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MIT 8.01 Physics I: Classical Mechanics, Fall 1999View the complete materials: http://ocw.mit.edu/high-school/physics/Instructor: Walter LewinLicense: Creative Commons BY-NC-SAMore information at http://ocw.mit.edu/termsMore courses at http://ocw.mit.edu
MIT 8.01 Physics I: Classical Mechanics, Fall 1999View the complete materials: http://ocw.mit.edu/high-school/physics/Instructor: Walter LewinLicense: Creative Commons BY-NC-SAMore information at http://ocw.mit.edu/termsMore courses at http://ocw.mit.edu
Topics covered: Concepts covered in this lecture begin with the restoring force of a spring (Hooke's Law) which leads to an equation of motion that is characteristic of a simple harmonic oscillator (SHO). Using the small angle approximation, a similar expression is ...
MIT 8.01 Physics I: Classical Mechanics, Fall 1999View the complete materials: http://ocw.mit.edu/high-school/physics/Instructor: Walter LewinLicense: Creative Commons BY-NC-SAMore information at http://ocw.mit.edu/termsMore courses at http://ocw.mit.edu
Topics covered: The concepts introduced are: work, conservative forces, potential energy, kinetic energy, mechanical energy, and Newton's law of universal gravitation. Instructor/speaker: Prof. Walter Lewin Date recorded: October 4, 1999
MIT 8.01 Physics I: Classical Mechanics, Fall 1999View the complete materials: http://ocw.mit.edu/high-school/physics/Instructor: Walter LewinLicense: Creative Commons BY-NC-SAMore information at http://ocw.mit.edu/termsMore courses at http://ocw.mit.edu
Topics covered: This lecture covers resistive forces such as air drag. It includes the viscous (linear in velocity) and pressure (quadratic in velocity) terms. Quantitative demonstrations with balloons and with ball bearings dropped in syrup are shown. Instructor/speaker: Prof. Walter Lewin ...
MIT 8.01 Physics I: Classical Mechanics, Fall 1999View the complete materials: http://ocw.mit.edu/high-school/physics/Instructor: Walter LewinLicense: Creative Commons BY-NC-SAMore information at http://ocw.mit.edu/termsMore courses at http://ocw.mit.edu
Topics covered: The conservation of mechanical energy can be used to derive the equation of motion for simple harmonic oscillators (SHO). Instructor/speaker: Prof. Walter Lewin Date recorded: October 8, 1999
MIT 8.01 Physics I: Classical Mechanics, Fall 1999View the complete materials: http://ocw.mit.edu/high-school/physics/Instructor: Walter LewinLicense: Creative Commons BY-NC-SAMore information at http://ocw.mit.edu/termsMore courses at http://ocw.mit.edu
Topics covered: Bound and unbound orbits; escape velocity. Various sources of energy, energy storage, energy conversion, and the world's energy consumption are discussed. Instructor/speaker: Prof. Walter Lewin Date recorded: October 13, 1999
MIT 8.01 Physics I: Classical Mechanics, Fall 1999View the complete materials: http://ocw.mit.edu/high-school/physics/Instructor: Walter LewinLicense: Creative Commons BY-NC-SAMore information at http://ocw.mit.edu/termsMore courses at http://ocw.mit.edu
Topics covered: Momentum and its conservation during collisions is introduced. Kinetic energy can decrease or increase during collisions. When kinetic energy is conserved, we call it an elastic collision. Instructor/speaker: Prof. Walter Lewin Date recorded: October 15, 1999
MIT 8.01 Physics I: Classical Mechanics, Fall 1999View the complete materials: http://ocw.mit.edu/high-school/physics/Instructor: Walter LewinLicense: Creative Commons BY-NC-SAMore information at http://ocw.mit.edu/termsMore courses at http://ocw.mit.edu
Topics covered: Elastic and Inelastic Collisions Instructor/speaker: Prof. Walter Lewin Date recorded: October 18, 1999
MIT 8.01 Physics I: Classical Mechanics, Fall 1999View the complete materials: http://ocw.mit.edu/high-school/physics/Instructor: Walter LewinLicense: Creative Commons BY-NC-SAMore information at http://ocw.mit.edu/termsMore courses at http://ocw.mit.edu
Topics covered: The momentum of individual objects can change in a variety of ways. Demonstration of impulse and impact time courtesy of Dr. Peter Dourmashkin, MIT. Instructor/speaker: Prof. Walter Lewin Date recorded: October 20, 1999
MIT 8.01 Physics I: Classical Mechanics, Fall 1999View the complete materials: http://ocw.mit.edu/high-school/physics/Instructor: Walter LewinLicense: Creative Commons BY-NC-SAMore information at http://ocw.mit.edu/termsMore courses at http://ocw.mit.edu
Topics covered: This lecture reviews selected concepts previously covered in lectures 6 through 15. Instructor/speaker: Prof. Walter Lewin Date recorded: October 22, 1999