Free Physics Courses

For more than 30 years, Richard P. Feynman's three-volume Lectures on Physics has been known worldwide as the classic resource for students and professionals alike....

The most interesting and important topics in physics, stressing conceptual understanding rather than math, with applications to current events.

Professor J.J. Binney explains quantum amplitudes, quantum interference, and the concept of a "quantum state".

Modern concepts using mathematics for understanding principles, fundamental laws, atomic and molecular structure, states of matter, equilibrium, kinetics, and elementary inorganic, nuclear, and organic chemistry.

In these lectures, Prof. Patrick Winston introduces the 6.034 material from a conceptual, big-picture perspective. Topics include reasoning, search, constraints, learning, representations, architectures, and probabilistic inference.

This course covers the Milky Way galaxy, star formation and the interstellar medium, galaxies, black holes, quasars, dark matter, the expansion of the universe and its large-scale structure, and cosmology and the Big Bang.

This Stanford Continuing Studies course is the fourth of a six-quarter sequence of classes exploring the essential theoretical foundations of modern physics.

"The Mechanical Universe" is a critically-acclaimed series of 52 thirty-minute videos covering the basic topics of an introductory university physics course.

"Einstein's General Relativity and Gravitation" is taught at UCI as Physics 255. Topics covered: A Brief History of Gravity, Gravity from the Ancient Greeks to Einstein's Relativistic Theory (1907)

This Stanford Continuing Studies course is the fifth of a six-quarter sequence of classes exploring the essential theoretical foundations of modern physics.