Free Physics Video and Audio Courses

These are the free physics video and audio courses. They are ordered based on their difficulty, starting with easiest first and ending with the most difficult.

Also if you love physics, check out my friend's video websites dedicated to three famous physicists:

• Richard Feynman Videos
• Carl Sagan Videos
• Stephen Hawking Videos

And here are the physics video lectures:

Descriptive introduction to physics:

• Physics for Future Presidents (Berkeley)
• Course website
  

No prior physics is required. Moreover, even if you are a physics major, you will find that most of the material is new. Physics majors spend so much time learning the math and to abstract calculations that they often do not get to the important results. This course is now open for physics majors too, in fact, is is an excellent supplement for your other physics courses.


Classical Mechanics:

• Physics 8.01 (MIT)
• Course website
  

In addition to the basic concepts of Newtonian Mechanics, Fluid Mechanics, and Kinetic Gas Theory, a variety of interesting topics are covered in this course: Binary Stars, Neutron Stars, Black Holes, Resonance Phenomena, Musical Instruments, Stellar Collapse, Supernovae, Astronomical observations from very high flying balloons (lecture #35), and you will be allowed a peek into the intriguing Quantum World.


Introductory Physics

• Physics 8A 001 (audio only)
• Physics 8A 002 (audio only)
  

Introduction to forces, kinetics, equilibria, fluids, waves, and heat. This course presents concepts and methodologies for understanding physical phenomena, and is particularly useful preparation for upper division study in biology and architecture.


Electricity and Magnetism:

• Physics 8.02 (MIT)
• Course website
  

In addition to the basic concepts of Electromagnetism, a vast variety of interesting topics are covered in this course: Lightning, Pacemakers, Electric Shock Treatment, Electrocardiograms, Metal Detectors, Musical Instruments, Magnetic Levitation, Bullet Trains, Electric Motors, Radios, TV, Car Coils, Superconductivity, Aurora Borealis, Rainbows, Radio Telescopes, Interferometers, Particle Accelerators (a.k.a. Atom Smashers or Colliders), Mass Spectrometers, Red Sunsets, Blue Skies, Haloes around Sun and Moon, Color Perception, Doppler Effect, Big-Bang Cosmology.


Vibrations and Waves:

• Physics 8.03 (MIT)
• Course website
  

In addition to the traditional topics of mechanical vibrations and waves, coupled oscillators, and electro-magnetic radiation, students will also learn about musical instruments, red sunsets, glories, coronae, rainbows, haloes, X-ray binaries, neutron stars, black holes and big-bang cosmology.


Symmetry, Structure, and Tensor Properties of Materials

• 3.60 (link to video lectures) (MIT)
• Course website
  

This course covers the derivation of symmetry theory; lattices, point groups, space groups, and their properties; use of symmetry in tensor representation of crystal properties, including anisotropy and representation surfaces; and applications to piezoelectricity and elasticity.

I will post other links in a few days.


Related Posts

• More Physics Video Courses
  (Includes physics for non-science majors, mechanical universe lecture series, elementary college physics, and astrophysics)


• Even More Physics Videos and Video Lectures
  (Lots of Richard P. Feynman lectures, complexity and chaos, universe in a nutshell, black holes, life in space, states of matter, chemistry of interstellar space, electricity and magnetism, nanophysics and many others)


• Even More Physics Videos
  (Includes videos for general public on string theory, universe and particle smashers, then more advanced videos on string theory, particle physics, cosmology and physics demonstrations)


• String Theory, Quantum Computation and Others
  (Includes 3 hour video series of The Elegant Universe - the theory about unifying all four fundamental forces and the string theory, various lectures from princeton university on black holes and others, historical perspectives of Hans Bethe and quantum computation by David Deutsch)


• Modern Physics
  (Includes Quantum Physics, Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Field Theory, Applied Group Theory, General Relativity, Cosmology, Astrophysics, Computational Physics, Thermodynamics and a lecture on Basic Physics)


• CERN, Astronomy and Dark Matter + Workshops
  (Includes CERN summer school videos (particle physics and LHC). Lectures on String Theory, Black Holes, Fundamental Laws of Nature, Dark Matter, Moon, and search for new Suns. Videos from Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics. Physics Talks from Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. Lecture on Fluid dynamics. Astronomy and Astrophysics Workshop. Videos from Institute of Advanced Study. And some bonus lectures on geometry of manifolds, on evolutionary dynamics, and solving cubic equations)


• Free Physics Video Lectures
  (Includes quantum mechanics, quantum physics, classical physics, classical mechanics, chaos, fractals and dynamical systems, linear dynamical systems, heat and mass transfer and general relativity.)


• Richard Feynman Video Lectures
  (Many various Richard P. Feynman physics video lectures. They include Feynman's lectures on QED at University of Auckland. An interview with Faynman called "The Pleasure of Finding Things Out". Another interview with Feynmann titled "The Last Journey Of A Genius". A mind skewing Feynmen talk "Take The World From Another Point Of View", and a few others - "Remembering Richard Feynman", "Murry Gell-Mann Talks About Feynman", Feynman Playing Bongos and Singing About Orange Juice)


• More Modern Physics
  (Includes Special Relativity, General Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, Cosmology, Einstein's Theory, Quantum Entanglements, LHC, Dirac Strings, and Explorations of 4th Dimension. Graduate Classical Mechanics and Lee Smolin)


• Popular Science Physics Video Lectures
  (Includes Richard Feynman's Messenger Video Lectures, an interview with Richard Feynman, video of young Albert Einstein, explanation of Schrodinger's cat, ferrofluid, a trip inside LHC, video on quantum computing, upcoming revolutions in theoretical physics, video interview about multiverse and parallel universes, 100 greatest physics discoveries, and discovery of fullorene.)


• Various Physics Lectures
  (Includes Escher and Droste effect, Sir Roger Penrose and new physics, Feynman, Nikola Tesla, gyroscopes, black holes, dark matter, dark energy, modern cosmology, origins of universe, theoretical physics, particle hydrodynamics, numeric relativity, plasma, astrophysics, superstring theory, LHC, gravity, OLED technology, lasers)