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
Walter Lewin and MIT OpenCourseWare
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