STEM Courses and Certifications

Newton's Laws and Inclined Planes - Lecture 4

Applies Newton’s laws to friction, inclined planes, pulleys, and circular-motion problems such as roller coasters and planetary orbits.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 7 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Fluid Dynamics, Statics, and Bernoulli's Equation - Lecture 20

An introduction to fluid pressure, buoyancy, continuity, and Bernoulli’s equation through physics problems.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 13 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Simple Harmonic Motion - Fundamentals of Physics

Explores simple harmonic motion through linear harmonic equations, damping, driven oscillators, and physical examples such as a mass attached to a spring.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 14 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

The Second Law of Thermodynamics and Carnot's Engine - Lecture 23

An introduction to irreversibility, entropy, and the efficiency limit of heat engines through the Second Law and Carnot engine.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 11 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Lorentz Transformation in Special Relativity - Lecture 13

Examines Lorentz transformations through two-observer event descriptions, relativity of simultaneity, time dilation, the twin paradox, and length contraction.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 8 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Newton's Laws of Motion - Fundamentals of Physics

An introduction to Newton’s three laws, inertial frames, force, acceleration, action–reaction, and weightlessness, beginning with a review of vectors.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 8 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Rotations and Dynamics of Rigid Bodies - Part I

A lecture on the dynamics of rotating rigid bodies, from radians and angular acceleration to torque, energy, angular momentum, and moment-of-inertia calculations.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 14 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Torque and Static Equilibrium in Physics - Lecture 11

Explores torque-free motion and static equilibrium through seesaws, supported rods, leaning ladders, rigid bodies in 3D, and gyroscopes.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 13 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Work-Energy Theorem and Law of Conservation of Energy - Lecture 5

Explores how work, kinetic and potential energy, power, and friction connect through the Work-Energy Theorem and conservation of energy.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 10 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Introduction to Relativity - Lecture 1

An introductory lecture on comparing events for independent observers, progressing from Galilean transformations to length contraction, time dilation, and Lorentz transformations.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 11 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Evolution and Medicine

Shows how evolutionary thinking changes the understanding of disease, from pathogen resistance and cancer to aging, reproduction, and mental disorders.

• YouTube
• 11 hours 34 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Freshman Organic Chemistry II

A mechanism-centered second semester traces how energy, structure, and intermediates shape organic reactions, then applies that reasoning to spectroscopy and synthesis.

• YouTube
• 1 day 7 hours 21 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Freshman Organic Chemistry - Structure and Mechanism in Organic Chemistry

Explore how experimental evidence and the history of chemistry shaped modern explanations of molecular structure and reaction mechanisms.

• YouTube
• 1 day 6 hours 5 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Illuminating Black Holes

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Theoretical physicist Veronika Hubeny explores the fundamental nature of spacetime using the gauge/gravity duality in order to develop a deeper understanding of black holes and their mysterious links to quantum information theory.

• World Science U
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

A System View of Communications: From Signals to Packets (Part 2)

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Explore the tradeoffs in designing communication systems like mobile phones, and the engineering tools to handle them.

• edX
• 6 weeks, 4-6 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)