Leonard Susskind’s Online Lectures

Stanford University has posted an extensive collection of academic lectures online as part of their Continuing Studies Series. Here is a selection of links to lectures by Leonard Susskind, one of the fathers of String Theory. As I continue watching them, I shall flesh out this list and annotate it appropriately.

(I should note that Professor Susskind has put up a blog at http://susskindsblogphysicsforeveryone.blogspot.com/ where he invites individuals to post questions about his lectures. These lectures are also listed, with both YouTube and iTunes links provided, on Susskind’s Wikipedia bio.)

Contents

• 1st Series: Modern Physics: Classical Mechanics
• Prerequisite for the series on Quantum Mechanics: Quantum Entanglements
• 2nd Series: Modern Physics: Quantum Mechanics
• 3rd Series: Modern Physics: Special Relativity
• 4th Series: Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity
• New Revolutions in Particle Physics: Basic Concepts
• Modern Physics: Statistical Mechanics
• 5th Series: Modern Physics: Cosmology
• New Revolutions in Particle Physics: Standard Model
• String Theory and M-Theory
• Topics in String Theory
• Classical Mechanics (Fall 2011)
• The Theoretical Minimum: Quantum Mechanics
• Special Relativity
• Particle Physics 3: Supersymmetry & Grand Unification
• General Relativity
• Cosmology
• Statistical Mechanics
• Miscellaneous Lectures

1st Series: Modern Physics: Classical Mechanics

• Course | Modern Physics: Classical Mechanics (playlist), exploring the theoretical foundations of modern physics
  1. Lecture 1 | Modern Physics: Classical Mechanics (Stanford) October 15, 2007: Abstract intro to classical mechanics in the context of state spaces using a simple toy physics model with a small phase space. Determinism and reversibility are discussed, as well as conservation laws resulting from closed families of trajectories in phase space. In deterministic systems, information is conserved. Duration: 47:50.
  2. Lecture 2 | Modern Physics: Classical Mechanics (Stanford) October 22, 2007: Intro to calculus of variations, Principle of Least Action, Lagrangian mechanics. Duration 1:34:44.
  3. Lecture 3 | Modern Physics: Classical Mechanics (Stanford) October 29, 2007: Integration by parts, derivation of Euler’s equation, equivalence of Principal of Least Action to Newton’s laws, and conservation laws arising as a consequence of symmetry (illustrating Noether’s Theorem without explicitly citing it). Duration 1:35:42.
  4. Lecture 4 | Modern Physics: Classical Mechanics (Stanford) November 5, 2007:
  5. Lecture 5 | Modern Physics: Classical Mechanics (Stanford) November 12, 2007:
  6. Lecture 6 | Modern Physics: Classical Mechanics (Stanford) November 19, 2007:
  7. Lecture 7 | Modern Physics: Classical Mechanics (Stanford) November 26, 2007:
  8. Lecture 8 | Modern Physics: Classical Mechanics (Stanford) December 17, 2007:
  9. Lecture 9 | Modern Physics: Classical Mechanics (Stanford) December 20, 2007:

Prerequisite for the series on Quantum Mechanics: Quantum Entanglements

• Course | Quantum Entanglements: Part 1 (Fall 2006)(playlist)
  1. Lecture 1 | Quantum Entanglements, Part 1 (Stanford) September 25, 2006:
  2. Lecture 2 | Quantum Entanglements, Part 1 (Stanford) October 2, 2006:
  3. Lecture 3 | Quantum Entanglements, Part 1 (Stanford) October 9, 2006
  4. Lecture 4 | Quantum Entanglements, Part 1 (Stanford) October 16, 2006
  5. Lecture 5 | Quantum Entanglements, Part 1 (Stanford) October 23, 2006
  6. Lecture 6 | Quantum Entanglements, Part 1 (Stanford) October 30, 2006
  7. Lecture 7 | Quantum Entanglements, Part 1 (Stanford) November 6, 2006
  8. Lecture 8 | Quantum Entanglements, Part 1 (Stanford) November 13, 2006
  9. Lecture 9 | Quantum Entanglements, Part 1 (Stanford) November 27, 2006
• Quantum Entanglements, Part 2 (unavailable)
• Course | Quantum Entanglements: Part 3 (Spring 2007)(playlist)
  1. Lecture 1 | Quantum Entanglements, Part 3 (Stanford) April 9, 2007
  2. Lectures 2 & 3 | Quantum Entanglements, Part 3 (Stanford) April 2007
  3. Lecture 4 | Quantum Entanglements, Part 3 (Stanford) April 30, 2007
  4. Lecture 5 | Quantum Entanglements, Part 3 (Stanford) May 7, 2007
  5. Lecture 6 | Quantum Entanglements, Part 3 (Stanford) May 14, 2007
  6. Lecture 7 | Quantum Entanglements, Part 3 (Stanford) May 21, 2007
  7. Lecture 8 | Quantum Entanglements, Part 3 (Stanford) June 16, 2007
  8. Lecture 9 | Quantum Entanglements, Part 3 (Stanford) June 25, 2007

