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# Video Lectures

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Professor Walter Lewin demonstrates that the period of a pendulum is independent of the mass hanging from the pendulum. This demonstration can be viewed on the video of Lecture 10. (Image courtesy of Markos Hankin, Physics Department Lecture Demonstration Group).

The Video Index gives a breakdown of topics and the start time of the corresponding segment in each lecture. To access a particular segment, play the lecture in a RealPlayer window and adjust the slider bar to the designated start time.

Video lecture files.
LEC # | TOPICS | VIDEO INDEX | VIDEO
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1 | Powers of Ten - Units - Dimensions - Measurements - Uncertainties - Dimensional Analysis - Scaling Arguments | Lecture 1 Video Index | (RM - 80K) (RM - 300K)
2 | 1D Kinematics - Speed - Velocity - Acceleration | Lecture 2 Video Index | (RM - 80K) (RM - 300K)
3 | Vectors - Dot Products - Cross Products - 3D Kinematics | Lecture 3 Video Index | (RM - 80K) (RM - 300K)
4 | 3D Kinematics - Free Falling Reference Frames | Lecture 4 Video Index | (RM - 80K) (RM - 300K)
5 | Circular Motion - Centrifuges Moving - Reference Frames - Perceived Gravity | Lecture 5 Video Index | (RM - 80K) (RM - 300K)
6 | Newton's Laws | Lecture 6 Video Index | (RM - 80K) (RM - 300K)
7 | Weight - Perceived Gravity - Weightlessness Free Fall - Zero Gravity in Orbit (misnomer) | Lecture 7 Video Index | (RM - 80K) (RM - 300K)
8 | Friction | Lecture 8 Video Index | (RM - 80K) (RM - 300K)
9 | Exam Review | Lecture 9 Video Index | (RM - 80K) (RM - 300K)
10 | Hooke's Law - Springs - Simple Harmonic Motion - Pendulum - Small Angle Approximation | Lecture 10 Video Index | (RM - 80K) (RM - 300K)
11 | Work - Kinetic Energy - Potential Energy - Conservative Forces - Conservation of Mechanical Energy - Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation | Lecture 11 Video Index | (RM - 80K) (RM - 300K)
12 | Non-Conservative Forces - Resistive Forces - Air Drag - Terminal Velocity | Lecture 12 Video Index | (RM - 80K) (RM - 300K)
13 | Potential Energy - Energy Considerations to Derive Simple Harmonic Motion | Lecture 13 Video Index | (RM - 80K) (RM - 300K)
14 | Escape Velocities - Bound and Unbound Orbits - Circular Orbits - Various Forms of Energy - Power | Lecture 14 Video Index | (RM - 80K) (RM - 300K)
15 | Momentum - Conservation of Momentum - Center of Mass | Lecture 15 Video Index | (RM - 80K) (RM - 300K)
16 | Collisions - Elastic and Inelastic - Center of Mass Frame of Reference | Lecture 16 Video Index | (RM - 80K) (RM - 300K)
17 | Impulse - Rockets Video presented in Lecture 17 that demonstrates impulse and impact time courtesy of Dr. Peter Dourmashkin, MIT. | Lecture 17 Video Index | (RM - 80K) (RM - 300K)
18 | Exam Review | Lecture 18 Video Index | (RM - 80K) (RM - 300K)
19 | Rotating Rigid Bodies - Moment of Inertia - Parallel Axis and Perpendicular Axis Theorem - Rotational Kinetic Energy - Fly Wheels - Neutron Stars - Pulsars | Lecture 19 Video Index | (RM - 80K) (RM - 300K)
20 | Angular Momentum - Torques - Conservation of Angular Momentum - Spinning Neutron Stars - Stellar Collapse | Lecture 20 Video Index | (RM - 80K) (RM - 300K)
21 | Torques - Oscillating Bodies - Hoops | Lecture 21 Video Index | (RM - 80K) (RM - 300K)
22 | Kepler's Laws - Elliptical Orbits - Satellites - Change of Orbits - Ham Sandwich | Lecture 22 Video Index | (RM - 80K) (RM - 300K)
23 | Doppler Effect - Binary Stars - Neutron Stars and Black Holes | Lecture 23 Video Index | (RM - 80K) (RM - 300K)
24 | Rolling Motion - Gyroscopes - VERY NON-INTUITIVE | Lecture 24 Video Index | (RM - 80K) (RM - 300K)
25 | Static Equilibrium - Stability - Rope Walker | Lecture 25 Video Index | (RM - 80K) (RM - 300K)
26 | Elasticity - Young's Modulus | Lecture 26 Video Index | (RM - 80K) (RM - 300K)
27 | Fluid Mechanics - Pascal's Principle - Hydrostatics - Atmospheric Pressure - Over Pressure in Lungs and Tires | Lecture 27 Video Index | (RM - 80K) (RM - 300K)
28 | Hydrostatics - Archimedes' Principle - Fluid Dynamics - What Makes Your Boat Float? - Bernoulli's Equation | Lecture 28 Video Index | (RM - 80K) (RM - 300K)
29 | Exam Review | Lecture 29 Video Index | (RM - 80K) (RM - 300K)
30 | Simple Harmonic Oscillations - Energy Considerations - Torsional Pendulum | Lecture 30 Video Index | (RM - 80K) (RM - 300K)
31 | Forced Oscillations - Normal Modes - Resonance - Natural Frequencies - Musical Instruments | Lecture 31 Video Index | (RM - 80K) (RM - 300K)
32 | Heat - Thermal Expansion | Lecture 32 Video Index | (RM - 80K) (RM - 300K)
33 | Kinetic Gas Theory - Ideal Gas Law - Isothermal Atmosphere - Phase Diagrams - Phase Transitions | Lecture 33 Video Index | (RM - 80K) (RM - 300K)
34 | The Wonderful Quantum World - Breakdown of Classical Mechanics | Lecture 34 Video Index | (RM - 80K) (RM - 300K)
35 | Farewell Special - High-energy Astrophysics | Lecture 35 Video Index | (RM - 80K) (RM - 300K)