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MIT Physics I: Classical Mechanics (Walter Lewin, 8.01x)

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About this course

Walter Lewin's legendary MIT lectures on classical mechanics, full of memorable demonstrations. Who it's for: Class 11 and 12 students, JEE aspirants and first-year physics students. These are the free, official videos of the "8.01x - MIT Physics I: Classical Mechanics" playlist from the Lectures by Walter Lewin. They will make you ♥ Physics. YouTube channel (youtube.com/@lecturesbywalterlewin.they9259). All videos belong to Walter Lewin (lectures recorded at MIT); Sikhami is not affiliated with Walter Lewin (lectures recorded at MIT) and simply arranges the public playlist into a course, so you can learn one lesson at a time and keep track of your progress.

What you will learn

• Vectors, kinematics and Newton's laws • Weight, free fall, friction and Hooke's law • Work, energy, orbits and escape velocity • Momentum, collisions, impulse and rockets • Rotation, torque, angular momentum, rolling and gyroscopes • Oscillations, hydrostatics, Bernoulli's principle and resonance

Course content

1 section · 40 lectures · 30h 29m

  1. 1. 8.01x - MIT Physics I: Classical Mechanics

    • 8.01x - Introduction3m
    • 8.01x - Lect 1 - Powers of 10, Units, Dimensions, Uncertainties, Scaling Arguments38m
    • 8.01x - Lect 2 - 1D Kinematics - Speed, Velocity, Acceleration50m
    • 8.01x - Lect 3 - Vectors - Dot Products - Cross Products - 3D Kinematics49m
    • 8.01x - Lect 4 - 3D Kinematics, Free Falling Reference Frames52m
    • 8.01x - Lect 5 - Circular Motion, Centripetal Forces, Perceived Gravity50m
    • 8.01x - Lect 6 - Newton's Laws49m
    • 8.01x - Lect 7 - Weight, Weightlessness in Free Fall, Weight in Orbit50m
    • 8.01x - Lect 8 - Friction47m
    • 8.01x - Lect 9 - First Exam Review49m
    • 8.01x - Lect 10 - Hooke's Law, Springs, Pendulums, Simple Harmonic Motion47m
    • 8.01x - Lect 11 - Work, Kinetic & Potential Energy, Gravitation, Conservative Forces49m
    • 8.01x - Lect 12 - Air Drag, Resistive Forces, Conservative Forces, Terminal Velocity49m
    • 8.01x - Lect 13 - Potential Energy, Derive Simple Harmonic Motion using Energy51m
    • 8.01x - Lect 14 - Escape Velocities, Circular Orbits, Bound and Unbound Orbits, Power48m
    • 8.01x - Lect 15 - Momentum, Conservation of Momentum, Center of Mass52m
    • 8.01x - Lect 16 - Elastic & Inelastic Collisions, Center of Mass Frame of Reference48m
    • 8.01x - Lect 17 - Impulse, Rockets48m
    • 8.01x - Lect 18 - 2nd Exam Review49m
    • 8.01x - Lect 19 - Rotating Objects, Moment of Inertia, Rotational KE, Neutron Stars41m
    • 8.01x - Lect 20 - Angular Momentum, Torques, Conservation of Angular Momentum51m
    • 8.01x - Lect 21 - Torques, Oscillating Bodies, Physical Pendulums47m
    • 8.01x - Lect 22 - Kepler's Laws, Elliptical Orbits, Satellites, Orbital Changes49m
    • 8.01x - Lect 23 - Doppler Effect, Binary Stars, Neutron Stars & Black Holes50m
    • 8.01x - Lect 24 - Rolling Motion, Gyroscopes, VERY NON-INTUITIVE49m
    • 8.01x - Lect 25 - Static Equilibrium, Stability, Rope Warker48m
    • 8.01x - Lect 26 - Elasticity, Young's Modulus50m
    • 8.01x - Lect 27 - Fluid Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Pascal's Principle, Atmosph. Pressure49m
    • 8.01x - Lect 28 - Hydrostatics, Archimedes' Principle, Bernoulli's Equation48m
    • 8.01x - Lect 29 - Third Exam Review49m
    • 8.01x - Lect 30 - Simple Harmonic Motion, Energy Considerations, Torsional Pendulum49m
    • 8.01x - Lect 31 - Forced Oscillations, Normal Modes, Resonances, Musical Instruments48m
    • 8.01x - Lect 32 - Heat, Thermal Expansion49m
    • 8.01x - Lect 33 - Kinetic Gas Theory, Ideal Gas Law, Phase Transitions52m
    • 8.01x - Lect 34 - The Wonderful Quantum World, Breakdown of Classical Mechanics46m
    • 8.01x - Lect 35 - Farewell Special, My Early Days in Astrophysics, Huge Balloons43m
    • When a physics teacher knows his stuff !!3m
    • KBTFÇG | Prof. Walter Lewin - Heisenberg Belirsizlik İlkesi48m
    • Fizik ders 28 ***Hidrostatik, Archimedes Prensibi ve Akışkanlar Dinamiği,kaldırmak kuvveti ****48m
    • Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Mechanics in Under 20 Minutes: Physics Mini Lesson18m