Lecture 1: Introduction to Superposition 

Penius

I also feel like that lol

That means you watch none of these lectures in their entirety.

@@jaynabp3661 I can't remember where I said that I did dummy.

@@zayharper6577 some things can be inferred even though not said explicitly

Lectures by Walter Lewin. They will make you ♥ Physics. Hi Dr. Lewin, do you recommend the courses taught by Prof Adam's or Prof Zeibach

Hello professor! I am big fan of yours

Definitely! I wish every physics prof I had had been this good.

@@fabulator2779 Walter Lewin is a physics superstar. I watch those lectures to be entertained as much as to learn something that I might have missed 30 years ago.

...even he draws poor lines while chalk on a blackboard. (Blackboards and chalk are substantial, essential.) Dear cherished Prof. Lewin, this very honest comment of yours tell me, that you belong to us, all of us, hungry for learning what's around. A personal note: I watched your lesson, in which you gave a grain of sand to a student. After that I took paper and pencil to calculate 'uncertainty'. The very first time I did it. It gave me the courage to calculate the range we have to control nuclear power plants - and to learn that this can be understood by almost everyone. Yes, I do believe - we can. Doubts are made for let us burn, as learners, as teachers, which is the same thing.

Absolute legend thank you

thank you god

Thank you ❤

Legend

sorry, i’m gonna be late. can you take notes?

You want professors like him, you be smart enough to get into mit

We have him now, don't we?

@tidainon2149 yeah 😂

Me too.

​@@tidaimon2149More or less for I don't live in the USA and having him only on RU-vid is not enough😂

+Jaime Mena So is a nice, refreshing glass of lemonade with just the right amount of ice cubes on a hot summer's day.

+boobboomagoo learning quantum mechanics while drinking lemonade sounds like a perfect way to spend a Summer's day.

YouShouldRepeatThat i love you :)

+boobboomagoo I love you too kind stranger. :)

o.o gem

And without a degree.

@MrComrade but that's true for both sides

@AetherDivision this is inspiring, thank you! Good luck in future

@Electronification Firstly, it's a fucking joke. Secondly, that's a big fat no - the difference is that a degree demonstrates your ability to apply your learning. It indicates that you've been taught using an established and proven pedagogic method. It indicates that you have benefitted from peer review and peer learning. It means that you have been taught by academics who have also gone through the peer review process and have emerged in a competitive market as some of the best people to teach you. It requires you to produce assessed outputs in the form of papers, assignments, exams, all of which ensure your learning is embedded. It indicates that your learning has been structured in an effective way, building upon foundational knowledge. If you're trying to make a somewhat clumsy point about self-directed learning being as valuable as directed learning, then I agree with that, but don't make the ridiculous suggestion that there are not other tangible and intangible benefits delivered through formal education. It is right and important that learning is delivered to accepted standards, and that's what a degree demonstrates. Perhaps you are one of those people who "study" for 12+ hours a day by literally just reading and annotating books? That is not learning, that is memorisation. Your overly simplistic view shows me that you don't really have a clue about education, probably because you are lacking some yourself. Now, get back to Pornhub ;)

@Electronification I can’t tell if you’re trolling or not

That's the problem I have with my quantum mech course. Solid professor --completely uninspired. The material is very interesting but he is so damn dry...

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you're a victim because every university course I ever took all my profs were kind, compassionate, knowledgeable, supportive, and loving....

Right?! Like why does RU-vid recommend the most random things at 2am?!

Not RU-vid but boredom brought you here 😄😅

6:30 am here xd

omg same!!

Same here, staying up at 1:30am to watch this lecture!

It is a great thing that you are devoting yourself to such an interesting (yet somewhat difficult) topic, especially with autism which seems to hold most back. Even if this is a year old, I hope you get Quantum Mechanics or have a basic understanding of it.

awesome

Asperger Autism?

I totally agree I have aspergers and find this helps. Ecspecially with Professor Adams easygoing teaching style although I do have one addition id love to do to that experiment.

