Physics
Video Lectures - Great Ideas of Classical Physics
Publisher: Teaching Company, 2005, 24pp, 1st ed.
There is a hidden order in the ceaselessly changing world around us. It's called classical physics, and it's about how the world is put together. Classical physics is about how things move, why they move, and how they work. It's about making sense of motion, gravity, light, heat, sound, electricity, and magnetism, and seeing how these phenomena interweave to create the rich tapestry of everyday experience. Sound complicated? It's not—you already know more physics than you think, says award-winning science educator Steven Pollock.
Lectures
| 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 |
