Physics and Our Universe

Discover science's most fundamental branch in this course that covers Newtonian mechanics, thermodynamics, electromagnetism, optics, quantum theory, and more.

• By This Professor
• 01: The Fundamental Science
• 02: Languages of Physics
• 03: Describing Motion
• 04: Falling Freely
• 05: It's a 3-D World!
• 06: Going in Circles
• 07: Causes of Motion
• 08: Using Newton's Laws-1-D motion
• 09: Action and Reaction
• 10: Newton's Laws in 2 and 3 Dimensions
• 11: Work and Energy
• 12: Using Energy Conservation
• 13: Gravity
• 14: Systems of Particles
• 15: Rotational Motion
• 16: Keeping Still
• 17: Back and Forth-Oscillatory Motion
• 18: Making Waves
• 19: Fluid Statics-The Tip of the Iceberg
• 20: Fluid Dynamics
• 21: Heat and Temperature
• 22: Heat Transfer
• 23: Matter and Heat
• 24: The Ideal Gas
• 25: Heat and Work
• 26: Entropy-The Second Law of Thermodynamics
• 27: Consequences of the Second Law
• 28: A Charged World
• 29: The Electric Field
• 30: Electric Potential
• 31: Electric Energy
• 32: Electric Current
• 33: Electric Circuits
• 34: Magnetism
• 35: The Origin of Magnetism
• 36: Electromagnetic Induction
• 37: Applications of Electromagnetic Induction
• 38: Magnetic Energy
• 39: AC/DC
• 40: Electromagnetic Waves
• 41: Reflection and Refraction
• 42: Imaging
• 43: Wave Optics
• 44: Cracks in the Classical Picture
• 45: Earth, Ether, Light
• 46: Special Relativity
• 47: Time and Space
• 48: Space-Time and Mass-Energy
• 49: General Relativity
• 50: Introducing the Quantum
• 51: Atomic Quandaries
• 52: Wave or Particle?
• 53: Quantum Mechanics
• 54: Atoms
• 55: Molecules and Solids
• 56: The Atomic Nucleus
• 57: Energy from the Nucleus
• 58: The Particle Zoo
• 59: An Evolving Universe
• 60: Humble Physics-What We Don't Know