New courses in Physics from MIT OpenCourseWare, provider of free and open MIT course materials. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/physics 2020-09-04T12:54:33+05:00 MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu en-US Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm 8.962 is MIT's graduate course in general relativity, which covers the basic principles of Einstein's general theory of relativity, differential geometry, experimental tests of general relativity, black holes, and cosmology.  https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/physics/8-962-general-relativity-spring-2020 Spring 2020 Hughes, Scott 2020-08-26T14:12:46+05:00 8.962 en-US relativity general relativity special relativity linearized general relativity spacetime Einstein's equation E = mc2 gravitation gravitational waves gravitational lensing cosmology Schwarzschild solution black holes MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm This course is a continuation of 8.05 Quantum Physics II. It introduces some of the important model systems studied in contemporary physics, including two-dimensional electron systems, the fine structure of hydrogen, lasers, and particle scattering.An edX version of this course, 8.06x Applications of Quantum Mechanics, is available starting on February 20, 2019 and running for 19 weeks. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/physics/8-06-quantum-physics-iii-spring-2018 Spring 2018 Zwiebach, Barton 2019-02-14T15:37:06+05:00 8.06 en-US quantum physics Hamiltonian perturbation theory perturbation expansion Anharmonic oscillator hydrogen atom Pauli equation time dependent perturbation theory time independent perturbation theory Scattering identical particles MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm Junior Lab consists of two undergraduate courses in experimental physics. The course sequence is usually taken by Juniors (hence the name). Officially, the courses are called Experimental Physics I and II and are numbered 8.13 for the first half, given in the fall semester, and 8.14 for the second half, given in the spring. Each term, students do experiments on phenomena whose discoveries led to major advances in physics. In the process, they deepen their understanding of the relations between experiment and theory, mostly in atomic and nuclear physics. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/physics/8-13-14-experimental-physics-i-ii-junior-lab-fall-2016-spring-2017 Fall 2016 Faculty, Lecturers, and Technical Staff, Physics Department 2018-11-01T10:24:57+05:00 8.13-14 en-US Junior Lab experimental physics photoelectric effect Poisson statistics electromagnetic pulse Franck-Hertz experiment relativistic dynamics nuclear magnetic resonance cosmic-ray muons Rutherford Scattering Johnson noise shot noise quantum mechanics Mössbauer spectroscopy Doppler-free laser spectroscopy Raman spectroscopy MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm This is the first semester of a two-semester graduate-level subject on quantum theory, stressing principles. Quantum theory explains the nature and behavior of matter and energy on the atomic and subatomic level. Topics include Fundamental Concepts, Quantum Dynamics, Composite Systems, Symmetries in Quantum Mechanics, and Approximation Methods. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/physics/8-321-quantum-theory-i-fall-2017 Fall 2017 Todadri, Senthil 2018-05-21T16:28:44+05:00 8.321 en-US quantum dynamics quantum mechanics Schrödinger Heisenberg kets Aharanov-Bohm effect quantum entanglement perturbation theory density matrices adiabatic approximation MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm Vibrations and waves are everywhere. If you take any system and disturb it from a stable equilibrium, the resultant motion will be waves and vibrations. Think of a guitar string—pluck the string, and it vibrates. The sound waves generated make their way to our ears, and we hear the string’s sound. Our eyes see what’s happening because they receive the electromagnetic waves of the light reflected from the guitar string, so that we can recognize the beautiful sinusoidal waves on the string. In fact, without vibrations and waves, we could not recognize the universe around us at all! The amazing thing is that we can describe many fascinating phenomena arising from very different physical systems with mathematics. This course will provide you with the concepts and mathematical tools necessary to understand and explain a broad range of vibrations and waves. You will learn that waves come from many interconnected (coupled) objects when they are vibrating together. We will discuss many of these phenomena, along with related topics, including mechanical vibrations and waves, sound waves, electromagnetic waves, optics, and gravitational waves. