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1.1 Lecture: YouTube: Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Professor Walter Lewin’s “Lecture 1: Units/Dimensional Analysis/Scaling”
Link: YouTube: Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Professor Walter Lewin’s “Lecture 1: Units/Dimensional Analysis/Scaling” (YouTube)
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Instructions: Please click on the link above, and view the entire lecture, pausing to take notes, before moving on to the reading below.
As mentioned in the course information section, Professor Lewin’s lectures can be difficult and fast-paced. We don’t expect you to immediately be able to fully master all of the content he presents. Note that the most important concepts will be covered within the text you will be reading next. As you watch, focus instead on grasping the major points of the lecture. What do you think they are? Jot these down in your notes. You can also use the Saylor Foundation’s “Lecture Aid” (DOC) as a supplement and guide while watching this lecture. This document includes some useful equations and some of the key points that Professor Lewin makes. If you are determined to master the material covered in this lecture, we applaud you! We recommend watching the sections in which Lewin works on and converts his equations slowly and deliberately. He does a lot of quick calculations, but watch them at your own pace until you feel you can master them. Refer to the Lecture Aid for more assistance.
Note, too, that the “Powers of 10” video that Lewin refers to has been removed from this recording for copyright reasons. Don’t worry about this; the video establishes the concept of orders of magnitude, which we have defined in the Lecture Aid.
Watching this lecture should take approximately 1 hour and 15 minutes.
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2.1 Lecture: YouTube: Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Professor Walter Lewin’s “Lecture 2: One-Dimensional Kinematics”
Link: YouTube: Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Professor Walter Lewin’s “Lecture 2: One-Dimensional Kinematics” (YouTube)
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Instructions: Please click on the link above, and view the entire lecture, pausing to take notes, before moving on to the reading below.
Watching this lecture should take approximately 1 hour and 15 minutes.
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3.2 Lecture: YouTube: Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Professor Walter Lewin’s “Lecture 3: Vectors and 3D Kinematics”
Link: YouTube: Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Professor Walter Lewin’s “Lecture 3: Vectors and 3D Kinematics” (YouTube)
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Instructions: Please click on the link above, and view the entire lecture, pausing to take notes, before moving on to the reading below. Professor Lewin goes into more detail on the dot and cross products than we will need for this course, so don’t worry if it seems intimidating. We will review the dot and cross products at a more appropriate level later when they are needed for this course.
Watching this lecture should take approximately 1 hour and 15 minutes.
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3.4 Lecture: YouTube: Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Professor Walter Lewin’s “Lecture 4: 3D Kinematics and Free Falling Reference Frames”
Link: YouTube: Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Professor Walter Lewin’s “Lecture 4: 3D Kinematics and Free Falling Reference Frames” (YouTube)
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Instructions: Please click on the link above, and view the entire lecture, pausing to take notes, before moving on to the reading below.
Watching this lecture should take approximately 1 hour and 15 minutes.
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4.1 Lecture: YouTube: Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Professor Walter Lewin’s “Lecture 6: Newton’s Laws”
Link: YouTube: Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Professor Walter Lewin’s “Lecture 6: Newton’s Laws” (YouTube)
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Instructions: Please click on the link above, and view the entire lecture, pausing to take notes, before moving on to the reading below.
Watching this lecture should take approximately 1 hour and 15 minutes.
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4.4 Lecture: YouTube: Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Professor Walter Lewin’s “Lecture 8: “Friction”
Link: YouTube: Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Professor Walter Lewin’s “Lecture 8: Friction” (YouTube)
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Instructions: Please click on the link above, and view the entire lecture, pausing to take notes, before moving on to the reading below.
Watching this lecture should take approximately 1 hour and 15 minutes.
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4.5 Lecture: YouTube: Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Professor Walter Lewin’s “Lecture 10: Springs and Pendula”
Link: YouTube: Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Professor Walter Lewin’s “Lecture 10: Springs and Pendula” (YouTube)
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Instructions: Please click on the link above, and view the entire lecture, pausing to take notes, before moving on to the reading below.
