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physics I


8.01 Physics I, Fall 1999 by Prof. Walter Lewin

35 lecture videos at various length could be accessed at http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Physics/8-01Physics-IFall1999/VideoLectures/index.htm

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1 Powers of Ten - Units - Dimensions - Measurements - Uncertainties - Dimensional Analysis - Scaling Arguments

OOPSSJTU

 05/09/2006      file (partial)
2 1D Kinematics - Speed - Velocity - Acceleration Winnie Wang  02/06/05  51:08  02/28/05  file
3 Vectors - Dot Products - Cross Products - 3D Kinematics          
4 3D Kinematics - Free Falling Reference Frames          
5 Circular Motion - Centrifuges Moving - Reference Frames - Perceived Gravity          
6 Newton's Laws  Julia Lien  02/27/05  49:15  7/10/05  file
7 Weight - Perceived Gravity - Weightlessness Free Fall - Zero Gravity in Orbit (misnomer) Julia/Yao Yu
 02/05/06  50:00  1/27/2007  file
8 Friction  Xiao Liang
 10/13/07      
9 Exam Review          
10 Hooke's Law - Springs - Simple Harmonic Motion - Pendulum - Small Angle Approximation          
11 Work - Kinetic Energy - Potential Energy - Conservative Forces - Conservation of Mechanical Energy - Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation          
12 Non-Conservative Forces - Resistive Forces - Air Drag - Terminal Velocity          
13 Potential Energy - Energy Considerations to Derive Simple Harmonic Motion          
14 Escape Velocities - Bound and Unbound Orbits - Circular Orbits - Various Forms of Energy - Power          
15 Momentum - Conservation of Momentum - Center of Mass          
16 Collisions - Elastic and Inelastic - Center of Mass Frame of Reference          
17 Impulse - Rockets

Video presented in Lecture 17 that demonstrates impulse and impact time courtesy of Dr. Peter Dourmashkin, MIT.

         
18 Exam Review          
19 Rotating Rigid Bodies - Moment of Inertia - Parallel Axis and Perpendicular Axis Theorem - Rotational Kinetic Energy - Fly Wheels - Neutron Stars - Pulsars          
20 Angular Momentum - Torques - Conservation of Angular Momentum - Spinning Neutron Stars - Stellar Collapse          
21 Torques - Oscillating Bodies - Hoops          
22 Kepler's Laws - Elliptical Orbits - Satellites - Change of Orbits - Ham Sandwich          
23 Doppler Effect - Binary Stars - Neutron Stars and Black Holes          
24 Rolling Motion - Gyroscopes - VERY NON-INTUITIVE          
25 Static Equilibrium - Stability - Rope Walker          
26 Elasticity - Young's Modulus          
27 Fluid Mechanics - Pascal's Principle - Hydrostatics - Atmospheric Pressure - Over Pressure in Lungs and Tires          
28 Hydrostatics - Archimedes' Principle - Fluid Dynamics - What Makes Your Boat Float? - Bernoulli's Equation          
29 Exam Review          
30 Simple Harmonic Oscillations - Energy Considerations - Torsional Pendulum Tai-I Weng terrieweng@gmail.com
Proofread:
YY, welkin25@gmail.com

07/03/05

11/28/2005

 

8/11/05

11/28/2005

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31 Forced Oscillations - Normal Modes - Resonance - Natural Frequencies - Musical Instruments          
32 Heat - Thermal Expansion          
33 Kinetic Gas Theory - Ideal Gas Law - Isothermal Atmosphere - Phase Diagrams - Phase Transitions          
34 The Wonderful Quantum World - Breakdown of Classical Mechanics OOPSSJTU 05/09/2006      
35 Farewell Special - High-energy Astrophysics          

 

 


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