Susskind Theoretical Minimum

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A restoration of a good index into the lectures of Leonard Susskind (Stanford).

Select from: All Courses Core Courses A (2007-2009) Core Courses B (2011-2013) Supplemental Courses

All Courses

## Contents

* 1 Core Courses A (2007-2009)
* 1.1 Classical Mechanics A
* 1.2 Quantum Mechanics A
* 1.3 Special Relativity A
* 1.4 General Relativity A
* 1.5 Cosmology A
* 1.6 Statistical Mechanics A
* 2 Core Courses B (2011-2013)
* 2.1 Classical Mechanics B
* 2.2 Quantum Mechanics B
* 2.3 Special Relativity B
* 2.4 General Relativity B
* 2.5 Cosmology B
* 2.6 Statistical Mechanics B
* 3 Supplemental Courses
* 3.1 Quantum Entanglement (2006)
* 3.2 Relativity (2007)
* 3.3 Particle Physics 1: Basic Concepts (2009)
* 3.4 Particle Physics 2: Standard Model (2010)
* 3.5 Particle Physics 3: Supersymmetry and Grand Unification (2010)
* 3.6 String Theory and M-Theory (2010)
* 3.7 Topics in String Theory / Cosmology and Black Holes (2011)
* 3.8 Higgs Boson (2012)
* 3.9 Advanced Quantum Mechanics (2013)
* 4 See also

## Core Courses A (2007-2009)[edit | edit source]

### Classical Mechanics A[edit | edit source]

* 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[edit | edit source]

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

### Special Relativity A[edit | edit source]

* 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[edit | edit source]

* 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[edit | edit source]

* 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[edit | edit source]

* 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

## Core Courses B (2011-2013)[edit | edit source]

### Classical Mechanics B[edit | edit source]

* 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[edit | edit source]

* 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[edit | edit source]

* 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[edit | edit source]

* 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[edit | edit source]

* 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[edit | edit source]

* 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

## Supplemental Courses[edit | edit source]

### Quantum Entanglement (2006)[edit | edit source]

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

### Relativity (2007)[edit | edit source]

* Lecture 1
* Lectures 2 & 3
* Lecture 4
* Lecture 5
* Lecture 6
* Lecture 7
* Lecture 8
* Lecture 9

### Particle Physics 1: Basic Concepts (2009)[edit | edit source]

* Lecture 1 - Particles and light
* Lecture 2 - Quantum field theory
* Lecture 3 - Quantum fields and particles
* Lecture 4 - More quantum field theory
* Lecture 5 - Energy conservation and waves
* Lecture 6 - Dirac equation and Higgs particles
* Lecture 7 - Angular momentum
* Lecture 8 - Spin
* Lecture 9 - Equations of motion of particles and fields
* Lecture 10 - Field Lagrangians and path integrals

### Particle Physics 2: Standard Model (2010)[edit | edit source]

* Lecture 1 - Particles fields and forces
* Lecture 2 - Quantum chromodynamics
* Lecture 3 - Group theory – part 1
* Lecture 4 - Group theory – part 2
* Lecture 5 - Gauge fields and symmetry
* Lecture 6 - The weak interaction
* Lecture 7 - Spontaneous symmetry breaking and Goldstone bosons
* Lecture 8 - The Higgs field
* Lecture 9 - The Higgs field and fermions
* Lecture 10 - Renormalization and the running of coupling constants

### Particle Physics 3: Supersymmetry and Grand Unification (2010)[edit | edit source]

* Lecture 1 - Renormalization concepts, and dimensional analysis
* Lecture 2 - Fermions and bosons
* Lecture 3 - Propagators and renormalization of mass
* Lecture 4 - Symmetry and Grassmann numbers
* Lecture 5 - A first supersymmetric model
* Lecture 6 - Supersymmetry building blocks
* Lecture 7 - Lagrangians that preserve supersymmetry
* Lecture 8 - Generalizing supersymmetry to 3+1 spacetime, and QFT
* Lecture 9 - Supersymmetry breaking and an introduction to grand unified theories
* Lecture 10 - GUTs, the SU(5) representation, proton decay

### String Theory and M-Theory (2010)[edit | edit source]

* Lecture 1 - The historical origins of string theory
* Lecture 2 - Mathematics of string motion
* Lecture 3 - The energy spectrum of strings
* Lecture 4 - Closed strings and the level matching rule
* Lecture 5 - Bosonic strings
* Lecture 6 - Strings with spin
* Lecture 7 - Fermionic strings and path integrals
* Lecture 8 - Conformal mapping and string scattering
* Lecture 9 - Strings in compact dimensions
* Lecture 10 - T-duality, D-branes and modeling field theories
* Lecture 11 - String theory wrapup - see the Lecture 1 of the next course

### Topics in String Theory / Cosmology and Black Holes (2011)[edit | edit source]

* Lecture 1 - String theory wrapup \- this is the last 11'th lecture of the previous course
* Lecture 2 - Special relativity and string theory \- the first lecture of this course
* Lecture 3 - Black holes
* Lecture 4 - Black hole horizons
* Lecture 5 - Black holes and light
* Lecture 6 - Black hole entropy
* Lecture 7 - Black hole entropy 2
* Lecture 8 - Horizons
* Lecture 9 - More black holes and horizons

### Higgs Boson (2012)[edit | edit source]

* Lecture 1 - Demystifying the Higgs Boson

### Advanced Quantum Mechanics (2013)[edit | edit source]

* Lecture 1 - Review of quantum mechanics and introduction to symmetry
* Lecture 2 - Symmetry groups and degeneracy
* Lecture 3 - Atomic orbits and harmonic oscillators
* Lecture 4 - Spin
* Lecture 5 - Fermions: a tale of two minus signs
* Lecture 6 - Quantum field theory
* Lecture 7 - Quantum field theory 2
* Lecture 8 - Second quantization
* Lecture 9 - Quantum field Hamiltonian
* Lecture 10 - Fermions and the Dirac equation

## See also[edit | edit source]

* The Theoretical Minimum Site