Lecture 1 | Modern Physics: Classical Mechanics (Stanford)
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN recommends Susskind as a very good explainer who uses real math at an accessible level, and links this lecture series for self-learners.
What it is
The first lecture of Leonard Susskind's Stanford Continuing Studies course on modern physics, beginning with classical mechanics. It is the start of a six-quarter sequence on the theoretical foundations of physics.
Recommended by 3 HN commenters across 3 different months, 2017 to 2025.
What Hacker News said
Recommends 21 · 2017-04 · on “Physicists demonstrate new way to violate local causality”
You can also look at some Susskind talks. He is a very good explainer. They don't skim on the math, but it's followable for somebody with a high-school level of math, at least for the basic concepts like spin or bell inequality. [this video]
Recommends kriro · 2022-07 · on “Ask HN: YouTube Channels for the Intellectually Curious”
Not so much channels but interesting series: Playlist of all Susskind Physics lectures: [this video] Sanderson Writing class (fantasy but applies to all genres): [LINK] Channels: Andreas Spiess aka Guy With the Swiss Accent for embedded / microcontrollers: [LINK] Hoopers Beta for a scienctific/medical POV about climbing: [LINK] IppSec for HackTheBox to learn security: [LINK] LiveOverflow for security: [LINK] Yannic Kilcher for ML news / overviews: [LINK] French Guy Cooking: [LINK]
Recommends jackdoe · 2025-08 · on “Death and What Comes Next (2002)”
Ignoring the moral question in the story, many people are satisfied by saying "haha funny, the cat is both dead and alive" and they just move on. Reading Pratchett for almost 30 years, it has fueled quite an interested in quantum mechanics in me, he subtly introduces QM teasers in almost every book I read. Particularly Mort. As I dropped out of highschool, I didnt have the luck to properly study physics, but in my 30s, I my existential crisis hit, as they say, a man dies twice, and the stupid half dead cat wouldn't leave me alone. And one night the omnipotent youtube algorithm recommended Susskind's lectures to me, then Feynman, Shankar, .. it just kept going. Now I watch and re-watch them b