Lecture 1 | Modern Physics: Special Relativity (Stanford)

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Lecture 1 of Leonard Susskind's Modern Physics course concentrating on Special Relativity. Recorded April 14, 2008 at Stanford University.
This Stanford Continuing Studies course is the third of a six-quarter sequence of classes exploring the essential theoretical foundations of modern physics. The topics covered in this course focus on classical mechanics. Leonard Susskind is the Felix Bloch Professor of Physics at Stanford University.
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@yoondami1127 4 жыл бұрын

I consider him my mentor even if he doesn't even know me. You're amazing, Leonard.

@jitendeka5619 3 жыл бұрын

Actually susskind has taken many of ours heart , I love this guy very much

@parthadx7ster 3 жыл бұрын

Undoubtedly the best.

@Lakanyon 5 жыл бұрын

I have school tomorrow and I could not sleep and so I looked up lectures to make me bored and sleep, I accidentally learned something and staid up another like hour and a half

@usefulbobcat 5 жыл бұрын

Use your tidbits of knowledge to realise. It's ok to stay up all night thinking because one day you could achieve something great even if no one will ever know. Knowledge is not to change the world but only to satisfy your own curiosity. It's your choice wether to share your thoughts or not

@usefulbobcat 5 жыл бұрын

But so long as your able to accept in the end is the only that really matters in the end

@Mnemonic-X 3 жыл бұрын

But this theory is full bullshit.

@pphilosophy2156 2 жыл бұрын

@@Mnemonic-X What theory is bullshit and why? What specifically? Special relativity?

@feuzzionarts8129 3 ай бұрын

..goodmorning

@jwoya 11 жыл бұрын

This is one of the fathers of string theory here :-) Listening to him, you get insights which never come out in a more straightforward explanation.

@rigomiller5465 13 жыл бұрын

... I just woke up and he's still talking and where did this headache come from! The science channel made it look so much easier. Hats off to all that study this.

@AlmostBasian 11 жыл бұрын

This is exactly what youtube is for. Allowing people to take their education into their own hands is key to social mobility. Things like this are making our society a better place.

@JohnLemieux 10 жыл бұрын

"One plus one, over two, equals one. At least it did yesterday. (looks at equation) Yep, still does."

@Elitecataphract 9 жыл бұрын

He made it seem like such a stupid question haha

@kaganesa 16 жыл бұрын

i think its fantastic that stanford shares the brilliance of such great lecturers for free for everyone! thanks stanford!

@bostaurus1 5 жыл бұрын

I love the way he is eating in all his lectures.

@sirisaacalbertmravinszky2671 4 жыл бұрын

So do I! I am not the only one! 😀

@ik0ygj 13 жыл бұрын

Thanks professor Susskind, I followed so many of your lessons at home that you are one of the family !

@Cfx45321 11 жыл бұрын

The simplest and most elegant derivation of SR I've ever seen !!

@StaticBlaster 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for inspiring people to pursue science. We need more professors like him.

@drb_physix 13 жыл бұрын

Professor Susskind is a wonderfully clear lecturer, what a great resource this is.

@fgrv 14 жыл бұрын

Admiro muchísimo que a través de internet tengamos el alcance de presenciar a personas tan prestigiosas, de universidades tan importantes como Stanford y hablando sobre temas tan avanzados e interesantes. Saludos desde Caaguazú - Paraguay! Viva la tecnología!

@shivaniits 6 жыл бұрын

These lectures are so helpful, thank you stanford for making these lectures available 🖒

@Adronomics 13 жыл бұрын

I watched Prof. Susskind's TED talk about Richard Feynman. It was very elegant listening to him talk about such a great man, and from what he described a great friend. I'd love the opportunity to sit in a lecture hall and listen to him describe this, however this is good enough! Thanks Stanford!

@MrNopperaBo 11 жыл бұрын

WOW, Leonard! After more than 6 years of university physics studies, only now I understand sinh/cosh :) Plus got another perspective on the derivation of special relativity equations. Mind blowing.

@flyingdutchman2649 8 жыл бұрын

OMG!!! That's Professor Leonard Susskind!!!

