Electricity and Magnetism
Spring 2002
Lecturer: Prof. Walter Lewin
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• 8.02 Spring 2002 Lecture 1
  What holds our world together?
  Electric charges (historical)
  Polarization
  Electric Force
  Coulomb's Law
  Recorded on 02/06/02
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• 8.02 Spring 2002 Lecture 2
  Electric Field
  Field Lines
  Superposition
  Inductive Charging
  Dipoles
  Induced Dipoles
  Recorded on 02/08/02
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• 8.02 Spring 2002 Lecture 3
  Electric Flux
  Gauss's Law
  Examples
  Recorded on 02/11/02
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• 8.02 Spring 2002 Lecture 4
  Electrostatic Potential
  Electric Energy
  eV
  Conservative Field
  Equipotential Surfaces
  Recorded on 02/13/02
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• 8.02 Spring 2002 Lecture 5
  E = -grad V
  More on Equipotential Surfaces
  Conductors
  Electrostatic Shielding (Faraday cage)
  Recorded on 02/15/02
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• 8.02 Spring 2002 Lecture 6
  High-voltage breakdown
  Lightning
  Sparks - St. Elmo's Fire
  Recorded on 02/19/02
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• 8.02 Spring 2002 Lecture 7
  Capacitance
  Field energy
  Recorded on 02/20/02
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• 8.02 Spring 2002 Lecture 8
  Polarization
  Dielectrics
  The Van de Graaff
  More on Capacitors
  Recorded on 02/22/02
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• 8.02 Spring 2002 Lecture 9
  Currents
  Resistivity
  Ohm's Law
  Recorded on 02/25/02
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• 8.02 Spring 2002 Lecture 10
  Batteries
  EMF
  Energy Conservation
  Power
  Kirchhoff's Rules
  Circuits
  Kelvin Water Dropper
  Recorded on 02/27/02
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• 8.02 Spring 2002 Lecture 11
  Magnetic field
  Lorentz force
  Torques
  Electric Motors (DC)
  Cathode Ray Tube
  Oscilloscope
  Recorded on 03/01/02
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• 8.02 Spring 2002 Lecture 12
  Review Exam 1 (Secret Top!)
  Recorded on 03/04/02
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• 8.02 Spring 2002 Lecture 13
  Moving charges in B-fields
  Cyclotron
  Synchrotron
  Mass Spectrometer
  Cloud Chamber
  Recorded on 03/08/02
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• 8.02 Spring 2002 Lecture 14
  Biot-Savart Law
  Gauss' law for magnetic field
  Revisit the "Leiden Jar"
  High-voltage power lines
  Recorded on 03/11/02
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• 8.02 Spring 2002 Lecture 15
  Ampere's Law
  Solenoids
  Revisit the Kelvin Water Dropper
  Midterm Evaluation
  Recorded on 03/13/02
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• 8.02 Spring 2002 Lecture 16
  Electromagnetic Induction
  Faraday's Law
  Lenz Law
  Complete Breakdown of Intuition
  Non-Conservative Field
  Recorded on 03/15/02
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• 8.02 Spring 2002 Lecture 17
  Motional EMF
  Dynamos
  Eddy Currents
  Magnetic Braking
  Recorded on 03/18/02
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• 8.02 Spring 2002 Lecture 18
  Displacement Current (Difficult Concept)
  Synchronous Motors
  Induction Motors
  Secret Top, how does it work?
  Recorded on 03/20/02
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• 8.02 Spring 2002 Lecture 19
  Vacation Special
  How do Magicians levitate women? (with demo)
  Electric shock treatment (no demo)
  Electrocardiogram (with demo)
  Pacemakers
  Superconductivity (with demo)
  Levitating Bullet Trains
  Aurora Borealis
  Recorded on 03/22/02
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• 8.02 Spring 2002 Lecture 20
  Inductance
  RL Circuits
  Magnetic Field Energy
  Recorded on 04/01/02
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• 8.02 Spring 2002 Lecture 21
  Magnetic Materials
  Dia-, Para-, and Ferromagnetism
  Prize Ceremony of Motor Contest
  Recorded on 04/03/02
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• 8.02 Spring 2002 Lecture 22
  Hysteresis
  Electromagnets
  Bohr Magneton
  Maxwell's Equations
  Recorded on 04/05/02
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• 8.02 Spring 2002 Lecture 23
  Review Exam 2
  Recorded on 04/08/02
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• 8.02 Spring 2002 Lecture 24
  Transformers
  Car Coils
  RC Circuits
  Recorded on 04/12/02
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• 8.02 Spring 2002 Lecture 25
  Driven LRC Circuits
  Resonance
  Metal Detectors (beach/airport)
  Recorded on 04/17/02
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• 8.02 Spring 2002 Lecture 26
  Traveling Waves
  Standing Waves
  Musical Instruments
  Recorded on 04/19/02
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• 8.02 Spring 2002 Lecture 27
  Resonance
  Destructive resonance
  Electromagnetic Waves
  Speed of Light
  Radio - TV
  Distance determinations using radar and lasers
  Recorded on 04/22/02
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• 8.02 Spring 2002 Lecture 28
  Index of Refraction
  Poynting Vector
  Oscillating charges
  Radiation Pressure
  Comet tails
  Polarization (linear, elliptical, and circular)
  Recorded on 04/24/02
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• 8.02 Spring 2002 Lecture 29
  Snell's law
  Refraction
  Total Reflection
  Dispersion
  Prisms
  Huygens's Principle
  The Illusion of Color
  The weird Benham Top
  Land's famous demo
  Recorded on 04/26/02
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• 8.02 Spring 2002 Lecture 30
  Polarizers
  Malus's Law
  Brewster angle
  Polarization by reflection and scattering
  Why is the sky blue, why are sunsets red?
  the sun will set in 26-100!
  Recorded on 04/29/02
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• 8.02 Spring 2002 Lecture 31
  Rainbows
  A modest rainbow will appear in 26-100
  Fog bows
  Supernumerary bows
  Polarization of the bows
  Halos around the sun and the moon
  mock suns
  Recorded on 05/01/02
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• 8.02 Spring 2002 Lecture 32
  Review Exam 3
  Recorded on 05/03/02
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• 8.02 Spring 2002 Lecture 33
  Double-Slit Interference
  Interferometers
  Recorded on 05/08/02
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• 8.02 Spring 2002 Lecture 34
  Gratings
  Resolving Power
  Single-slit Diffraction
  Angular Resolution
  Human Eye
  Telescopes
  Recorded on 05/10/02
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• 8.02 Spring 2002 Lecture 35
  Doppler Effect
  The Big Bang
  Cosmology
  Recorded on 05/13/02
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• 8.02 Spring 2002 Lecture 36
  Farewell Special
  Recorded on 05/15/02
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