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Lecture Notes

Energy and power

6.007 Lecture 1: Introduction: iPhone components

6.007 Lecture 10: Magnetic Materials

6.007 Lecture 11: Magnetic circuits and transformers

6.007 Lecture 12: Forces via energy conservation (energy method)

6.007 Lecture 13: Stored energy and magnetic actuators

6.007 Lecture 14: Energy conversion systems: rail guns

6.007 Lecture 15: Dielectrics and dipoles

6.007 Lecture 16: Practical dielectrics

6.007 Lecture 17: Limits of statics and quasistatics

6.007 Lecture 18: Linear systems, complex numbers and phasors

6.007 Lecture 19: Electromagnetic waves (wave equation)

6.007 Lecture 20: Examples of uniform EM plane waves (Poynting vector)

6.007 Lecture 21: Generating EM waves: antennas

6.007 Lecture 22: Interaction of atoms and EM waves (Lorentz oscillator)

6.007 Lecture 23: Lossy EM waves

6.007 Lecture 24: Polarized light and polarizers

6.007 Lecture 25: Birefringence

6.007 Lecture 26: Liquid crystal display (LCD) technology

6.007 Lecture 27: Interference and diffraction

6.007 Lecture 28: Diffraction and holography

6.007 Lecture 29: Reflection and transmission of EM waves

6.007 Lecture 3: Electrical vs. gas engine

6.007 Lecture 30: EM reflection and transmission in layered media

6.007 Lecture 31: Optical resonators

6.007 Lecture 32: Refraction and Snell's law

6.007 Lecture 33: Fresnel equations and EM power flow

6.007 Lecture 34: Waveguides (optical systems)

6.007 Lecture 35: Wavepackets

6.007 Lecture 36: Photon: quantum of energy

6.007 Lecture 37: Photon momentum and uncertainty

6.007 Lecture 38: Examples of Heisenberg uncertainty principle

6.007 Lecture 39: Schrodinger equation

6.007 Lecture 4: Energy in electrical systems

6.007 Lecture 40: Particle in a box

6.007 Lecture 41: Reflection from a potential step

6.007 Lecture 42: Tunneling

6.007 Lecture 43: Tunneling applications (flash memory, STM)

6.007 Lecture 44: From atoms to molecules

6.007 Lecture 45: Semiconductors

6.007 Lecture 46: Light emitting diodes (LEDs)

6.007 Lecture 47: Photodetectors, solar cells

6.007 Lecture 48: Electron wavepackets and microscopic Ohm's law

6.007 Lecture 49: Quantum superposition and optical transitions

6.007 Lecture 5: Electrostatics (Gauss's law and boundary conditions)

6.007 Lecture 50: Lasers

6.007 Lecture 6: Magnetostatics (magnetic fields and forces)

6.007 Lecture 7: Forces in magnetostatics (actuators)

6.007 Lecture 8: Practical MQS systems (torroids, solenoids, magnets)

6.007 Lecture 9: Magnetic materials

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Spring 2011

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