Physics III: Vibrations and Waves
As taught in: Fall 2004
This is a picture of Prof. Lewin, taken by Prof. Lewin. It was the "Astronomy Picture of the Day" (APOD) on September 13, 2004. It was also presented to his 8.03 students as a challenge to obtain extra course credit if they were able to explain this phenomenon. On December 7, Prof. Lewin revealed the physics (and demonstrated it) in lecture 22. The solution was also revealed by APOD to the many thousands of people who were puzzled by it and who tried to explain it.
Instructors:
Prof. Nergis Mavalvala
(Recitations)
Prof. Walter Lewin
Prof. Wolfgang Ketterle
(Recitations)
MIT Course Number:
8.03
Level:
Course Features
Course Description
In addition to the traditional topics of mechanical vibrations and waves, coupled oscillators, and electro-magnetic radiation, students will also learn about musical instruments, red sunsets, glories, coronae, rainbows, haloes, X-ray binaries, neutron stars, black holes and big-bang cosmology.
OpenCourseWare presents another version of 8.03 that features a full set of lecture notes and take-home experiments.
Also by Walter Lewin
Courses:
- Classical Mechanics (8.01)- with a complete set of 35 video lectures from the Fall of 1999
- Electricity and Magnetism (8.02)- with a complete set of 36 video lectures from the Spring of 2002
Talks:
- For The Love Of Physics - Professor of Physics Emeritus Walter Lewin's last MIT lecture, complete with some of his most famous physics demonstrations to celebrate the publication of his new book.
- Videos featuring Walter Lewin on MIT TechTV
*Some translations represent previous versions of courses.
