# Susskind Theoretical Minimum/Supplemental Courses

A restoration of a good index into the lectures of Leonard Susskind (Stanford).
Select from:  All Courses  Core Courses A (2007-2009)  Core Courses B (2011-2013)  Supplemental Courses
Supplemental Courses

### Quantum Entanglement (2006)

* Lecture 1
* Lecture 2
* Lecture 3
* Lecture 4
* Lecture 5
* Lecture 6
* Lecture 7
* Lecture 8
* Lecture 9

### Relativity (2007)

* Lecture 1
* Lectures 2 & 3
* Lecture 4
* Lecture 5
* Lecture 6
* Lecture 7
* Lecture 8
* Lecture 9

### Particle Physics 1: Basic Concepts (2009)

* Lecture 1 - Particles and light
* Lecture 2 - Quantum field theory
* Lecture 3 - Quantum fields and particles
* Lecture 4 - More quantum field theory
* Lecture 5 - Energy conservation and waves
* Lecture 6 - Dirac equation and Higgs particles
* Lecture 7 - Angular momentum
* Lecture 8 - Spin
* Lecture 9 - Equations of motion of particles and fields
* Lecture 10 - Field Lagrangians and path integrals

### Particle Physics 2: Standard Model (2010)

* Lecture 1 - Particles fields and forces
* Lecture 2 - Quantum chromodynamics
* Lecture 3 - Group theory – part 1
* Lecture 4 - Group theory – part 2
* Lecture 5 - Gauge fields and symmetry
* Lecture 6 - The weak interaction
* Lecture 7 - Spontaneous symmetry breaking and Goldstone bosons
* Lecture 8 - The Higgs field
* Lecture 9 - The Higgs field and fermions
* Lecture 10 - Renormalization and the running of coupling constants

### Particle Physics 3: Supersymmetry and Grand Unification (2010)

* Lecture 1 - Renormalization concepts, and dimensional analysis
* Lecture 2 - Fermions and bosons
* Lecture 3 - Propagators and renormalization of mass
* Lecture 4 - Symmetry and Grassmann numbers
* Lecture 5 - A first supersymmetric model
* Lecture 6 - Supersymmetry building blocks
* Lecture 7 - Lagrangians that preserve supersymmetry
* Lecture 8 - Generalizing supersymmetry to 3+1 spacetime, and QFT
* Lecture 9 - Supersymmetry breaking and an introduction to grand unified theories
* Lecture 10 - GUTs, the SU(5) representation, proton decay

### String Theory and M-Theory (2010)

* Lecture 1 - The historical origins of string theory
* Lecture 2 - Mathematics of string motion
* Lecture 3 - The energy spectrum of strings
* Lecture 4 - Closed strings and the level matching rule
* Lecture 5 - Bosonic strings
* Lecture 6 - Strings with spin
* Lecture 7 - Fermionic strings and path integrals
* Lecture 8 - Conformal mapping and string scattering
* Lecture 9 - Strings in compact dimensions
* Lecture 10 - T-duality, D-branes and modeling field theories
* Lecture 11 - String theory wrapup - see the Lecture 1 of the next course

### Topics in String Theory / Cosmology and Black Holes (2011)

* Lecture 1 - String theory wrapup - this is the last 11'th lecture of the previous course
* Lecture 2 - Special relativity and string theory - the first lecture of this course
* Lecture 3 - Black holes
* Lecture 4 - Black hole horizons
* Lecture 5 - Black holes and light
* Lecture 6 - Black hole entropy
* Lecture 7 - Black hole entropy 2
* Lecture 8 - Horizons
* Lecture 9 - More black holes and horizons

### Higgs Boson (2012)

* Lecture 1 - Demystifying the Higgs Boson

### Advanced Quantum Mechanics (2013)

* Lecture 1 - Review of quantum mechanics and introduction to symmetry
* Lecture 2 - Symmetry groups and degeneracy
* Lecture 3 - Atomic orbits and harmonic oscillators
* Lecture 4 - Spin
* Lecture 5 - Fermions: a tale of two minus signs
* Lecture 6 - Quantum field theory
* Lecture 7 - Quantum field theory 2
* Lecture 8 - Second quantization
* Lecture 9 - Quantum field Hamiltonian
* Lecture 10 - Fermions and the Dirac equation