A native of The Netherlands, Professor Lewin received his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Delft (1965). In 1966, he came to MIT as a postdoctoral associate in the Department of Physics and was invited to join the faculty as an Assistant Professor later that same year. He was promoted to Associate Professor of Physics in 1968 and to full Professor in 1974.
Professor Lewin's honors and awards include the NASA Award for Exceptional Scientific Achievement (1978), twice recipient of the Alexander von Humboldt Award (1984 and 1991), a Guggenheim Fellowship (1984), MIT's Science Council Prize for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching (1984) and the W. Buechner Teaching Prize of the MIT Department of Physics (1988). In 1997, he was the recipient of a NASA Group Achievement Award for the Discovery of the Bursting Pulsar.
He is a member of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences (elected 1993), Fellow of the American Physical Society.
In the seventies and eighties Lewin collaborated with the artists Otto Piene (born in Germany), who was for many years the Director of MIT's Center for Advanced Visual Studies, and with Peter Struycken (Dutch) who is one of the leading computer artists in the world.
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The Wonders of Electricity and Magnetism
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Lecture 23: Farewell Special - Bring a Friend!
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Lecture 22: Rainbows - Haloes - Coronae - Glories
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Lecture 21: Diffraction - Gratings - Pin Holes - Angular Resolution
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Lecture 20: Huygens' Principle - Interference - Thin films - Soap - Oil - Light (double slit interference)
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Lecture 19: Exam 2 Review
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Lecture 18: Boundary Conditions for Dielectrics - Index of Refraction - Snell's Law - Total Internal Reflection - Fresnel Equations - Brewster Angle
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Lecture 17: Wave Guides - Resonance Cavities of EM-radiation and Sound
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Lecture 16: Boundary Conditions at Perfect Conductors - Reflection - Standing EM Waves - Transmission Lines - Radiation Pressure
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Lecture 15: Doppler Effect - Sound - EM Radiation - Binary Stars - Neutron Stars and Black Holes - Expanding Universe
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Lecture 14: Accelerated Charges - Poynting Vector - Power - Rayleigh Scattering - Polarization
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Lecture 13: Electromagnetic Waves - Plane Wave Solutions to Maxwell's Equations - Polarization - Malus' Law
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Lecture 12: Dispersion - Phase Velocity - Group Velocity
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Lecture 11: Fourier Analysis - Time Evolution of Pulses on Strings
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Lecture 10: Exam 1 Review
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Lecture 9: Musical Instruments - Sound Cavities - Normal Modes
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Lecture 8: Traveling Waves - Boundary Conditions - Standing Waves - Sound (Longitudinal Waves) - Energy in Waves
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Lecture 7: Many Coupled Oscillators - Wave Equation - Transverse Traveling Pulses and Waves
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Lecture 6: Driven Coupled Oscillators - Triple Pendulum - Steady State and Transient Solutions - Cramer's Rule
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Lecture 5: Coupled Oscillators
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Lecture 4: Forced Oscillations - Power at Resonance (Resonance Absorption, Resonance Width, Quality Q) - Transient Phenomena (General Solutions including Initial Conditions)
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Lecture 3: Forced Oscillations with Damping Information about the Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapse
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Lecture 2: Beats - Damped Free Oscillations (Under- Over- and Critically Damped) - Quality Q
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Lecture 1: Periodic Phenomena (Oscillations, Waves) - SHO - Complex Notation - Differential Equations - Physical Pendulum
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Introduction to the MIT 8.03 course
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The Mystery of Light
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The Sounds of Music
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The Birth and Death of Stars
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Polarization: Light Waves, Rainbows, and Cheap Sunglasses
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Introduction to the MIT 8.02 course
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How to Make Teaching Come Alive
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Lecture 32: Review Exam 3
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Lecture 1: What holds our world together? Electric Charges (Historical), Polarization, Electric Force, Coulomb's Law
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Lecture 2: Electric Field, Field Lines, Superposition, Inductive Charging, Dipoles, Induced Dipoles
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Lecture 3: Electric Flux, Gauss's Law, Examples
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Lecture 4: Electrostatic Potential, Electric Energy, eV, Conservative Field, Equipotential Surfaces
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Lecture 5: E = -grad V, More on Equipotential Surfaces, Conductors, Electrostatic Shielding (Faraday Cage)
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Lecture 6: High-Voltage Breakdown, Lightning, Sparks - St. Elmo's Fire
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Lecture 7: Capacitance, Field Energy
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Lecture 8: Polarization, Dielectrics, The Van de Graaff, More on Capacitors
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Lecture 9: Currents, Resistivity, Ohm's Law
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Lecture 10: Batteries, EMF, Energy Conservation, Power, Kirchhoff's Rules, Circuits, Kelvin Water Dropper
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Lecture 11: Magnetic field, Lorentz Force, Torques, Electric Motors (DC), Oscilloscope
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Lecture 12: Review Exam 1 (Secret Top!)
