8.02 Video Lectures

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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