Lecture Description
In this lecture, Professor Lewin displays how the conservation of mechanical energy can be used to derive the equation of motion for simple harmonic oscillators (SHO). In doing so he covers gravitational potential energy, equilibrium points where the net force is zero, parabolic potential energy, and circular potential energy.
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
