An interesting feature on the MIT Professor Emeritus of Physics by LaInformacion.com.
Physicist Walter Lewin shares his personal insights into major works of art from the first quarter of the 20th century.
Walter Lewin's videotaped physics lectures have won him fans around the world. See why The New York Times calls him a "web star" in this video which highlights his popular teaching style during 8.01, a first-semester freshman physics class.
Watch some of Walter Lewin's greatest moments. To see more, check out Professor Lewin's classes, Physics 8.01, 8.02, and 8.03 on MIT OpenCourseWare.
This learning video describes within an action orientation certain often difficult-to-understand concepts of Newtonian physics.
Professor of Physics Emeritus Walter Lewin performing his most famous physics demonstrations on the occasion of the publication of his new book, FOR THE LOVE OF PHYSICS: From the End of the Rainbow to the Edge Of Time - A Journey Through the Wonders
Topics covered: Professor Lewin talks about some of the highlights from his early days at MIT. It began with balloon flights at very high altitude to make observations of the stars in X-rays. This led to discoveries of X-ray flaring events and a periodic X-ray source (GX 1+4). In the seventies ...
The inimitable Walter Lewin gives a literally hair-raising performance in this MIT Museum lecture/demonstration for learners young and old.
The Council on Primary and Secondary Education 2002 summer program hosted 70 pre-college teachers at MIT to attend MIT Physics Professor Walter Lewin's inspired talk about physics.
We know that some stars exist because we can see them with our own eyes. In this lecture Walter Lewin provides illuminating evidence of stars we cannot see.
An alternate title for this talk might be "Walter's World of Waves."
01/26/2003 2:00 PM 26-100Walter Lewin, Professor of Physics; Description: In this lecture taped before a live audience of elementary and middle school students and their families, MIT Physics Professor Walter Lewin explains polarization, and demonstrates properties of ...
09/28/2003 2:00 PM 6-120Walter Lewin, Professor of Physics; Description: Have you ever wondered about the annoying hum your car makes at a certain speed on a particular stretch of highway? Or why a flute's notes are higher than a trombone's? Walter Lewin uses rubber hose, wooden boxes with ...
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
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 ...
Topics covered: Kepler's Laws, Elliptical Orbits, Change of Orbits, and the famous passing of a Ham Sandwich. Kepler's three Laws summarize the motion of the planets in our solar system. Following Newton's law of universal gravitation, the conservation of angular ...
Topics covered: Elastic and Inelastic Collisions Instructor/speaker: Prof. Walter Lewin Date recorded: October 18, 1999
Topics covered: Heat raises the temperature, and usually the volume of the material that absorbs the heat. The linear and cubical thermal expansion coefficients of metals (including mercury) are described and demonstrated. Ice is discussed as a special case. Instructor/speaker: Prof. Walter ...
Topics covered: This lecture deals exclusively with frictional forces. Instructor/speaker: Prof. Walter Lewin Date recorded: September 24, 1999