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Particle Physics for Non-Physicists

Particle Physics for Non-Physicists: A Tour of the Microcosmos taught by Professor Steven Pollock consists of twenty-four lectures, explaining the fundamental particles that make up all matter and the interactive relationship between the particles. What is the world made of, how do the constituents fit, and what are the fundamental rules they obey? The lectures explain what we have learned through more than 100 years of intense study of fundamental particles - the forces the particles feel and the ways they interact - in an easy to understand manner.

Lecture 01 - The Nature of Physics
Lecture 02 - The Standard Model of Particle Physics
Lecture 03 - The Pre-history of Particle Physics
Lecture 04 - The Birth of Modern Physics
Lecture 05 - Quantum Mechanics Gets Serious
Lecture 06 - New Particles and New Technologies
Lecture 07 - Weak Interactions and the Neutrino
Lecture 08 - Accelerators and the Particle Explosion
Lecture 09 - The Particle Zoo
Lecture 10 - Fields and Forces
Lecture 11 - Three Quarks for Muster Murk
Lecture 12 - From Quarks to QCD
Lecture 13 - Symmetry and Conservation Laws
Lecture 14 - Broken Symmetry, Shattered Mirrors
Lecture 15 - The November Revolution of 1974
Lecture 16 - A New Generation
Lecture 17 - Weak Forces and the Standard Model
Lecture 18 - The Greatest Success Story in Physics
Lecture 19 - The Higgs Particle
Lecture 20 - The Solar Neutrino Puzzle
Lecture 21 - Back to the Future (1): Experiments to Come
Lecture 22 - Back to the Future (2): Puzzles and Progress
Lecture 23 - Really Big Stuff: The Origin of the Universe
Lecture 24 - Looking Back and Looking Forward