@JasonW7467 11 жыл бұрын

I definitely understand where your coming at. I get annoyed specifically when people try to explain other ways of going about the math than the professor is doing, which slows down the lecture.

@dmthom23 14 жыл бұрын

These lectures are extremely useful! Thanks Stanford & Professor Susskind.

@pierfrancescopeperoni 2 жыл бұрын

Although the constancy of the speed of light is usually an axiom, I prefer to think of it as a consequence of trying to represent time and space with the same units, so that they are the same thing, and assuming that in such units there is interchangeability in the equations of physics, which means there is symmetry with respect to the bisector, which represents a point moving at speed c. So c is the same in every reference frame. And if we assume space and time are the same, it makes no difference to invert the space and time axes. So a particle moving at speed V>c is perceived as a particle moving at speed v

@redpillmath Жыл бұрын

The Absurdity of Special Bullshit Relativity Theory kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gN6qm9KEvKjYl6s.html. The falsity of Einstein's thought experiments, the thought Light-Clock, Lorent's equations, and the interest of the Elite, a selected coterie, to impose their Relativistic-Chaos stuff in our educational system to manipulate, control, and exploit vulnerable people.

@pierfrancescopeperoni Жыл бұрын

@@redpillmath lol

@TheGreenCommunity 14 жыл бұрын

I absolutely appreciate all of great videos of the University Of Stanford ,they are profoundly useful.

@prawn1535 2 жыл бұрын

LOL

@amarah89 14 жыл бұрын

i like how within the first five minutes, right after he announced that he won't be describing in detail what an inertial reference frame is, he actually takes 2 minutes to do just that.

@adamx20 13 жыл бұрын

Thank you Standford! It's fun understanding the principles of what is being said, but hearing the math behind those principles is just as fun. XD

@pinoypangit 13 жыл бұрын

I'm a working young adult with kids so the I had to take classes online. I'm currently taking Modern Physics. So far this video gave me a lot of help. Thank you very much. Vincent Villar

@WorldClassLogic 13 жыл бұрын

Math is awesome. Thanks SU and Professor Bloch for giving me free knowledge :)

@sepijortikka 12 жыл бұрын

Thank you Leonard Susskind and Stanford university. I'm studying physics at Helsinki University, and these Lectures are really helpful!

@Mnemonic-X 3 жыл бұрын

But the special theory of relativity is full bullshit.

@artembluntzki7376 11 жыл бұрын

Thank you KZfaq for allowing me to view amazing lectures which my school doesn't have =]

@magmigmag 14 жыл бұрын

@Astro27Phys : there are couple of them online, but they are all 2nd and 3rd year status courses. In first year you will be concentrating on calculus, Chem, introduction to engineering, basic static and dynamic of mechanics, C++ (programing) etc. Things you might find online which will be useful later on are lectures on, thermodynamics, fluids, dynamics of machinery, solids, aerospace materials and so on

@AETHERscience 12 жыл бұрын

@UniversumExNihilo Yes, I am talking about the Michelson-Morley experiment. It showed that the Earth carries the aether with it (at least below the ground, in the basement where it was done), not that there is no aether at all. Later, Miller found that at higher altitudes there is a small aether motion.

@caseros85 11 жыл бұрын

Measurements in one inertial frame can be converted to measurements in another by a simple transformation through the Lorentz transformation in special relativity.

@Brojenko 12 жыл бұрын

I am thoroughly enjoying this; It's quite an interesting lecture!

@BlastOfPhurie 13 жыл бұрын

for me its fun to watch this because i get these lectures in dutch so its a good way for substaining my english by watching this course

@MrAnderson234 12 жыл бұрын

greatest rebuttal ever, thank you sir

@singhallinoneyoutubechanne5680 6 жыл бұрын

thanks for all of us

@AETHERscience 12 жыл бұрын

@UniversumExNihilo Thanks a lot for your comments. So it seems that there is no relative motion with respect to the aether at all. But to conclude from this that there is no aether at all is as if one would say that just because there is no (air) wind there is no air at all.

