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  • This was done by Paul Hewitt in the 80's, stolen =)! watch?v=BVxEEn3w688

  • omg, white socks inside sandals, gotta be dutch person -.-'

  • I am very happy to see the vidoe Professor Walter Lewin of MIT draws fans around the world with his online physics lectures after you give this

  • I Love The Video Professor Walter Lewin of MIT draws fans around the world with his online physics lectures. It Can Increase My Knowledge

  • Steady I Really Like This Video Professor Walter Lewin of MIT draws fans around the world with his online physics lectures.

  • i love the sandals with the socks

  • You've got to love Lewin. MIT will never be the same without him.

  • Lewin is a legend, and a national treasure.

  • @CRay062163 yeah, Dutch shares exactly this feeling. He's a national treasure in his motherland.

  • Wait THIS is what they learn at MIT?? I learned this in my early High School years.

  • @KLUSTERIZER Okay, I'm really sick of you people coming on here and saying "I learned this early in my high school years." