All Seasons

Season 1

• S01E01 Powers of Ten - Units - Dimensions - Measurements - Uncertainties - Dimensional Analysis - Scaling Arguments

• S01E02 1D Kinematics - Speed - Velocity - Acceleration

• S01E03 Vectors - Dot Products - Cross Products - 3D Kinematics

• S01E04 3D Kinematics - Free Falling Reference Frames

• S01E05 Circular Motion - Centrifuges Moving - Reference Frames - Perceived Gravity

• S01E06 Newton's Laws

• S01E07 Weight - Perceived Gravity - Weightlessness Free Fall - Zero Gravity in Orbit (misnomer)

• S01E08 Friction

• S01E09 Exam Review

• S01E10 Hooke's Law - Springs - Simple Harmonic Motion - Pendulum - Small Angle Approximation

• S01E11 Work - Kinetic Energy - Potential Energy - Conservative Forces - Conservation of Mechanical Energy - Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation

• S01E12 Non-Conservative Forces - Resistive Forces - Air Drag - Terminal Velocity

• S01E13 Potential Energy - Energy Considerations to Derive Simple Harmonic Motion

• S01E14 Escape Velocities - Bound and Unbound Orbits - Circular Orbits - Various Forms of Energy - Power

• S01E15 Momentum - Conservation of Momentum - Center of Mass

• S01E16 Collisions - Elastic and Inelastic - Center of Mass Frame of Reference

• S01E17 Impulse - Rockets

• S01E18 Exam Review

• S01E19 Rotating Rigid Bodies - Moment of Inertia - Parallel Axis and Perpendicular Axis Theorem - Rotational Kinetic Energy - Fly Wheels - Neutron Stars - Pulsars

• S01E20 Angular Momentum - Torques - Conservation of Angular Momentum - Spinning Neutron Stars - Stellar Collapse

• S01E21 Torques - Oscillating Bodies - Hoops

• S01E22 Kepler's Laws - Elliptical Orbits - Satellites - Change of Orbits - Ham Sandwich

• S01E23 Doppler Effect - Binary Stars - Neutron Stars and Black Holes

• S01E24 Rolling Motion - Gyroscopes - VERY NON-INTUITIVE

• S01E25 Static Equilibrium - Stability - Rope Walker

• S01E26 Elasticity - Young's Modulus

• S01E27 Fluid Mechanics - Pascal's Principle - Hydrostatics - Atmospheric Pressure - Over Pressure in Lungs and Tires

• S01E28 Hydrostatics - Archimedes' Principle - Fluid Dynamics - What Makes Your Boat Float? - Bernoulli's Equation

• S01E29 Exam Review

• S01E30 Simple Harmonic Oscillations - Energy Considerations - Torsional Pendulum

• S01E31 Forced Oscillations - Normal Modes - Resonance - Natural Frequencies - Musical Instruments

• S01E32 Heat - Thermal Expansion

• S01E33 Kinetic Gas Theory - Ideal Gas Law - Isothermal Atmosphere - Phase Diagrams - Phase Transitions

• S01E34 The Wonderful Quantum World - Breakdown of Classical Mechanics

• S01E35 Farewell Special - High-energy Astrophysics

• S01E99 Course Introduction

Season 2

• S02E01 What holds our world together? Electric Charges (Historical), Polarization, Electric Force, Coulomb's Law

• S02E02 Electric Field, Field Lines, Superposition, Inductive Charging, Dipoles, Induced Dipoles

• S02E03 Electric Flux, Gauss's Law, Examples

• S02E04 Electrostatic Potential, Electric Energy, eV, Conservative Field, Equipotential Surfaces

• S02E05 E = -grad V, More on Equipotential Surfaces, Conductors, Electrostatic Shielding (Faraday Cage)

• S02E06 High-Voltage Breakdown, Lightning, Sparks - St Elmo's Fire

• S02E07 Capacitance, Field Energy

• S02E08 Polarization, Dielectrics, The Van de Graaff, More on Capacitors

• S02E09 Currents, Resistivity, Ohm's Law

• S02E10 Batteries, EMF, Energy Conservation, Power, Kirchhoff's Rules, Circuits, Kelvin Water Dropper

• S02E11 Magnetic Field, Lorentz Force, Torques, Electric Motors (DC), Oscilloscope

• S02E12 Review Exam 1 (Secret Top!)

• S02E13 Moving Charges in B-fields, Cyclotron, Synchrotron, Mass Spectrometer, Cloud Chamber

• S02E14 Biot-Savart Law, Gauss' Law for Magnetic Fields, Revisit the "Leyden Jar", High-Voltage Power Lines

• S02E15 Ampere's Law, Solenoids, Revisit the Kelvin Water Dropper, Midterm Evaluation

• S02E16 Electromagnetic Induction, Faraday's Law, Lenz Law, Complete Breakdown of Intuition, Non-Conservative Fields

• S02E17 Motional EMF, Dynamos, Eddy Currents, Magnetic Braking

• S02E18 Displacement Current (Difficult Concept), Synchronous Motors, Induction Motors, Secret Top, How does it work?

• S02E19 How do magicians levitate women? Electric Shock Treatment, Electrocardiogram, Pacemakers, Superconductivity, Levitating Bullet Trains, Aurora Borealis

• S02E20 Inductance, RL Circuits, Magnetic Field Energy

• S02E21 Magnetic Materials, Dia-, Para-, and Ferromagnetism, Prize Ceremony of Motor Contest

• S02E22 Hysteresis, Electromagnets, Bohr Magneton, Maxwell's Equations

• S02E23 Review Exam 2

• S02E24 Transformers, Car Coils, RC Circuits

• S02E25 Driven LRC Circuits, Resonance, Metal Detectors (Beach/Airport)

• S02E26 Traveling Waves, Standing Waves, Musical Instruments

• S02E27 Resonance, Destructive Resonance, Electromagnetic Waves, Speed of Light, Radio, TV, Distance Determinations using Radar and Lasers

• S02E28 Index of Refraction, Poynting Vector, Oscillating Charges, Radiation Pressure, Comet Tails, Polarization (Linear, Elliptical, and Circular)

• S02E29 Snell's Law, Refraction, Total Reflection, Dispersion, Prisms, Huygen's Principle, The Illusion of Color, The Weird Benham Top, Land's Famous Demo

• S02E30 Polarizers, Malus's Law, Brewster Angle, Polarization by Reflection and Scattering, Why is the sky blue, Why are sunsets red?

• S02E31 Rainbows, Fog Bows, Supernumerary Bows, Polarization of the Bows, Haloes around the Sun and Moon, Coronae, Glories, Mock Suns (Sun Dogs)

• S02E32 Review Exam 3

• S02E33 Double-Slit Interference, Interferometers

• S02E34 Gratings, Resolving Power, Single-Slit Diffraction, Angular Resolution, Human Eye - Telescopes

• S02E35 Doppler Effect, The Big Bang, Cosmology

• S02E36 Farewell Special

Season 3

• S03E01 Periodic Phenomena (Oscillations, Waves) - SHO - Complex Notation - Differential Equations - Physical Pendulum

• S03E02 Beats - Damped Free Oscillations (Under- Over- and Critically Damped) - Quality Q

• S03E03 Forced Oscillations with Damping

• S03E04 Forced Oscillations - Power at Resonance (Resonance Absorption, Resonance Width, Quality Q) - Transient Phenomena (General Solutions including Initial Conditions)

• S03E05 Coupled Oscillators

• S03E06 Driven Coupled Oscillators - Triple Pendulum - Steady State and Transient Solutions - Cramer's Rule

• S03E07 Many Coupled Oscillators - Wave Equation - Transverse Traveling Pulses and Waves

• S03E08 Traveling Waves - Boundary Conditions - Standing Waves - Sound (Longitudinal Waves) - Energy in Waves

• S03E09 Musical Instruments - Sound Cavities - Normal Modes

• S03E10 Exam 1 Review

• S03E11 Fourier Analysis - Time Evolution of Pulses on Strings

• S03E12 Dispersion - Phase Velocity - Group Velocity

• S03E13 Dispersion - Phase Velocity - Group Velocity

• S03E14 Accelerated Charges - Poynting Vector - Power - Rayleigh Scattering - Polarization

• S03E15 Doppler Effect - Sound - EM Radiation - Binary Stars - Neutron Stars and Black Holes - Expanding Universe

• S03E16 Boundary Conditions at Perfect Conductors - Reflection - Standing EM Waves - Transmission Lines - Radiation Pressure

• S03E17 Wave Guides - Resonance Cavities of EM-radiation and Sound

• S03E18 Boundary Conditions for Dielectrics - Index of Refraction - Snell's Law - Total Internal Reflection - Fresnel Equations - Brewster Angle

• S03E19 Exam 2 Review

• S03E20 Huygens' Principle - Interference - Thin films - Soap - Oil - Light (double slit interference)

• S03E21 Diffraction - Gratings - Pin Holes - Angular Resolution

• S03E22 Rainbows - Haloes - Coronae - Glories

• S03E23 Farewell Special - Bring a Friend!