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Professor Lewin
The charming MIT Muses surprise Walter Lewin during
his last lecture, #36. (Photo by Markos Hankin, MIT Physics
Department Lecture Demonstration Group. Used with permission
of The Muses, MIT's all-women's a cappella group.)

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Table for Video Lectures
LEC #	TOPICS	STREAMING MEDIA	TRANSCRIPTS
1	What holds our world together? Electric Charges (Historical) Polarization Electric Force Coulomb's Law	(RM - 56K) (RM - 220K)	(PDF) (HTML)
2	Electric Field Field Lines Superposition Inductive Charging Dipoles Induced Dipoles	(RM - 56K) (RM - 220K)	(PDF) (HTML)
3	Electric Flux Gauss's Law Examples	(RM - 56K) (RM - 220K)	(PDF) (HTML)
4	Electrostatic Potential Electric Energy eV Conservative Field Equipotential Surfaces	(RM - 56K) (RM - 220K)	(PDF) (HTML)
5	E = -grad V More on Equipotential Surfaces Conductors Electrostatic Shielding (Faraday Cage)	(RM - 56K) (RM - 220K)	(PDF) (HTML)
6	High-Voltage Breakdown Lightning Sparks - St. Elmo's Fire	(RM - 56K) (RM - 220K)	(PDF) (HTML)
7	Capacitance Field Energy	(RM - 56K) (RM - 220K)	(PDF) (HTML)
8	Polarization Dielectrics The Van de Graaff More on Capacitors	(RM - 56K) (RM - 220K)	(PDF) (HTML)
9	Currents Resistivity Ohm's Law	(RM - 56K) (RM - 220K)	(PDF) (HTML)
10	Batteries EMF Energy Conservation Power Kirchhoff's Rules Circuits Kelvin Water Dropper	(RM - 56K) (RM - 220K)	(PDF) (HTML)
11	Magnetic field Lorentz Force Torques Electric Motors (DC) Oscilloscope	(RM - 56K) (RM - 220K)	(PDF) (HTML)
12	Review Exam 1 (Secret Top!)	(RM - 56K) (RM - 220K)	(PDF) (HTML)
13	Moving Charges in B-fields Cyclotron Synchrotron Mass Spectrometer Cloud Chamber	(RM - 56K) (RM - 220K)	(PDF) (HTML)
14	Biot-Savart Law Gauss' Law for Magnetic Fields Revisit the "Leyden Jar" High-Voltage Power Lines	(RM - 56K) (RM - 220K)	(PDF) (HTML)
15	Ampere's Law Solenoids Revisit the Kelvin Water Dropper Midterm Evaluation	(RM - 56K) (RM - 220K)	(PDF) (HTML)
16	Electromagnetic Induction Faraday's Law Lenz Law Complete Breakdown of Intuition Non-Conservative Fields	(RM - 56K) (RM - 220K)	(PDF) (HTML )
17	Motional EMF Dynamos Eddy Currents Magnetic Braking	(RM - 56K) (RM - 220K)	(PDF) (HTML)
18	Displacement Current (Difficult Concept) Synchronous Motors Induction Motors Secret Top, How does it work?	(RM - 56K) (RM - 220K)	(PDF) (HTML)
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	(RM - 56K) (RM - 220K)	(PDF) (HTML)
20	Inductance RL Circuits Magnetic Field Energy	(RM - 56K) (RM - 220K)	(PDF) (HTML)
21	Magnetic Materials Dia-, Para-, and Ferromagnetism Prize Ceremony of Motor Contest	(RM - 56K) (RM - 220K)	(PDF) (HTML)
22	Hysteresis Electromagnets Bohr Magneton Maxwell's Equations 600 daffodils	(RM - 56K) (RM - 220K)	(PDF) (HTML)
23	Review Exam 2	(RM - 56K) (RM - 220K)	(PDF) (HTML)
24	Transformers Car Coils RC Circuits	(RM - 56K) (RM - 220K)	(PDF) (HTML)
25	Driven LRC Circuits Resonance Metal Detectors (Beach/Airport)	(RM - 56K) (RM - 220K)	(PDF) (HTML)
26	Traveling Waves Standing Waves Musical Instruments	(RM - 56K) (RM - 220K)	(PDF) (HTML)
27	Resonance Destructive Resonance Electromagnetic Waves Speed of Light Radio - TV Distance Determinations using Radar and Lasers Information about the Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapse http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/bridge/tacoma3.html http://www.ketchum.org/bridgecollapse.html	(RM - 56K) (RM - 220K)	(PDF) (HTML)
28	Index of Refraction Poynting Vector Oscillating Charges Radiation Pressure Comet Tails Polarization (Linear, Elliptical, and Circular)	(RM - 56K) (RM - 220K)	(PDF) (HTML)
29	Snell's Law Refraction Total Reflection Dispersion Prisms Huygens's Principle The Illusion of Color The Weird Benham Top Land's Famous Demo	(RM - 56K) (RM - 220K)	(PDF) (HTML)
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!	(RM - 56K) (RM - 220K)	(PDF) (HTML)
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	(RM - 56K) (RM - 220K)	(PDF) (HTML)
32	Review Exam 3	(RM - 56K) (RM - 220K)	(PDF) (HTML)
33	Double-Slit Interference Interferometers	(RM - 56K) (RM - 220K)	(PDF) (HTML)
34	Gratings Resolving Power Single-Slit Diffraction Angular Resolution Human Eye Telescopes	(RM - 56K) (RM - 220K)	(PDF) (HTML)
35	Doppler Effect The Big Bang Cosmology	(RM - 56K) (RM - 220K)	(PDF) (HTML)
36	Farewell Special Bring a Friend!	(RM - 56K) (RM - 220K)	(PDF) (HTML)