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University Foundations

First-year university

0 of 46 lectures are ready to read. The rest are listed so you can see where the subject goes; each one switches on as it is finished.

Lagrangian Mechanics0 of 4 ready
  1. 01Generalised coordinates — escaping Cartesian thinkingcoming soon
  2. 02The Lagrangian — T minus Vcoming soon
  3. 03Applying Lagrangian mechanics — worked examplescoming soon
  4. 04Conservation laws from Noether's theorem (preview)coming soon
Hamiltonian Mechanics0 of 3 ready
  1. 01The Hamiltonian — Legendre transform of Lagrangiancoming soon
  2. 02Phase space and Liouville's theoremcoming soon
  3. 03Poisson brackets — the algebra of classical mechanicscoming soon
Noether's Theorem0 of 2 ready
  1. 01Symmetry and conservation laws — the big ideacoming soon
  2. 02Noether's theorem — the formal statementcoming soon
Coupled Oscillators0 of 3 ready
  1. 01Two coupled oscillators — normal modescoming soon
  2. 02Normal coordinates — decoupling the motioncoming soon
  3. 03N coupled oscillators and phononscoming soon
Maxwell's Equations (Differential Form)0 of 4 ready
  1. 01Gauss's law — ∇·E = ρ⧸ε₀coming soon
  2. 02Faraday's law and Ampere-Maxwell lawcoming soon
  3. 03Electromagnetic waves from Maxwell's equationscoming soon
  4. 04Potentials and gauge invariancecoming soon
Special Relativity0 of 4 ready
  1. 01The postulates of special relativitycoming soon
  2. 02Time dilation and length contractioncoming soon
  3. 03Lorentz transformations — the full picturecoming soon
  4. 04Spacetime and four-vectorscoming soon
Relativistic Dynamics0 of 3 ready
  1. 01Relativistic momentum and energycoming soon
  2. 02Mass-energy equivalence — E = mc²coming soon
  3. 03Four-momentum and relativistic collisionscoming soon
Statistical Mechanics0 of 4 ready
  1. 01The microcanonical ensemble — isolated systemscoming soon
  2. 02The canonical ensemble — systems at fixed Tcoming soon
  3. 03Thermodynamic quantities from the partition functioncoming soon
  4. 04The grand canonical ensemblecoming soon
Quantum Statistics0 of 3 ready
  1. 01Identical particles — quantum indistinguishabilitycoming soon
  2. 02Fermi-Dirac statisticscoming soon
  3. 03Bose-Einstein statistics and condensationcoming soon
The Schrodinger Equation0 of 5 ready
  1. 01The time-dependent Schrodinger equationcoming soon
  2. 02The time-independent Schrodinger equationcoming soon
  3. 03Particle in a box — exact solutioncoming soon
  4. 04The quantum harmonic oscillatorcoming soon
  5. 05Hydrogen atom — full quantum solutioncoming soon
QM Formalism0 of 4 ready
  1. 01Hilbert space and Dirac notationcoming soon
  2. 02Operators and observablescoming soon
  3. 03The uncertainty principle — Heisenbergcoming soon
  4. 04Measurement and the collapse postulatecoming soon
Crystal Structure and Band Theory0 of 3 ready
  1. 01Crystal structures — lattices and unit cellscoming soon
  2. 02Blochs theorem and band structurecoming soon
  3. 03Conductors, semiconductors, insulatorscoming soon
Fluid Mechanics0 of 4 ready
  1. 01Fluid statics — pressure and buoyancycoming soon
  2. 02Fluid dynamics — the continuity equationcoming soon
  3. 03Bernoullis equation — energy conservation in fluidscoming soon
  4. 04Viscosity and Reynolds numbercoming soon