Free Video Lectures from universities, all Math and Physics courses

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The discussion revolves around the availability and quality of free online video lectures for mathematics and physics courses from various universities. Participants share resources, express opinions on specific courses, and seek recommendations for additional materials, particularly in areas like real analysis and thermodynamics.

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  • Technical explanation
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Main Points Raised

  • Some participants inquire about the equivalence of online lectures to their university courses, particularly regarding second-year physics content.
  • Concerns are raised about the quality of video lectures from certain institutions, with specific comparisons made between Berkeley and Harvey Mudd College.
  • Participants express varying opinions on the effectiveness of real analysis lectures from Harvey Mudd, with some praising their quality and others discussing prerequisites for understanding the material.
  • There is a request for links to additional resources, including complex analysis lectures.
  • Some participants share their personal experiences with specific courses, such as Leonard Susskind's physics series, highlighting their accessibility for self-learners.

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Participants express differing views on the quality and appropriateness of various online lectures, indicating that no consensus exists regarding the best resources or the equivalency of courses.

Contextual Notes

Some discussions involve assumptions about course levels and prerequisites, which may not be universally applicable. The quality of video content is also noted to vary significantly among different institutions.

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Students and self-learners in mathematics and physics seeking free online resources and those interested in comparing different educational materials from various universities.

  • #31
any lectures on Classical mechanics (upper division)?
 
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  • #33
is the rigorous one up to the level of landau?
 
  • #34
is the rigorous one up to the level of landau?

I have not extensively read Landau/Lifgarbagez but the lectures seem to be at a similar level. If anything the lectures might be a bit less sophisticated, but by very little as far as I can tell.
 
  • #35
battousai said:
is the rigorous one up to the level of landau?

Hey I'm working on the lectures and Landau's book right now. Lectures are very very good but still not on par with Landau in terms of rigor. That being said, the prof is wonderful and the depth probed by him during the lectures is at similar level to that of Landau's. I think Calkin's Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Mechanics supplement the lectures better than Landau.
 
  • #37
These links are pretty awesome. Thanks guys.
 
  • #38
I emailed MIT OCW and found out they have a full introductory quantum physics video course (8.04) that they're going to post some time in the not too distant future. Only the first video has been posted so far from that semester (but not at OCW yet)

http://video.mit.edu/watch/804-class-from-feb-5-2013-13799/
 
  • #43
I think Video lectures from HarveyMudd on true dissection are totally top rate, compared with any video lecture arrangement out there, including the stuff on MIT OCW. I also have viewed and preferred the whole series of lectures. They are focused around "the" content on true dissection (child rudin) and the addresses themselves are extremely decently arranged and conveyed.
 

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