Physics III - MIT - Walter Lewin

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Lecture 1 Periodic Phenomena (Oscillations, Waves) - SHO - Complex Notation - Differential Equations - Physical Pendulum
Lecture 2 Beats - Damped Free Oscillations (Under- Over- and Critically Damped) - Quality Q
Lecture 3 Forced Oscillations with Damping - Destructive Resonance
Lecture 4 Forced Oscillations - Power at Resonance (Resonance Absorption, Resonance Width, Quality Q) - Transient Phenomena (General Solutions including Initial Conditions)
Lecture 5 Coupled Oscillators
Lecture 6 Driven Coupled Oscillators - Triple Pendulum - Steady State and Transient Solutions - Cramer's Rule
Lecture 7 Many Coupled Oscillators - Wave Equation - Transverse Traveling Pulses and Waves
Lecture 8 Traveling Waves - Boundary Conditions - Standing Waves - Sound (Longitudinal Waves) - Energy in Waves
Lecture 9 Musical Instruments - Sound Cavities - Normal Modes
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Physics III - MIT - Walter Lewin

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About This Course

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.

Instructor: Walter Lewin
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