Lecture 8 of Leonard Susskind's Modern Physics course
concentrating on Classical Mechanics. Recorded December 17, 2007
at Stanford University. This Stanford Continuing Studies course
is a six-quarter sequence of classes exploring the essential
theoretical foundations of modern physics. The topics covered in
this course focus on classical mechanics, quantum mechanics, the
general and special theories of relativity, electromagnatism,
cosmology, black holes and statistical mechanics. While these
courses build upon one another, each section of the course also
stands on its own, and both individually and collectively they
will allow the students to attain the "theoretical minnimum" for
thinking intelligently about physics. Quantum theory governs the
universe at its most basic level. In the first half of the 20th
century physics was turned on its head by the radical
discoveriies of Max Planck, Albert Einstein, Niels Bohr, Werner
Heisenberg, and Erwin Schroedinger. An entire new logical and
mathematical foundation -