@jeffcherytv6154 10 жыл бұрын

that was awesome lecture.thanks a lot

@yamatushre 13 жыл бұрын

wow! thanks. This is really great upload for science freaks like me. I hope to see more such uploads.

@AETHERscience 12 жыл бұрын

@UniversumExNihilo If I may: 1. It's not that the aether really does not do anything. Among others, it is the medium that conveys the electrostatic interaction between two charges placed in vacuum. And is the medium that carries the magnetostatic interaction between two parallel current-carrying conductors placed in vacuum.

@AlvinSawdust 12 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much. I really enjoyed this lecture.

@AlecBrady 12 жыл бұрын

@RadostinaChipanova Spacetime has this unusual form of the Pythagoras theorem. It's what makes the time direction different from the other three. In this four-space, the hypotenuse represents the time direction for the observer moving along it. Hope that helps.

@saqibss4572 2 жыл бұрын

such a helpful lecture learned much from this lecture

@MiscellaneousNo 12 жыл бұрын

Yes, he does!

@MrUnkownperson 14 жыл бұрын

Seems to be funny, But the ways of teaching is very good. His lectures helps me alot..............Thanks to Leonard and Stanford University.

@ChristopherSyn1 12 жыл бұрын

@kerkoky From Wikipedia: "Note that some of the lecture names are a little mixed-up: "Quantum Entanglements Part 3" is in fact a lecture series on special relativity and electromagnetic theory,

@Computerdisplay 14 жыл бұрын

@TheImmigrantsong thats like totally awesome, its good to know that mounths of you trying to convince people of your smartassness are not being wasted!

@rsmith7710 13 жыл бұрын

Love is the wormhole through which we can travel faster than the speed of light across spacetime in order to gain each other's perspective. Love is not one dimensional. Love is all dimensions. Love is all perspectives. Love is how we gain perspective. Memory is how we retain perspectives we have gained. Perspective is how we solve problems. If I find myself faced with a problem I cannot solve, then all I must do is first let go of my present perspective so that I may gain another.

@UnionKid15 13 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot for posting this.

@FarFromEquilibrium 16 жыл бұрын

Leonard is the best.

@pjdatayan341 9 жыл бұрын

Leonard Susskind would've made a great Tywin Lannister.

@nmarbletoe8210 9 жыл бұрын

PJ Datayan Hawking as Bran Stark

@multimotyl 9 жыл бұрын

PJ Datayan Ehm! Jonathan Banks. Ehm!

@pukamon1681 8 жыл бұрын

+PJ Datayan Old Man Marley from Home Alone

@albericrex9005 3 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@Bibchetoo 13 жыл бұрын

@harvellt In the highschools in my country we study some elementary level of mechanics, movement generally kinds of movements and the different lows. Of course the 3 principles of mechanics we don't study quantum and the things from the mechanics we study them in 7th class and in 8th class we study mostly about cinetic and potential energies. Then in 9th class we study Electrostatics, Electric current, Electromagnetism, Oscillation, Light and we finish with Nuclear Physics.

@AETHERscience 12 жыл бұрын

Dear Prof. Susskind, At minute 1:00:50 of this video, you started to discuss about the aether. This was a big surprise for me because I study the aether. With due respect : - The speed of sound in air does not change if you move with respect to it (min. 1:02:04). What changes to an observer moving relative to the air at rest is the frequency of the sound (Doppler effect). - M-M experiment proved that we are at rest with the aether at all times. Respectfully, Ionel DINU, M.Sc., Physics Teacher

@9californication 11 жыл бұрын

thank you for this explanation.

@FlavoredCoffeeGuy 13 жыл бұрын

@gamesbok C can be local, and in plasma physics, there is a set of equations that all use time to explain how the plasma borrows energy from it's own future. My point, is that it is upsidedown. It punches energy into the past. The vibrational energy of electron and ion temperature relates to why and how based upon C being local from a moving emission point.

@FlavoredCoffeeGuy 13 жыл бұрын

@AETHERscience 12 жыл бұрын

@UniversumExNihilo What I have said at point 2 makes very much sense, it can be put in an equation. There is an equation in hydrodynamics that is the key to the understanding of mass. And this fact is one of the reasons why I think the aether is worth everything from a scientific point of view.

