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Video Lectures

Photo of Prof. Lewin in the classroom.

Professor Walter Lewin demonstrating the two normal modes of a coupled pendulum. This demonstration can be viewed on the video of Lecture 5. (Image courtesy of Markos Hankin, MIT Physics Department Lecture Demonstration Group.)

LEC #TOPICS
 1Periodic Phenomena (Oscillations, Waves) - SHO - Complex Notation - Differential Equations - Physical Pendulum
 2Beats - Damped Free Oscillations (Under- Over- and Critically Damped) - Quality Q
 3Forced Oscillations with Damping - Destructive Resonance
 4Forced Oscillations - Power at Resonance (Resonance Absorption, Resonance Width, Quality Q) - Transient Phenomena (General Solutions including Initial Conditions)
 5Coupled Oscillators
 6Driven Coupled Oscillators - Triple Pendulum - Steady State and Transient Solutions - Cramer's Rule
 7Many Coupled Oscillators - Wave Equation - Transverse Traveling Pulses and Waves
 8Traveling Waves - Boundary Conditions - Standing Waves - Sound (Longitudinal Waves) - Energy in Waves
 9Musical Instruments - Sound Cavities - Normal Modes
 10Exam 1 Review
 11Fourier Analysis - Time Evolution of Pulses on Strings
 12Dispersion - Phase Velocity - Group Velocity
 13Electromagnetic Waves - Plane Wave Solutions to Maxwell's Equations - Polarization - Malus' Law
 14Accelerated Charges - Poynting Vector - Power - Rayleigh Scattering - Polarization
 15Doppler Effect - Sound - EM Radiation - Binary Stars - Neutron Stars and Black Holes - Expanding Universe
 16Boundary Conditions at Perfect Conductors - Reflection - Standing EM Waves - Transmission Lines - Radiation Pressure
 17Wave Guides - Resonance Cavities of EM-radiation and Sound
 18Boundary Conditions for Dielectrics - Index of Refraction - Snell's Law - Total Internal Reflection - Fresnel Equations - Brewster Angle
 19Exam 2 Review
 20Huygens' Principle - Interference - Thin films - Soap - Oil - Light (double slit interference)
 21Diffraction - Gratings - Pin Holes - Angular Resolution
 22Rainbows - Haloes - Coronae - Glories
 23Farewell Special - Bring a Friend!

 








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