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.)
RealOne™ Player software is required to run the .rm files in this section.
Learn how to save the RealPlayer video files to a disk or to your hard drive.
These files are also available for download from iTunes® and YouTube™.
Lecture #1:
Periodic Phenomena (Oscillations, Waves) - SHO - Complex Notation - Differential Equations - Physical Pendulum
Recorded on 09/09/04 (56K)|(80K)|(220K) |
Lecture #13:
Electromagnetic Waves - Plane Wave Solutions to Maxwell's Equations - Polarization - Malus' Law
Recorded on 10/26/04 (56K)|(80K)|(220K) |
Lecture #2:
Beats - Damped Free Oscillations (Under- Over- and Critically Damped) - Quality Q
Recorded on 09/14/04 (56K)|(80K)|(220K) |
Lecture #14:
Accelerated Charges - Poynting Vector - Power - Rayleigh Scattering - Polarization
Recorded on 10/28/04 (56K)|(80K)|(220K) |
|
Lecture #3:
Forced Oscillations with Damping
Information about the Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapse
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/bridge/tacoma3.html
http://www.ketchum.org/bridgecollapse.html
Recorded on 09/16/04 (56K)|(80K)|(220K)
|
Lecture #15:
Doppler Effect - Sound - EM Radiation - Binary Stars - Neutron Stars and Black Holes - Expanding Universe
Recorded on 11/02/04 (56K)|(80K)|(220K) |
Lecture #4:
Forced Oscillations - Power at Resonance (Resonance Absorption, Resonance Width, Quality Q) - Transient Phenomena (General Solutions including Initial Conditions)
Recorded on 09/21/04 (56K)|(80K)|(220K) |
Lecture #16:
Boundary Conditions at Perfect Conductors - Reflection - Standing EM Waves - Transmission Lines - Radiation Pressure
Recorded on 11/04/04 (56K)|(80K)|(220K)
|
|
Lecture #5:
Coupled Oscillators
Recorded on 09/23/04 (56K)|(80K)|(220K)
|
Lecture #17:
Wave Guides - Resonance Cavities of EM-radiation and Sound
(See the lecture notes: Resonances in Sound Cavity)
Recorded on 11/09/04 (56K )|(80K)|(220K)
|
Lecture #6:
Driven Coupled Oscillators - Triple Pendulum - Steady State and Transient Solutions - Cramer's Rule
(See the lecture notes: Analysis of Triple Pendulum)
Recorded on 09/28/04 (56K )|(80K)|(220K)
|
Lecture #18:
Boundary Conditions for Dielectrics - Index of Refraction - Snell's Law - Total Internal Reflection - Fresnel Equations - Brewster Angle
(See the lecture notes: Fresnel Equations)
Recorded on 11/16/04 (56K)|(80K)|(220K)
|
Lecture #7:
Many Coupled Oscillators - Wave Equation - Transverse Traveling Pulses and Waves
Recorded on 09/30/04 (56K)|(80K)|(220K) |
Lecture #19:
Exam 2 Review
Recorded on 11/18/04 (56K)|(80K)|(220K) |
Lecture #8:
Traveling Waves - Boundary Conditions - Standing Waves - Sound (Longitudinal Waves) - Energy in Waves
Recorded on 10/05/04 (56K)|(80K)|(220K) |
Lecture #20:
Huygens' Principle - Interference - Thin films - Soap - Oil - Light (double slit interference)
Recorded on 11/30/04 (56K)|(80K)|(220K) |
Lecture #9:
Musical Instruments - Sound Cavities - Normal Modes
Recorded on 10/07/04 (56K)|(80K)|(220K) |
Lecture #21:
Diffraction - Gratings - Pin Holes - Angular Resolution
Recorded on 12/02/04 (56K)|(80K)|(220K) |
Lecture #10:
Exam 1 Review
Recorded on 10/12/04 (56K)|(80K)|(220K) |
Lecture #22:
Rainbows - Haloes - Coronae - Glories
Bring a friend and an umbrella! A rainbow will appear! - The Physics behind the Mystery Picture will be revealed.
Recorded on 12/07/04 (56K)|(80K)|(220K) |
Lecture #11:
Fourier Analysis - Time Evolution of Pulses on Strings
Recorded on 10/19/04 (56K)|(80K)|(220K) |
Lecture #23:
Farewell Special - Bring a Friend!
Recorded on 12/09/04 (56K)|(80K)|(220K) |
Lecture #12:
Dispersion - Phase Velocity - Group Velocity
Recorded on 10/21/04 (56K)|(80K)|(220K) |
|
RealOne™ is a trademark or a registered trademark of RealNetworks, Inc.