Translations*

Video Lectures

Photo of Prof. Lewin swinging on a pendulum.

Professor Walter Lewin demonstrates that the period of a pendulum is independent of the mass hanging from the pendulum. This demonstration can be viewed on the video of Lecture 10. (Image courtesy of Markos Hankin, Physics Department Lecture Demonstration Group).


Course Introduction

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1: Units, Dimensions, and Scaling Arguments

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2: Introduction to Kinematics

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3: Vectors

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4: The Motion of Projectiles

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5: Uniform Circular Motion

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6: Newton's First, Second, and Third Laws

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7: Weight, Perceived Gravity, and Weightlessnes

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8: Frictional Forces

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9: Review of Lectures 1 through 5

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10: Hooke's Law, Simple Harmonic Oscillator

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11: Work, Energy, and Universal Gravitation

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12: Resistive Forces

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13: Equation of Motion for Simple Harmonic Oscillators

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14: Orbits and Escape Velocity

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15: Momentum and its Conservation

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16: Elastic and Inelastic Collisions

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17: Momentum of Individual Objects

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18: Review of Lectures 6 through 15

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19: Rotating Rigid Bodies, Inertia, and Axis Theorems

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20: Angular Momentum

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21: Torque

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22: Kepler's Laws, Elliptical Orbits, and Change of Orbits

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23: Doppler Effect, Binary Stars, Neutron Stars and Black Holes

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24: Rolling Motion, Gyroscopes

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25: Static Equilibrium, Stability, Rope Walker

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26: Elasticity and Young's Modulus

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27: Gases and Incompressible Liquids

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28: Hydrostatics, Archimedes' Principle, and Fluid Dynamics

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29: Review of Lectures 16 through 24

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30: Simple Harmonic Oscillations of Suspended Solid Bodies

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31: Pendulums and Springs

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32: Thermal Expansion

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33: Ideal-Gas Law

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34: Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle

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35: Professor Lewin’s Early days at MIT

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