Classical Mechanics | Lecture 1 

Mike from Breaking Bad

Thank you stanford university for making this free to everyone, i decided to study physics however had (in germany) to decide between chemistry and physics as a school subject, i chose chemistry inorder to at least have some fundamental knowledge about it. Now i figured out that german university have their lectures uploaded however only on private servers which are unacessable to anyone whos not in their university. Thanks for giving me the chance to learn the basics to prepare for university

[Paraphrased] "There are some things you only want to experience once, like a book. You don't want to read the same thing over and over again. But there are other things, like music, that you'll want to listen to continually because it just feels good. I hope my lectures are like that... (paraphrased)." Why yes, Professor Susskind, your lectures are a treasure to listen to. Stanford for the win. :)

The question I need an answer for…on what type of machine..matter…system whatever..can we apply those equations and rules??…I don’t want to study mechanics I’d rather experience mechanics…

A wondrous lecture in classical mechanics

it always music to my ears , thank you very much

when i looked at your symbols of T and T+1 i thought from left to right you started at T+1 to T which did not make sense-then when repeating the video hear you say it starts at T "then" T+1- but looking at it reading from left to right it looks like going back in time in progression

@Darkownage2 I agree with you completely. But I would like to try and expand on your points. Firstly, I would like to discuss the concept of truth. Now truth is a concept that has been create merely in order to make us productive so we can survive. For example, two cavemen agree that the truth is that a bear is in a cave and so they don't go into the bloody cave or more interestingly two cavemen agree that the truth is that murder is evil so they do not kill each other.... SEE NEXT POST

Dr. Susskind looks like a former linebacker...

711,000 people viewed this and learned at least a little bit in a very short time. It was a free class taught by an extremely educated man. Imagine the world we would live in if we had this kind of access to every class

jesus this is incredible it's like watching the hulk trying teach someone how to lift a 10lb dumbell

Notes about lecture: conservation law conserved quantaty allowable laws of physics, allowable rules 25:40 non-allowable law (in classical physics) can't retrodict the past (opposite of predict) non reversable if reversed, unpredictive (don't know this or that comes next) 29:20 predictive one way, not retrodivtive other way not reversable, "I" don't call it irreversable 30:10 classical physics doesn't allow probability conflicts with the rules of classical mechanics quantum mechanics are not deterministic ambiguity in knowledge of initial condition, so from this statistics in classical mechanics despite deterministic 33:30 how precise do you know the initial condition, this determins how far you can predict the future, example three day weather forcast other way around, if you know how far you want to predict, then you can determine how exact you need to know the initial condition 35:50 allowable, if every state has one incoming and one outgoing arrow next example: point particle(s) moving in space 37:30 first some preliminary mathematics vectors, coordinate systems coordinate system: describing space quantitatively space with three dimensions/coordinates but we are perfectly free to think of systems higher dimensioned or lower dimensioned 38:10 we are interested in describing the basic pricipals, so we don't have to restrict ourselves to specific examples a particle can move in one dimension, it can move in five dimensions, but for now we use three dimensions 39:30 three coordinates, doesn't matter where we put the origin, but it's easiest to put it at the (? 0 location) the three axis are mutually perpendicular label e.g, x, y, z or x1,x2, x3 40:00 still ambiguity about the rotation of the axis, which direction they go in fixing the origin, we also have to fix the orientation of the x,y,z axis theres a convention, right handed coordinate system, if you pick x and y, still need to decide is z pointing in the blackboard or out of it, we settle at right hand, x thumb, y inex finger, then z middle finger points out of the board towards us this is the right hand rule another convention, for distance we choose units 41:50 point is labled by x,y,z, thats also how we describe a particle 43:10 what is a vector has both length and direction, for example a position of a point, relative to it' origin, magnitude is the distance, and it has a direction don't think of a vector of being located anywhere 43:55 vector is the same, no matter where it is drawn in space, doesn't need to be drawn in space vector labled by bar on top, more precise a little arrow it could e.g. be velocity, it could be acceleration, it could be an electronic field it's got, length/magnitude, and it's gotndirection 47:55 (see formula) length equals square root the sum of squares of its components adding vectors, multiplying vectors by numbers 53:30 VectA+VectB=VectC VectA*VectB=AMagnit.*BMagnitude*cos(winkel feda) "the calculated dot product" the product of two vectors is not a vector, it's a number 1:00:00 we can display the dot product in component form VecA*VecB=Ax*Bx+Ay*By+Az*Bz, you can prove this with a little bit if trigonometry VectA*VectA=AMagnt.*AMagnit. 1:08:40 The velocity is the time derivative of the position Dot means derivative with respect to time (so this does not have to be writtenover and over again) Velocity is x of i dot (x1, x2, x3 for the coordinates) 1:13:50 acceleration is derivative of velocity or second derivative of xi, so it's written x with 2 dots X - position V - velocity a - acceleration r-Vector for radius, positiin vector 1:16:00 Formula of an object falling in gravitational field with constant acceleration, xt=a+bt+ct2 uniformly accelerated particle, that has acceleration 2c 1:18:00 Circular motion x+y achsis, the angle increases linearly feda=omega*t 2Pi/omega=period omega is the angular frequency X=cos(feda), y=sin(feda) derivatives of trigonometric functions velocityX=-omega*sin(omega)t angle between velocity and position? more on velocity, acceleration, calculated ways for this shown