Watching this lecture should take approximately 1 hour and 15 minutes.
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5.1 Lecture: YouTube: Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Professor Walter Lewin’s “Lecture 5: Circular Motion”
Link: YouTube: Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Professor Walter Lewin’s “Lecture 5: Circular Motion” (YouTube)
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Instructions: Please click on the link above, and view the entire lecture, pausing to take notes, before moving on to the reading below.
Watching this lecture should take approximately 1 hour and 15 minutes.
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5.3 Lecture: YouTube: Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Professor Walter Lewin’s “Lecture 7: Gravity”
Link: YouTube: Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Professor Walter Lewin’s “Lecture 7: Gravity” (YouTube)
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Instructions: Please click on the link above, and view the entire lecture, pausing to take notes, before moving on to the reading below.
Watching this lecture should take approximately 1 hour and 15 minutes.
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6.1 Lecture: YouTube: Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Professor Walter Lewin’s “Lecture 12: Work and the Dot Product”
Link: YouTube: Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Professor Walter Lewin’s “Lecture 12: Work and the Dot Product” (YouTube)
Instructions: Please click on the link above, scroll down to “Lecture Video,” and play this excerpt from a lecture you saw earlier in subunit 3.2. This excerpt will remind you that work is a dot product of the force vector and the displacement vector.
Watching this lecture should take approximately 30 minutes.
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6.1 Lecture: YouTube: Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Professor Walter Lewin’s “Lecture 11: Work, Energy, and Conservation Laws” Lecture
Link: YouTube: Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Professor Walter Lewin’s “Lecture 11: Work, Energy, and Conservation Laws” (YouTube)
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Instructions: Please click on the link above, and view this entire lecture on energy and conservation.
Watching this lecture should take approximately 1 hour and 15 minutes.
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6.2 Lecture: YouTube: Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Professor Walter Lewin’s “Lecture 14: Orbits and Escape Velocity”
Link: YouTube: Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Professor Walter Lewin’s “Lecture 14: Orbits and Escape Velocity” (YouTube)
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Instructions: Please click on the link above and watch this lecture, pausing to take notes, before moving on to the material below.
Watching this lecture should take approximately 1 hour and 15 minutes.
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7.2 Lecture: YouTube: Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Professor Walter Lewin’s “Lecture 15: Momentum and Conservation of Momentum” and “Lecture 16: Collisions and Center of Mass Motion”
Link: YouTube: Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Professor Walter Lewin’s “Lecture 15: Momentum and Conservation of Momentum” (YouTube) and “Lecture 16: Collisions and Center of Mass Motion” (YouTube)
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Instructions: Please click on the links above, and view both lectures in their entirety, pausing to take notes, before moving on to the reading below.
Watching these lectures should take approximately 2 hours and 30 minutes.
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9.1 Lecture: YouTube: Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Professor Walter Lewin’s “Lecture 19: Rotating Bodies”
Link: YouTube: Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Professor Walter Lewin’s “Lecture 19: Rotating Bodies” (YouTube)
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Instructions: Please click on the link above, and watch this lecture, pausing to take notes, before moving on to the reading below.
Watching this lecture should take approximately 1 hour and 15 minutes.
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9.2 Lecture: YouTube: Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Professor Walter Lewin’s “Lecture 21: Torque”
Link: YouTube: Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Professor Walter Lewin’s “Lecture 21: Torque” (YouTube)
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Instructions: Please click on the link above, and watch this lecture, pausing to take notes, before moving on to the reading below.
Watching this lecture should take approximately 1 hour and 15 minutes.
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9.3 Lecture: YouTube: Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Professor Walter Lewin’s “Lecture 20: Conservation of Angular Momentum”
Link: YouTube: Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Professor Walter Lewin’s “Lecture 20: Conservation of Angular Momentum” (YouTube)
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Watching this lecture should take approximately 1 hour and 15 minutes.
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