Lorentz Tranformation
Lorentz Tranformation
MIT freshman Steven Fine explains the Lorentz Transformation. Read more about the Experimental Study Group: http://esg.mit.edu/
MIT Physics Symposium: The Pappalardo Fellowships in Physics
MIT Physics Symposium: The Pappalardo Fellowships in Physics
The 11th Annual Pappalardo Fellowships in Physics Symposium FRIDAY, MAY 18, 2012 2:00 - 5:00 PM MIT Department of PhysicsPappalardo Community Room Building 4, Room 349 Cambridge, MA Five members of the Department's premier postdoctoral fellowship ...
Distinguished Lecture: Professor Moniz, Director, MIT ...
Distinguished Lecture: Professor Moniz, Director, MIT Energy Initiative
Ernest J. Moniz is the Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics and Engineering Systems, Director of the Energy Initiative, and the Director of the Laboratory for Energy and the Environment. Professor Moniz served as U.S. Under Secretary of Energy from 1997 to 2001 and ...
MIT Physics Demo - Fiber Optic Bundle
MIT Physics Demo - Fiber Optic Bundle
The image of printed words is transmitted through a bundle of approximately 25,000 coherent optical fibers and projected onto a screen.
MIT Physics Demo - Tuning Forks: Resonance & Beat Frequency
MIT Physics Demo - Tuning Forks: Resonance & Beat Frequency
Two identical tuning forks and sounding boxes are placed next to one another. Striking one tuning fork will cause the other to resonate at the same frequency. When a weight is attached to one tuning fork, they are no longer identical. Thus, one will ...
MIT Physics Demo - Barkhausen Effect
MIT Physics Demo - Barkhausen Effect
A soft iron core is placed inside a solenoid having several hundred turns of fine wire. The coil winding is connected to a loudspeaker. Audible results of the Barkhausen Effect are produced by slowly moving a permanent magnet toward the solenoid core. A loud rasping sound will be heard caused ...
MIT Physics Demo - Weighted Hacksaw Blade
MIT Physics Demo - Weighted Hacksaw Blade
A hacksaw blade has a weight attached to each end. The center of the blade is tightly held in a vise. The two halves of the blade then behave like coupled oscillators.
MIT Physics Demo - Simulation of Magnetic Domains
MIT Physics Demo - Simulation of Magnetic Domains
A large number of compass needles are mounted on a Plexiglass sheet. A bar magnet is used to set the needles in motion. When the needles come to a stop, interaction between the needles simulates magnetic domains.
Planets Not Our Own - Knight Science Journalism Program ...
Planets Not Our Own - Knight Science Journalism Program seminar
Knight Science Program seminar with Josh Winn, MIT professor of physics and researcher of "extrasolar planets" September 30, 2010
The Invention of the Battery
The Invention of the Battery
How does a battery work? Allow Alessandro Volta and Luigi Galvani to explain.
MIT Physics Demo - Gyroscopes Made Easy
MIT Physics Demo - Gyroscopes Made Easy
The motion of a gyroscope in response to an applied force is analyzed. TSG's gimbaled gyroscope is used to demonstrate.
MIT Physics Demo - Curie Point of Iron
MIT Physics Demo - Curie Point of Iron
A piece of iron is suspended with a copper wire at the height of one pole of a magnet. At first the iron is attracted to the magnet. The iron is then heated with a torch and eventually falls from the magnet. As the iron cools it will again be attracted to the magnet.
Connectome: How the Brain's Wiring Makes Us Who We Are
Connectome: How the Brain's Wiring Makes Us Who We Are
On April 4, 2012, Sebastian Seung, MIT professor of computational neuroscience and of physics, offered his thoughts on the brain's wiring and how it influences personality and answered questions from the worldwide MIT alumni community.
Gradients and Vector-valued Functions
Gradients and Vector-valued Functions
ESG student Joel Schneider teaches the problem "Gradients and Vector-valued Functions." Read more about the Experimental Study Group: http://esg.mit.edu/
The Wave Equation Under Galilean Transformation
The Wave Equation Under Galilean Transformation
Abiy Tasissa teaches "The Wave Equation Under Galilean Transformation." Read more about the Experimental Study Group: http://esg.mit.edu/
MIT Physics Demo - Surface Distribution of Charge
MIT Physics Demo - Surface Distribution of Charge
A tear drop shaped conductor on an insulating stand is charged. Charge is scooped up from various points on the surface of the conductor with a proof plane and transferred to an electroscope. It is demonstrated that the charge density is greater at the areas of greater ...
Peter Fisher - Lecture on Special Relativity - 2/22/11
Peter Fisher - Lecture on Special Relativity - 2/22/11
Professor Peter Fisher's main activities are the experimental detection of dark matter using a new kind of detector with directional sensitivity and understanding the weak interactions using tau decays detector with the BaBar detector. His other projects include ...
Peter Fisher - Lecture on Special Relativity - 2/23/11
Peter Fisher - Lecture on Special Relativity - 2/23/11
Professor Peter Fisher's main activities are the experimental detection of dark matter using a new kind of detector with directional sensitivity and understanding the weak interactions using tau decays detector with the BaBar detector. His other projects include ...
MIT Physics Demo - Lenz's Law with Copper Pipe
MIT Physics Demo - Lenz's Law with Copper Pipe
A magnet is dropped down a conducting copper pipe and feels a resistive force. The falling magent induces a current in the copper pipe and, by Lenz's Law, the current creates a magnetic field that opposes the changing field of the falling magnet. Thus, the ...
Lindley Winslow seminar
Laboratory for Nuclear Science special seminar: Lindley Winslow
Department of Physics Senior Postdoctoral Fellow Winslow speaks on "Re?olution: Neutrino Oscillation and Beyond"