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Video Lectures

Professor Walter Lewin demonstrating the two normal modes of a coupled pendulum. This demonstration can be viewed on the video of Lecture 5. (Image courtesy of Markos Hankin, MIT Physics Department Lecture Demonstration Group.)

Table for Video Lectures
LEC #	TOPICS
1	Periodic Phenomena (Oscillations, Waves) - SHO - Complex Notation - Differential Equations - Physical Pendulum
2	Beats - Damped Free Oscillations (Under- Over- and Critically Damped) - Quality Q
3	Forced Oscillations with Damping - Destructive Resonance
4	Forced Oscillations - Power at Resonance (Resonance Absorption, Resonance Width, Quality Q) - Transient Phenomena (General Solutions including Initial Conditions)
5	Coupled Oscillators
6	Driven Coupled Oscillators - Triple Pendulum - Steady State and Transient Solutions - Cramer's Rule
7	Many Coupled Oscillators - Wave Equation - Transverse Traveling Pulses and Waves
8	Traveling Waves - Boundary Conditions - Standing Waves - Sound (Longitudinal Waves) - Energy in Waves
9	Musical Instruments - Sound Cavities - Normal Modes
10	Exam 1 Review
11	Fourier Analysis - Time Evolution of Pulses on Strings
12	Dispersion - Phase Velocity - Group Velocity
13	Electromagnetic Waves - Plane Wave Solutions to Maxwell's Equations - Polarization - Malus' Law
14	Accelerated Charges - Poynting Vector - Power - Rayleigh Scattering - Polarization
15	Doppler Effect - Sound - EM Radiation - Binary Stars - Neutron Stars and Black Holes - Expanding Universe
16	Boundary Conditions at Perfect Conductors - Reflection - Standing EM Waves - Transmission Lines - Radiation Pressure
17	Wave Guides - Resonance Cavities of EM-radiation and Sound
18	Boundary Conditions for Dielectrics - Index of Refraction - Snell's Law - Total Internal Reflection - Fresnel Equations - Brewster Angle
19	Exam 2 Review
20	Huygens' Principle - Interference - Thin films - Soap - Oil - Light (double slit interference)
21	Diffraction - Gratings - Pin Holes - Angular Resolution
22	Rainbows - Haloes - Coronae - Glories
23	Farewell Special - Bring a Friend!