I studied maths at Cambridge; I've watched a bunch of online lectures from Stanford and MIT on related subjects. This lecture stands out as a fantastic learning experience. There may be better researchers out there, but this guy is the most impressive and engaging teacher I've ever seen.
@Ultimate Game I study physics at IITM, and I've attended a few lectures by prof. Balkrishnan. But you're wrong, professors at IIT aren't all good. There are some very good teachers but many are just bad. I've been teaching myself mostly for past 4 years. In any semester I usually have 2/6 good professors. 2 okayish professors and 2 extremely bad professors
Love that quote at the end "We live on an island of knowledge surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance." - J. A. Wheeler
One of the greatest professors I have ever seen. The lecture is clear, interesting, and no nonsense. The attitude is humble, kind, nice, sincere. Hopefully we have more professors like him. I always wonder why some people want to find some new ways of teaching. I would say the knowledgeable, devoted professors are the most important thing for education.
Lianxi Ma There is a saying in Sanskrit "Vidya Dadaati Vinayam". Which translates to Knowledge leads to humbleness! Yes and No, you and me are watching this video, because someone thought to put it here. But, yes, it need not be simpler!
Prof. Balakrishnan's lectures on algebra and QM, shows what a great teacher he is. I sure miss him and want him to be my teacher all over again. my life would have been a lot different.
Balki was my professor at IIT madras 23 years ago. Bring back memories. He is the best professor I have ever had in my life. I'm a professor myself now, and I think I owe my love of teaching to him.
I was one of the extremely fortunate students (IITM 2005-2009 BTech batch) where I had opportunity to attend this course, classical physics and Math Physics under Prof. Balki. I studied at several countries later including Europe and US. By far he has been the best teacher I have ever had in my entire life. I remember I always used to look at my watch to see how long more the class will last for any other lecture but with Balki i was like "the class is already over.. i wish he could lecture for some more time " .. I was never interested to attend courses or lectures but Balki taught Physics as if it is some engaging Thriller movie! You can find me in these lectures as well :)
@@sadmanloha6244 I don't think there was any text book for his courses. He used to give his own lecture notes. I think he expanded these notes and published a book recently. Look here : www.amazon.com/Mathematical-Physics-Applications-Problems-Balakrishnan/dp/3030396797/ref=pd_lpo_14_t_0/137-9845172-5538413?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=3030396797&pd_rd_r=8ae493a1-cecc-44a0-9ce8-cb546a0df6a7&pd_rd_w=6607U&pd_rd_wg=4eLSQ&pf_rd_p=7b36d496-f366-4631-94d3-61b87b52511b&pf_rd_r=HKC9F924WWY36PFP78NT&psc=1&refRID=HKC9F924WWY36PFP78NT
I watched around 20 lectures of this series and found out that the best book to go with the course is none other than Volume 3 Feynman lectures. Balakrishnan has the mathematical rigour and Feynman has the physical insight. The comination rocks.
Once I thought that india doesn't have quality faculties but this lecture breaks my myth What an lecture sir no hocus pocus nothing but only intellect an pure intellect
Next year, when im finishing my physics degree, Ill mention this mans name. I have done a lot in quantum mechanics but i still keep watching this first lecture and pausing and rewinding. This is my 7th time this semester and Im still in awe
I left my physics degree of msc . Because clg was not good and I hav entered there without clearing any competitive exam I haven't cleared any competitive exam yet . I m busy in make up my face these days.
"The failure is not on the part of quantum mechanical particle, the failure is not on the part of the experimentalists. The failure is on the part of English Language. Words like wave and particle and so on have been coined by us to paraphrase a set of properties"
omg. This lecturer has weird and genius family. his wife is theoretical physicist as well, his son is Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT and his daughter is a faculty member at MIT in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
Sir, I am a physics graduate of BITS-Pilani. Thank you for this most enlightening lecture. This has been one of the best hour's of my life. I can guarantee that each one of the students in your class is truly blessed. Thanks a lot for uploading this amazing video.
instructor with board chock and concept is much better than instructor with power point presentation thats why iit madras is good for students thank you iit madras and prof. v. balakrishnan
I studied under Balki for 2 years. He was just amazing, though I failed in his exam and later passed successfully though... Very amazing. A real Guru, A Real Master... ThisGuru's style made me to my business far better and sharper... Thanks to this Great Guru. We also had another Guru, Dr. Swami, Balki's great friend. One of the greatest ever teacher!!
