Physics III: Vibrations & Waves
by Prof. Walter Lewin
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In addition to the traditional topics of mechanical vibrations and waves, coupled oscillators, and electro-magnetic radiation, students will also learn about musical instruments, red sunsets, glories, coronae, rainbows, haloes, X-ray binaries, neutron stars, black holes and big-bang cosmology.
| Name | Description | Released | Price | ||
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| 1 | VideoCourse Introduction | In addition to the traditional topics of mechanical vibrations and waves, coupled oscillators, and electro-magnetic radiation, students will also learn about musical instruments, red sunsets, glories, coronae, rainbows, haloes, X-ray binaries, neutron stars, black holes and big-bang cosmology. | 25 5 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 2 | VideoLecture 01: Periodic Phenomena (Oscillations, Waves) - SHO - Complex Notation - Differential Equations - Physical Pendulum | In addition to the traditional topics of mechanical vibrations and waves, coupled oscillators, and electro-magnetic radiation, students will also learn about musical instruments, red sunsets, glories, coronae, rainbows, haloes, X-ray binaries, neutron stars, black holes and big-bang cosmology. | 18 5 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 3 | VideoLecture 02: Beats - Damped Free Oscillations (Under- Over- and Critically Damped) - Quality Q | In addition to the traditional topics of mechanical vibrations and waves, coupled oscillators, and electro-magnetic radiation, students will also learn about musical instruments, red sunsets, glories, coronae, rainbows, haloes, X-ray binaries, neutron stars, black holes and big-bang cosmology. | 18 5 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 4 | VideoLecture 03: Forced Oscillations with Damping; Information about the Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapse | In addition to the traditional topics of mechanical vibrations and waves, coupled oscillators, and electro-magnetic radiation, students will also learn about musical instruments, red sunsets, glories, coronae, rainbows, haloes, X-ray binaries, neutron stars, black holes and big-bang cosmology. | 18 5 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 5 | VideoLecture 04: Forced Oscillations - Power at Resonance (Resonance Absorption, Resonance Width, Quality Q) - Transient Phenomena ( | In addition to the traditional topics of mechanical vibrations and waves, coupled oscillators, and electro-magnetic radiation, students will also learn about musical instruments, red sunsets, glories, coronae, rainbows, haloes, X-ray binaries, neutron stars, black holes and big-bang cosmology. | 18 5 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 6 | VideoLecture 05: Coupled Oscillators | In addition to the traditional topics of mechanical vibrations and waves, coupled oscillators, and electro-magnetic radiation, students will also learn about musical instruments, red sunsets, glories, coronae, rainbows, haloes, X-ray binaries, neutron stars, black holes and big-bang cosmology. | 18 5 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 7 | VideoLecture 06: Driven Coupled Oscillators - Triple Pendulum - Steady State and Transient Solutions - Cramer's Rule | In addition to the traditional topics of mechanical vibrations and waves, coupled oscillators, and electro-magnetic radiation, students will also learn about musical instruments, red sunsets, glories, coronae, rainbows, haloes, X-ray binaries, neutron stars, black holes and big-bang cosmology. | 18 5 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 8 | VideoLecture 07: Many Coupled Oscillators - Wave Equation - Transverse Traveling Pulses and Waves | In addition to the traditional topics of mechanical vibrations and waves, coupled oscillators, and electro-magnetic radiation, students will also learn about musical instruments, red sunsets, glories, coronae, rainbows, haloes, X-ray binaries, neutron stars, black holes and big-bang cosmology. | 18 5 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 9 | VideoLecture 08: Traveling Waves - Boundary Conditions - Standing Waves - Sound (Longitudinal Waves) - Energy in Waves | In addition to the traditional topics of mechanical vibrations and waves, coupled oscillators, and electro-magnetic radiation, students will also learn about musical instruments, red sunsets, glories, coronae, rainbows, haloes, X-ray binaries, neutron stars, black holes and big-bang cosmology. | 17 5 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 10 | VideoLecture 09: Musical Instruments - Sound Cavities - Normal Modes | In addition to the traditional topics of mechanical vibrations and waves, coupled oscillators, and electro-magnetic radiation, students will also learn about musical instruments, red sunsets, glories, coronae, rainbows, haloes, X-ray binaries, neutron stars, black holes and big-bang cosmology. | 17 5 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 11 | VideoLecture 10: Exam 1 Review | In addition to the traditional topics of mechanical vibrations and waves, coupled oscillators, and electro-magnetic radiation, students will also learn about musical instruments, red sunsets, glories, coronae, rainbows, haloes, X-ray binaries, neutron stars, black holes and big-bang cosmology. | 18 5 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 12 | VideoLecture 11: Fourier Analysis - Time Evolution of Pulses on Strings | In addition to the traditional topics of mechanical vibrations and waves, coupled oscillators, and electro-magnetic radiation, students will also