Dynamics: Oxford Mathematics 1st Year Student Lecture

After filming a student lecture late last year (see below), for the first time ever, Oxford Mathematics has live streamed a student lecture, in this case a first year lecture on 'Dynamics.' The lecture builds on maths studied at high school, but applies a further level of thought and rigour. All first and second year lectures are followed by tutorials where students meet their tutor to go through the lecture and associated problem sheet and to talk and think more about the maths. Third and fourth year lectures are followed by classes.

It took 800 years but we hope you find it intriguing and challenging.

James Sparks is Professor of Mathematical Physics and Director of Graduate Studies (Research).

You can watch the tutorial which followed this lecture here:

[ghotifish]

I remember when maths actually had numbers in it

[stefanvonajkay]

I don’t know why, but it’s very soothing to watch something you don’t understand at all.

[ahmetbuyukumman]

ALHAMDULILLAH, THIS IS THE KIND OF TUTOR WE ALL ARE CRAVING FOR. HE IS SWEET AND SMART AND BECAUSE HE IS A FLUENT SPEAKER HE CAPTURES THE HEARTS. A VERY COMPREHENSIBLE LECTURER AND LECTURE.

[KeckZ]

nobody:
youtube: here some oxford mathematics after you watched harvard integration

[sherlockholmeslives.]

These students are the future!
The development of their minds is a healthy and good thing!

"The noblest pleasure is the joy of learning." Leonardo da Vinci ( 1452 - 1519 )

[geocarey]

More years ago than I care to recall my maths prof would never answer questions. He rarely spoke - just line after line of gibberish on the blackboard. A student once dared ask a question, 'Professor, how do you get from line 8 to line 9 - I don't understand?'
The reply - 'If you have to ask that question you should not be here'.

[eliasbarnett]

imagine paying to go to oxford when you can just watch it’s youtube

[aditeayah]

Meanwhile i forgot to put +C in my weekly test

[MrTheJevil]

That vector notation should be illegal, what the hell.

[omnomnom]

I’m a high school student and I have no fuckingn idea what’s going on

[abhishekchatterjee]

Great lecture learnt a lot, Thank you Oxford University.

[yourfriendlyfriendobama]

this teacher seems to be the coolest in oxford

[Limeci]

If the previous lecture can be added, it would be better for the audience to know the context.

[rationalsceptic]

A brilliant young man who was trained by Stephen Hawking...holds a Royal Society Fellowship, taught at Harvard..when he isn't doing Physics, he plays the Organ

[abhishekchatterjee]

Very nice lecture by Oxford University.

[ziko]

Student asks a conservation of angullar momentum question.
Professor: Great question, I was gonna make a comment about that but then decided not to. "thinks to himself: well shit, there goes my trap exam questions only 1% of the students will know"

[loggins]

From watching cat videos, to Indian street dentist, to flat eath, now I'm here.

[shofimahmud]

Scientists : U cant Show Infinity practically
Me : Have you ever saw Oxford's whiteboards?

[venutube]

All that hooked me to this lecture is the sound that he makes at the end of sentence or at the beginning 😂😂😂😂

[tylershepard]

I feel like this sort of analysis might be super useful for analyzing the electric field within a horn antenna. I’m going into my senior year of electrical engineering so I have a feeling I’ll be seeing that sometime soon. I’m already familiar with waveguides, so I am somewhat aware of the analysis used with confined electric fields. I’d be curious what happens with other more complex shapes like the ones presented here. Very interesting lecture!