2nd Series: Modern Physics: Quantum Mechanics

• Course | Modern Physics: Quantum Mechanics (playlist)
  1. Lecture 1 | Modern Physics: Quantum Mechanics (Stanford) January 14, 2008
  2. Lecture 2 | Modern Physics: Quantum Mechanics (Stanford) January 21, 2008
  3. Lecture 3 | Modern Physics: Quantum Mechanics (Stanford) January 28, 2008
  4. Lecture 4 | Modern Physics: Quantum Mechanics (Stanford) February 4, 2008
  5. Lecture 5 | Modern Physics: Quantum Mechanics (Stanford) February 11, 2008
  6. Lecture 6 | Modern Physics: Quantum Mechanics (Stanford) February 18, 2008
  7. Lecture 7 | Modern Physics: Quantum Mechanics (Stanford) February 25, 2008
  8. Lecture 8 | Modern Physics: Quantum Mechanics (Stanford) March 3, 2008
  9. Lecture 9 | Modern Physics: Quantum Mechanics (Stanford) March 10, 2008
  10. Lecture 10 | Modern Physics: Quantum Mechanics (Stanford) March 10, 2008

3rd Series: Modern Physics: Special Relativity

• Course | Modern Physics: Special Relativity (playlist)
  1. Lecture 1 | Modern Physics: Special Relativity (Stanford) April 14, 2008
  2. Lecture 2 | Modern Physics: Special Relativity (Stanford) April 21, 2008
  3. Lecture 3 | Modern Physics: Special Relativity (Stanford) April 28, 2008
  4. Lecture 4 | Modern Physics: Special Relativity (Stanford) May 5, 2008
  5. Lecture 5 | Modern Physics: Special Relativity (Stanford) May 12, 2008
  6. Lecture 6 | Modern Physics: Special Relativity (Stanford) May 19, 2008
  7. Lecture 7 | Modern Physics: Special Relativity (Stanford) May 25, 2008
  8. Lecture 8 | Modern Physics: Special Relativity (Stanford) June 9, 2008

4th Series: Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity

• Course | Modern Physics: Einstein’s Theory (playlist)
  1. Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity | Lecture 1 September 22, 2008
  2. Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity | Lecture 2 Dark energy, the tendency of it to tear atoms apart, and Gauss’s Law.
  3. Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity | Lecture 3 Discussion of Einstein’s theory of general relativity. Also, a broad overview of the field of tensor calculus and it’s relation to the curvature and geometry of space-time.
  4. Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity | Lecture 4 October 13, 2008: Discusses covariant and contra variant indices, tensor arithmetic, algebra and calculus, and the geometry of expanding space time.
  5. Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity | Lecture 5 October 20, 2008
  6. Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity | Lecture 6 October 27, 2008
  7. Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity | Lecture 7 November 3, 2008
  8. Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity | Lecture 8 November 10, 2008
  9. Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity | Lecture 9 November 17, 2008
  10. Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity | Lecture 10 November 24, 2008
  11. Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity | Lecture 11 December 1, 2008
  12. Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity | Lecture 12 December 9, 2008

