Video+Notes

We will be viewing a series of lectures from MIT's OpenCourseWare. Professor Walter Lewin is a wonderful lecturer and these videos will be of great benefit to you. You will complete assignments based on these lectures. We will study lectures from three different courses taught by Prof. Lewin at MIT: 8.01 Physics I: Classical Mechanics (Fall 1999) 8.02 Electricity and Magnetism (Spring 2002) 8.03 Physics III: Vibrations and Waves (Fall 2004) If you explore the MIT OpenCourseWare pages for these, you will find many goodies, including exams and homework assignments from those courses. You can also find transcripts of the lectures.

**Finding the Videos**
The lectures are available from three sources in several formats. You may use any of these. You can even download them to your iPod/iPhone/iPad, which will make you extremely cool. Simply pay attention to the course, title, and number of the lecture.
 * [|MIT OpenCourseWare] . The specific courses are linked above. Here you can also download the lectures in iTunes, mp4, and rm formats.
 * YouTube. Go here for [|8.01 Mechanics] . Go here for [|8.02 E&M] . And go here for [|8.03 Vibrations].
 * videolectures.net Go here for [|8.01 Mechanics] . Go here for [|8.02 E&M] . And go here for [|8.03 Vibrations] . Here you will also find additional formats for downloading.

Late Summer Assignment (1st Video Notes assignment)
Read very carefully the Video Notes Instructions below. View Lecture 1 (8.01) and complete the Video Notes for that lecture. Hand it in before the bell on the first day of AP Physics class. How well and how thoroughly you complete this assignment will tell me almost everything I need to know about your dedication to doing well in the class. This is your first impression. Make it a good one.

Video Notes Instructions
//(These are the instructions you will follow each time you view a video. We will simply refer to each one as a "Video Notes" assignment.)//


 * 1) Start on a new page for each lecture. At the top, write the lecture number and course number, the lecture title, your name, and the actual date you work on the assignment (//e.g.//, Lec 9, 8.01, Friction, S. Holliday, 7/12/10)
 * 2) Watch the selected video. Be sure to set aside an appropriate amount of time. You do not have to watch the whole lecture in one sitting. You can turn the captions off or on according to your preference. If you have trouble with Prof. Lewin's accent, the captions may be a big help. On the other hand, if you focus too much on the captions you might miss something the professor does or writes.
 * 3) Take notes on what you watch and learn, much as if you were sitting in Prof. Lewin's class. Study tip: If you hear or see something that you know you will want to hear again or may need for future reference, make a note of the time in the video. Don't stress too much over the format of these notes. They are meant to help you study and reinforce what you learn. They are not meant to be polished works of art. If you use abbreviations and shorthands, make sure they are legible and memorable **//to you//** . You are also learning how to take notes for a college class; you will improve as you go.
 * 4) Sometimes you will see unfamiliar (scary?) mathematics. //**Do not get caught up in the math**//. Pay attention to the physical concepts and ideas right now.
 * 5) **//Immediately//** //**after**// viewing the video (not during it, and don't wait until later), write one or two paragraphs summarizing the salient features of the video or main ideas you learned.
 * 6) Place your video notes and summaries together in a notebook or folder kept just for this purpose (keep it neat). You will submit these for review at the appropriate time.
 * 7) There are 40 videos (plus the Unit 0 video) listed here. Which ones and how many you view and complete will be determined by the grading contract in class.

Unit 0: Before school starts
Lecture 1 (8.01) Powers of Ten - Units - Dimensions - Measurements - Uncertainties - Dimensional Analysis - Scaling Arguments

Unit 1: Fluid Mechanics & Thermal Physics
Lecture 27 (8.01) Fluid Mechanics - Pascal's Principle - Hydrostatics - Atmospheric Pressure - Over Pressure in Lungs and Tires Lecture 28 (8.01) Hydrostatics - Archimedes' Principle - Fluid Dynamics - What Makes Your Boat Float? - Bernoulli's Equation Lecture 32 (8.01) Heat - Thermal Expansion Lecture 33 (8.01) Kinetic Gas Theory - Ideal Gas Law - Isothermal Atmosphere - Phase Diagrams - Phase Transitions

