Thursday, November 25, 2010

8.01 Physics I: Classical Mechanics



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 Description
8.01 is a first-semester freshman physics class in Newtonian Mechanics, Fluid Mechanics, and Kinetic Gas Theory. In addition to the basic concepts of Newtonian Mechanics, Fluid Mechanics, and Kinetic Gas Theory, a variety of interesting topics are covered in this course: Binary Stars, Neutron Stars, Black Holes, Resonance Phenomena, Musical Instruments, Stellar Collapse, Supernovae, Astronomical observations from very high flying balloons (lecture 35), and you will be allowed a peek into the intriguing Quantum World.
OCW also presents Professor Lewin's freshman physics course series 8.02 - Electricity and Magnetism - with a complete set of 36 video lectures from the Spring of 2002 and 8.03 - Vibrations and Waves - with a complete set of 23 video lectures from the Fall of 2004.


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Course Introduction


1: Units, Dimensions, and Scaling Arguments


2: Introduction to Kinematics


3: Vectors


4: The Motion of Projectiles


5: Uniform Circular Motion


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


7: Weight, Perceived Gravity, and Weightlessnes


8: Frictional Forces


9: Review of Lectures 1 through 5


10: Hooke's Law, Simple Harmonic Oscillator


11: Work, Energy, and Universal Gravitation


12: Resistive Forces


13: Equation of Motion for Simple Harmonic Oscillators


14: Orbits and Escape Velocity


15: Momentum and its Conservation


16: Elastic and Inelastic Collisions


17: Momentum of Individual Objects


18: Review of Lectures 6 through 15


19: Rotating Rigid Bodies, Inertia, and Axis Theorems


20: Angular Momentum


21: Torque


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


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


24: Rolling Motion, Gyroscopes


25: Static Equilibrium, Stability, Rope Walker


26: Elasticity and Young's Modulus


27: Gases and Incompressible Liquids


28: Hydrostatics, Archimedes' Principle, and Fluid Dynamics


29: Review of Lectures 16 through 24


30: Simple Harmonic Oscillations of Suspended Solid Bodies


31: Pendulums and Springs


32: Thermal Expansion


33: Ideal-Gas Law


34: Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle


35: Professor Lewin’s Early days at MIT
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