Dude I have ADHD and I was thinking the EXACT same thing! Before RU-vid came along my education was horribly sub-standard but through video based educational content I've managed to self-teach myself into a skilled VFX artist working in the film industry! Hooray for RU-vid and the educators that choose to share their work! :)

¨I never really got a full grasp of it¨ Here are some quotes from the greatest Physicists of all time: Quantum mechanics makes absolutely no sense Roger Penrose If it is correct, it signifies the end of physics as a science Albert Einstein I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics Richard Feynman If you are not completely confused by quantum mechanics, you do not understand it John Wheeler I do not like it, and I am sorry I ever had anything to do with it Erwin Schrödinger

@@serious_filip522 Aww, that's actually really reassuring haha. Thanks for sharing, very sweet of u, I hope u have a nice day :)

​@@serious_filip522yes thank you! ❤

@@serious_filip522thank youu!❤

Hey! Here is some 3D illustrations about the subject: ru-vid.com/group/PLkyBCj4JhHt-80ttR5a_fwtFO4SwDAFld&si=A9QYx-o3rRhTDvP8 Eugenes channel is one of My favourite ones! Btw, If someone smart could find a away to increase brain activity Via magnetic Fields, would it make us smarter or think faster? What about feelings? And If there's anyone good on chemistry, how about creating a drink that would increase endorfines to help us all 😅! What a lovely a idea, to feel great all The Time.

That and the Higgs particle.

No. You think these students are your average high schooler? No. The best of the best teachers teaching the best of the best students.

What a boson! @@TheDiamond2009

love this haha

You are sooooo funny I laughed until i stopped

TwinRocketMedia - um... but there's no speed limit on the Autobahn, lol

Rene Descartes goes into a sandwich bar and says, "I'll have a chicken bap please." The shop worker says, "I can't serve you that but you may have a turkey baguette." Rene Descartes says "Oh I think not." And disappears. With Best Wishes! Cheers - Mike.

You forgot to include Ohm in the backseat... Schrodinger and Heisenberg were arrested, Ohm resisted.

And i hot one too!! 😍

We also have him. So we are lucky too.

they pay for that but MIT professor are amazing. Watch Eric Lander on DNA OMG so good.

No kidding...i loved profs like this back in my university days...direct, encouraging, simplified...i wonder where he is teaching now?

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did you see a tunnel with a white light?

@@JackAndTheBeanstalkr not yet.

​@@fartreview1739 Nice dude, your statement is exactly what I thought of your comment. A completely empty statement that has no meaning.

You just figured that out? He's an ass.

'm lookin for a Superposition at MIT. Anybody know some vacant ones?

There might be some holes in that cheese, euh theory.

The statement is full of meaning. It implies the existance of emergent phenomena, that is systems that are more than the sum of their parts. This is one theory of where conciouness comes from, one that is not incompatible with the idea of sentient AI life in the future. Emergent phenomena also explain phase changes and why macroscopic systems behave differently than microscopic systems. What are all y'all on about?

yes yes yes

absolutely

u can watch his ted talks, also great.

11:10 All that is in the table bottle is coffee?. I personally am more passionate / nervous if I take all that. However, great teacher

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Chitown 773 deep breaths buddy we know you're smart too

tbh i dont think he was trying to say "look at me, im so smart" but rather like "yeah im just studying this *not so cool and hard thing* and now i get to watch this hyper cool and indeed complicated stuff, that's a cool opportunity regardless of my intelligence".

ur not woke unless you take PE

you mad nerd?

Don't be an ass Jordan.

They have blackboard superposition.

mercster molecules aren’t subatomic

@@jacobhatch655 he meant particles I presume lol

mercster xvu

It’s four blackboards layered on top of each other

you were there 50% 🤪

@@777philgood wdym

​@@chickenliver66660Quite possibly a joke made out of the lecture itself with 50% stuff. Like you were there, and at the same time, you weren't.

ohh right noow i get it tyty@@ayyewalkdaplank

@@chickenliver66660 You're Welcome.

+Benjamin Stone now I wish I had read the comments earlier than 33 minutes into the video..

+Flowers osdfv LoL, that was exactly the time when I started reading the comments :D

TonyDaveYayo hahaha we have the best luck

Flowers osdfv yeah, but I only watched it because I was bored anyway :D

TonyDaveYayo haha same here tbh

I concur. This is what engagement looks like. Most professors approach their lectures with a self-requirement that they want to present the information to students in a clear & concise way. This guy wants to create the thrill of curiosity and discovery in his students.

Feynman taught similarly. His lectures are naturally quite outdated along the fringes but the basic concepts remain the same and his enthusiasm is utterly infectious. I think they may be some of the lectures this prof was referring to.

He's probably loaded on adderall and caffeine lol.