Unit 2: Optics
Lecture 28 (8.02) Index of Refraction - Poynting Vector - Oscillating Charges - Radiation Pressure - Comet Tails - Polarization (Linear, Elliptical, and Circular) Lecture 29 (8.02) Snell's Law - Refraction - Total Reflection - Dispersion - Prisms - Huygens's Principle - The Illusion of Color - The Weird Benham Top - Land's Famous Demo Lecture 33 (8.02) Double-Slit Interference - Interferometers Lecture 34 (8.02) Gratings - Resolving Power - Single-Slit Diffraction - Angular Resolution - Human Eye - Telescopes Lecture 21 (8.03) Diffraction - Gratings - Pin Holes - Angular Resolution

Unit 3: Mechanics - Kinematics
Lecture 2 (8.01) 1D Kinematics - Speed - Velocity - Acceleration Lecture 3 (8.01) Vectors - Dot Products - Cross Products - 3D Kinematics

Lecture 6 (8.01) Newton's Laws
Lecture 7 (8.01) Weight - Perceived Gravity - Weightlessness Free Fall - Zero Gravity in Orbit (misnomer)

Unit 5: Mechanics - Work, Energy, & Power
Lecture 11 (8.01) Work - Kinetic Energy - Potential Energy - Conservative Forces - Conservation of Mechanical Energy - Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation Lecture 12 (8.01) Non-Conservative Forces - Resistive Forces - Air Drag - Terminal Velocity

Unit 6: Mechanics - Linear Momentum
Lecture 15 (8.01) Momentum - Conservation of Momentum - Center of Mass Lecture 16 (8.01) Collisions - Elastic and Inelastic - Center of Mass Frame of Reference Lecture 17 (8.01) Impulse - Rockets

Unit 7: Circular Motion, Oscillations, & Gravitation
Lecture 19 (8.01) Rotating Rigid Bodies - Moment of Inertia - Parallel Axis and Perpendicular Axis Theorem - Rotational Kinetic Energy - Fly Wheels - Neutron Stars - Pulsars Lecture 22 (8.01) Kepler's Laws - Elliptical Orbits - Satellites - Change of Orbits - Ham Sandwich Lecture 30 (8.01) Simple Harmonic Oscillations - Energy Considerations - Torsional Pendulum Lecture 14 (8.01) Escape Velocities - Bound and Unbound Orbits - Circular Orbits - Various Forms of Energy - Power Lecture 1 (8.03) Periodic Phenomena (Oscillations, Waves) - SHO - Complex Notation - Differential Equations - Physical Pendulum

Unit 8: Waves & Sound
Lecture 8 (8.03) Traveling Waves - Boundary Conditions - Standing Waves - Sound (Longitudinal Waves) - Energy in Waves Lecture 9 (8.03) Musical Instruments - Sound Cavities - Normal Modes

Unit 9: Electrostatics
Lecture 1 (8.02) What holds our world together? - Electric Charges (Historical) - Polarization - Electric Force - Coulomb's Law Lecture 2 (8.02) Electric Field - Field Lines - Superposition - Inductive Charging - Dipoles - Induced Dipoles Lecture 4 (8.02) Electrostatic Potential - Electric Energy - eV - Conservative Field - Equipotential Surfaces Lecture 5 (8.02) //E// = -grad V - More on Equipotential Surfaces - Conductors - Electrostatic Shielding (Faraday Cage) Lecture 6 (8.02) High-Voltage Breakdown - Lightning - Sparks - St. Elmo's Fire

Unit 10: Electric Circuits
Lecture 7 (8.02) Capacitance - Field Energy Lecture 8 (8.02) Polarization - Dielectrics - The Van de Graaff - More on Capacitors Lecture 9 (8.02) Currents - Resistivity - Ohm's Law Lecture 10 (8.02) Batteries - EMF - Energy Conservation - Power - Kirchhoff's Rules - Circuits - Kelvin Water Dropper

Unit 11: Magnetism
Lecture 11 (8.02) Magnetic field - Lorentz Force - Torques - Electric Motors (DC) - Oscilloscope Lecture 13 (8.02) Moving Charges in B-fields - Cyclotron - Synchrotron - Mass Spectrometer - Cloud Chamber Lecture 16 (8.02) Electromagnetic Induction - Faraday's Law - Lenz Law - Complete Breakdown of Intuition - Non-Conservative Fields Lecture 17 (8.02) Motional EMF - Dynamos - Eddy Currents - Magnetic Braking Lecture 19 (8.02) How do Magicians levitate women? (with demo) - Electric Shock Treatment (no demo) - Electrocardiogram (with demo) - Pacemakers - Superconductivity (with demo) - Levitating Bullet Trains - Aurora Borealis

Unit 12: Modern Physics
Unfortunately, MIT does not have elementary lectures on modern physics available online at this time.