New Revolutions in Particle Physics: Basic Concepts

• Course | Particle Physics: Basic Concepts (playlist)
  1. Lecture 1 | New Revolutions in Particle Physics: Basic Concepts (October 12, 2009) Basic definitions, “natural” units (setting c and to 1).
  2. Lecture 2 | New Revolutions in Particle Physics: Basic Concepts (October 12, 2009) Wave basics, intro to QFT in the context of the harmonic oscillator, eliminating infinities by using periodic boundary conditions
  3. Lecture 3 | New Revolutions in Particle Physics: Basic Concepts (October 19, 2009) The quantum field and its relationship to particles.
  4. Lecture 4 | New Revolutions in Particle Physics: Basic Concepts (October 26, 2009)
  5. Lecture 5 | New Revolutions in Particle Physics: Basic Concepts (November 2, 2009) Energy conservation, waves, and fermions.
  6. Lecture 6 | New Revolutions in Particle Physics: Basic Concepts (November 9, 2009) The diary equations and Higgs Particles.
  7. Lecture 7 | New Revolutions in Particle Physics: Basic Concepts (November 13, 2009) Theory and mathematics of angular momentum
  8. Lecture 8 | New Revolutions in Particle Physics: Basic Concepts (November 16, 2009) Theory and mathematics of particle spin and half spin, the Dirac equation, and isotopic spin.
  9. Lecture 9 | New Revolutions in Particle Physics: Basic Concepts (December 1, 2009) Equations of motion of fields containing particles and quantum field theory, and how basic processes are coded by a Lagrangian.
  10. Lecture 10 | New Revolutions in Particle Physics: Basic Concepts (December 3, 2009)

Modern Physics: Statistical Mechanics

• Course | Modern Physics: Statistical Mechanics (playlist)
  1. Lecture 1 | Modern Physics: Statistical Mechanics March 30, 2009 – Study of statistical analysis as calculating the probability of things subject to the constraints of a conserved quantity. Introduction of energy, entropy, temperature, and phase states as they relate directly to statistical mechanics.
  2. Lecture 2 | Modern Physics: Statistical Mechanics April 6, 2009 – Elementary mathematics used to define a method for understanding statistical mechanics.
  3. Lecture 3 | Modern Physics: Statistical Mechanics April 13, 2009 – Lagrange multiplier, Boltzmann distribution, Helm-Holtz free energy, the theory of fluctuations.
  4. Lecture 4 | Modern Physics: Statistical Mechanics April 20, 2009 – How to calculate and define pressure, applications of Helm-Holtz free energy, and the importance of the partition function.
  5. Lecture 5 | Modern Physics: Statistical Mechanics April 27, 2009 – Basic physics of the diatomic molecule and why you don’t have to worry about its structure at low temperature, black hole thermodynamics.
  6. Lecture 6 | Modern Physics: Statistical Mechanics May 4, 2009 – The second law of thermodynamics, chaos, and how the volume of phase space grows.
  7. Lecture 7 | Modern Physics: Statistical Mechanics May 11, 2009 – Harmonic oscillators, quantum states, boxes of radiation, wavelengths, volume, energy and temperature.
  8. Lecture 8 | Modern Physics: Statistical Mechanics May 19, 2009 – Magnetic systems, mean field approximations of molecules in multidimensional lattice systems.
  9. Lecture 9 | Modern Physics: Statistical Mechanics May 25, 2009 – Magnets, phase transitions, mean field transitions, and chemical potential.
  10. Lecture 10 | Modern Physics: Statistical Mechanics June 1, 2009 – Inflation, adiabatic transformation and thermal dynamic systems.

5th Series: Modern Physics: Cosmology

• Course | Modern Physics: Cosmology (playlist)
  1. Cosmology | Lecture 1 January 13, 2009
  2. Cosmology | Lecture 2 January 19, 2009 (Look here for a note containing a correction.)
  3. Cosmology | Lecture 3 January 26, 2009
  4. Cosmology | Lecture 4 February 2, 2009
  5. Cosmology | Lecture 5 February 16, 2009
  6. Cosmology | Lecture 6 March 2, 2009
  7. Cosmology | Lecture 7 March 9, 2009
  8. Cosmology | Lecture 8 March 16, 2009

New Revolutions in Particle Physics: Standard Model

• Course | Particle Physics: Standard Model (playlist)
  1. Lecture 1 | New Revolutions in Particle Physics: Standard Model (January 11, 2010) Discussion of the origin of covalent bonds, Coulomb’s Law, and the names and properties of particles.
  2. Lecture 2 | New Revolutions in Particle Physics: Standard Model (January 18, 2010) Discussion of quantum chromodynamics, the theory of quarks, gluons, and hadrons.
  3. Lecture 3 | New Revolutions in Particle Physics: Standard Model (January 25, 2010) Discussion of the rotation of space.
  4. Lecture 4 | New Revolutions in Particle Physics: Standard Model (February 1, 2010) Discussion of group theory.
  5. Lecture 5 | New Revolutions in Particle Physics: Standard Model (February 8, 2010) Discussion of gauge theories.
  6. Lecture 6 | New Revolutions in Particle Physics: Standard Model (February 15, 2010)
  7. Lecture 7 | New Revolutions in Particle Physics: Standard Model (February 22, 2010) Discussion of spontaneous symmetry breaking and gauge invariance.
  8. Lecture 8 | New Revolutions in Particle Physics: Standard Model (March 30, 2009) Explanation of the Higgs phenomena by discussing how spontaneous symmetry breaking induces mass.
  9. Lecture 9 | New Revolutions in Particle Physics: Standard Model (March 30, 2009) Explanation of the masses of quarks and leptons.
  10. Lecture 10 | New Revolutions in Particle Physics: Standard Model (March 15, 2010)

