@divakarssathya That's right my friend, this information is free but not everyone benefits from it, so they want no one to see these lectures. So I will publish every day so that as many people as possible can see it🙏
@SwamiGa05929904 That’s a fair point. Visual intuition can make abstract concepts click much faster, especially for beginners. A good diagram can sometimes explain what a page of notation can’t
IIT Madras professor S. Lakshmi Bala walks a full quantum mechanics class through the two-level atom, and she does it for free.
Western physics departments charge over $2,000 per credit for a graduate course in quantum mechanics. This entire course has been free since the early 2000s, but someone is trying to hide it.
In this lecture she has already moved past abstract vector spaces into a real physical system, the same two-level atom model that shows up later in laser physics and quantum computing.
No login wall. No certificate fee to just watch. One professor, one blackboard, one camera that never stopped rolling for over 40 lectures.
Physics departments built million dollar tuition systems around gatekeeping exactly this material. IIT Madras just recorded it and gave it away through NPTEL, a program that now hosts over 3,200 free courses.
▪ $0 to watch, no account required
▪ Filmed lecture hall style since the early 2000s
▪ Same physics that underlies quantum computing today
🔖Just don't lose it and find a way to save the lecture, because other paid institutions don't want you to have access to it for free.
An IIT Madras physics professor teaches a full graduate level quantum mechanics course for free, and almost nobody outside India has heard of it.
It's part of something called NPTEL, a government backed program that now hosts over 3,200 free university courses taught by professors at IIT and IISc, India's top engineering and science schools.
Dr. S. Lakshmi Bala's course, Quantum Mechanics I, runs through the same material a physics graduate student would sit through in a paid semester: postulates of quantum mechanics, angular momentum, quantum optics, all of it filmed lecture hall style and uploaded for anyone to watch.
No login wall, no certificate fee required to just watch, no tuition. Just a professor, a blackboard, and a camera that's been running since the early 2000s.
Western universities charge thousands per credit for exactly this kind of course. India just recorded it and gave it away.
Is this the biggest free education archive nobody talks about, or are people just not looking?
@sjgvijayakumar Great way to simplify a complex topic. The two-level model makes the core idea much easier to understand before diving into real atomic systems
@Mike32341842 100% agree. Making high-quality education accessible to everyone is one of the best things the internet can do. Big respect to IIT Madras and NPTEL for keeping it open. 🙌