I did my quantum chemistry course under another brilliant professor, Prof Mangala Sunder during my undergrad days at IIT Madras years back. Before leaving the campus I made sure, I attend some of Prof Balki's lectures/talks (none part of my coursework). His intuition, depth of subject , clarity in speech, ability to infuse mathematics and occasional humor, keeps students engaged for hours. A lifetime experience for students and a perfect model lecture for future lecturers/teachers on how to teach.
For students who have to pass an exam, Prof. Balakrishnan's lectures are top-class. But if you are just a curious person in knowing about quantum mechanics, or if I am interested in attracting more and more ordinary people to get interested in this subject, many, many much-better-produced attention-getting and interesting videos are available on RU-vid now. You will be missing out on a great lifetime experience if you don't look at some of them. You should also look at videos on Special Relativity. Then your familiarity with modern physics is complete!
*It is an intrinsic property....* And *that's the way it is.....* Ohhh.... Professor....!!!! Your Lecture Seems Me Much Spiritual..... ThAnk You.......
I haven't find out the Quantum Mechanics lecture like this.....in first it seems to be complicated to understand but when u have some basic knowledge about that subject then it seems like a fabulous lecture.... Very educating environment in classroom....the Answer by Prof. Is outstandingly Awesome....
@@Benzene6.023 I studied in Delhi public school palwal. And mvn university palwal. I posses psychic powers like steven frayne. Those powers protected me against rape at that tym . Today I m alive .
We used to consider Balki as the God of Physics. He taught us physics at IITM in 1983. The coolest professor I have ever met in my life. I have been tripping viewing these lectures after ages....These lectures are IMHO easier to comprehend than my other idol Feyman's lectures
I only heard one scientist name is einstein. And no other . Sometimes I remember newton s name also . But after then brownies starts popping into my brain . I love food more than scientists.
Fantastic teacher, inspiring, authoritative, and humble (no overdriven ego needed). Would like to discuss religion vs. science, and freedom of science with him.
@Wiz not really. Religion has been one of the major factors the human species survived. The contribution of the ability to come up with imaginary stories and believe them to our evolutionary success is dominantly major and important. Not only beneficial to the survival, but the circuits we developed in our brains to help us do that are also the same things also help us come up with creative solutions.
@Wiz I used to think likewise. However as I dug deeper into my religion (Hinduism) and for instance studied meditation, I observed it has deep parallels to the Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle which is discussed right here in this Lecture. There are two ways one can meditate, either using concentration and when one does that we are focused on the present losing sense of direction of thought. This is like determing Position of the particle and obviously we cannot determine momentum then. You try to determine both you cant meditate then. In the other method of meditation, where we use awareness we are focusing on direction of thought (momentum) and losing control of any particular meaning or content of thought (position). So there's a direct one to one correspondence with the Uncertainty Principle.
Good old days (I saw that the video was uploaded on 16th December 2008). No smartphones, no distractions, all the students are listening with rapt attention. A very rare sight in engineering colleges nowadays...
It is amazing how good his English is. I wish my students can someday speak like him. I don't think they will be as good a physicist as this prof, but at least if they are good speakers, I'll be more than happy. I also like those bright young students some are asking very smart questions. So here is a question for all of you - What is really an electric charge? You probably know that "What is mass?" has sort of been answered after Higg's Bosons were proven to exist.
Rocky Sinai - String theory gives a very geometrically fundamental meaning of electric charge . It is the ratio of planck length to the string length (various vibration modes(excitation states of the string) have various resonating lengths), And electric charge is the ratio of planck length to this length . AND, mass is similarly defined as, the difference in the vibrational energy of the string and the rotation energy(spin energy) of the string .
Sujan Kumar "And electric charge is the ratio of Planck length to this length" Pretty good answer. What is the unit ? Hope string theory gets some proof, some more interest among the researchers and wider acceptance. Best wishes.
Really indians are outstanding at physics,but it may require anther frame of reference to understand/open there mind..probably the best lecture on quantum mechanics on youtube.loved it..
