Study Physics at Top Universities ... For Free!
MIT Open Courseware offers 1,800 courses for free online. The course websites include all lecture notes, exames, assignments, and any relevant lab manuals. In short, you get everything except the actual classtime and the textbook (which you could, of course, buy if you wished). In addition to essentially the entire Physics curriculum, the following related departments are available:
- Aeronautics & Astronautics
- Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
- Materials Science & Engineering
- Mechanical Engineering
- Nuclear Science & Engineering
- Science, Technology, & Society
- I would also mention an intriguing course offered by the Philosophy department of MIT - Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics.
UC Berkeley, on the other hand, is offering their course videos through YouTube. Some relevant categories of video include the Physics 10: Physics for Future Presidents and College of Engineering.
If you have information about more universities that offer courses in this fashion, feel free to let us know in the Comments section! Or, if you've viewed courses in this way, let us know what you thought of them!
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I’ve followed some of the Berkeley courses: Prof. Alex Filippenko’s Astronomy C10 course (twice!), Prof. Richard Muller’s Physics for Future Presidents (also twice!), and Prof. Richard Allen’s Earthquakes in Your Backyard (this is audio only, but the lecture slides are posted on the course website).
I’ve also followed two astronomy courses given by Prof. Richard Pogge at Ohio State University (Astronomy 161 and 162). These are audio podcasts, but he also posts lecture notes and some images (where copyright allows this).
I’ve found this a great way to broaden my knowledge. You can just watch the videos (or listen to the audio)and you’ll pick up a lot, but if you also get a copy of the textbooks and follow the syllabus as much as possible, then you can really benefit. I enjoy being able to watch and learn from some of the best teachers around. I can follow the lectures when it suits my schedule, and rewind if necessary. Sometimes I’ve got stuck on a problem for a while, but so far I’ve always managed to find help on the internet.
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omg learning is life, but than when you
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