46:00 When a world-leading theoretical physicist struggles to draw a vector in three dimensions, there's hope for us all.

I'm watching in 2024

53:30 That little slip from his Quantum Mechanics lectures

49:05 Yes professor, your lectures are like the music that one want to hear over and over again. ❤️

I remember watching videos like these before college, which definitely kindled a passion for physics and math deep inside me. Then I also started reading advanced books, which were not even part of the course syllabus, for example the famous series of books published by Lifshitz and Landau. Among other things, I published the step-by-step solutions to many of the classical physics problems in the first book "Mechanics" in an online course on Udemy (called: "Multivariable Calculus and Classical Physics problems"), which deals with the mathematics and physics of rigid bodies, non-inertial systems, and much more. This is to say that videos like these can be very helpful in inspiring youngsters to appreciate physics.

Extremely thanks for providing such quality content for free of cost and enabling it to be accessible from everywhere. #LovefromIndia

I really feel like a turkey sandwich right now.

53:25 HAHAAHA best thing to write in classical mechanics.

He look like mike from breaking bad

53:25 That's what happens when you do Quantum mechanics alot

This is invaluable, i love learning tho I cant afford to go to a big university

I love this man. The way he explains things, the way he talks, the way he thinks, the way he moves, his wisdom. Having watched many of his lectures, I feel a deep friendship without ever having met him in person. Thank you so much, Lenny.

Native English speaker and I literally just learned the word 'retrodict' (opposite of predict) from Lenny. The perks of this class are boundless.

For free???

"can anyone guess what my first picture will be?" to that poor guy "of course you can, you've been here before." 💀💀💀💀 Bro got roasted in front of the entire class by the damn professor 😭

First 16 minutes is the most succinct and persuasive explanation for conservation of energy I’ve sat through. A lot of people tend to explain it through tautologies.

Coin and dice configurations and laws of motion, conservation; infinite configuration space 22:00; non allowable laws, reversibility 26:00; vectors 37:30; particle position and motion and acceleration 1:05:30; 2 examples: motion on a line, circular motion 1:15:00;

Thanks Stanford. These lectures really get you interested into science and just the aspect of being in a university itself.

I clicked classical mechanics and I'm watching graph theory. This is gonna be good!

Susskind: *show a group of people how to draw a simple 2-dimensional graph* Also Susskind: *Assumes that the same group of people can differentiate trigonometric functions*

Sushi for every occasion sushi for every persuasion ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS FOR 500 1:15:06 THOSE ARE 1:15:06 1:15:06 ¿? 1:15:06

1st of all. Thank you You are one of the greatest teachers I've ever come across. You love this Sh*t and it shows. I have one question. Do you mind showing me the equation of the simple rotating dice example. The one where 1 goes to 2 which goes to 3, etc... I apologize I am but a lowely plumber and electrician. I have been extremely interested in general relativity and quantum physics for over 30 years but the equations are over my head. Thank you

You are the definition of people who are awesome, Professor Leonard Susskind. LONG LIVE Leonard Susskind. We need you like how we need water to live.

