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Classical Mechanics
Watch the Classical Mechanics course from MIT, taught by Walter Lewin in the fall of 1999. License: Creative commons BY-NC-SA Please refer your questions to our Forum.
Videos
- Lecture 1: Units, Dimensions, and Scaling Arguments
- Lecture 2: Introduction to Kinematics
- Lecture 3: Vectors
- Lecture 4: The Motion of Projectiles
- Lecture 5: Uniform Circular Motion
- Lecture 6: Newton's First, Second, and Third Laws
- Lecture 7: Weight, Perceived Gravity, and Weightlessnes
- Lecture 8: Frictional Forces
- Lecture 9: Review of Lectures 1 through 5
- Lecture 10: Hooke's Law, Simple Harmonic Oscillator
- Lecture 11: Work, Energy, and Universal Gravitation
- Lecture 12: Resistive Forces
- Lecture 13: Equation of Motion for Simple Harmonic Oscillators
- Lecture 14: Orbits and Escape Velocity
- Lecture 15: Momentum and its Conservation
- Lecture 16: Elastic and Inelastic Collisions
- Lecture 17: Momentum of Individual Objects
- Lecture 18: Review of Lectures 6 through 15
- Lecture 19: Rotating Rigid Bodies, Inertia, and Axis Theorems
- Lecture 20: Angular Momentum
- Lecture 21: Torque
- Lecture 22: Kepler's Laws, Elliptical Orbits, and Change of Orbits
- Lecture 23: Doppler Effect, Binary Stars, Neutron Stars and Black Holes
- Lecture 24: Rolling Motion, Gyroscopes
- Lecture 25: Static Equilibrium, Stability, Rope Walker
- Lecture 26: Elasticity and Young's Modulus
- Lecture 27: Gases and Incompressible Liquids
- Lecture 28: Hydrostatics, Archimedes' Principle, and Fluid Dynamics
- Lecture 29: Review of Lectures 16 through 24
- Lecture 30: Simple Harmonic Oscillations of Suspended Solid Bodies
- Lecture 31: Pendulums and Springs
- Lecture 32: Thermal Expansion
- Lecture 33: Ideal-Gas Law
- Lecture 34: Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle
- Lecture 35: Professor Lewin's Early days at MIT