Just watched this 1st. lecture by Susskind.

Dear group, I liked it.

The first hour is obvious stuff, and it a long lecture (love the way he 'snacks' throughout the lecture) but around
90 minutes I got interested...I am looking forwards to seeing the next one.

I have heard of Susskind, just not sure where. Probrarly an unread book I own :-(

Guido.

PS. Yes. it is an undergrad lecture, but getting those right, is to my mind, very important.

Your observations on Susskind are welcome.

ETA. Oops, sorry, forgot to add Susskinds' Lecture

That's Lenny Susskind presumably? Physics at Stanford? He's a big string theory guy, but is probably best-known for a long-running dispute with Stephen Hawking about whether information is lost when particles fall into a black hole, given that the black hole eventually will evaporate. (He eventually changed his mind and now agrees with Hawking that the information is lost.)

Of course if this is some other Susskind then feel free to ignore all of this. :)

I agree 100% about the importance of good undergraduate courses; Feynman famously said that if physicists couldn't explain something to a freshman then they didn't really understand it (of course, this was in the context of freshman physics majors at Caltech, so you can assume smart freshman who can hack vector calculus), and the engineering-track physics courses at Stanford were taught by Doug Osheroff, who won the Nobel while I was there and who was a brilliant teacher. (The physics-major track were taught be people who weren't as good at teaching, alas.)