About Images: Professor Walter Lewin demonstrates that the period of a pendulum is independent of the mass hanging from the pendulum. This demonstration can be viewed on the video of Lecture 10. Professor Lewin puts his life on the line in Lecture 11 by demonstrating his faith in the Conservation of Mechanical Energy.
About the Lectures: The 35 video lectures by Professor Lewin, were recorded on the MIT campus during the Fall of 1999. Prof. Lewin is well-known at MIT and beyond for his dynamic and engaging lecture style.Thisis a first-semester freshman physics class in Newtonian Mechanics, Fluid Mechanics, and Kinetic Gas Theory. In addition to the basic concepts of Newtonian Mechanics, Fluid Mechanics, and Kinetic Gas Theory, a variety of interesting topics are covered in this course: Binary Stars, Neutron Stars, Black Holes, Resonance Phenomena, Musical Instruments, Stellar Collapse, Supernovae, Astronomical observations from very high flying balloons (lecture 35), and you will be allowed a peek into the intriguing Quantum World.This lecture series can be very useful to aspirants of engineering exams like IIT-JEE and AIEEE.
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Powers of Ten - Units - Dimensions - Measurements - Uncertainties - Dimensional Analysis - Scaling Arguments
1D Kinematics - Speed - Velocity - Acceleration
Vectors - Dot Products - Cross Products - 3D Kinematics
3D Kinematics - Free Falling Reference Frames
Circular Motion - Centrifuges Moving - Reference Frames - Perceived Gravity
Newton's Laws
Weight - Perceived Gravity - Weightlessness Free Fall - Zero Gravity in Orbit (misnomer)
Friction
Exam Review
Hooke's Law - Springs - Simple Harmonic Motion - Pendulum - Small Angle Approximation
Work - Kinetic Energy - Potential Energy - Conservative Forces - Conservation of Mechanical Energy - Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation
Non-Conservative Forces - Resistive Forces - Air Drag - Terminal Velocity
Potential Energy - Energy Considerations to Derive Simple Harmonic Motion
Escape Velocities - Bound and Unbound Orbits - Circular Orbits - Various Forms of Energy - Power
Momentum - Conservation of Momentum - Center of Mass
Collisions - Elastic and Inelastic - Center of Mass Frame of Reference
Impulse - Rockets
Exam Review
Rotating Rigid Bodies - Moment of Inertia - Parallel Axis and Perpendicular Axis Theorem - Rotational Kinetic Energy - Fly Wheels - Neutron Stars - Pulsars
Angular Momentum - Torques - Conservation of Angular Momentum - Spinning Neutron Stars - Stellar Collapse
Torques - Oscillating Bodies - Hoops
Kepler's Laws - Elliptical Orbits - Satellites - Change of Orbits - Ham Sandwich
Doppler Effect - Binary Stars - Neutron Stars and Black Holes (Optional)
Rolling Motion - Gyroscopes - VERY NON-INTUITIVE
Static Equilibrium - Stability - Rope Walker
Elasticity - Young's Modulus
Fluid Mechanics - Pascal's Principle - Hydrostatics - Atmospheric Pressure - Over Pressure in Lungs and Tires
Hydrostatics - Archimedes' Principle - Fluid Dynamics - What Makes Your Boat Float? - Bernoulli's Equation
Exam Review
Simple Harmonic Oscillations - Energy Considerations - Torsional Pendulum
Forced Oscillations - Normal Modes - Resonance - Natural Frequencies - Musical Instruments
Heat - Thermal Expansion
Kinetic Gas Theory - Ideal Gas Law - Isothermal Atmosphere - Phase Diagrams - Phase Transitions
The Wonderful Quantum World - Breakdown of Classical Mechanics (Optional)
Farewell Special - High-energy Astrophysics (Optional)
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