Lecture 1 | Modern Physics: Quantum Mechanics (Stanford)
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Physics Stack Exchange users point people to it as a free, beginner-friendly starting point for video lectures on quantum mechanics, and as the first course in Susskind's series.
Recommended by 2 people across 2 different months, 2011 to 2019.
What it is
The first lecture of Leonard Susskind's Modern Physics course on quantum mechanics, recorded at Stanford in January 2008 as part of the Continuing Studies program. It is a full-length university-style lecture introducing the foundations of quantum theory, aimed at adult learners rather than physics majors.
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Recommends Physiks lover · 2011-11 · Physics Stack Exchange · on “Quantum mechanics video lectures”
This answer contains some additional resources that may be useful. Please note that answers which simply list resources but provide no details are strongly discouraged by the site's policy on resource recommendation questions [LINK] . This answer is left here to contain additional links that do not yet have commentary. Here are a set of 31 lectures [LINK] by Prof. Balakrishnan given to undergraduates. Susskind has done a load of quantum mechanics videos aimed at beginners: Lecture 1 | Modern Physics: Quantum Mechanics (Stanford) [this video]
Recommends John Rennie · 2012-01 · Physics Stack Exchange · on “What's the standard "roadmap" to learning quantum physics?”
I don't think there is a standard roadmap because it depends very much on what you're trying to achieve. I first learned QM when doing a Chemistry degree, and that was heavily focussed on the Schrodinger equation and time-independent solutions. My friends doing Physics took a more abstract and mathematical approach. From your question, I'd guess you're looking for something like a traditional popular science book but more rigorous. The trouble is that QM doesn't lend itself to this approach. It isn't like general relativity, where you can imagine rubber sheets and get a reasonable idea of what is going on. There isn't any simple mental image of QM you can work with. The only good way to lear
Cites José D. · 2014-05 · Physics Stack Exchange · on “Leonard Susskind's videos. Which order?”
As a mathematics student with almost no modern physics background (just an introduction to relativity when I was in secondary school) I find Leonard Susskind's lectures videos (freely available in Youtube) very interesting but I am wondering, in which order should I watch them? Which courses first? These are the ones I have found in Youtube: Modern Physics: Quantum Mechanics ( [this video] ) Modern Physics: Special Relativity ( [LINK] ) String Theory and M-Theory ( [LINK] ) Einstein's General Theory of Relativity ( [LINK] ) Quantum Entanglements ( [LINK] ) Modern Physics: Classical Mechanics ( [LINK] ) Cosmology ( [LINK] ) The Theoretical Minimum ( [LINK] ) I would also appreciate if you could gi
Cites PolaroidDreams · 2019-05 · Physics Stack Exchange · on “Uncertainty principle in classical mechanics and quantum mechanics”
Uncertainty found in classical physics which he mentions in the lecture here [this video] points out the defect in our measurement procedure or devices. [Sometimes, Liouville's theorem [LINK] is termed as the uncertainty principle of classical mechanics.] Suppose we are studying the dynamics of a swarm of particles. An accurate description of initial position and momentum would be sufficient to determine the position and momentum of each classical particle at a later point of time, according to classical physics. We could apply Newton's laws to predict the movements without disturbing the system. Of course, it would be tedious to keep track of gazillion number of particles, nevertheless not impos