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/physics/8-03sc-physics-iii-vibrations-and-waves-fall-2016 Fall 2016 Lee, Yen-Jie 2018-04-18T20:40:04+05:00 8.03SC en-US mechanical vibrations waves simple harmonic motion superposition forced vibrations resonance coupled oscillations normal modes vibrations of continuous systems reflection refraction phase group velocity. Optics wave solutions to Maxwell's equations polarization Snell's Law interference Huygens's principle MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm This undergraduate course is a broad, theoretical treatment of classical mechanics, useful in its own right for treating complex dynamical problems, but essential to understanding the foundations of quantum mechanics and statistical physics. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/physics/8-223-classical-mechanics-ii-january-iap-2017 January IAP 2017 Evans, Matthew 2017-08-09T15:26:36+05:00 8.223 en-US Equations of Motion Lagrangian Mechanics ConservedQuantities Orbits Scattering Oscillations Tricky Potentials Hamiltonian Mechanics Canonical Equations Motion of a Rigid Body MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm This is the first course in the undergraduate Quantum Physics sequence. It introduces the basic features of quantum mechanics. It covers the experimental basis of quantum physics, introduces wave mechanics, Schrödinger's equation in a single dimension, and Schrödinger's equation in three dimensions.This presentation of 8.04 by Barton Zwiebach (2016) differs somewhat and complements nicely the presentation of Allan Adams (2013). Adams covers a larger set of ideas; Zwiebach tends to go deeper into a smaller set of ideas, offering a systematic and detailed treatment. Adams begins with the subtleties of superpostion, while Zwiebach discusses the surprises of interaction-free measurements. While both courses overlap over a sizable amount of standard material, Adams discussed applications to condensed matter physics, while Zwiebach focused on scattering and resonances. The different perspectives of the instructors make the problem sets in the two courses rather different.   https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/physics/8-04-quantum-physics-i-spring-2016 Spring 2016 Zwiebach, Barton 2017-07-05T16:15:47+05:00 8.04 en-US quantum physics: photoelectric effect Compton scattering photons Franck-Hertz experiment the Bohr atom electron diffraction deBroglie waves wave-particle duality of matter and light wave mechanics: Schroedinger's equation wave functions wave packets probability amplitudes stationary states the Heisenberg uncertainty principle zero-point energies transmission and reflection at a barrier barrier penetration potential wells simple harmonic oscillator Schroedinger's equation in three dimensions: central potentials, and introduction to hydrogenic systems. MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm This first course in the physics curriculum introduces classical mechanics. Historically, a set of core concepts—space, time, mass, force, momentum, torque, and angular momentum—were introduced in classical mechanics in order to solve the most famous physics problem, the motion of the planets. The principles of mechanics successfully described many other phenomena encountered in the world. Conservation laws involving energy, momentum and angular momentum provided a second parallel approach to solving many of the same problems. In this course, we will investigate both approaches: Force and conservation laws. Our goal is to develop a conceptual understanding of the core concepts, a familiarity with the experimental verification of our theoretical laws, and an ability to apply the theoretical framework to describe and predict the motions of bodies. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/physics/8-01sc-classical-mechanics-fall-2016 Fall 2016 Chakrabarty, Deepto Dourmashkin, Peter Tomasik, Michelle Frebel, Anna Vuletic, Vladan 2017-06-02T17:19:25+05:00 8.01SC en-US classical mechanics Space and time straight-line kinematics motion in a plane forces and equilibrium experimental basis of Newton's laws particle dynamics universal gravitation collisions and conservation laws work and potential energy vibrational motion conservative forces inertial forces and non-inertial frames central force motions rigid bodies and rotational dynamics MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm 8.06 is the third course in the three-sequence physics undergraduate Quantum Mechanics curriculum. By the end of this course, you will be able to interpret and analyze a wide range of quantum mechanical systems using both exact analytic techniques and various approximation methods. This course will introduce some of the important model systems studied in contemporary physics, including two-dimensional electron systems, the fine structure of Hydrogen, lasers, and particle scattering. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/physics/8-06-quantum-physics-iii-spring-2016 Spring 2016 Harrow, Aram 2016-07-22T22:25:34+05:00 8.06 en-US natural units scales of microscopic phenomena Time-independent approximation methods: degenerate and non-degenerate perturbation theory variational method Born-Oppenheimer approximation spin-orbit and relativistic corrections Zeeman and Stark effects Charged particles in a magnetic field Landau levels integer quantum hall effect Scattering partial waves Born approximation Time-dependent perturbation theory MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. 