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Professor Walter Lewin demonstrating the two normal modes of a coupled pendulum. This demonstration can be viewed on the video of Lecture 5. (Image courtesy of Markos Hankin, MIT Physics Department Lecture Demonstration Group.)
Course Introduction
Lecture 1: Periodic Oscillations, Physical Pendulum
Lecture 2: Beats, Damped Free Oscillations, Quality Q
Lecture 3:Forced Oscillations with Damping, Destructive Resonance
Lecture 4: Forced Oscillations, Power at Resonance, Transient Phenomena
Lecture 5: Coupled Oscillators
Lecture 6: Driven Coupled Oscillators and Cramer's Rule
Lecture 7: Coupled Oscillators, Transverse Traveling Pulses and Waves
Lecture 8: Traveling Waves, Sound Waves and Energy in Waves
Lecture 9: Musical Instruments, Sound Cavities, Normal Modes
Lecture 10: Exam 1 Review
Lecture 11: Fourier Analysis, Time Evolution of Pulses on Strings
Lecture 12: Dispersion, Phase Velocity, Group Velocity
Lecture 13: Electromagnetic Waves, Polarization
Lecture 14: Accelerated Charges, Poynting Vector, and Power
Lecture 15: Doppler Effect, EM Radiation and Expanding Universe
Lecture 16: Interactions of Electromagnetic Waves with Perfect Conductors
Lecture 17: Wave Guides, Resonance Cavities of EM-radiation and Sound
Lecture 18: Boundary Conditions for Dielectrics
Lecture 19: Exam 2 Review
Lecture 20: Huygens' Principle, Interference, Thin films, Soap, Oil, Light
Lecture 21: Diffraction, Gratings, Pin Holes, Angular Resolution
Lecture 22: Rainbows, Haloes, Coronae, Glories
Lecture 23: Farewell Lecture