@2OQP 14 жыл бұрын

@AngelofAntistupidity Be sure, Red/Blue shifts occurs because of the Doppler effect. In that, when the speed of a moving source of a detected radiation(from 0Hz to petaHz, doesn't matter) impacts the actual distance that is has to travel to get to the detector, hence creating a perceived change in frequency. Now, stand corrected. Redshift occurs because distance augments and then frequency diminishes, it does not increase. it would if the source would reduce the distance.

@RealNRD 12 жыл бұрын

@LoveGovernment The light from both of your flashlights will be moving at the same speed. It is my understanding that because you are in motion your time is slowed (compared to that of your stationary friend) and distance is compressed in the direction of the motion. This video explains a scenario similar to the one you presented: "Time Dilation | Einstein's Relativity"

@mnightsky 13 жыл бұрын

@jmidesigns yes , u r right and thats what the physicists call it "mass-energy equivalence", where you can tell about an object content of energy if you know its mass.

@FlavoredCoffeeGuy 13 жыл бұрын

@signorellil 14 жыл бұрын

Muller is very good if you want to get a general understanding of the topic, but thse lecture from Susskind are much better if you want to really learn the subject

@MckenzieAndy 12 жыл бұрын

thank you for the class

@GreerFried 5 жыл бұрын

I am coincidentally watching this on Susskind's birthday 2019.

@Gunner3210 12 жыл бұрын

@cubeloveme33 If you really want to understand everything you need at least multivariable calculus (usually 2nd year university level calculus). The derivations for time dilation and length contraction can be done by knowing simple trigonometry.

@northbeachfilms 14 жыл бұрын

Thank you Professor.

@BananaCreamPieSeven 11 жыл бұрын

The juggler would need to reach since that would be an inertial reference frame because there is a deceleration/acceleration, not a constant velocity

@trajtemberg 13 жыл бұрын

Thank you Proffesor.

@jeremy93432 12 жыл бұрын

acording to newton , and anybody who thought about it very hard !

@johnliamten 12 жыл бұрын

@krennolls it's not that the time spent out flying around at a constant velocity that makes the twin any younger, it's the acceleration he requires to get to that velocity. That is why the twin who goes off to space is younger.

@Drokmobile 11 жыл бұрын

This is great.

@d3l1a4973 13 жыл бұрын

@baaroodii i am almost 16 also and i enjoy learning physics 1) b/c i enjoy learning new stuff @)its interesting to me 3) i enjoy not understanding something (i.e special relativity) and then i enjoy the feeling i get once i finally understand it

@AETHERscience 12 жыл бұрын

@UniversumExNihilo 2. And it is not that it does not offer resistance: it offers resistance to objects accelerating through it - this is how you can explain Newton's second law that you need a force to make an object increase (accelerate) its speed in vacuum. The mass of the object is the constant of proportionality between the force applied and the acceleration produced.

@CACBCCCU 13 жыл бұрын

My comment below was about an expanding ring of a light flash seen reflected in dust around an exploding star. Suppose glowing masses are ejected along with the light, and two such masses head off in opposite directions at the same speed, and both appear to move 2/3 as fast as the expanding ring in the same direction. The two glowing masses appear to have a differential velocity of 4/3 c, and it's an actual superluminal relative velocity. This is basically Beckenstein's perspective, afaik.

@Omnibus101 15 жыл бұрын

From the above it follows that the ``Principle of Relativity`` requires that the mass m which a body has in a given system, be represented by the same mass m in any other system. On the contrary, Lorentz transformations require that a body of mass m in one system be represented by mass beta^3m in another system. Therefore, the ``Principle of Relativity`` contradicts the Lorentz transformations which invalidates it in its entirety.

@ellis2726 12 жыл бұрын

i've been watching this on a daily basis as im really enjoying it, im just turning 16 and the whole special relativity thing has really got me hooked into science, so thank you for giving me an interest.

@fahadalbalawi1828 Жыл бұрын

What are you studying now ?