This is the thing with top Institutions... They teach you 'how to think' rather than what to think.

Finally I found someone who is going to teach me the concepts in math I need to understand my big love, astrophysics, a little better. That it's such a famous physicist, the better. I'm somewhat proud I still remember and understand most of what he talked about in this lecture although I graduated from high school 38 years ago although I never really needed this since then.

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no one bothered correcting the professor 28:00 , it is ETETET... not ETTE... , i don't know why was he lost throughout the whole lecture. not hating, just saying.

Put it at 1.25 speed. Saved my life.

Camera guy gets a check+ for awesomeness.

Just 10 minutes in, I already have a feeling I'd learn more once I finish watching this vid than 10 hours in class...

One of the World's leading Physicists and Teachers, showing how to teach Science

I have a question: Are there exercises (and solutions) that was made for this lecture? I really like Susskind's lectures but I think one can only learn, if you do exercises. So I'd really like to get access to exercises that fits to this lecture. If anybody can give me some hints, where to find such exercises, I'd be very grateful. :)

I don’t knot remember what a function is 1:11:43

How I recommend watching these videos: 1 Get some notebook paper. 2 At the top of every sheet, write the RU-vid video's web address, RU-vid Channel & video name. 3 If Prof. Susskind writes it down, you should also write it. 4 Write a timestamp on the left side of your notes so you can easily get back to a given subject. 5 Pause when needed. 6 Re-watch a section if you're still unclear. 7 Go to Khan Academy if you need to brush up on, or learn new math concepts ( ru-vid.com )

Can someone please tell me that what dose the sir wants to explain in first 40min I mean is it Graph theory or something else

Wow. That cleared up a lot for me. I'm looking forward to the next lecture.

So everyone knows this is not a real course lecture in classical mechanics! It's a course for non students who want to know more about how physics is done. It follows his book called the Theoretical Minimum and it is just minimal mathematics to show how it's roughly done! If you only followed this series as a replacement for actual lectures in CM you would fail so badly it would make your head spin!!!

At this moment 53:26 you realize that he did a lot of quantum mechanics in his life

He missed a belt loop in the back.

Thank you Leonard and Stanford for this. The extras and insights mean a lot. You could lean this stuff from a Dover reprint, but learning it on a trajectory towards Scrodinger and company really helps one focus on what counts. I have been able to make quantum work for a long time, but I find myself returning to the roots over and over again to regain a sense of what I'm actually doing. I think lecture series like this are invaluable for contributing towards a future in which a significant subset of us understand what the world we can make claims about actually us.

Loved the way he forgot and put ket bracket instead of modulus at 50:00

Sneaky ket vector at 53:30

going to be sitting through vectors in linear algebra, mechanics, physics 2, calc 3, and yet here i am.

It's a bit confusing that he uses dice and coins which are in the realm of probabilities to explain deterministic outcomes and states of a classical system

I'm taking this class in the spring and I'm scared. I've been told as long as I can solve differential equations I'm good but I still think I'm going to struggle. Anyways I think that these videos are going to help a LOT.

I have a question: I plan to watch all these lectures by Mr Susskind on classical mechanics, but will I get anything out of these lectures without an accompanying textbook? Thanks.

Am i the only one who reads here for fun?!

Just a 12 yo starting his journey in physics

Will he talk about the Hamiltonian mechanics and Legendre transformation later in this course? I am looking for physics underlying Symplectic and Poisson Geometry would appreciate it if you introduce some materials to me.

I've never seen a video on classical mechanics that quite starts like this, informative

my like was the 7,000th. feeling very special.. lol Stanford, thanks for sharing these priceless knowlege with the world..

Could please activate in the video the option of automatic subtitles, that depends on the administrator, if they do not activate the other people does not get that option. Podrían por favor activar en el vídeo la opción de subtitulos automáticos, eso depende del administrador, si no lo activan a las otras personas no le sale esa opción.

My brain lasted for 55 minutes. Started to watch bits again more to try and understand. Great lecture.

when you learn dirac notation you will do the same thing as he do ^_^ 53:28

Thanks for your work : )

Last 15 minutes, describing of circular motion, was awesome! Everything become clear!

