Lecture 1: Periodic Phenomena (Oscillations, Waves) - SHO - Complex Notation - Differential Equations - Physical Pendulum

author:Walter H. G. Lewin, Center for Future Civic Media
published: Oct. 10, 2008,   recorded: September 2004,   views: 1305
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Comment1 Gustavo Bagu, January 4, 2009 at 11:28 p.m.:

Dear Dr. Walter Lewin:
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Comment2 S.A..HADI, June 15, 2009 at 7:23 a.m.:

Dear Dr. Walter Lewin:
I am trying to download and watch one of yuor
lecture on waves. BUT I could not down load. what is there that I can do solve the problem.
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S.A.HADI
From KIU GILGIT PAKISTAN


Comment3 Ivan, October 21, 2009 at 3:16 p.m.:

The lecture is great, thanks to MIT for giving the world an opportunity to see it. I'd very much like to visit such a course in person :)

One remark - I'd expect to see a bit more math in such a lecture. For example, a couple of words on the solution of differential equation for harmonic oscillation would be useful to display those deep bonds between physics and mathematics. However, that information could have been present in student handouts or books that they were required to read before the lecture, then my remark is invalid.

Another thing I suddenly became interested in - what's that chalk that enables you to draw dotted lines? I have never seen such one in the places I was studying. Is it a special kind of chalk or is it easily made from a regular chalk?


Comment4 Psylum, December 23, 2009 at 5:19 a.m.:

Ivan-It's a piece of chalk on a small wheel.

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