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Fundamentals of Physics (Ramamurti Shankar)
Yale University
2 recommenders · 2 threads · recommended in 2 years, 2009–2014 · score 1.8
A Yale University introductory physics course taught by Ramamurti Shankar, covering the fundamentals of classical and modern physics in lecture form. It is published free through Open Yale Courses.
Commenters describe the lectures as pretty good and say Shankar is an excellent teacher whose classes and books were strong, though one notes the lectures are less logically structured than Walter Lewin's MIT series.
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I would suggest Shiller's Financial Markets lectures, I'm checking them out right now and they seem extremely interesting. Shiller's a good lecturer and clearly knows his stuff.
Also, if you're at the intro to physics level, you should really check out Shankar's physics lectures - I had Shankar several years ago and his classes (and books, for that matter) were excellent, he's a real fun teacher to have (though I can't specifically vouch for these lectures, as I haven't seen them).
Removing his lectures seems a bit extreme. It's their content, though. They do only mention "MIT OpenCourseWare and online MITx courses" though, so hopefully the lectures will stay up on YouTube. They really are excellent lectures.
That said, I've watched a good portion of Ramamurti Shankar's lectures from Open Yale courses [0]. They're pretty good, but perhaps not broken down as logically as the three courses of Lewin's.
There is also some really good lectures from Leonard Susskind's The Theoretical Minimum [1]. However, these are perhaps a step beyond the normal undergraduate lecture series.
[0] http://oyc.yale.edu/physics
[1] http://theoreticalminimum.com/courses