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Walter Lewin

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Walter H. G. Lewin is currently a professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He earned his Ph.D. degree in nuclear physics in 1965 at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. Walter Lewin came to MIT in January 1966 as a post-doctoral associate, and became an assistant professor later that year[1]. He joined an x-ray astronomy group at MIT and conducted all-sky balloon surveys with George W. Clark. Through the late seventies, there were about twenty successful balloon flights.

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  1. Course Introduction
  2. Lecture 01: Powers of Ten - Units - Dimensions - Measurements - Uncertainties - Dimensional Analysis - Scaling Arguments
  3. Lecture 01: What holds our world together? Electric Charges (Historical); Polarization; Electric Force; Coulomb's Law
  4. Lecture 02: 1D Kinematics - Speed - Velocity - Acceleration
  5. Lecture 02: Electric Field; Field Lines; Superposition; Inductive Charging; Dipoles; Induced Dipoles
  6. Lecture 03: Vectors - Dot Products - Cross Products - 3D Kinematics
  7. Lecture 03: Electric Flux; Gauss's Law; Examples
  8. Lecture 06: Newton's Laws
  9. Lecture 05: Circular Motion - Centrifuges Moving - Reference Frames - Perceived Gravity
  10. Lecture 04: 3D Kinematics - Free Falling Reference Frames
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  1. Lecture 04: Electrostatic Potential; Electric Energy; eV; Conservative Field; Equipotential Surfaces
  2. Lecture 07: Weight - Perceived Gravity - Weightlessness Free Fall - Zero Gravity in Orbit (misnomer)
  3. Lecture 10: Hooke's Law - Springs - Simple Harmonic Motion - Pendulum - Small Angle Approximation
  4. Lecture 11: Work - Kinetic Energy - Potential Energy - Conservative Forces - Conservation of Mechanical Energy - Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation
  5. Lecture 15: Momentum - Conservation of Momentum - Center of Mass
  6. Lecture 08: Friction
  7. Lecture 05: E = -grad V; More on Equipotential Surfaces; Conductors; Electrostatic Shielding (Faraday Cage)
  8. Lecture 07: Capacitance; Field Energy
  9. Lecture 11: Magnetic field; Lorentz Force; Torques; Electric Motors (DC); Oscilloscope
  10. Lecture 20: Angular Momentum - Torques - Conservation of Angular Momentum - Spinning Neutron Stars - Stellar Collapse
  11. Lecture 01: Periodic Phenomena (Oscillations, Waves) - SHO - Complex Notation - Differential Equations - Physical Pendulum
  12. Lecture 19: Rotating Rigid Bodies - Moment of Inertia - Parallel Axis and Perpendicular Axis Theorem - Rotational Kinetic Energy - Fly Wheels - Neutron Stars - Pulsars
  13. Lecture 35: Farewell Special - High-energy Astrophysics
  14. Lecture 06: High-Voltage Breakdown; Lightning; Sparks - St. Elmo's Fire
  15. Lecture 16: Electromagnetic Induction; Faraday's Law; Lenz Law; Complete Breakdown of Intuition; Non-Conservative Fields
  16. Lecture 10: Batteries; EMF; Energy Conservation; Power; Kirchhoff's Rules; Circuits; Kelvin Water Dropper
  17. Lecture 13: Potential Energy - Energy Considerations to Derive Simple Harmonic Motion
  18. Lecture 09: Exam Review
  19. Lecture 09: Currents; Resistivity; Ohm's Law
  20. Lecture 34: The Wonderful Quantum World - Breakdown of Classical Mechanics
  21. Lecture 12: Non-Conservative Forces - Resistive Forces - Air Drag - Terminal Velocity
  22. Lecture 16: Collisions - Elastic and Inelastic - Center of Mass Frame of Reference
  23. Lecture 21: Torques - Oscillating Bodies - Hoops
  24. Lecture 14: Escape Velocities - Bound and Unbound Orbits - Circular Orbits - Various Forms of Energy - Power
  25. Lecture 19: How do Magicians levitate women? (with demo); Electric Shock Treatment (no demo); Electrocardiogram (with demo); Pacemakers; Superconductivity (with demo); Levitating Bullet Trains; Aurora Borealis
  26. Lecture 27: Fluid Mechanics - Pascal's Principle - Hydrostatics - Atmospheric Pressure - Over Pressure in Lungs and Tires
  27. Lecture 24: Rolling Motion - Gyroscopes - VERY NON-INTUITIVE
  28. Lecture 14: Biot-Savart Law; Gauss' Law for Magnetic Fields; Revisit the "Leyden Jar"; High-Voltage Power Lines
  29. Lecture 08: Polarization; Dielectrics; The Van de Graaff; More on Capacitors
  30. Lecture 22: Kepler's Laws - Elliptical Orbits - Satellites - Change of Orbits - Ham Sandwich
  31. Lecture 13: Moving Charges in B-fields; Cyclotron; Synchrotron; Mass Spectrometer; Cloud Chamber
  32. Lecture 15: Ampere's Law; Solenoids; Revisit the Kelvin Water Dropper; Midterm Evaluation
  33. Lecture 23: Doppler Effect - Binary Stars - Neutron Stars and Black Holes
  34. Lecture 32: Heat - Thermal Expansion
