Great Ideas of Classical Physics

Cover three centuries of brilliant thinkers as an award-winning professor takes you step by step through landmark concepts in physics.

• By This Professor
• 01: The Great Ideas of Classical Physics
• 02: Describing Motion - A Break from Aristotle
• 03: Describing Ever More Complex Motion
• 04: Astronomy as a Bridge to Modern Physics
• 05: Isaac Newton - The Dawn of Classical Physics
• 06: Newton Quantified - Force and Acceleration
• 07: Newton and the Connections to Astronomy
• 08: Universal Gravitation
• 09: Newton's Third Law
• 10: Conservation of Momentum
• 11: Beyond Newton - Work and Energy
• 12: Power and the Newtonian Synthesis
• 13: Further Developments - Static Electricity
• 14: Electricity, Magnetism, and Force Fields
• 15: Electrical Currents and Voltage
• 16: The Origin of Electric and Magnetic Fields
• 17: Unification I - Maxwell's Equations
• 18: Unification II - Electromagnetism and Light
• 19: Vibrations and Waves
• 20: Sound Waves and Light Waves
• 21: The Atomic Hypothesis
• 22: Energy in Systems - Heat and Thermodynamics
• 23: Heat and the Second Law of Thermodynamics
• 24: The Grand Picture of Classical Physics