Indeed your lectures are amazing everytime we hear them.

Time in nature might not actually be the abstract of perceiving it as going back or forward to actual events but instead are actually the observable chronological movements of objects that are speeding up or slowing down "DEPENDING" on the level(amount) of gravity and perhaps G-force that's constricting or not constricting the atoms that gives the "OBSERVABLE CHRONOLOGICAL MOVEMENT" we all see around us

Came to supplement the awesome textbook with the lectures, but what’s with the camera-work.. it’s making me dizzy and nauseous 🤢 ..amazing content tho!! So guess I’ll have to soldier on.. 🤢 🤢 🤮

Classical meccanics. Starts with markov chains. It's gonna be nice

Playback speed of 1.25x 👍

Is it appropriate to follow the theoretical minimum book written by Prof. Leonard himself for completeness with these lectures

Searching Amazon for dental pliers to pull my molars. Thought I grasped the concepts from Dr. Lewin. Going on to a different concept of grasp.

You never know. Prof susskind can break bad.

49:09 Such a good analogy. And yes, Prof. Susskind, your lectures are like good music. Bravo maestro and thank you.

Think wind. Imagine a wind tunnel in the shape of an enormous cube and two adjacent walls and the floor are fans or air conditioners. For the sake of simplicity, ignore gravity and friction. Where's a speck of lint at any particular moment in time starting from a particular location. Basically I visualize most new information as wind or the equivalent in space, in which the various forces, described by vectors, result in a path some object moves.

Loved the lecture so much.

at 19:03, the laws of evolution for die world are categorized by number and TYPE of cycles, e.g. there might be three cycles: one 1-cycle, one two-cycle and one 3-cycle, like his example but there could also be three 2-cycles, so it is more than just the number of cycles - as he hinted.

John Malkovic + Jonathan Banks

I would like to thank the professor for his nice and interesting lecture he did!!!!!!!!!!!!

In science, when predicting how it works, everywhere we seek for a deterministic solution. Hence Probability is only required if some laws of science seems to be uncertain by the law itself, such as putting a bird in a cage and calculating its displacement at time t to the initial displacement. Similar to the Heisenberg's uncertainty principle of quantum Physics. If something is in-deterministic in science and it seems by only the limitation of our knowledge, then we consider probability, but probability is the part we want to avoid to use in determining quantities in science, but it does and without that it may become more unpredictable...

According to this source, dice was once the plural of die, “but in modern standard English dice is both the singular and the plural: 'throw the dice' could mean a reference to either one or more than one dice.”

Frankfurt is in Deutschland isn't it? Where is Twin Cities sir? I see in page vii of Editor's Preface to the First Edition. "...being built on Mississippi at Monticello, about forty miles upstream from the Twin Cities."

thanks for sharing Stanford

I am 11 yet I understand this.