  35. Lecture 28: Hydrostatics - Archimedes' Principle - Fluid Dynamics - What Makes Your Boat Float? - Bernoulli's Equation
  36. Lecture 18: Exam Review
  37. Lecture 20: Inductance; RL Circuits; Magnetic Field Energy
  38. Lecture 30: Simple Harmonic Oscillations - Energy Considerations - Torsional Pendulum
  39. Lecture 25: Static Equilibrium - Stability - Rope Walker
  40. Lecture 33: Kinetic Gas Theory - Ideal Gas Law - Isothermal Atmosphere - Phase Diagrams - Phase Transitions
  41. Lecture 02: Beats - Damped Free Oscillations (Under- Over- and Critically Damped) - Quality Q
  42. Lecture 26: Elasticity - Young's Modulus
  43. Lecture 31: Forced Oscillations - Normal Modes - Resonance - Natural Frequencies - Musical Instruments
  44. Lecture 12: Review Exam 1 (Secret Top!)
  45. Lecture 17: Motional EMF; Dynamos; Eddy Currents; Magnetic Braking
  46. Lecture 21: Magnetic Materials; Dia-, Para-, and Ferromagnetism; Prize Ceremony of Motor Contest
  47. Lecture 26: Traveling Waves; Standing Waves; Musical Instruments
  48. Lecture 03: Forced Oscillations with Damping; Information about the Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapse
  49. Lecture 18: Displacement Current (Difficult Concept); Synchronous Motors; Induction Motors; Secret Top, How does it work?
  50. Lecture 22: Hysteresis; Electromagnets; Bohr Magneton; Maxwell's Equations; 600 daffodils
  51. Lecture 27: Resonance; Destructive Resonance; Electromagnetic Waves; Speed of Light; Radio - TV; Distance Determinations using Radar and Lasers
  52. Lecture 29: Snell's Law; Refraction; Total Reflection; Dispersion; Prisms; Huygens's Principle; The Illusion of Color; The Weird Benham Top; Land's Famous Demo
  53. Lecture 29: Exam Review
  54. Lecture 24: Transformers; Car Coils; RC Circuits
  55. Lecture 33: Double-Slit Interference; Interferometers
  56. Lecture 30: Polarizers; Malus's Law; Brewster Angle; Polarization by Reflection and Scattering; Why is the sky blue? Why are sunsets red?; The sun will set in the lecture hall!
  57. Lecture 31: Rainbows; A modest rainbow will appear in the lecture hall!; Fog Bows; Supernumerary Bows; Polarization of the Bows; Halos around the Sun and the Moon; Mock Suns
  58. Lecture 28: Index of Refraction; Poynting Vector; Oscillating Charges; Radiation Pressure; Comet Tails; Polarization (Linear, Elliptical, and Circular)
  59. For The Love Of Physics
  60. Lecture 22: Rainbows - Haloes - Coronae - Glories
  61. Lecture 35: Doppler Effect; The Big Bang; Cosmology
  62. Lecture 36: Farewell Special; Bring a Friend!
  63. Lecture 25: Driven LRC Circuits; Resonance; Metal Detectors (Beach/Airport)
  64. Lecture 09: Musical Instruments - Sound Cavities - Normal Modes
  65. Lecture 11: Fourier Analysis - Time Evolution of Pulses on Strings
  66. Lecture 04: Forced Oscillations - Power at Resonance (Resonance Absorption, Resonance Width, Quality Q) - Transient Phenomena (General Solutions including Initial Conditions)
  67. Lecture 08: Traveling Waves - Boundary Conditions - Standing Waves - Sound (Longitudinal Waves) - Energy in Waves
  68. Lecture 23: Review Exam 2
  69. Lecture 05: Coupled Oscillators
  70. Lecture 07: Many Coupled Oscillators - Wave Equation - Transverse Traveling Pulses and Waves
  71. Lecture 13: Electromagnetic Waves - Plane Wave Solutions to Maxwell's Equations - Polarization - Malus' Law
  72. Lecture 06: Driven Coupled Oscillators - Triple Pendulum - Steady State and Transient Solutions - Cramer's Rule
  73. Lecture 20: Huygens' Principle - Interference - Thin films - Soap - Oil - Light (double slit interference)
  74. Lecture 14: Accelerated Charges - Poynting Vector - Power - Rayleigh Scattering - Polarization
  75. Lecture 12: Dispersion - Phase Velocity - Group Velocity
  76. Lecture 15: Doppler Effect - Sound - EM Radiation - Binary Stars - Neutron Stars and Black Holes - Expanding Universe
  77. Lecture 34: Gratings; Resolving Power; Single-Slit Diffraction; Angular Resolution; Human Eye; Telescopes
  78. Lecture 18: Boundary Conditions for Dielectrics - Index of Refraction - Snell's Law - Total Internal Reflection - Fresnel Equations - Brewster Angle
  79. Lecture 32: Review Exam 3
  80. Lecture 23: Farewell Special - Bring a Friend!
  81. Lecture 10: Exam 1 Review
  82. Lecture 16: Boundary Conditions at Perfect Conductors - Reflection - Standing EM Waves - Transmission Lines - Radiation Pressure
  83. Lecture 17: Wave Guides - Resonance Cavities of EM-radiation and Sound
  84. Lecture 21: Diffraction - Gratings - Pin Holes - Angular Resolution
  85. Lecture 19: Exam 2 Review
  86. The Electric Field due to Two Point Charges
  87. How fast and at what angle should you walk in the rain to get least wet?
  88. The Electric Field of a Line of Charge
  89. Standing Waves
  90. The Mystery of Light

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