Susskind Theoretical Minimum/Core Courses B Content

Classical Mechanics B

 * Lecture 1 - State diagrams and the nature of physical laws
 * Lecture 2 - Newton's law, phase space, momentum and energy
 * Lecture 3 - Lagrangian, least action, Euler-Lagrange equations
 * Lecture 4 - Symmetry and conservation laws
 * Lecture 5 - The Hamiltonian
 * Lecture 6 - Hamilton's equations
 * Lecture 7 - Liouville s theorem
 * Lecture 8 - Poisson brackets
 * Lecture 9 - Electric and magnetic fields 1
 * Lecture 10 - Electric and magnetic fields 2

Quantum Mechanics B

 * Lecture 1 - Introduction to quantum mechanics
 * Lecture 2 - The basic logic of quantum mechanics
 * Lecture 3 - Vector spaces and operators
 * Lecture 4 - Time evolution of a quantum system
 * Lecture 5 - Uncertainty, unitary evolution, and the Schrödinger equation
 * Lecture 6 - Entanglement
 * Lecture 7 - Entanglement and the nature of reality
 * Lecture 8 - Particles moving in one dimension and their operators
 * Lecture 9 - Fourier analysis applied to quantum mechanics and the uncertainty principle
 * Lecture 10 - The uncertainty principle and classical analogs

Special Relativity B

 * Lecture 1 - The Lorentz transformation
 * Lecture 2 - Adding velocities
 * Lecture 3 - Relativistic laws of motion and E = mc2
 * Lecture 4 - Classical field theory
 * Lecture 5 - Particles and fields
 * Lecture 6 - The Lorentz force law
 * Lecture 7 - The fundamental principles of physical laws
 * Lecture 8 - Maxwell's equations
 * Lecture 9 - Lagrangian for Maxwell's equations
 * Lecture 10 - Connection between classical mechanics and field theory

General Relativity B

 * Lecture 1 - The equivalence principle and tensor analysis
 * Lecture 2 - Tensor mathematics
 * Lecture 3 - Flatness and curvature
 * Lecture 4 - Geodesics and gravity
 * Lecture 5 - Metric for a gravitational field
 * Lecture 6 - Black holes
 * Lecture 7 - Falling in to a black hole
 * Lecture 8 - Formation of a black hole
 * Lecture 9 - Einstein field equations
 * Lecture 10 - Gravity waves

Cosmology B

 * Lecture 1 - The expanding (Newtonian) universe
 * Lecture 2 - Matter and radiation dominated universes
 * Lecture 3 - Geometries of space: flat, spherical, hyperbolic
 * Lecture 4 - Cosmological thermodynamics
 * Lecture 5 - Vacuum energy
 * Lecture 6 - Dark matter and allocation of energy density
 * Lecture 7 - Temperature history of the universe
 * Lecture 8 - Baryogenesis
 * Lecture 9 - Inflation
 * Lecture 10 - Inhomogeneities and quantum fluctuations

Statistical Mechanics B

 * Lecture 1 - Entropy and conservation of information
 * Lecture 2 - Temperature
 * Lecture 3 - Maximizing entropy
 * Lecture 4 - The Boltzmann distribution
 * Lecture 5 - Pressure of an ideal gas and fluctuations
 * Lecture 6 - Weakly interacting gases, heat, and work
 * Lecture 7 - Entropy vs. reversibility
 * Lecture 8 - Entropy, reversibility, and magnetism
 * Lecture 9 - Tbe Ising model
 * Lecture 10 - Liquid-gas phase transition