سبحان الله اقول هنه وهنه يجوز شرعا لا اله الا الله .قال ألله تعالى(لَا يَتَّخِذِ الْمُؤْمِنُونَ الْكَافِرِينَ أَوْلِيَاءَ مِنْ دُونِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ﴿٢٨ آل عمران﴾ مِنْهُمُ الْمُؤْمِنُونَ وَأَكْثَرُهُمُ الْفَاسِقُونَ ﴿١١٠ آل عمران﴾ وَاللَّهُ وَلِيُّهُمَا وَعَلَى اللَّهِ فَلْيَتَوَكَّلِ الْمُؤْمِنُونَ ﴿١٢٢ آل عمران﴾ وَعَلَى اللَّهِ فَلْيَتَوَكَّلِ الْمُؤْمِنُونَ ﴿١٦٠ آل عمران﴾ وَاتَّقُوا اللَّهَ وَعَلَى اللَّهِ فَلْيَتَوَكَّلِ الْمُؤْمِنُونَ ﴿١١ المائدة﴾ إِنَّمَا الْمُؤْمِنُونَ الَّذِينَ إِذَا ذُكِرَ اللَّهُ وَجِلَتْ قُلُوبُهُمْ ﴿٢ الأنفال﴾ أُولَٰئِكَ هُمُ الْمُؤْمِنُونَ حَقًّا لَهُمْ دَرَجَاتٌ عِنْدَ رَبِّهِمْ ﴿٤ الأنفال﴾ وَالَّذِينَ آوَوْا وَنَصَرُوا أُولَٰئِكَ هُمُ الْمُؤْمِنُونَ ﴿٧٤ الأنفال﴾ وَعَلَى اللَّهِ فَلْيَتَوَكَّلِ الْمُؤْمِنُونَ ﴿٥١ التوبة﴾ وَمَا كَانَ الْمُؤْمِنُونَ لِيَنْفِرُوا كَافَّةً ﴿١٢٢ التوبة﴾ وَعَلَى اللَّهِ فَلْيَتَوَكَّلِ الْمُؤْمِنُونَ ﴿١١ ابراهيم﴾ قَدْ أَفْلَحَ الْمُؤْمِنُونَ ﴿١ المؤمنون﴾ لَوْلَا إِذْ سَمِعْتُمُوهُ ظَنَّ الْمُؤْمِنُونَ وَالْمُؤْمِنَاتُ بِأَنْفُسِهِمْ خَيْرًا ﴿١٢ النور﴾ وَتُوبُوا إِلَى اللَّهِ جَمِيعًا أَيُّهَ الْمُؤْمِنُونَ لَعَلَّكُمْ تُفْلِحُونَ ﴿٣١ النور﴾ إِنَّمَا الْمُؤْمِنُونَ الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا بِاللَّهِ وَرَسُولِهِ ﴿٦٢ النور﴾ لِلَّهِ الْأَمْرُ مِنْ قَبْلُ وَمِنْ بَعْدُ وَيَوْمَئِذٍ يَفْرَحُ الْمُؤْمِنُونَ ﴿٤ الروم﴾ هُنَالِكَ ابْتُلِيَ الْمُؤْمِنُونَ وَزُلْزِلُوا زِلْزَالًا شَدِيدًا ﴿١١ الأحزاب﴾ وَلَمَّا رَأَى الْمُؤْمِنُونَ الْأَحْزَابَ قَالُوا هَٰذَا مَا وَعَدَنَا اللَّهُ ﴿٢٢ الأحزاب﴾ إِنَّمَا الْمُؤْمِنُونَ إِخْوَةٌ فَأَصْلِحُوا بَيْنَ أَخَوَيْكُمْ ﴿١٠ الحجرات﴾ إِنَّمَا الْمُؤْمِنُونَ الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا بِاللَّهِ وَرَسُولِهِ ﴿١٥ الحجرات﴾ وَعَلَى اللَّهِ فَلْيَتَوَكَّلِ الْمُؤْمِنُونَ ﴿١٠ المجادلة﴾ اللَّهُ لَا إِلَٰهَ إِلَّا هُوَ وَعَلَى اللَّهِ فَلْيَتَوَكَّلِ الْمُؤْمِنُونَ ﴿١٣ التغابن﴾ .

good class thank you n az

Highly insightful lectures I ever came across, thank you sir for your work

Yo who tf cheaped out on a 1080p camera in 2012? 1080p has been the standard since mid-2000's. Stanford is supposed to be a pillar in the education community. Someone couldn't add another $50-100 at the time to get some decent quality?

Fuck i love science

suskind takes simple subjects and makes them complicated.... i think it's like he's told to teach classical mechanics, so instead he decides to talk about what it is in terms of systems or something interestinly some people argue that quantum mechanics is deterministic we just haven't found out how (hidden rules) ... to me it's all just models i think you can use them without thinking so deeply

50:00 They're like that, they really are.

He is always extraordinary..he always find the simplest version of explaination!!if anyone don't understand him,he never understand physics.

I really like the book as a companion to these lectures. It gave me deeper insight in some physics concepts that I used to just "take for granted" otherwise. The exercises also help for that matter and I can't wait for a quantum mechanics sequel and the rest of the series.

Equation of motion.. ?? I would call it state equations and state diagrams..

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Sir u r great but i come to here to take the lecture of newtonian mechanics from frame of reference

Prof. Susskind is as brilliant as his friend Richard Feynman, and they sure have the same sense of humor at 49:50 lol