I feel like a total nerd. I just realized I got bored, youtube searched "Quantum physics" and watched an hour long lecture, but I do have to day, very interesting.
Wonderful, Wonderful lecturer and fascinating to listen to. I love the way he connects with his audience. Can't wait to watch some more of his lectures. Thank you for posting.
No he's not weird, his mannerisms and speaking styles are normal but certainly his exceptional family history endorses what is evident by his great facility with the subtleties of these complex areas of modern physics and applied math. He lectures well with clarity and the simplicity of a very experienced and capable senior university professor.
Ram Krishna I'm not at all surprised at English fluency in India. I worked in Medicine in England and Indian graduates in my field (psychiatry) had an excellent grasp of English - which has for years been the language of their education. Ironically immigration rules meant that while EU doctors could come freely to the UK, sometimes with distinctly less good English, while fluent Indian/Pakistani staff found coming to the UK much more difficult.
+Ram Krishna Actually best of them come to the US.Unlike 'straya , people - applying for the US uni - need to take Graduate Record Exam ( mandatory for STEM graduate programs) and TOEFL (English exam , in which speaking skills are tested too). Admission in coveted universities such depends upon the scores in the aforementioned exams.Very recently - Singapore , Australia , and New Zealand also taking these scores seriously.We can say : crème de la crème from all of these Asian countries ( including China , Iran ,Taiwan, etc.) are moving to the US (more than any other country.Sociologists have term to explain this phenomenon .It's called as brain drain. www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/statistics/yearbook/2006/table02.xls
I'm not a student or science stream student But I loved his explanation I'm proud of this professor Students who are following him and learning under him is fortunate ❤
Amazing! I really appreciate the way he inter-relates the math, physics, the interpretative context, philosophical underpinnings and historical background.
you can actually appreciate QM if you follow all the lectures of this professor with pen and papers with you. this is a serious lecture series, not some funny quantum vedio clip. pls make best use of this vedio.
This was a great lecture by Prof. Balakrishnan. I'm doing a course in quantum mechanics next semester and I think this series of lectures will really help me prepare for it. Thanks for posting this!
I had gone through the first 29 lectures in this series, and those entire section was exemplary. Am really feeling jealous to the students in the class, i know they are talented, because they have got a professor like him. I didn't get the reason why one of our union minister,he is also from iit, had made some slanderous remark about this exceptional persons. Our minister had to spend a little time in front of NPTELvideos before making those kind of egregious remark. .
I remember my college time .It was 2014. And today I came here to read comments. I always try to figure out , Is thought of mine about prof of this lecture same as most of other people ? I always get expected result means yes.Which is positive for me. Sometimes I used to search " yale university relativity " on RU-vid , and there is an Indian prof of same accent,humble, positive , sincere and knowledgeable!
Damn it! These lectures make the sylabus at my old Uni pale in comnparison. Just another reason to be dissapointed with most of the three years I spent studying there. So much missing from the Physics that I took. Thermodynamics was completely absent, so was (mostly) Hamiltonian mechanics! Wish I had this 5 yrs ago.
I studied chemistry at UCLA. One of my last classes was Quantum Chemistry. Our professor was Egyptian. A challenging class. Imaging all those s, p and d orbitals.The book was so good I kept it.
Thanks to quantum mechanics because of it the technology upgraded so much that we are able to learn from this legend about qm without being actually in IIT.
its one of the rarest opportunity for a man like me to sit and enjoy the class of a iit professor. thankx youtube u made it possible, thankx iits and issa you made it possible thankx professor u made it possible. thankx nptel you made it possible. at last but bot the least thankx simat you made it possible.
It's not an anime. It's regular animation with a chant from the Krishna Yajurveda Taittiriya Upanishad called Shanti mantra used by students and teacher before the start of a class traditionally in the background. And if you really like the chant you can find more on youtube if you look up "Vedic chants". They are over 4000 years old and had minimal change in pronunciation and intonation since then.
+Mau Jo I'm talking about your previous comment.Look in the comment section.3 years ago you'd commented on this same video.Amnesia or clearing off the rust?
Sir you are amazing.i have never seen such a kind hearted and talented teacher in youtube platform.I have learned many concept of quantum mechanics and classical mechanics.आपके चरणों में नमन(bow at your feet).Thank you so much sir🙏🏻 sir
