Favorite physics videos on internet

[Avijeet]

Hi Friends,

I thought it would be interesting if all of us put our favorite physics video links that are available in the internet for all to share. Here's a list of mine:

1. Walter Lewin lecture series from MIT


2. Leonard Susskind lectures from Stanford


3. Carl Sagan's Cosmos series


Kindly add your favorites to this list. Let us all enjoy these masterpieces :)
Cheers.

 

[Avijeet]

Some more of my favorites

4. The elegant universe by Brian Greene

 

[kevinfrankly]

wow nice one, never imagined that i could learn physics from youtube

 

[Avijeet]

Hi friends,

Please post your replies :(

 

[Epistemic]

I like Dr. Quantum;
Double Slit Experiment:

 

[Avijeet]

Richard Dawkins- growing up in the universe (theory of evolution)

 

[skeptic2]

The engineer in this video died a few weeks ago. His funeral was attended by Bob Pease who was killed in a car crash leaving the funeral. Both men were well known in Silicon Valley.

 

[jonthebaptist]

WOW! Skeptic2 that video was AWESOME!

It was neat to see a demo video on youtube that wasn't trying to violate any established conservation laws. Also, the concepts in that video have inspired a few ideas of my own that I think could help me get past a serious problem in my own personal research...Many thanks

 

[robphy]

Frames of Reference (Ivey & Hume, 1960)
http://www.archive.org/details/frames_of_reference





Feynman Messenger Lectures (via Microsoft)
http://research.microsoft.com/apps/tools/tuva/index.html

Feynman Douglas Robb Lectures (basis of "QED" book)
http://vega.org.uk/video/subseries/8

Mechanical Universe
http://www.learner.org/resources/series42.html

 

[Cryptonic]

I am a big fan of the http://www.dimensions-math.org/Dim_E.htm" series - the visualisations are beautiful, especially the long zoom deep into a Mandelbrot set in Ep 6!

 

[Avijeet]

I am a big fan of the http://www.dimensions-math.org/Dim_E.htm" series - the visualisations are beautiful, especially the long zoom deep into a Mandelbrot set in Ep 6!

Hi, Thanks.
Just saw the Dimensions series, the visualizations blew mind. Its wonderful. Thanks for posting this.

 

[seouldavid]

This brings a good collection of lecture videos and documentary films covering a variety of topics in physics, including astrophysics, quantum mechanics, string theory and classical mechanics.

http://www.infocobuild.com/education/learn-through-videos/physics/physics-index.html

 

[Cantstandit]

I like Dr. Quantum;
Double Slit Experiment:

I'm not an expert, but from what I hear it is not very reliable source, and the movie the fragment comes from was accused of being pseudoscientific.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_the_Bleep_Do_We_Know!?

 

[Ryan_m_b]

It's not physics, but this is probably one of the greatest science videos online in my opinion

Short version


Longer version with commentary

 

[jonthebaptist]

Here is an excellent video that explains how the process of research in modern Science actually works. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dg0RXXTLgo&feature=feedu

 

[t3aguy]

Since most of these videos aren't physics I might as well post something that isn't 100% physics:


Nano, the next dimension (Film produced for European Commission)

 

[twofu]

My absolute favorite. Never gets old :D

 

[cragar]

Julius Sumner miller
these also never get old!

 

[Simfish]

Which videos actually *use* animations along with explanations? I only find video lectures effective if they actually have animations.

The Mechanical Universe is the one I really know of (just skip Goodstein's stuff and the history stuff).

 

[grzz]

what about Hans Bethe talking about Physics:
http://youtu.be/3SyDR5DquX8

 

[Simfish]

He was over 90 years old when he made those. While I greatly respect his longevity and achievements even at over 90 (one of my old email addresses was even named after him), it's still nearly impossible to follow his words when he's that old. :(

 

[MrNerd]

I found a weird video on youtube that teaches specific heat.

Physics! with Cactuar and Tonberry

 

[Francis M]

I know they're old but Feynmans "Messanger Lectures" on the character of physical law.

 

[nucl34rgg]

Hi Friends,

I thought it would be interesting if all of us put our favorite physics video links that are available in the internet for all to share. Here's a list of mine:

1. Walter Lewin lecture series from MIT


2. Leonard Susskind lectures from Stanford


3. Carl Sagan's Cosmos series


Kindly add your favorites to this list. Let us all enjoy these masterpieces :)
Cheers.

walter lewin is my favorite also
he put so much work into his lectures
apparently he used to rehearse 3 dry runs before doing his lectures every week

 

[matonski]

Sidney Coleman's http://www.physics.harvard.edu/about/Phys253.html. I went through these over and over during my QFT class last year. I really feel like he has been my teacher.

 

[matonski]

Sidney Coleman's http://www.physics.harvard.edu/about/Phys253.html. I went through these over and over during my QFT class last year. I really feel like he has been my teacher.

Someone sent me a private message asking about a better version of these videos. It won't let me respond so I'll just respond here for everyone. Anyway, I don't know of better videos, but after awhile, you can start to see what he writes on the board. Especially in some of the later videos.

Also, there are some student notes for the first semester of the course taught 11 years later here. The content and ordering are almost exactly the same. Most of the second semester stuff can be found in his book https://www.amazon.com/dp/0521318270/?tag=pfamazon01-20.

 

[grzz]

Thank you matonski.

 

[2sin54]

Just one out of many songs about physics:

 

[matonski]

Here are a great set of supersymmetry lectures.

 

[JHamm]

Third on Feynman's Messenger Lectures; what you learn probably won't appear on a test but the man has a way of seeing into the matrix.