
Lecture Description
In this video lecture, Prof. Walter Lewin lectures about motion of projectiles (if air drag can be ignored). The objects experience a constant vertical acceleration due to the acceleration of gravity (see also Lecture 12).
Course Index
- Measurements of Space and Time
- Speed, Velocity and Acceleration
- Vectors
- 3D Kinematics: The Motion of Projectiles
- Circular Motion
- Newton's Three Laws
- Weight and Weightlessness
- Frictional Forces
- Exam Review
- Hooke's Law and Simple Harmonic Motion
- Work and Mechanical Energy
- Resistive Forces
- Conservative Forces and SHO
- Energy, Power and Satellite Orbits
- Collisions and the Center of Mass
- Elastic and Inelastic Collisions
- Change of Momentum, Impulse and Rockets
- Exam Review
- Rotational Kinetic Energy
- Angular Momentum
- Torques and Oscillating Bodies
- Kepler's Laws and Elliptical Orbits
- Doppler Shift and Stellar Dynamics
- Rolling Motion & Gyroscopes
- Static Equilibrium
- Elasticity of Materials
- Pressure in a Static Fluid
- Buoyant Force and Bernoulli's Equation
- Exam Review
- Other Oscillating Systems
- Forced Oscillations and Resonance
- Heat, Conductivity and Thermal Expansion
- Kinetic Gas Theory & Phases
- The Wonderful Quantum World
- X-ray Astronomy and Astrophysics
Course Description
8.01 is a first-semester freshman physics class in Newtonian Mechanics, Fluid Mechanics, and Kinetic Gas Theory. In addition to the basic concepts of Newtonian Mechanics, Fluid Mechanics, and Kinetic Gas Theory, a variety of interesting topics are covered in this course: Binary Stars, Neutron Stars, Black Holes, Resonance Phenomena, Musical Instruments, Stellar Collapse, Supernovae, Astronomical observations from very high flying balloons (lecture 35), and you will be allowed a peek into the intriguing Quantum World.
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