Same exact thing. Tried to bore myself to sleep. Ended up staying up watching the entire thing

Same here

Yes, I also ended up in a sleep superposition. Both tired and not tired, asleep and not asleep. I wonder if I watch this one night a week, for six months, If I fall asleep 50% of the time?

I personally WAS able to dose off. My wish, is that while sleeping, my brain will understand quantum mechanics in my subconscious, then I will be subconsciously super intelligent.

😵‍💫 Fell asleep watching a Tesla 3-6-9 vortex video, woke up just as this ended. After having the WEIRDEST dream in decades, which I have to share: I was in college, & victim of pranksters in a dorm. I lost the pranks war & woke seeing that they had removed the tire from the left rear of my car. Not the rim, it was still there, on the car with the jack laying next to it 😳 🤔 Never fall asleep watching math videos!

+Bud Fields (PPTS) I highly agree. I felt more engaged in the lecture because of that.

+Bud Fields (PPTS) I know exactly what you talking about,students or human don't like the linear process,he is so damn non linear,this is real process of learning,organic,non linear,beauty

+Bud Fields (PPTS) His passion for the topic and teaching it is overflowing, that is certain.

They behave like CHEESE!

Believe me, the content presented in the lecture is not rigorous at all compared to other stuff in QM. However, HW assignments are most likely from hell.

I'm sure by now they no longer teach anything but Racisms ,Nothing else matters You don't need that crappy education you need racisms. Your a Victim start acting the part damnit.

Riguroso y convincente xD

however, this content was not rigorous. especially by mit standards. the first lecture is always a softball so a wider audience can watch. either way, I am sure he remains engaging even when the content does become rigorous

Hahaha your not the only one lol

Why youtube push this to me?

Intro takes 9:50

@@michaeldeng1981 RU-vid pushed this to me as well and I'm glad they did.

Everyone be sure to update your résumés

Teachers like this are unfortunately above most high schools budgets

You can get great professors in big state schools and small unique private colleges. I promise there is more teachers like this than positions open there are good teachers to be found

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4:05 😅

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You and me both. I might support PBS with a few more dollars. We do a very poor job of supporting lifelong learning in the US and that needs to change if we are going to be a technology leader.

Nah, most people are too dumb to understand this.

@David Roberts Nature and NOVA are some of their most popular broadcasts so I think that they could, but many people have given up on them because of constant reruns of 30-year-old programs.

that’s free education at the college level america would ever do that

99.9999999%+ don’t understand any of this

Knowledge is the only thing you can possibly take away from this. It's all knowledge

@@vladv2291 In this instance knowledge was learned through a joyous and attentive experience thanks to the way it was presented.

What does passion have to do with "As far as we know" lecture ?

what r u doing now? or thinking to do?

2 years later are you still fascinated by this?

As a uni student of Finland i also can agree with this 100%.

@@eliashanba757 Iloilo

God bless Suomi!

​@@eliashanba757 isn't finland an ideal nation to study abroad

39 year old physics major in Quantum now. 100% agree.

I just graduated from nc state for nuclear engineering!

Which is a pretty frustrating definition when you're trying to figure out what's going on.

What I like is how they act so smart but don’t have a clue how this could be.

+ProgamerEU I he is actually bit twitchy ,this is real passion sometime(not always)

I think you mean “was born in the same city as me” lol I’m guessing your learning english

Clouse THANK YOU

The goat

Clouse thank you

What does "cheese" mean? I sometimes have a tendency to interpret phrases literally-I feel like this is one of those times-yet I can't imagine what the figurative meaning of "cheese" could be.

I remember watching his lectures during my third year of medicine, honestly it made me consider changing to physics, but then the later lectures came along with all the math and I’ve never been more sure about choosing medicine. But it has to be said what an amazing lecturer he is, and how amazing physics and creation is.

@@AM-bj7yo what kind of math do medicine students learn?

@@davidmartineztorres8731 honestly very little, for most doctors we need to be able to calculate drug doses and concentrations, but nothing beyond basic algebra

Do you know simon lizotte?

lol I'm in medicine too. idk what I'm doing here.

Sadly, a lot of students who DO have professors like him still don't come out with "curiosity and thrill for the subject" because they're just incredibly lazy lol.

U know if there is a part 2?

@@quzo4850 RU-vid playlist: ru-vid.com/group/PLUl4u3cNGP61-9PEhRognw5vryrSEVLPr Course materials: ocw.mit.edu/8-04S13 Best wishes on your studies!

thnks

Ur mind is a stubborn Darn it!