Thursday, November 25, 2010

MIT 8.03 Physics III: Vibrations and Waves, Fall 200

Instructor: Walter Lewin In addition to the traditional topics of mechanical vibrations and waves, coupled oscillators, and electro-magnetic radiation, students will also learn about musical instruments, red sunsets, glories, coronae, rainbows, haloes, X-ray binaries, neutron stars, black holes and big-bang cosmology. Find more lecture notes, study materials, and more courses at http://ocw.mit.edu.







Photo of Prof. Lewin in the classroom.
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.)


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Course Introduction

Lecture 1: Periodic Oscillations, Physical Pendulum

Lecture 2: Beats, Damped Free Oscillations, Quality Q

Lecture 3:Forced Oscillations with Damping, Destructive Resonance

Lecture 4: Forced Oscillations, Power at Resonance, Transient Phenomena

Lecture 5: Coupled Oscillators

Lecture 6: Driven Coupled Oscillators and Cramer's Rule

Lecture 7: Many Coupled Oscillators - Wave Equation - Transverse Traveling Pulses and Waves 

Lecture 8: Traveling Waves - Boundary Conditions - Standing Waves - Sound (Longitudinal Waves) - Energy in Waves



Lecture 9: Musical Instruments, Sound Cavities, Normal Modes

Lecture 10: Exam 1 Review

Lecture 11: Fourier Analysis, Time Evolution of Pulses on Strings

Lecture 12: Dispersion, Phase Velocity, Group Velocity

Lecture 13: Electromagnetic Waves, Polarization

Lecture 14: Accelerated Charges, Poynting Vector, and Power

Lecture 15: Doppler Effect, EM Radiation and Expanding Universe

Lecture 16: Interactions of Electromagnetic Waves with Perfect Conductors

Lecture 17: Wave Guides, Resonance Cavities of EM-radiation and Sound

Lecture 7: Coupled Oscillators, Transverse Traveling Pulses and Waves

Lecture 8: Traveling Waves, Sound Waves and Energy in Waves

Lecture 18: Boundary Conditions for Dielectrics

Lecture 19: Exam 2 Review

Lecture 20: Huygens' Principle, Interference, Thin films, Soap, Oil, Light

Lecture 21: Diffraction, Gratings, Pin Holes, Angular Resolution

Lecture 22: Rainbows, Haloes, Coronae, Glories

Lecture 23: Farewell Lecture
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