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The charming MIT Muses surprise Walter Lewin during his last lecture, #36. (Photo by Markos Hankin, MIT Physics Department Lecture Demonstration Group. Used with permission of The Muses, MIT's all-women's a cappella group.)

Table for Video Lectures
LEC #	TOPICS
	Course Introduction
1	What holds our world together? - Electric Charges (Historical) - Polarization - Electric Force - Coulomb's Law
2	Electric Field - Field Lines - Superposition - Inductive Charging - Dipoles - Induced Dipoles
3	Electric Flux - Gauss's Law - Examples
4	Electrostatic Potential - Electric Energy - eV - Conservative Field - Equipotential Surfaces
5	E = -grad V - More on Equipotential Surfaces - Conductors - Electrostatic Shielding (Faraday Cage)
6	High-Voltage Breakdown - Lightning - Sparks - St. Elmo's Fire
7	Capacitance - Field Energy
8	Polarization - Dielectrics - The Van de Graaff - More on Capacitors
9	Currents - Resistivity - Ohm's Law
10	Batteries - EMF - Energy Conservation - Power - Kirchhoff's Rules - Circuits - Kelvin Water Dropper
11	Magnetic field - Lorentz Force - Torques - Electric Motors (DC) - Oscilloscope
12	Review Exam 1 (Secret Top!)
13	Moving Charges in B-fields - Cyclotron - Synchrotron - Mass Spectrometer - Cloud Chamber
14	Biot-Savart Law - Gauss' Law for Magnetic Fields - Revisit the "Leyden Jar" - High-Voltage Power Lines
15	Ampere's Law - Solenoids - Revisit the Kelvin Water Dropper - Midterm Evaluation
16	Electromagnetic Induction - Faraday's Law - Lenz Law - Complete Breakdown of Intuition - Non-Conservative Fields
17	Motional EMF - Dynamos - Eddy Currents - Magnetic Braking
18	Displacement Current (Difficult Concept) - Synchronous Motors - Induction Motors - Secret Top, How does it work?
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
20	Inductance - RL Circuits - Magnetic Field Energy
21	Magnetic Materials - Dia-, Para-, and Ferromagnetism - Prize Ceremony of Motor Contest
22	Hysteresis - Electromagnets - Bohr Magneton - Maxwell's Equations - 600 daffodils
23	Review Exam 2
24	Transformers - Car Coils - RC Circuits
25	Driven LRC Circuits - Resonance - Metal Detectors (Beach/Airport)
26	Traveling Waves - Standing Waves - Musical Instruments
27	Resonance - Destructive Resonance - Electromagnetic Waves - Speed of Light - Radio / TV - Distance Determinations using Radar and Lasers Information about the Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapse http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/bridge/tacoma3.html http://www.ketchum.org/bridgecollapse.html
28	Index of Refraction - Poynting Vector - Oscillating Charges - Radiation Pressure - Comet Tails - Polarization (Linear, Elliptical, and Circular)
29	Snell's Law - Refraction - Total Reflection - Dispersion - Prisms - Huygens's Principle - The Illusion of Color - The Weird Benham Top - Land's Famous Demo
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!
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
32	Review Exam 3
33	Double-Slit Interference - Interferometers
34	Gratings - Resolving Power - Single-Slit Diffraction - Angular Resolution - Human Eye - Telescopes
35	Doppler Effect - The Big Bang - Cosmology
36	Farewell Special - Bring a Friend!