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For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm This string theory course focuses on holographic duality (also known as gauge / gravity duality or AdS / CFT) as a novel method of approaching and connecting a range of diverse subjects, including quantum gravity / black holes, QCD at extreme conditions, exotic condensed matter systems, and quantum information. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/physics/8-821-string-theory-and-holographic-duality-fall-2014 Fall 2014 Liu, Hong 2016-03-02T20:58:27+05:00 8.821 8.871 en-US string theory holographic duality Weinberg-Witten AdS/CFT duality black holes Holographic principle Wilson loops Entanglement entropy Quark-gluon plasmas quantum gravity Hamilton-Jacobi D-branes Large-N Expansion Light-Cone Gauge MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm This course provides an introduction to cellular and population-level systems biology with an emphasis on synthetic biology, modeling of genetic networks, cell-cell interactions, and evolutionary dynamics. Cellular systems include genetic switches and oscillators, network motifs, genetic network evolution, and cellular decision-making. Population-level systems include models of pattern formation, cell-cell communication, and evolutionary systems biology. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/physics/8-591j-systems-biology-fall-2014 Fall 2014 Gore, Jeff 2015-07-27T20:48:39+05:00 8.591J 7.81J 7.32 en-US molecular systems biology genetic networks control theory synthetic genetic switches bacterial chemotaxis genetic oscillators circadian rhythms cellular systems biology reaction diffusion equations local activation global inhibition models gradient sensing systems center finding networks general pattern formation models cell-cell communication quorum sensing MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm This course covers Lagrangian and Hamiltonian mechanics, systems with constraints, rigid body dynamics, vibrations, central forces, Hamilton-Jacobi theory, action-angle variables, perturbation theory, and continuous systems. It provides an introduction to ideal and viscous fluid mechanics, including turbulence, as well as an introduction to nonlinear dynamics, including chaos. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/physics/8-09-classical-mechanics-iii-fall-2014 Fall 2014 Stewart, Iain 2015-05-08T16:56:31+05:00 8.09 en-US Lagrangian mechanics Hamiltonian mechanics systems with constraints rigid body dynamics vibrations central forces Hamilton-Jacobi theory action-angle variables perturbation theory continuous systems ideal fluid mechanics viscous fluid mechanics turbulence nonlinear dynamics chaos MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm This is the first of a two-semester subject sequence that provides the foundations for contemporary research in selected areas of atomic and optical physics. Topics covered include the interaction of radiation with atoms: resonance; absorption, stimulated and spontaneous emission; methods of resonance, dressed atom formalism, masers and lasers, cavity quantum electrodynamics; structure of simple atoms, behavior in very strong fields; fundamental tests: time reversal, parity violations, Bell's inequalities; and experimental methods. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/physics/8-421-atomic-and-optical-physics-i-spring-2014 Spring 2014 Ketterle, Wolfgang 2015-03-17T17:29:48+05:00 8.421 en-US atom atomic and optical physics resonance resonance frequency harmonic oscillator oscillation frequency magnetic field electric field Landau-Zener problem lamb shift line broadening coherence MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm Statistical Mechanics is a probabilistic approach to equilibrium properties of large numbers of degrees of freedom. In this two-semester course, basic principles are examined. Topics include: Thermodynamics, probability theory, kinetic theory, classical statistical mechanics, interacting systems, quantum statistical mechanics, and identical particles. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/physics/8-333-statistical-mechanics-i-statistical-mechanics-of-particles-fall-2013 Fall 2013 Kardar, Mehran 2014-12-19T22:14:55+05:00 8.333 en-US thermodynamics entropy mehanics microcanonical distributions canonical distributions grand canonical distributions lattice vibrations ideal gas photon gas quantum statistical mechanics Fermi systems Bose systems cluster expansions van der Waal's gas mean-field theory MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm This is the second term in a two-semester course on statistical mechanics. Basic principles are examined in this class, such as the laws of thermodynamics and the concepts of temperature, work, heat, and entropy. Topics from modern statistical mechanics are also explored, including the hydrodynamic limit and classical field theories. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/physics/8-334-statistical-mechanics-ii-statistical-physics-of-fields-spring-2014 Spring 2014 Kardar, Mehran 2014-12-19T22:14:44+05:00 8.334 en-US the hydrodynamic limit and classical field theories Phase transitions and broken symmetries: universality correlation functions and scaling theory The renormalization approach to collective phenomena Dynamic critical behavior Random systems MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm This is the second of a two-semester subject sequence beginning with Atomic and Optical Physics I (8.421) that provides the foundations for contemporary research in selected areas of atomic and optical physics. Topics covered include non-classical states of light–squeezed states; multi-photon processes, Raman scattering; coherence–level crossings, quantum beats, double resonance, superradiance; trapping and cooling-light forces, laser cooling, atom optics, spectroscopy of trapped atoms and ions; atomic interactions–classical collisions, quantum scattering theory, ultracold collisions; and experimental methods. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/physics/8-422-atomic-and-optical-physics-ii-spring-2013 Spring 2013 Ketterle, Wolfgang 2014-07-10T10:44:58+05:00 8.422 en-US atomic optical physics squeezed states single photon Casimir force optical Bloch equations Photon-atom interactions light forces quantum gases ion traps and quantum gates MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm The Early Universe provides an introduction to modern cosmology. The first part of the course deals with the classical cosmology, and later part with modern particle physics and its recent impact on cosmology.In the NewsFor more about Professor Guth's work, listen to this interview from WBUR, Boston's National Public Radio news station.You may also be interested in this MIT Alumni Association Podcast Inflationary Cosmology—Is Our Universe Part of a Multiverse? with Professor Guth. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/physics/8-286-the-early-universe-fall-2013 Fall 2013 Guth, Alan 2014-07-01T19:13:10+05:00 8.286 en-US special relativity big-bang theory Doppler effect Newtonian cosmological models non-Euclidean spaces thermal radiation early history of the universe grand unified theories particle theory baryogenesis inflationary universe model evolution of galactic structure MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm This course covers the experimental basis of quantum physics. It introduces wave mechanics, Schrödinger's equation in a single dimension, and Schrödinger's equation in three dimensions.It is the first course in the undergraduate Quantum Physics sequence, followed by 8.05 Quantum Physics II and 8.06 Quantum Physics III.  https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/physics/8-04-quantum-physics-i-spring-2013 Spring 2013 Adams, Allan Evans, Matthew Zwiebach, Barton 2014-06-18T18:41:49+05:00 8.04 en-US quantum physics: photoelectric effect Compton scattering photons Franck-Hertz experiment the Bohr atom electron diffraction deBroglie waves wave-particle duality of matter and light wave mechanics: Schroedinger's equation wave functions wave packets probability amplitudes stationary states the Heisenberg uncertainty principle zero-point energies transmission and reflection at a barrier barrier penetration potential wells simple harmonic oscillator Schroedinger's equation in three dimensions: central potentials, and introduction to hydrogenic systems MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm Together, this course and 8.06 Quantum Physics III cover quantum physics with applications drawn from modern physics. Topics covered in this course include the general formalism of quantum mechanics, harmonic oscillator, quantum mechanics in three-dimensions, angular momentum, spin, and addition of angular momentum. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/physics/8-05-quantum-physics-ii-fall-2013 Fall 2013 Zwiebach, Barton 2014-06-17T20:00:31+05:00 8.05 en-US quantum physics quantum mechanics Schrodinger equation Dirac's notation Harmonic oscillator wave functions angular momentum eigenvalues eigenstates spherical harmonics spin systems MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm Effective field theory is a fundamental framework to describe physical systems with quantum field theory. Part I of this course covers common tools used in effective theories. Part II is an in depth study of the Soft-Collinear Effective Theory (SCET), an effective theory for hard interactions in collider physics. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/physics/8-851-effective-field-theory-spring-2013 Spring 2013 Stewart, Iain 2014-01-13T19:27:27+05:00 8.851 en-US Quarks Relativistic Quantum Field Theory Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) The QCD Langrangian Asymptotic Freedom Deep Inelastic Scattering Jets, The QCD Vacuum Instantons the U(1) Problem Lattice Guage Theory MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm