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Introductory Physics
by Joel Fajans
Available on: Audio Download
Introduction to electricity, magnetism, electromagnetic waves, optics, and modern physics.
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The Wonders of Electricity and Magnetism
by Walter Lewin
Available on: Online Video
The inimitable Walter Lewin gives a literally hair-raising performance in this MIT Museum lecture/demonstration for learners young and old.
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Parts Of a Whole
by David Bohm
Available on: Audio Download
This internationally known physicist has developed a theory of quantum physics which addresses the totality of existence, including matter and consciousness, as an unbroken whole.
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Physics for Future Presidents
by Richard A. Muller
Available on: Online Video
The most interesting and important topics in physics, stressing conceptual understanding rather than math, with applications to current events.
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Einstein & the Mind of God
by Paul Davies
Available on: Audio Download | Online Audio
Part one of this series takes Einstein's science as a starting point for exploring the great physicist's perspective on ideas such as mystery, eternity, and the mind of God.
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Brian Greene on String Theory
by Brian Greene
Available on: Audio Download | Online Video | Video Download
Physicist Brian Greene explains superstring theory, the idea that minscule strands of energy vibrating in 11 dimensions create every particle and force in the universe.
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Richard Dawkins: The Universe is Queerer Than We Can Suppose
by Richard Dawkins
Available on: Audio Download | Online Video | Video Download
Biologist Richard Dawkins makes a case for "thinking the improbable" by looking at how the human frame of reference limits our understanding of the universe.
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The Birth and Death of Stars
by Walter Lewin
Available on: Online Video
We know that some stars exist because we can see them with our own eyes. In this lecture Walter Lewin provides illuminating evidence of stars we cannot see.
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Black Holes, Wormholes, and Time Travel
by Paul Davies
Available on: Online Video
The idea of time travel makes great science fiction, but can it really be done?
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Introduction to Astrophysics
by Josh Bloom
Available on: Audio Download
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.
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