Lectures (Video)
- 1. Measurements And Dimensional Analysis
- 2. 1D Kinematics
- 3. Vectors
- 4. 3D Kinematics
- 5. Circular Motion
- 6. Newton's Laws
- 7. Weight - Perceived Gravity
- 8. Friction
- 9. Review
- 10. Hooke's Law
- 11. Work - Kinetic Energy - Potential Energy
- 12. Non-Conservative Forces
- 13. Potential Energy
- 14. Sources of energy
- 15. Momentum
- 16. Elastic and Inelastic Collisions
- 17. Impulse
- 18. Review II
- 19. Rotating Rigid Bodies
- 20. Angular Momentum
- 21. Torques - Oscillating Bodies
- 22. Kepler's Laws
- 23. Doppler Effect
- 24. Rolling Motion and Gyroscopes
- 25. Static Equilibrium
- 26. Elasticity and Young's Modulus
- 27. Introduction to Fluid Mechanics
- 28. Hydrostatics and Bernoulli's Equation
- 29. Review III
- 30. Simple Harmonic Oscillations
- 31. Forced Oscillations
- 32. Heat - Thermal Expansion
- 33. Kinetic Gas Theory
- 34. Breakdown of Classical Mechanics
- 35. High-energy Astrophysics
Classical Mechanics - Lecture 34
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Lecture 34 - Breakdown of Classical Mechanics
Classical Mechanics, in spite of all of its impressive predictive power, fails to explain many microscopic behaviors. This led to the development of Quantum Mechanics, where electrons orbit nuclei in discrete energy levels, light can behave as a particle, and particles behave as waves. The location of microscopic particles can only be expressed in terms of probabilities. Heisenberg's uncertainty principle is discussed and demonstrated.
Prof. Walter Lewin
8.01 Physics I: Classical Mechanics, Fall 1999 (Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare) http://ocw.mit.edu Date accessed: 2008-12-12 License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA |
