Wednesday 28 April 2010

MIT Open Courseware

Video Lectures - Lecture 10

Topics covered:


Concepts covered in this lecture begin with the restoring force of a spring (Hooke's Law) which leads to an equation of motion that is characteristic of a simple harmonic oscillator (SHO). Using the small angle approximation, a similar expression is reached for a pendulum.

Instructor/speaker:


Prof. Walter Lewin

Tuesday 27 April 2010