@ellis2726 Жыл бұрын

@@fahadalbalawi1828 Wow can't believe this popped up, I went on to study chemistry and I now teach chemistry/physics a-level

@ritemolawbks8012 2 жыл бұрын

I could listen to Professor Susskind for days. I even started walking like him. He's a brilliant man. I can't match his knowledge of relativity and string theory, but even I know you can't see sound 👉🏾[ 1:02:01 ]. No disrespect, but I know my five senses very well.

@guitarfighter 12 жыл бұрын

@robbietea/Pt.1 "youtube needs a rewind button!!!"Hover your mouse pointer over the time bar which is located under the video.The time at which your mouse is at will pop up.Know that the circle at the end of the time line is representative of the exact point the video is at,still or in motion.Move the ball back and forth for instant rewind or fast forward.One can also read the time and left click along the time line for quick adjustments, which eventually becomes 2nd nature.DependsOnPtOfRef.

@hydropen1 12 жыл бұрын

I'm just 12 years old but I understand some of his lectures clearly.

@theophrastusvonhoenheim4022 11 ай бұрын

Do you get it now that your 21

@Svhz1 13 жыл бұрын

The lecture is very helpful

@RAYtheIMAN 13 жыл бұрын

(4:52)I've tested that,I threw a ball in to the air on both: air-plane, car, van and train and it sized to force in the opisite direction the vehicle was going

@TimTeatro 10 жыл бұрын

@Madhusudan Mudhol You say "The students, i think are more mathematically proficient than Susskind." Would it change your opinion if I told you that Prof. Susskind is one of the fathers of superstring theory? He's also responsible for identifying the black hole information paradox.

@TimTeatro 10 жыл бұрын

Well, that explains things. You're arrogance is just a symptom of your youth. What year are you in? What is your favourite area? Trust me, Prof. Suskind is no slouch. Seriously, read his papers. He's not 'producing a few papers on a theoretical problem', he's the father of one of the most active areas in theoretical research, and the most mathematical theoretical framework that we have. I can't believe you're a physics student if you don't appreciate that. You say "Well I knew...and I still think he 's a terrible teacher." --- You didn't say he was a terrible teacher, you said he was mathematically ignorant. "The fact that he couldn't recall Kepler's or Newton's laws is..."---I don't recall him not remembering Kepler's law, and I'm certain he didn't forget Newton's law. But the details of Kepler's laws are easy to forget unless you teach first year physics. It's a bit of a toy model that gets used for historical reasons more than practical value. It is, however, useful to derive Kepler's laws from the deeper models that we do currently use to solve real problems. There is insight to be gained there. You really should watch some more stuff from Prof. Suskind. By the end of it, you may not appreciate his style any better, but you'll certainly have a different opinion of him. By the way; since you seem keen to compare credentials, I'm a physicist, but I'm currently working on a PhD in applied math in an engineering faculty. My background is in computational quantum mechanics.

@TimTeatro 10 жыл бұрын

***** Oh, well as long as you've taken physics classes, I bow before the master! I'll take my lousy physics degrees and a continue my little PhD, humbled by someone who's taken \*gulp\* physics classes. We're done here. Good day.

@MrKmanthie 9 жыл бұрын

You can't talk any sense to young children. They think they know it all. You just have to let them grow up & find out for themselves that they actually know very little and that their opinions mean very little.

@legalfictionnaturalfact3969 6 жыл бұрын

Maybe you farts should look up the flynn effect. Sorry.

@fjolsvit 11 жыл бұрын

Regarding Galileo's concept of an inertial frame, see Taylor and Wheeler, Spacetime Physics, 2nd Ed. Page 53. That makes it absolutely clear that Galileo had a concept of the invariance of physics between inertial frames.

@youcefyahiaoui1465 3 жыл бұрын

I cannot believe that this respectable professor goes with the student argument that x' is bigger than x to modify the equations! A little more rotation of the second frame in either direction will make that argument go down the drain. The coordinates in the new frame are found by simply knowing that the unit vectors of the original frame are multiplied by e(jΘ) and concluding that x' = xcos(Θ) + ysin(Θ) and y' = -xsin(Θ) + ycos(Θ)

@krawte89 12 жыл бұрын

@tnguyen318 The ball doesn't hit the back of the car because it too, is traveling at the same speed as the car. The laws of physics apply to any inertial reference frame. An inertial reference frame is one where it is not accelerating. Since the car is traveling at a constant speed, the laws of physics can describe the ball as if you were not in the car.

