5 Greatest Physics Lectures of All Time

Remarkable concepts explained by remarkable professors

Sunny Labh
3 min readJan 26, 2022

If you are a physics major, you must have explored the internet looking for some simple explanations of complicated topics of physics. There are many freely available resources out there on the internet — lecture videos, pdfs, notes, books, etc. that you can use as a reference for your subject majors. I have a major in physics and mathematics so I shall be talking about these two disciplines, as always. There are certain lectures out there that are gold. They are remarkable, authentic, and amazingly thought-provoking. In this article, I shall share the five best physics lectures that you can watch right now for free.

Top [L-R] Walter Lewin, Paul Dirac, Sidney Coleman, Bottom [L-R] Leonard Susskind, Richard Feynman and Murray Gell-Mann

Dirac Lectures on Quantum Mechanics

Physicist Paul Dirac is considered to be one of the most prolific theoretical physicists of the 20th century. The 1933 Physics Nobel laureate revolutionized the field of quantum mechanics by pioneering Quantum electrodynamics and introducing the Dirac equation which predicts the existence of antimatter. There are four lectures of the physicist freely available on YouTube. The lectures focus on quantum mechanics and its various aspects. The videos are uploaded by Richard Smythe.

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Sunny Labh

Science writer and communicator majoring in Quantum Mechanics. Curator of @PhysInHistory on twitter. Twitter: @thePiggsBoson