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An award-winning professor brings physics down to earth from everyday examples to universal principles.

Syllabus

  • 01: Realms of Physics
  • 02: The Amazing Disc
  • 03: The Wonderful Wave
  • 04: Seeing the Light
  • 05: Is Seeing Believing?
  • 06: Music to Your Ears
  • 07: May the Forces Be With You
  • 08: Aristotle's Revenge
  • 09: Going in Circles
  • 10: Taking Flight
  • 11: Into Space
  • 12: A Conservative Streak
  • 13: The Electrical Heart of Matter
  • 14: Harnessing the Electrical Genie
  • 15: A Magnetic Personality
  • 16: Making Electricity
  • 17: Credit Card to Power Plant
  • 18: Making Waves
  • 19: The Miracle Element
  • 20: The Twentieth Century's Greatest Invention?
  • 21: Building the Electronics Revolution
  • 22: Circuits-So Logical!
  • 23: How's Your Memory?
  • 24: Atom to Computer
  • 25: Keeping Warm
  • 26: Life in the Greenhouse
  • 27: The Tip of the Iceberg
  • 28: Physics in the Kitchen
  • 29: Like a Work of Shakespeare
  • 30: Energy in Your Life
  • 31: Your Place on Earth
  • 32: Dance and Spin
  • 33: The Light Fantastic
  • 34: Nuclear Matters
  • 35: Physics in Your Body
  • 36: Your Place in the Universe
  • By This Professor

Taught by

Richard Wolfson

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