Story of how Planck discovered the blackbody radiation formula and why he introduced energy quantization as a math trick

A series of videos covering the history of de Broglie’s famous matter wave theory. Bro is a genius, FRFR. Bro was doing unification before it even had a name. We ought to re-trear his work.

In this video, I present one of the most influential formulations of classical physics — Hamiltonian mechanics. This is a walk through the birth of Hamiltonian mechanics and how Hamilton extended Lagrange’s work into a new, elegant formulation that would go on to influence quantum theory, statistical mechanics, and dynamical systems.

In this video, I present an overview of symmetries in physics, passive vs. active transformations, and how to derive Noether’s theorem from the Euler-Lagrange equations. Different examples are presented in detail to show how the invariance under specific symmetries can be used to construct conserved quantities.

A brief history and derivation of Lagrangian mechanics from Newtonian mechanics.

Every day, I get a little closer to modeling discrete random board games. >:)

Nice review of stuff from 18.C06/18.063.

Great series of lectures so far on differential geometry—both discrete and smooth—with a focus on computation. This was a nice reintroduction to topology from another perspective, and I think I’m starting to understand what a manifold is. Probably need to watch it again. :)