Instructors
by Prof. Walter Lewin
Description
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.
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Video Lectures
01_What holds our world together Electric Charges (Historical); Polarization; Electric Force; Coulomb's Law
02_Electric Field; Field Lines; Superposition; Inductive Charging; Dipoles; Induced Dipoles
03_Electric Flux; Gauss's Law; Examples
04_Electrostatic Potential; Electric Energy; eV; Conservative Field; Equipotential Surfaces
05_E = -grad V; More on Equipotential Surfaces; Conductors; Electrostatic Shielding (Faraday Cage)
06_High-Voltage Breakdown; Lightning; Sparks - St. Elmo's Fire
07_Capacitance; Field Energy
08_Polarization; Dielectrics; The Van de Graaff; More on Capacitors
09_Currents; Resistivity; Ohm's Law
10_Batteries; EMF; Energy Conservation; Power; Kirchhoff's Rules; Circuits; Kelvin Water Dropper
11_Magnetic field; Lorentz Force; Torques; Electric Motors (DC); Oscilloscope
12_Review Exam 1 (Secret Top!)
13_Moving Charges in B-fields; Cyclotron; Synchrotron; Mass Spectrometer; Cloud Chamber
14_Biot-Savart Law; Gauss' Law for Magnetic Fields; Revisit the Leyden Jar; High-Voltage Power Lines
15_Ampere's Law; Solenoids; Revisit the Kelvin Water Dropper; Midterm Evaluation
16_Electromagnetic Induction; Faraday's Law; Lenz Law; Complete Breakdown of Intuition; Non-Conservative Fields
17_Motional EMF; Dynamos; Eddy Currents; Magnetic Braking
18_Displacement Current (Difficult Concept); Synchronous Motors; Induction Motors; Secret Top, How does it work?
19_How do Magicians levitate women? (with demo); Electric Shock Treatment (no demo); Electrocardiogram (with demo); Pacemakers; Superconductivity (with demo); Levitating Bullet Trains; Aurora Borealis
20_Inductance; RL Circuits; Magnetic Field Energy
21_Magnetic Materials; Dia-, Para-, and Ferromagnetism; Prize Ceremony of Motor Contest
22_Hysteresis; Electromagnets; Bohr Magneton; Maxwell's Equations; 600 daffodils
23_Review Exam 2
24_Transformers; Car Coils; RC Circuits
25_Driven LRC Circuits; Resonance; Metal Detectors (BeachAirport)
26_Traveling Waves; Standing Waves; Musical Instruments
27_Resonance; Destructive Resonance; Electromagnetic Waves; Speed of Light; Radio - TV; Distance Determinations using Radar and Lasers
28_Index of Refraction; Poynting Vector; Oscillating Charges; Radiation Pressure; Comet Tails; Polarization (Linear, Elliptical, and Circular)
29_Snell's Law; Refraction; Total Reflection; Dispersion; Prisms; Huygens's Principle; The Illusion of Color; The Weird Benham Top; Land's Famous Demo
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 the lecture hall!
31_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
32_Review Exam 3
33_Double-Slit Interference; Interferometers
34_Gratings; Resolving Power; Single-Slit Diffraction; Angular Resolution; Human Eye; Telescopes
35_Doppler Effect; The Big Bang; Cosmology
36_Farewell Special; Bring a Friend!
Running time for each video about 50 minutes
Electricity and Magnetism 2007
