Download Complete Video Lectures on Electricity, Magnetism and Optics.

Professor Walter Lewin photographed during a demonstration bouncing a balloon (sprayed with conducting paint) between his head and a small Van de Graaff generator. This demonstration can be viewed on the video of Lecture #2. (Image courtesy of Markos Hankin, MIT Physics Department Lecture Demonstration Group.)

There are a total of 37 Video Lectures available for Download.


Lecture Topics
Course Introduction
Lecture I
Topics covered:
What holds our world together?
Electric Charges (Historical)
Polarization
Electric Force
Coulomb's Law
Lecture II
Topics covered:
Electric Field
Field Lines
Superposition
Inductive Charging
Dipoles
Induced Dipoles
Lecture III
Topics covered:
Electric Flux
Gauss's Law
Examples
Lecture IV
Topics covered:
Electrostatic Potential
Electric Energy
eV
Conservative Field
Equipotential Surfaces
Lecture V
Topics covered:
E = -grad V
More on Equipotential Surfaces
Conductors
Electrostatic Shielding (Faraday Cage)
Lecture VI
St Elmo's Fire
Lecture VII
Topics covered:
Capacitance
Field Energy
Lecture VIII
Topics covered:
Polarization
Dielectrics
The Van de Graaff
More on Capacitors
Lecture IX

Topics covered:
Currents
Resistivity
Ohm's Law
Lecture X
Topics covered:
Batteries
EMF
Energy Conservation
Power
Kirchhoff's Rules
Circuits
Kelvin Water Dropper
Lecture XI
Topics covered:
Magnetic field
Lorentz Force
Torques
Electric Motors (DC)
Oscilloscope
Lecture XII
Topics covered:
Review Exam 1 (Secret Top!)
Lecture XIII
Topics covered:
Moving Charges in B-fields
Cyclotron
Synchrotron
Mass Spectrometer
Cloud Chamber
Lecture XIV
Topics covered:
Biot-Savart Law
Gauss' Law for Magnetic Fields
Revisit the "Leyden Jar"
High-Voltage Power Lines
Lecture XV
Topics covered:
Ampere's Law
Solenoids
Revisit the Kelvin Water Dropper
Midterm Evaluation
Lecture XVI
Topics covered:
Electromagnetic Induction
Faraday's Law
Lenz Law
Complete Breakdown of Intuition
Non-Conservative Fields
Lecture XVII
Topics covered:
Motional EMF
Dynamos
Eddy Currents
Magnetic Braking
Lecture XVIII
Topics covered:
Displacement Current (Difficult Concept)
Synchronous Motors
Induction Motors
Secret Top, How does it work?
Lecture XIX
Topics covered:
How do Magicians levitate women? (with demo)
Electric Shock Treatment (no demo)
Electrocardiogram (with demo)
Pacemakers
Superconductivity (with demo)
Levitating Bullet Trains
Aurora Borealis
Lecture XX
Topics covered:
Inductance
RL Circuits
Magnetic Field Energy
Lecture XXI
Topics covered:
Magnetic Materials
Dia-, Para-, and Ferromagnetism
Prize Ceremony of Motor Contest
Lecture XXII
Topics covered:
Hysteresis
Electromagnets
Bohr Magneton
Maxwell's Equations
600 daffodils
Lecture XXIII
Topics covered:
Review Exam 2
Lecture XXIV
Topics covered:
Transformers
Car Coils
RC Circuits
Lecture XXV
Topics covered:
Driven LRC Circuits
Resonance
Metal Detectors (Beach/Airport)
Lecture XXVI
Topics covered:
Traveling Waves
Standing Waves
Musical Instruments
Lecture XXVII
Topics covered:
Resonance
Destructive Resonance
Electromagnetic Waves
Speed of Light
Radio - TV
Distance Determinations using Radar and Lasers
Lecture XXVIII
Topics covered:
Index of Refraction
Poynting Vector
Oscillating Charges
Radiation Pressure
Comet Tails
Polarization (Linear, Elliptical, and Circular)
Lecture XXIX
Topics covered:
Snell's Law
Refraction
Total Reflection
Dispersion
Prisms
Huygens's Principle
The Illusion of Color
The Weird Benham Top
Land's Famous Demo
Lecture XXX
Topics covered:
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 the lecture hall!
Lecture XXXI
Topics covered:
Rainbows
A modest rainbow will appear in the lecture hall!
Fog Bows
Supernumerary Bows
Polarization of the Bows
Halos around the Sun and the Moon
Mock Suns
Lecture XXXII
Topics covered:
Review Exam 3
Lecture XXXIII
Topics covered:
Double-Slit Interference
Interferometers
Lecture XXXIV
Topics covered:
Gratings
Resolving Power
Single-Slit Diffraction
Angular Resolution
Human Eye
Telescopes
Lecture XXXV
Topics covered:
Doppler Effect
The Big Bang
Cosmology
Lecture XXXVI
Topics covered:
Farewell Special
Bring a Friend!

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