String Theory and M-Theory

• Course | String Theory and M-Theory (playlist)
  1. Lecture 1 | String Theory and M-Theory (September 20, 2010) Duration: 1:46:55
  2. Lecture 2 | String Theory and M-Theory (September 27, 2010) How the forces that act upon strings can affect quantum mechanics, and the contributions of relativity to string theory. Duration: 1:48:07
  3. Lecture 3 | String Theory and M-Theory (October 4, 2010) Review of harmonic oscillators, spin of massless particles, string spectra, the tachyon problem, and string interactions. Duration: 1:45:47
  4. Lecture 4 | String Theory and M-Theory (October 11, 2010) Closed vs. open string theory. Duration: 1:23:37
  5. Lecture 5 | String Theory and M-Theory (October 18, 2010) Planck variables and how they relate to string theory. Duration: 1:40:49
  6. Lecture 6 | String Theory and M-Theory (October 25, 2010) Dimensionality in string theory. Duration: 1:24:24
  7. Lecture 7 | String Theory and M-Theory (November 1, 2010) Feynman diagrams of string interactions and mapping particles. Duration: 1:22:30
  8. Lecture 8 | String Theory and M-Theory (November 8, 2010) Path/surface integrals, conformal mapping and its application to string scattering. Duration: 1:44:26
  9. Lecture 9 | String Theory and M-Theory (November 23, 2010) Constraints of string theory. Duration: 1:55:56
  10. Lecture 10 | String Theory and M-Theory (November 30, 2010) T-Duality, D-Branes, modelling QFT and QCD. Duration: 1:47:49

Course | Topics in String Theory

• Course | Topics in String Theory (playlist)
  1. Lecture 1 | Topics in String Theory (January 10, 2011) The theory of reductionism and its possible end. Duration: 1:34:28
  2. Lecture 2 | Topics in String Theory (January 17, 2011) Special relativity and its connection to string theory. Duration: 1:34:37
  3. Lecture 3 | Topics in String Theory (January 24, 2011) Mathematics of a black hole. Duration: 1:40:51
  4. Lecture 4 | Topics in String Theory (January 31, 2011) The geometry of a black hole near the horizon. Duration: 1:36:10
  5. Lecture 5 | Topics in String Theory (February 7, 2011) Black holes and how light behaves around them. Duration: 1:29:31
  6. Lecture 6 | Topics in String Theory (February 14, 2011) Using string theory to resolve the question of entropy in a black hole. Duration: 1:00:23
  7. Lecture 7 | Topics in String Theory (February 28, 2011) Calculating the entropy of a black hole. Duration: 1:42:17
  8. Lecture 8 | Topics in String Theory (March 7, 2011) Cosmic horizons. Duration: 1:44:26
  9. Lecture 9 | Topics in String Theory (March 14, 2011) Cosmological thermodynamics. Duration: 2:05:56

Course | Classical Mechanics (Fall 2011)

• Course | Classical Mechanics (Fall 2011) (playlist)
  1. Classical Mechanics | Lecture 1 (September 26, 2011) Vectors, velocity and acceleration. Duration: 1:29:11
  2. Classical Mechanics | Lecture 2 (October 3, 2011) Aristotelian physics. (Audio quality was poor for this recording. Fortunately, the video has been subtitled.) Duration: 1:29:11
  3. Classical Mechanics | Lecture 3 (October 10, 2011) The Principle of Least Action . Duration: 1:39:04
  4. Classical Mechanics | Lecture 4 (October 17, 2011) Symmetry, conservation laws, Principle of Least Action, & Lagrangian methods. Duration: 1:55:49
  5. Classical Mechanics | Lecture 5 (October 24, 2011) Particle transformations. Duration: 2:02:13
  6. Classical Mechanics | Lecture 6 (November 1, 2011) The motion of objects. Duration: 1:48:02
  7. Classical Mechanics | Lecture 7 (November 7, 2011) Liouville’s Theorem, Hamiltonian mechanics, and the reversibility of classical mechanics. Duration: 1:47:17
  8. Classical Mechanics | Lecture 8 (November 14, 2011) Angular momentum and Poisson Brackets. Duration: 1:389:07
  9. Classical Mechanics | Lecture 9 (November 21, 2011) Magnetic and electrostatic forces, magnetic fields and potential. Duration: 1:34:46
  10. Classical Mechanics | Lecture 10 (November 28, 2011) Particles and electric and magnetic fields. Duration: 1:37:52

