MIT 8.01x Classical Mechanics with Walter Lewin

 

Lecture PDFs and Typed Notes

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Lecture 1 Units, Dimensions, Uncertainties, Error
Lecture 2 Kinematics: Speed, Velocity, Acceleration
Lecture 3 Vectors: Dot Products, Cross Products
Lecture 4 3D Kinematics: Free Falling Reference Frames
Lecture 5 Circular Motion, Centripetal Forces, Gravity
Lecture 6 Newton's Laws
Lecture 7 Weight in Free Fall, Weight in Orbit​
Lecture 8 Friction
Lecture 9 Exam 1 Review
Lecture 10 Hooke's Law, Springs, Pendulum, Simple Harmonic Motion
Lecture 11 Work, Kinetic Energy, Gravitation, Conservative Forces
Lecture 12 Air Drag, Resistive Forces, Terminal Velocity
Lecture 13 Potential Energy, Simple Harmonic Motion using Energy
Lecture 14 Escape Velocities, Circular Orbits, Power
Lecture 15 Momentum, Conservation of Momentum, Center of Mass
Lecture 16 Elastic and Inelastic Collisions, Center of Mass
Lecture 17 Impulse Rockets
Lecture 18 Exam 2 Review
Lecture 19 Rotating Objects, Moment of Inertia, Rotational Kinetic Energy
Lecture 20 Angular Momentum, Torque, Conservation of Angular Momentum
Lecture 21 Torque, Oscillating Bodies, Pendulums
Lecture 22 Keplers, Laws, Elliptical Orbits, Satellites
Lecture 23 Doppler Effect, Binary Stars, Neitron Stars, Black Holes
Lecture 24 Rolling Motion, Gyroscopes
Lecture 25 Static Equilibrium, Stability
Lecture 26 Elasticity, Young's Modulus
Lecture 27 Fluid Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Atmospheric Pressure
Lecture 28 Hydrostatics, Archimede's Principle, Bernoulli's Equation
Lecture 29 Exam 3 Review
Lecture 30 Simple Harmonic Motion, Energy, Torsional Pendulum
Lecture 31 Forced Oscillations, Normal Modes, Resonances
Lecture 32 Heat, Thermal Expansion
Lecture 33 Kinetic Gas Theory, Ideal Gas Law, Phase Transitions
Lecture 34 Quantum, Classical Mechanics Breakdown
Lecture 35 Walter Lewin Outro