Great Ideas of Classical Physics

Course No. 1295 (24 lectures, 30 minutes/lecture)
Taught by Steven Pollock
University of Colorado at Boulder
Ph.D., Stanford University
1. The Great Ideas of Classical Physics
2. Describing Motion—A Break from Aristotle
3. Describing Ever More Complex Motion
4. Astronomy as a Bridge to Modern Physics
5. Isaac Newton—The Dawn of Classical Physics
6. Newton Quantified—Force and Acceleration
7. Newton and the Connections to Astronomy
8. Universal Gravitation
9. Newton's Third Law
10. Conservation of Momentum
11. Beyond Newton—Work and Energy
12. Power and the Newtonian Synthesis
13. Further Developments—Static Electricity
14. Electricity, Magnetism, and Force Fields
15. Electrical Currents and Voltage
16. The Origin of Electric and Magnetic Fields
17. Unification I—Maxwell's Equations
18. Unification II—Electromagnetism and Light
19. Vibrations and Waves
20. Sound Waves and Light Waves
21. The Atomic Hypothesis
22. Energy in Systems—Heat and Thermodynamics
23. Heat and the Second Law of Thermodynamics
24. The Grand Picture of Classical Physics