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This lecture series focuses on gravity. Gravity is both the most familiar and the strangest of all the forces of nature. Though it is extraordinarily weak- it takes a whole planet to exert a fairly modest pull on a falling apple- it can act over astronomical distances. This is why gravity is the dominant force shaping the cosmos on the largest scale.
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In this course on thermodynamics, you will study a subject that connects deep and fundamental insights from the atomic scale of the world all the way to the highlight applied. Thermodynamics has been pivotal for most of the technologies that have completely revolutionized the world over the past 500 years.
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"This course aims to provide a non-technical and accessible description of the central foundational concepts and historical development of the topic in theoretical physics call superstring/M-theory. These lectures place this topic in the context of the more general development of mathematical and scientific thought that can be traced from the ancient realms of Egypt and Greece to medieval Iraq, Renaissance Europe, and the present."--p. 1 of course...