learn about musical instruments, red sunsets, glories, coronae, rainbows, haloes, X-ray binaries, neutron stars, black holes and big-bang cosmology. | 18 5 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 13 | VideoLecture 12: Dispersion - Phase Velocity - Group Velocity | In addition to the traditional topics of mechanical vibrations and waves, coupled oscillators, and electro-magnetic radiation, students will also learn about musical instruments, red sunsets, glories, coronae, rainbows, haloes, X-ray binaries, neutron stars, black holes and big-bang cosmology. | 18 5 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 14 | VideoLecture 13: Electromagnetic Waves - Plane Wave Solutions to Maxwell's Equations - Polarization - Malus' Law | In addition to the traditional topics of mechanical vibrations and waves, coupled oscillators, and electro-magnetic radiation, students will also learn about musical instruments, red sunsets, glories, coronae, rainbows, haloes, X-ray binaries, neutron stars, black holes and big-bang cosmology. | 18 5 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 15 | VideoLecture 14: Accelerated Charges - Poynting Vector - Power - Rayleigh Scattering - Polarization | In addition to the traditional topics of mechanical vibrations and waves, coupled oscillators, and electro-magnetic radiation, students will also learn about musical instruments, red sunsets, glories, coronae, rainbows, haloes, X-ray binaries, neutron stars, black holes and big-bang cosmology. | 18 5 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 16 | VideoLecture 15: Doppler Effect - Sound - EM Radiation - Binary Stars - Neutron Stars and Black Holes - Expanding Universe | In addition to the traditional topics of mechanical vibrations and waves, coupled oscillators, and electro-magnetic radiation, students will also learn about musical instruments, red sunsets, glories, coronae, rainbows, haloes, X-ray binaries, neutron stars, black holes and big-bang cosmology. | 17 5 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 17 | VideoLecture 16: Boundary Conditions at Perfect Conductors - Reflection - Standing EM Waves - Transmission Lines - Radiation Pressur | In addition to the traditional topics of mechanical vibrations and waves, coupled oscillators, and electro-magnetic radiation, students will also learn about musical instruments, red sunsets, glories, coronae, rainbows, haloes, X-ray binaries, neutron stars, black holes and big-bang cosmology. | 17 5 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 18 | VideoLecture 17: Wave Guides - Resonance Cavities of EM-radiation and Sound | In addition to the traditional topics of mechanical vibrations and waves, coupled oscillators, and electro-magnetic radiation, students will also learn about musical instruments, red sunsets, glories, coronae, rainbows, haloes, X-ray binaries, neutron stars, black holes and big-bang cosmology. | 18 5 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 19 | VideoLecture 18: Boundary Conditions for Dielectrics - Index of Refraction - Snell's Law - Total Internal Reflection - Fresnel Equat | In addition to the traditional topics of mechanical vibrations and waves, coupled oscillators, and electro-magnetic radiation, students will also learn about musical instruments, red sunsets, glories, coronae, rainbows, haloes, X-ray binaries, neutron stars, black holes and big-bang cosmology. | 18 5 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 20 | VideoLecture 19: Exam 2 Review | In addition to the traditional topics of mechanical vibrations and waves, coupled oscillators, and electro-magnetic radiation, students will also learn about musical instruments, red sunsets, glories, coronae, rainbows, haloes, X-ray binaries, neutron stars, black holes and big-bang cosmology. | 18 5 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 21 | VideoLecture 20: Huygens' Principle - Interference - Thin films - Soap - Oil - Light (double slit interference) | In addition to the traditional topics of mechanical vibrations and waves, coupled oscillators, and electro-magnetic radiation, students will also learn about musical instruments, red sunsets, glories, coronae, rainbows, haloes, X-ray binaries, neutron stars, black holes and big-bang cosmology. | 18 5 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 22 | VideoLecture 21: Diffraction - Gratings - Pin Holes - Angular Resolution | In addition to the traditional topics of mechanical vibrations and waves, coupled oscillators, and electro-magnetic radiation, students will also learn about musical instruments, red sunsets, glories, coronae, rainbows, haloes, X-ray binaries, neutron stars, black holes and big-bang cosmology. | 18 5 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 23 | VideoLecture 22: Rainbows - Haloes - Coronae - Glories | In addition to the traditional topics of mechanical vibrations and waves, coupled oscillators, and electro-magnetic radiation, students will also learn about musical instruments, red sunsets, glories, coronae, rainbows, haloes, X-ray binaries, neutron stars, black holes and big-bang cosmology. | 30 4 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 24 | VideoLecture 23: Farewell Special - Bring a Friend! | In addition to the traditional topics of mechanical vibrations and waves, coupled oscillators, and electro-magnetic radiation, students will also learn about musical instruments, red sunsets, glories, coronae, rainbows, haloes, X-ray binaries, neutron stars, black holes and big-bang cosmology. | 17 5 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 24 Episodes |
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