Course | The Theoretical Minimum: Quantum Mechanics

• Course | The Theoretical Minimum: Quantum Mechanics (playlist)
  1. Lecture 1 | The Theoretical Minimum (January 9, 2012) Introduction to quantum mechanics. Duration: 1:46:33
  2. Lecture 2 | The Theoretical Minimum (January 16, 2012) The basic logic of quantum mechanics. Duration: 1:59:04
  3. Lecture 3 | The Theoretical Minimum (January 23, 2012) The mathematics behind vectors and operators. Duration: 1:40:39
  4. Lecture 4 | The Theoretical Minimum (January 30, 2012) More on vectors and operators. Duration: 1:47:23
  5. Lecture 5 | The Theoretical Minimum (February 6, 2012) Uncertainty, the Schroedinger equations, and time evolution. Duration: 2:03:47
  6. Lecture 6 | The Theoretical Minimum (February 13, 2012) Photons and the energies of different states. Entanglement. Duration: 1:42:59
  7. Lecture 7 | The Theoretical Minimum (February 20, 2012) Continued discussion of entanglement. Duration: 2:11:22
  8. Lecture 8 | The Theoretical Minimum (February 27, 2012) The basic qualities of systems. Duration 1:51:32
  9. Lecture 9 | The Theoretical Minimum (March 12, 2012) Tangible examples of quantum mechanics. Duration: 1:36:07
  10. Lecture 10 | The Theoretical Minimum (March 19, 2012) Conclusion: limits of quantum physics. Duration: 1:46:30

Special Relativity

• Course | Special Relativity (playlist)
  1. Special Relativity | Lecture 1 (April 9, 2012) Introduction. Duration: 1:58:15
  2. Special Relativity | Lecture 2 (April 16, 2012) Review of vectors and spin in three dimensional space. Duration: 54:00
  3. Special Relativity | Lecture 3 (April 23, 2012) Particle mechanics. Duration: 1:59:28
  4. Special Relativity | Lecture 4 (April 30, 2012) Fields and field theory. Duration: 1:50:11
  5. Special Relativity | Lecture 5 (May 7, 2012) Fields and particles continued. Duration: 2:01:00
  6. Special Relativity | Lecture 6 (May 14, 2012) Electromagnetism and quantum mechanics. Duration: 1:56:48
  7. Special Relativity | Lecture 7 (May 21, 2012) How and where math and nature collide. Duration: 1:46:27
  8. Special Relativity | Lecture 8 (June 5, 2012) Dynamics of the electric and magnetic field. Duration: 1:46:45
  9. Special Relativity | Lecture 9 (June 11, 2012) Lagrangian formulation of Maxwell’s equations. Duration: 1:39:52
  10. Special Relativity | Lecture 10 (June 18, 2012) Momentum and conserved energy in SR. Duration: 1:54:45

Particle Physics 3: Supersymmetry & Grand Unification

• Course | Supersymmetry & Grand Unification (playlist) Note that this series of videos was not posted by Stanford University. No dates are provided for the lectures, but this seems to be from the Fall of 2012.
  1. Supersymmetry & Grand Unification | Lecture 1 . Duration: 1:41:22
  2. Supersymmetry & Grand Unification | Lecture 2 . Duration: 1:13:22
  3. Supersymmetry & Grand Unification | Lecture 3 . Duration: 55:48
  4. Supersymmetry & Grand Unification | Lecture 4 . Duration:
  5. Supersymmetry & Grand Unification | Lecture 5 . Duration: 1:27:49
  6. Supersymmetry & Grand Unification | Lecture 6 . Duration: 1:42:16
  7. Supersymmetry & Grand Unification | Lecture 7 . Duration: 1:55:37
  8. Supersymmetry & Grand Unification | Lecture 8 . Duration: 1:33:58
  9. Supersymmetry & Grand Unification | Lecture 9 . Duration: 1:48:14
  10. Supersymmetry & Grand Unification | Lecture 10 . Duration: 1:41:40