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Lecture 13: Moving Charges in B-fields, Cyclotron, Synchrotron, Mass Spectrometer, Cloud Chamber
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Lecture 14: Biot-Savart Law, Gauss' Law for Magnetic Fields, Revisit the "Leyden Jar", High-Voltage Power Lines
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Lecture 15: Ampere's Law, Solenoids, Revisit the Kelvin Water Dropper, Midterm Evaluation
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Lecture 16: Electromagnetic Induction, Faraday's Law, Lenz Law, Complete Breakdown of Intuition, Non-Conservative Fields
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Lecture 17: Motional EMF, Dynamos, Eddy Currents, Magnetic Braking
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Lecture 18: Displacement Current (Difficult Concept), Synchronous Motors, Induction Motors, Secret Top, How does it work?
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Lecture 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
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Lecture 20: Inductance, RL Circuits, Magnetic Field Energy
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Lecture 21: Magnetic Materials, Dia-, Para-, and Ferromagnetism, Prize Ceremony of Motor Contest
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Lecture 22: Hysteresis, Electromagnets, Bohr Magneton, Maxwell's Equations, 600 daffodils
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Lecture 23: Review Exam 2
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Lecture 24: Transformers, Car Coils, RC Circuits
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Lecture 25: Driven LRC Circuits, Resonance, Metal Detectors (Beach/Airport)
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Lecture 26: Traveling Waves, Standing Waves, Musical Instruments
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Lecture 27: Resonance, Destructive Resonance, Electromagnetic Waves, Speed of Light, Radio - TV, Distance Determinations using Radar and Lasers
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Lecture 28: Index of Refraction, Poynting Vector, Oscillating Charges, Radiation Pressure, Comet Tails, Polarization (Linear, Elliptical, and Circular)
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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
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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 the lecture hall!
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Lecture 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
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Lecture 33: Double-Slit Interference, Interferometers
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Lecture 34: Gratings, Resolving Power, Single-Slit Diffraction, Angular Resolution, Human Eye, Telescopes
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Lecture 35: Doppler Effect, The Big Bang, Cosmology
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Lecture 36: Farewell Special, Bring a Friend!
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Lecture 35: Farewell Special - High-energy Astrophysics
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Lecture 34: The Wonderful Quantum World - Breakdown of Classical Mechanics
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Lecture 33: Kinetic Gas Theory - Ideal Gas Law - Isothermal Atmosphere - Phase Diagrams - Phase Transitions
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Lecture 32: Heat - Thermal Expansion
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Lecture 31 - Forced Oscillations - Normal Modes - Resonance - Natural Frequencies - Musical Instruments
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Lecture 30: Simple Harmonic Oscillations - Energy Considerations - Torsional Pendulum
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Lecture 29: Exam Review 3
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Lecture 28: Hydrostatics - Archimedes' Principle - Fluid Dynamics - What Makes Your Boat Float? - Bernoulli's Equation
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Lecture 27: Fluid Mechanics - Pascal's Principle - Hydrostatics - Atmospheric Pressure - Over Pressure in Lungs and Tires
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Lecture 26: Elasticity - Young's Modulus
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Lecture 25: Static Equilibrium - Stability - Rope Walker
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Lecture 24: Rolling Motion - Gyroscopes - VERY NON-INTUITIVE
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Lecture 23: Doppler Effect - Binary Stars - Neutron Stars and Black Holes
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Lecture 22: Kepler's Laws - Elliptical Orbits - Satellites - Change of Orbits - Ham Sandwich
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Lecture 21: Torques - Oscillating Bodies - Hoops
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Lecture 20: Angular Momentum - Torques - Conservation of Angular Momentum - Spinning Neutron Stars - Stellar Collapse
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Lecture 19: Rotating Rigid Bodies - Moment of Inertia - Parallel Axis and Perpendicular Axis Theorem - Rotational Kinetic Energy - Fly Wheels - Neutron Stars - Pulsars
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Lecture 18: Exam Review 2
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Lecture 17: Impulse - Rockets
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Lecture 16: Collisions - Elastic and Inelastic - Center of Mass Frame of Reference
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Lecture 15: Momentum - Conservation of Momentum - Center of Mass
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Lecture 14: Escape Velocities - Bound and Unbound Orbits - Circular Orbits - Various Forms of Energy - Power
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Lecture 13: Potential Energy - Energy Considerations to Derive Simple Harmonic Motion
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Lecture 12: Non-Conservative Forces - Resistive Forces - Air Drag - Terminal Velocity
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Lecture 11: Work - Kinetic Energy - Potential Energy - Conservative Forces - Conservation of Mechanical Energy - Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation
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Lecture 10: Hooke's Law - Springs - Simple Harmonic Motion - Pendulum - Small Angle Approximation
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Lecture 9: Exam Review 1
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Lecture 8: Friction
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Lecture 7: Weight - Perceived Gravity - Weightlessness Free Fall - Zero Gravity in Orbit (misnomer)
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Lecture 6: Newton's Laws
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Lecture 5: Circular Motion - Centrifuges Moving - Reference Frames - Perceived Gravity
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Lecture 4: 3D Kinematics - Free Falling Reference Frames
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Lecture 3: Vectors - Dot Products - Cross Products - 3D Kinematics
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Lecture 2: 1D Kinematics - Speed - Velocity - Acceleration
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MIT 8.01 Physics I: Classical Mechanics - Fall 1999
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interview
Interview with Walter H. Lewin
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promotional video
Promotional Video
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Lecture 1: Powers of Ten - Units - Dimensions - Measurements - Uncertainties - Dimensional Analysis - Scaling Arguments
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introduction
Introduction to the MIT 8.01 course
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