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| Review of course | Prof. Walter Lewin's course has an amazing collection of videos and homework problems. His pace is fast, but, his lectures are engaging and witty. From the site, Course Description: 8.01 is a first-semester freshman physics class in Newtonian Mechanics, Fluid Mechanics, and Kinetic Gas Theory. In addition to the basic concepts of Newtonian Mechanics, Fluid Mechanics, and Kinetic Gas Theory, a variety of interesting topics are covered in this course: Binary Stars, Neutron Stars, Black Holes, Resonance Phenomena, Musical Instruments, Stellar Collapse, Supernovae, Astronomical observations from very high flying balloons (lecture 35), and you will be allowed a peek into the intriguing Quantum World OpenCourseWare also presents Professor Lewin's freshman physics course series 8.02 - Electricity and Magnetism - with a complete set of 36 video lectures from the Spring of 2002 and 8.03 - Vibrations and Waves - with a complete set of 23 video lectures from the Fall of 2004. |
| Resources listed on TextbookRevolution.org that can be used alongside this course | Calculus Based Physics, Light and Matter, Mathematical Tools for Physics, Physics, Essential Physics, A New View of Statistics |
| Subjects | Physics |
