The Trick that Makes Understanding Physics as Simple as Drawing a Picture: Physics Help Room

About physics help room videos:
These are intro-level physics videos aimed at students taking their first physics classes. In each video, I'll teach you the fundamentals of a particular physics topic you're likely to meet in your first classes on mechanics and electromagnetism.

About me:

[BadFSHN]

Bruhhhh, Video, Notes AND Homework??? I love you.

[EnemyOfEldar]

Dude I got my degree (Msci) in Theoretical Physics 5 years ago and I have been a maths/physics educator since. You're awesome. Keep doing what you're doing. You've just levelled up my teaching for sure and it will make a difference to my students as well. Godspeed, Elliot.

[mohammedal-haddad]

This is exacly the introductory classical mechanics lectures that I always wanted to find to develope the necessary background to learn quantum mechanics. Thank you very much.

[juanpablomartinez]

I've just met your channel and it's terrifically awesome. The way which you explain is superb, the focus of the content it's original and very sharp. I really like it. Thank you so much!

[douglasstrother]

Nice!

Developing a physical understanding of what a solution should look like using this technique and other graphical approaches is a critical skill. There are about six core problems which can be solved in closed-form; that's one reason why the simple harmonic oscillator is used everywhere! It's amusing that the pendulum can't be solved in closed-form. (The period as a function of angle can be expressed in terms of elliptic integrals.) The three-body problem is also fundamentally intractable.

This presentation hints at the concept of Phase Space which is used in Classical, Statistical and Quantum Mechanics.

[SliversRebuilt]

Dude you are awesome, this is such quality content and exactly the kind of thing I love seeing more of in the educative sphere of YouTube! Thank you so much; do you have a patreon or anything like that?

[Haoranxia]

Hey, these videos are amazing! Thank you for all your work! This is some of the best educative content for physics I've seen!

[jjzh]

Hey Elliot, your channel is one of the best physics related channels I've ever come across: very simple and simultaneously esthetically beautiful design, with insightful information, props for the great work.
I'm currently taking a course on quantum mechanics and I loved the way how you linked Poisson brackets with the commutators and it really helped my deepen my understanding of the subject.
I'd love to see some more videos on quantum mechanics that help us develop an intuition for the way it works (e.g. quantum tunneling etc.)

[aleksandr_berdnikov]

A trick that I found incredibly useful for puzzles of the type "which direction will it move" (like a spool with a thread pulled at an angle, or a bike with someone on the ground pushing its pedal, or with "faster than wind" sailing cars, etc.)
However complex it is, the stuff when acted upon will change its motion so as to accommodate your efforts (the thread of spool should be pulled towards your pull, not pull you hand out; the bikes movement should let your push on the pedal succeed, not push you with the pedal instead; the car will, given no friction, speed up as long as it makes the blades planes move less relative to the air; etc)

[charleshudson]

Excellent video. Wonderful channel. You have the most perfect baritone for narration. Silky smooth; smoothly reassuring. A tone that can be trusted. (A young Morgan Freeman.)

[flix]

your channel is freaking awesome prof!

[hubertorhant]

spoken on a soft tone and calmness takes away the "anxiety" brought by the differential equation so that one can focus on the subject at matter ! i've seen this potential graphing many times but any of my teachers dared to emphasize the R_min and R_max meaning and the impact on the orbit ! Just brilliant ! makes me wanna go back to U again. Awesome Elliot ;-)

[Woodpecker_]

YouTube recommended your channel and I am amazed by the explanation, thanks buddy.

[whilewecan]

Thank you!!! This is the first time I encountered with such perspective. Revelation. Impressive.

[longyang-funvideo]

You are the best among youtuber for physics stuff! Watching your videos is a joy!

[channelsixtysix]

Just found this channel and subscribed. I have subscribed to several maths channels and I'd like to subscribe to more physics channels. Great presentation, Elliot, thank you.

[wisnuape]

Great content packed with deep physical insight. Now i learn much more about potential energy. Thanks !

[Noah_Krakatoa]

Great video!

For some reason, I like thinking of elliptical orbits sort of like a juggler throwing balls up in the air, where the aphelion would be at the top of the page and the star and perihelion would be at the bottom. So instead of a planet going round and round it’s going up and under

[JeanDAVID]

This new concept of the effective potential energy is astonishing to describe the motion of a celestial body around another massive one !

[leonardopavan]

Man, you're just amazing. I'm your biggest fan from Brazil!!