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 35
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Lecture 35 - High-energy Astrophysics
Professor Lewin talks about some of the highlights from his early days at MIT. It began with balloon flights at very high altitude to make observations of the stars in X-rays. This led to discoveries of X-ray flaring events and a periodic X-ray source (GX 1+4). In the seventies and eighties he made important contributions to our understanding of X-ray bursts (thermo-nuclear fusion episodes on neutron stars).
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 |
