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The Great Ideas of Classical Physics

The Great Ideas of Classical Physics taught by Professor Steven Pollock consists of twenty-four lectures, explaining the principal concepts and ideas in the realms of classical physics. Classical physics is about how things move, why they move, and how they work. It is about making sense of motion, gravity, light, sound, electricity and magnetism, and seeing how these phenomena interweave to create the rich tapestry of everyday experience. The lectures demystify the great ideas created by brilliant thinkers such as Galileo Galilei, Isaac Newton, Michael Faraday and James Clerk Maxwell.

Lecture 01 - The Great Ideas of Classical Physics
Lecture 02 - Describing Motion - A Break from Aristotle
Lecture 03 - Describing Ever More Complex Motion
Lecture 04 - Astronomy as a Bridge to Modern Physics
Lecture 05 - Isaac Newton - The Dawn of Classical Physics
Lecture 06 - Newton Quantified - Force and Acceleration
Lecture 07 - Newton and the Connections to Astronomy
Lecture 08 - Universal Gravitation
Lecture 09 - Newtons Third Law
Lecture 10 - Conservation of Momentum
Lecture 11 - Beyond Newton - Work and Energy
Lecture 12 - Power and the Newtonian Synthesis
Lecture 13 - Further Developments - Static Electricity
Lecture 14 - Electricity, Magnetism, and Force Fields
Lecture 15 - Electrical Currents and Voltage
Lecture 16 - The Origin of Electric and Magnetic Fields
Lecture 17 - Unification I - Maxwell's Equations
Lecture 18 - Unification II - Electromagnetism and Light
Lecture 19 - Vibrations and Waves
Lecture 20 - Sound Waves and Light Waves
Lecture 21 - The Atomic Hypothesis
Lecture 22 - Energy in Systems - Heat and Thermodynamics
Lecture 23 - Heat and the Second Law of Thermodynamics
Lecture 24 - The Grand Picture of Classical Physics