@edtExodus 15 жыл бұрын

c is independand from the actual speed of light. It is a constant equal to the speed that light travels with in a vacuum. It is like a hard cap for the maximum velocity of massless particles (at least those we know). It is named speed of light because light just happens to reach the maximum possible velocity of massless particles when unhindered and undisturbed.

@jattymaniac 12 жыл бұрын

x=vt is just the equation of the line following y=mx+c. M is being represented as V, and since the line crosses T at the origin c=0 therefore it is not included in the equation.

@TarverEngineering 13 жыл бұрын

@ronocko My reference is "The Meaning of Relativity" by Albert Einstein and my training MSEE. Relativity is based on Maxwell's Equations with Time decoupled from Space creating a 4th dimension. Internet links to the Copenhagen Observations do not exist. To quote Einstein, "Quantum and Relativity prove that a Sentient Being outside the Universe is required to make the Universe real". The competing Copenhagen observation claimed that Probabilities are determinant, a notion falsed by John Bell.

@unrgisterdhypercam2 4 жыл бұрын

THANK YOU

@sangeetajoshi860 2 жыл бұрын

Sir jii you are the great❤️

@RohithBasu 11 жыл бұрын

That's where the trigonometric identities come from that is so cool

@mukhtiarahmedmukhtiarahmed8807 2 жыл бұрын

Very interesting and very nice

@TarverEngineering 13 жыл бұрын

@ronocko Probabilities and the Theory of Relativity are Creationism. Einstein said so in 1927. (Copenhagen Observations 1927)

@juld55 13 жыл бұрын

@explorerdan1 Photons ALWAYS move at speed c. That fact that light appears slower in different mediums is a result of atoms absorbing and re-emitting photons.

@MThomasBboy 12 жыл бұрын

38:05 is probably the most important assumption to understand these equations. Distance measured with time. Choice of units.

@TheMathKing 15 жыл бұрын

Ever read "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy?" They had an idea of forcing the Hilbert wave function of our bodies to have a 100% chance to warp somewhere instantaneously. It's true too, since our wave function's "probability to be somewhere" does extend throughout the universe, the thing is that it's approximately zero, outside a very small distance past our bodies lol. We need to see if we can control Schrodinger wave equations completely, I think.

@clayishamoeba2 4 жыл бұрын

The work i do has absolutely nothing to do with physics but I still enjoy watching this infinitely more than CNN.

@AlternativApproach 10 жыл бұрын

Special Relativity is a part of Doppler effect. Common formulas -> Unified Doppler effect..

@freshfreenlovinit 14 жыл бұрын

@2OQP I did not say the photons come out of thin air. I said they emanate from the torch and they could well get their energy from an electron stepping down a lower ring. I am not debating how they get their energy which represents itself as light rays. I am debating whether they should also be getting momentum from the train since I don't believe they are ever "on" the train. You must be on the train to get momentum from it.

@krebit8899 11 ай бұрын

i am pretty sure when he gave this lecture he was not expecting an 8th grader to watch this but here we are

@TheBobathon 11 жыл бұрын

If d(tau)squared= dtsquared+dxsquared, then time would have the same properties as space in the theory: it'd just be another spatial dimension. You'd be able to rotate your finger from pointing East to pointing back in time, just as you can rotate from East to North. That sign difference is the only thing that makes time different from the other three dimensions. Because of this "(+ - - -) signature of spacetime", once you're moving forwards in time, you have to stay moving forwards in time.

@2OQP 14 жыл бұрын

@freshfreenlovinit It depends what you mean by 'on' the train. Nothing is 'on' anything. The photons are emitted from the flame. Once they leave, they are on their own, just like the balls. And there is no 'beam' per se. Once they left the flame, they are on their own and will be impacted by medium, phase shift, dispersion in the chromatic and polarization space. The torch has a speed because of the train, the photons will leave at that speed plus C. No matter on which frame you are.