Translated into Arabic.. these courses introduce you to physics from scratch

Only ten years ago, you would not have seen this large number of courses and books translated into Arabic on the Internet, but with the strong desire of Arab youth to learn, a group of major platforms have taken care over time to support the Arabic language, and now we see various courses in precise ranges that are translated into Arabic, especially in physics, which is considered one of the most important interests of Arab science lovers.

But let's start by saying that translation does not completely solve the problem - at some point you must be fluent in English at a level that allows you to progress in the required advanced physics and mathematics courses - but it breaks the language barrier for beginners in physics, and makes it easier to understand the presenter's accent, especially in the courses offered to beginners from Zero, which helps them to progress with a degree of smoothness and ease.

Therefore, at Maidan, we decided to nominate a group of physics courses with two basic conditions, the first being for beginners, and the second being translated into Arabic.

From the Big Bang to dark energy

There is no doubt that the world-famous course platform "Corsera" is currently an important point for the courses translated into Arabic, from which we start with the "From the Big Bang to Dark Energy" course presented by Hitoshi Murayama, a professor from the University of Tokyo, Japan, and it is one of the oldest courses on the platform. It has a student rating of 4.8 and was recently translated into Arabic.

In this course, Moriyama introduces the history of the universe, in 31 hours of work during four study weeks, from the moment of the Big Bang to the present moment, and then takes us to the expected future of our universe, and during all that he wonders about the emergence of the first stars and galaxies, and here specifically we learn what It means dark matter, and then dark energy, which are the two topics currently most exciting in cosmology.

Find the course here.

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Basics of mechanics

Joe Wolfe, Sebastian Frick and Elizabeth Angstman of the University of New South Wales in Australia introduce classical mechanics to beginners from scratch, a much-needed introduction to all physics. Mechanics is useful for an initial understanding of all concrete phenomena, from the motions of cars in the street to the motion of planets around the sun.

The course duration is eight working weeks.

The three scholars recommend this course to high school students, junior college students, and anyone who is curious about basic physics, and you only need some high school math like algebra, quadratic equations, sine, cosine, and tangent functions of trigonometry.

The researchers preferred to overlook the calculus, so as not to constitute a burden on the novices.

Find the course here.

Thermodynamics from scratch

On the other side of physics, Margaret Wooldridge introduces thermodynamics to beginners in another course on the Coursera platform offered by the University of Michigan, which is the science of transferring energy from one place or form to another place or form.

In this course, you will learn about the tools you need to analyze energy systems from solar panels to motors and even insulated coffee mugs.

More specifically, the course covers the principles of conservation of mass and energy, and applications to thermodynamic systems.

Introductory backgrounds at the high school level or first year of college in chemistry, physics and calculus will help you well in this course, which is of course heavier than its predecessor in mechanics, but it is a necessary step on your way to progress in physics in general, so you need to make some effort to pass through this course.

Find the course here.

MIT Courses

At this point in particular, we can refer to a very fat real treasure in the world of physics, which is the trilogy of Walter Lewin, professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the world-renowned among students, all for the first university years, the first course in mechanics, and the second in electricity and magnetism. The third course explains waves and vibrations.

These courses, which have been translated into Arabic via the Arabic Shamsuna platform, represent very important and sober introductions, in more than 90 lectures, for physics lovers, and physics students can also - through the same platform - enjoy receiving two very important courses in calculus, with one and several variables, Which opens the door for future progress in more depth in physics.

You can enter the platform of our Arab sun from here.

Physics from Professor Shankar

As for Ramamurti Shankar, Professor of Physics at Yale University, he offers physics students two very important courses, which represent a solid introduction to those interested in this science, in 48 lectures published by Yale University’s platform for open learning for free, the first of them in order dubbed into Arabic by the Saudi Society for Science It is the first work we see of this kind, as the courses are usually translated and not dubbed.

It is worth noting that the Yale and MIT courses we talked about differ in many criteria from the courses of platforms such as Coursera, the latter are usually simpler and less invasive with a significant difference, but they have the main advantage that they are completely digitized courses, implemented for the purpose of benefiting Internet students, and therefore The course is not only just information presented in a set of videos, but it is more like a real course that contains places for discussion among students, exams and questions in the classroom.

Simply Relativity

That brings us back to Coursera, and especially to Larry Randell of Oxford University who offers a beginner's course on Albert Einstein's special theory of relativity. During eight weeks of work, the course aims to go beyond the common presentations and simplifications of relativity and move forward to a deeper understanding of both Einstein and the individual. And the concepts of his theory, predictions, and strange paradoxes.

This means that we are in a physics course that has a historical aspect, or, more generally, “human.” The course asks: How did Einstein arrive at his ideas?

What is the nature of his genius?

What does relativity mean?

What can be considered "special" about special relativity?

What does it mean to say that time is the "fourth dimension"?

And how can time become slower for one person than for others?

Is time travel possible?

Why don't things go faster than the speed of light?

Why did Einstein not win the Nobel Prize for the theory of relativity?

The course does not require advanced mathematics, only basic arithmetic operations, and offers special episodes to clarify the mathematics that you will need as you pass through it.

Find the course here.

The Black Hole: A Course Better Than Ten Books

As long as we are still in the field of cosmology, we must refer to one of the best courses translated into Arabic that introduces black holes, and is suitable for beginners from scratch, a course offered by the Canadian University of Alberta, in a way in which scientific explanations overlap with animated graphics designs, to make an introduction Excellent and smooth for a topic that many want to learn about, but do not find a suitable resource, this course is equal to what we can appreciate in ten simplistic books in the realm of black holes.

When you finish this course, you will have familiarized yourself with a detailed description of the basic properties of black holes, with an explanation of recent research on black holes, and you will be able to apply basic physical concepts including gravity, special and general relativity and quantum mechanics to scientific observations of black holes, as well as learn about the different types From stars as well as types of black holes, and in the end the lecturers leave you with a summary of the mysteries facing black hole researchers in modern science.

Find the course here.

Other courses

And because astronomy is one of the branches of physics, in the end we will nominate two excellent courses that introduce astronomy from scratch for beginners, and they are also translated into Arabic. The first is "Astronomy: Exploring Time and Space", presented by Chris Impey. The well-known physicist and writer, also on Coursera.

The course does not contain complex mathematics or physics, as it is simply huge as it extends for a full 11 weeks, and discusses most of the basic areas of astronomy, starting from the historical aspect, the night sky and observational tools, then a simple introduction to the physics of gravity, light and matter, and then proceeds to the evolution of stars Then onto cosmology with interesting introductions to the exoplanet and astrobiology domains.

Find the course here.

As for the second course, it introduces astronomy for beginners from scratch, and it is also translated into Arabic, from the "Crash Courses" series, which offers its lectures for free via YouTube. College-level syllabuses and exams for high school students, and the advantage of the Crash Courses astronomy course is that it's very interesting, as well as very simple.

Well, we will not tire of telling you that seriousness is the only evidence of the sincerity of love. If you love physics, the idea is not to collect its translated courses on your computer, but to be serious about that desire to learn, and to choose any of those courses and start it immediately without arguments or Delays, so just prove that you love physics!