Recently I've been giving tutorials for Quantum Theory and since starting this blog I've been thinking a bit about physics communication. As a result I had a look at Leonard Susskind's lectures on Quantum Mechanics available on you tube and was reminded again just how nice they are.
I sometimes get annoyed with popular communicators in my field, though perhaps this is unfair because I am not their target audience. I might blog on my feelings on this at some point. However I have nothing but good things to say about Susskind's lectures and for non-physicists who really want to learn something I highly recommend them. They are not designed to teach undergraduates physics, but what he calls continuing students, apparently older students attending mostly from interest. They provide an incredible amount of insight with minimal (but seemingly sufficient) mathematics.
While I would never consider this minimal maths route appropriate for undergraduate students who need to really learn the mathematical techniques to understand derivations and perform the necessary calculations, as a supplement to a standard education these could be great and for people who are just interested in the subject this is one the few ways where you can really get the a proper understanding without actually going off and doing a physics degree.
All of the videos can be found at Stanford's you tube page and are linked from the wikipedia page on Leonard Susskind.
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