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Professor Lewin.The Muses

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.)

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Course Introduction

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Lecture 1: What holds our world together?

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Lecture 2: Electric Field and Dipoles

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Lecture 3: Electric Flux and Gauss's Law

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Lecture 4: Electrostatic Potential and Electric Energy

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Lecture 5: Electrostatic Shielding (Faraday Cage)

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Lecture 6: High-Voltage Breakdown and Lightning

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Lecture 7: Capacitance and Field Energy

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Lecture 8: Polarization and Dielectrics

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Lecture 9: Currents, Resistivity and Ohm's Law

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Lecture 10: Batteries and EMF

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Lecture 11: Magnetic field and Lorentz Force

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Lecture 12: Review Exam 1 (Secret Top!)

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Lecture 13: Moving Charges in B-fields

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Lecture 14: Biot-Savart Law

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Lecture 15: Ampere's Law

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Lecture 16: Electromagnetic Induction

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Lecture 17: Motional EMF and Dynamos

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Lecture 18: Displacement Current and Synchronous Motors

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Lecture 19: How do magicians levitate women?

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Lecture 20: Inductance and RL Circuit

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Lecture 21: Magnetic Materials

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Lecture 22: Hysteresis and Electromagnets

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Lecture 23: Review for Exam 2

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Lecture 24: Transformers, Car Coils and RC Circuits

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Lecture 25: Driven LRC Circuits and Resonance

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Lecture 26: Traveling Waves and Standing Waves

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Lecture 27: Resonance and Destructive Resonance

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Leture 28: Index of Refraction and Poynting Vector

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Lecture 29: Snell's Law, Refraction and Total Reflection

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Lecture 30: Polarizers and Malus's Law

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Lecture 31: Rainbows

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Lecture 32: Review for Exam 3

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Lecture 33: Double-Slit Interference and Interferometers

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Lecture 34: Gratings and Resolving Power

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Lecture 35: Doppler Effect and The Big Bang

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Lecture 36: Farewell Special

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