Susskind Theoretical Minimum/Supplemental Courses

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A restoration of a good index into the lectures of Leonard Susskind (Stanford).

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Supplemental Courses

Quantum Entanglement (2006)

• Lecture 1
• Lecture 2
• Lecture 3
• Lecture 4
• Lecture 5
• Lecture 6
• Lecture 7
• Lecture 8
• Lecture 9

Relativity (2007)

• Lecture 1
• Lectures 2 & 3
• Lecture 4
• Lecture 5
• Lecture 6
• Lecture 7
• Lecture 8
• Lecture 9

Particle Physics 1: Basic Concepts (2009)

• Lecture 1 - Particles and light
• Lecture 2 - Quantum field theory
• Lecture 3 - Quantum fields and particles
• Lecture 4 - More quantum field theory
• Lecture 5 - Energy conservation and waves
• Lecture 6 - Dirac equation and Higgs particles
• Lecture 7 - Angular momentum
• Lecture 8 - Spin
• Lecture 9 - Equations of motion of particles and fields
• Lecture 10 - Field Lagrangians and path integrals

Particle Physics 2: Standard Model (2010)

• Lecture 1 - Particles fields and forces
• Lecture 2 - Quantum chromodynamics
• Lecture 3 - Group theory – part 1
• Lecture 4 - Group theory – part 2
• Lecture 5 - Gauge fields and symmetry
• Lecture 6 - The weak interaction
• Lecture 7 - Spontaneous symmetry breaking and Goldstone bosons
• Lecture 8 - The Higgs field
• Lecture 9 - The Higgs field and fermions
• Lecture 10 - Renormalization and the running of coupling constants

Particle Physics 3: Supersymmetry and Grand Unification (2010)

• Lecture 1 - Renormalization concepts, and dimensional analysis
• Lecture 2 - Fermions and bosons
• Lecture 3 - Propagators and renormalization of mass
• Lecture 4 - Symmetry and Grassmann numbers
• Lecture 5 - A first supersymmetric model
• Lecture 6 - Supersymmetry building blocks
• Lecture 7 - Lagrangians that preserve supersymmetry
• Lecture 8 - Generalizing supersymmetry to 3+1 spacetime, and QFT
• Lecture 9 - Supersymmetry breaking and an introduction to grand unified theories
• Lecture 10 - GUTs, the SU(5) representation, proton decay

String Theory and M-Theory (2010)

• Lecture 1 - The historical origins of string theory
• Lecture 2 - Mathematics of string motion
• Lecture 3 - The energy spectrum of strings
• Lecture 4 - Closed strings and the level matching rule
• Lecture 5 - Bosonic strings
• Lecture 6 - Strings with spin
• Lecture 7 - Fermionic strings and path integrals
• Lecture 8 - Conformal mapping and string scattering
• Lecture 9 - Strings in compact dimensions
• Lecture 10 - T-duality, D-branes and modeling field theories
• Lecture 11 - String theory wrapup - see the Lecture 1 of the next course

Topics in String Theory / Cosmology and Black Holes (2011)

• Lecture 1 - String theory wrapup - this is the last 11'th lecture of the previous course
• Lecture 2 - Special relativity and string theory - the first lecture of this course
• Lecture 3 - Black holes
• Lecture 4 - Black hole horizons
• Lecture 5 - Black holes and light
• Lecture 6 - Black hole entropy
• Lecture 7 - Black hole entropy 2
• Lecture 8 - Horizons
• Lecture 9 - More black holes and horizons

Higgs Boson (2012)

• Lecture 1 - Demystifying the Higgs Boson

Advanced Quantum Mechanics (2013)

• Lecture 1 - Review of quantum mechanics and introduction to symmetry
• Lecture 2 - Symmetry groups and degeneracy
• Lecture 3 - Atomic orbits and harmonic oscillators
• Lecture 4 - Spin
• Lecture 5 - Fermions: a tale of two minus signs
• Lecture 6 - Quantum field theory
• Lecture 7 - Quantum field theory 2
• Lecture 8 - Second quantization
• Lecture 9 - Quantum field Hamiltonian
• Lecture 10 - Fermions and the Dirac equation

See also

• The Theoretical Minimum Site