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Principle of Stationary Action & Euler-Lagrange Equations

Leonard Susskind · 1:49:46

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Legendre Transforms, Hamilton's Equations & Liouville's Theorem

Leonard Susskind · 1:48:02

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Introduction to Quantum Superposition

Allan Adams · 1:16:06

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Experimental Facts of Life — Photoelectric Effect, Double Slit & Bell

Allan Adams · 1:20:12

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States, Logic & Complex Vector Spaces

Leonard Susskind · 1:35:35

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Linear Operators, Eigenfunctions & The Schrödinger Equation

Allan Adams · 1:23:14

Legendre Transforms, Hamilton's Equations & Liouville's Theorem

Leonard SusskindDistinguishedStanford University

Felix Bloch Professor of Theoretical Physics

1:48:02·2011·undergraduate level
Path step 2: Transforms Lagrangians into Hamiltonian phase space and Liouville volume conservation.

Transforms L(q, q̇) into H(q, p) on phase space and proves Liouville's theorem—showing phase-space volume is incompressible just like continuous information.

PhysicsClassical & Statistical MechanicsRelativity & CosmologyQuantum MechanicsHamiltonian Mechanics

(November 1, 2011) Leonard Susskind discusses the some of the basic laws and ideas of modern physics. In this lecture, he focuses on the motion of objects. He starts with a general example of a wedge on a frictionless plane and uses it as the building block for more complicated theory.

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Leonard SusskindDistinguished

Felix Bloch Professor of Theoretical Physics, Stanford University

Father of string theory, holographic principle pioneer, and creator of Stanford's Theoretical Minimum series across classical, quantum, and relativistic physics.

3 courses · 34 lecturesCanon
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