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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.)


Course Introduction

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Lecture 1: Periodic Oscillations, Physical Pendulum

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Lecture 2: Beats, Damped Free Oscillations, Quality Q

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Lecture 3:Forced Oscillations with Damping, Destructive Resonance

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Lecture 4: Forced Oscillations, Power at Resonance, Transient Phenomena

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Lecture 5: Coupled Oscillators

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Lecture 6: Driven Coupled Oscillators and Cramer's Rule

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Lecture 7: Coupled Oscillators, Transverse Traveling Pulses and Waves

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Lecture 8: Traveling Waves, Sound Waves and Energy in Waves

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Lecture 9: Musical Instruments, Sound Cavities, Normal Modes

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Lecture 10: Exam 1 Review

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Lecture 11: Fourier Analysis, Time Evolution of Pulses on Strings

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Lecture 12: Dispersion, Phase Velocity, Group Velocity

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Lecture 13: Electromagnetic Waves, Polarization

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Lecture 14: Accelerated Charges, Poynting Vector, and Power

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Lecture 15: Doppler Effect, EM Radiation and Expanding Universe

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Lecture 16: Interactions of Electromagnetic Waves with Perfect Conductors

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Lecture 17: Wave Guides, Resonance Cavities of EM-radiation and Sound

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Lecture 18: Boundary Conditions for Dielectrics

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Lecture 19: Exam 2 Review

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Lecture 20: Huygens' Principle, Interference, Thin films, Soap, Oil, Light

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Lecture 21: Diffraction, Gratings, Pin Holes, Angular Resolution

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Lecture 22: Rainbows, Haloes, Coronae, Glories

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Lecture 23: Farewell Lecture

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