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YEN-JIE LEE: I
have been teaching

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8.03 for more than
three years already.

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So I was given a charge
to change the course

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to make it even better than what
was actually done previously

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in previous years.

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And we actually made
a lot of adjustment

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during this few years
with many other professors

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in the physics department.

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So what we actually did
is to change the textbook.

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The textbook is actually now
much more theoretical-oriented

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so that we benefit from
that for the preparation

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for the other courses, like
8.04, which is actually

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the quantum physics and also the
other courses which are related

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to waves and vibration.

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The benefit is the following.

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So the students who are
equipped with more mathematics

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background will also finding it
much more interesting compared

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to previous years because
in the previous years,

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we are mainly focusing on very
practical, problem-solving.

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Introducing a more
theoretical-orientated content,

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that can help us to
systematically understand

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single oscillator,
coupled oscillator,

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infinite number of
coupled oscillator

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to where continuous
and infinitely coupled

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system in the very,
very well-defined

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theoretical framework.

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And finally, I
think what we really

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did is to introduce a lot
of demos, much more demos,

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actually, than previous years
so that it goes with the lecture

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so that people can actually
look at those demos

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and compare to our
theoretical calculations.

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And I think that is actually
evolving as a function of time,

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and we were adding
or subtracting

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the demos, which we think
is more useful or less

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useful during the semester.

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And that is actually what you
see now in the 2016 version.