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Great Ideas of Classical Physics

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Course Description

Overview

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

Syllabus

  • 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

Taught by

Steven Pollock

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