 * Lecture 6 - Surface of last scattering
 * Lecture 7 - Cosmological inflation
 * Lecture 8 - Big omega

Statistical Mechanics A

 * Lecture 1 - Conservation of information, energy, entropy, and temperature
 * Lecture 2 - The mathematics of statistical mechanics
 * Lecture 3 - The Boltzman distribution and fluctuations
 * Lecture 4 - Helmholtz free energy and the partition function
 * Lecture 5 - Diatomic molecules and black hole thermodynamics
 * Lecture 6 - Second law of thermodynamics
 * Lecture 7 - Harmonic oscillators and quantum states
 * Lecture 8 - Magnets
 * Lecture 9 - Phase transitions and chemical potential
 * Lecture 10 - Thermal radiation and inflation