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Electricity and Magnetism

In addition to the basic concepts of electromagnetism, a vast variety of interesting topics are covered in this course: Lightning, Pacemakers, Electric Shock Treatment, Electrocardiograms, Metal Detectors, Musical Instruments, Magnetic Levitation, Bullet Trains, Electric Motors, Radios, TV, Car Coils, Superconductivity, Aurora Borealis, Rainbows, Radio Telescopes, Interferometers, Particle Accelerators (a.k.a. Atom Smashers or Colliders), Mass Spectrometers, Red Sunsets, Blue Skies, Haloes around Sun and Moon, Color Perception, Doppler Effect, Big-Bang Cosmology.

Instructor

Professor Walter Lewin.
Physics
2015

Record ID

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Lecture 01 - Electric Charges and Forces - Coulomb's Law - Polarization

Lecture 01 - Electric Charges and Forces - Coulomb's Law - Polarization

Lecture 02 - Electric Field Lines, Superposition, Inductive Charging, Induced Dipoles

Lecture 03 - Electric Flux and Gauss's Law

Lecture 04 - Electrostatic Potential and Electric Energy

Lecture 05 - E= - grad V, Conductors, Electrostatic Shielding (Faraday Cage)

Lecture 06 - High-Voltage Breakdown and Lightning

Lecture 07 - Capacitance, Electric Field Energy

Lecture 08 - Polarization, Dielectrics, Van de Graaff Generator, Capacitors

Lecture 09 - Electric Currents, Resistivity, Conductivity, Ohm's Law

Lecture 10 - Batteries and EMF

Lecture 11 - Magnetic Field and Lorentz Force

Lecture 12 - Review Exam 1

Lecture 13 - Moving Charges in B-fields, Cyclotrons, Mass Spectrometers

Lecture 14 - Biot-Savart Law

Lecture 15 - Ampere's Law, Solenoids

Lecture 16 - Electromagnetic Induction

Lecture 17 - Motional EMF and Dynamos

Lecture 18 - Displacement Current and Synchronous Motors

Lecture 19 - Magnetic Levitation, Superconductivity, Aurora Borealis

Lecture 20 - Inductance, RL Circuits, Magnetic Field Energy

Lecture 21 - Magnetic Materials, Dia- Para- & Ferromagnetism

Lecture 22 - Hysteresis, Electromagnets, Maxwell's Equations

Lecture 23 - Review for Exam 2

Lecture 24 - Transformers, Car Coils and RC Circuits

Lecture 25 - Driven LRC Circuits and Resonance

Lecture 26 - Traveling Waves and Standing Waves

Lecture 27 - Destructive Resonance, Electromagnetic Waves, Speed of Light

Lecture 28 - Poynting Vector, Oscillating Charges, Polarization, Radiation Pressure

Lecture 29 - Snell's Law, Index of Refraction, Huygens' Principle, Illusion of Color

Lecture 30 - Polarizers and Malus's Law

Lecture 31 - Rainbows

Lecture 32 - Review for Exam 3

Lecture 33 - Double-Slit Interference and Interferometers

Lecture 34 - Diffraction, Gratings, Resolving Power, Angular Resolution

Lecture 35 - Doppler Effect and The Big Bang

Lecture 36 - Farewell Special