Lecture Description
The momentum of individual objects can change in a variety of ways. Professor Lewin covers a number of topics in this lecture, including impulse and thrust. An analogy is drawn between the force felt by the target of a tomato thrower, the reaction force felt by the thrower, and the propulsion (thrust) of a rocket.
Course Description
This course is a first-semester freshman physics class in Newtonian Mechanics, Fluid Mechanics, and Kinetic Gas Theory. In addition to the basic concepts 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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Course Index
- Measurements of Space and Time
- 1-Dimensional Kinematics, Speed, Velocity, Acceleration
- Vectors, Dot Products, Cross Products, 3D Kinematics
- 3-D Kinematics, The Motion of Projectiles
- Circular Motion, Centrifuges, Moving Reference Frames
- Newton's Three Laws
- Weight and Weightlessness
- Friction
- Exam-I Review
- Hooke's Law and Simple Harmonic Motion
- Work and Mechanical Energy
- Resistive Forces
- Conservative Forces and SHO
- Satellite Orbits - Energy - Power
- Collisions and the Center of Mass
- Elastic and Inelastic Collisions
- Change of Momentum, Impulse, Rockets
- Exam Review II
- Rotational Kinetic Energy
- Angular Momentum
- Torques, Oscillating Bodies
- Elliptical Orbits
- Doppler Shift and Stellar Dynamics
- Rate of Change of Angular Momentum
- 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
- Ideal-Gas Law and Phase Transitions, Isothermal Atmosphere
- The Wonderful Quantum World
- X-ray Astronomy and Astrophysics