General Relativity

• Course | General Relativity (playlist) (For some reason, the YouTube playlist has the lectures listed in reverse order.)
  1. General Relativity | Lecture 1 (September 24, 2012) Equivalence principle. Duration: 1:49:28
  2. General Relativity | Lecture 2 (October 1, 2012) Notation and tensor analysis. Duration: 1:45:47
  3. General Relativity | Lecture 3 (October 8, 2012) Riemannian geometry. Duration: 1:52:34
  4. General Relativity | Lecture 4 (October 15, 2012) Basic gravitational fields. Duration: 1:41:02
  5. General Relativity | Lecture 5 (October 22, 2012) Derivation of the spacetime metric for a gravitational field. Duration: 1:39:07
  6. General Relativity | Lecture 6 (October 29, 2012) Black holes: event horizon, photon sphere, singularities. Duration: 2:04:24
  7. General Relativity | Lecture 7 (November 5, 2012) Coordinate transforms and black hole physics. Duration: 1:54:50
  8. General Relativity | Lecture 8 (November 12, 2012) Coordinate transformations used to create Penrose Diagrams, physics of black hole formation. Duration: 1:23:09
  9. General Relativity | Lecture 9 (November 26, 2012) Derivation of the Einstein field equations. Duration: 1:44:24
  10. General Relativity | Lecture 10 (December 3, 2012) Gravitational waves. Duration: 1:36:21

Cosmology

• Course | Cosmology (playlist)
  1. Cosmology | Lecture 1> (January 14, 2013) Introduction. Duration: 1:35:47
  2. Cosmology | Lecture 2> (January 21, 2013) Generalizations of the material discussed thus far. Duration: 1:46:07
  3. Cosmology | Lecture 3> (January 28, 2013) Geometry of spacetime. Duration: 1:41:15
  4. Cosmology | Lecture 4> (February 4, 2013) Einstein’s field equations of GR, thermodynamic equations of state. Duration: 1:37:11
  5. Cosmology | Lecture 5> (February 11, 2013) Vacuum energy, cosmological constant. Duration: 1:45:41
  6. Cosmology | Lecture 6> (February 18, 2013) Energy density allocation equation, luminosity and redshift. Duration: 1:48:47
  7. Cosmology | Lecture 7> (February 25, 2013) Baryogenesis and matter/anti-matter asymmetry. Duration: 2:01:00
  8. Cosmology | Lecture 8> (March 4, 2013) More baryogenesis and inflation. Duration: 1:54:21
  9. Cosmology | Lecture 9> (March 11, 2013) Inflation. Duration: 2:08:32

Statistical Mechanics

• Course | Statistical Mechanics (playlist)
  1. Statistical Mechanics | Lecture 1> (April 1, 2013) Introduction, probability theory, entropy, conservation of information. Duration: 1:47:39
  2. Statistical Mechanics | Lecture 2> (April 8, 2013) Physics of temperature. Duration: 54:13
  3. Statistical Mechanics | Lecture 3> (April 15, 2013) Distribution of energy states, maximum entropy of system at equilibrium. Duration: 1:53:27
  4. Statistical Mechanics | Lecture 4> (April 23, 2013) Derivation of the Boltzman distribution. Duration: 1:42:36
  5. Statistical Mechanics | Lecture 5> (April 29, 2013) Helmholtz free energy, derivation of ideal gas law. Duration: 1:35:45
  6. Statistical Mechanics | Lecture 6> (May 6, 2013) Concepts of heat and work. Duration: 2:03:30
  7. Statistical Mechanics | Lecture 7> (May 13, 2013) Reversibility of classical mechanics, 2nd law of thermodynamics, chaos theory. Duration: 1:50:27

Miscellaneous Lectures

• Leonard Susskin on The World As Hologram, on the indestructibility of information and the nature of black holes, published Nov. 4, 2011. Duration: 55:27
• Demystifying the Higgs Boson, lecture given on July 30, 2012. Duration: 1:15:09
• Quantizing gravity, and why it is difficult, lecture given on July 1, 2013 at the UC Santa Cruz Institute for the Philosophy of Cosmology. Duration: 1:41:58
• The black-hole information paradox, complementarity, and firewalls, July 5, 2013 at the UC Santa Cruz Institute for the Philosophy of Cosmology. Duration: 1:51:01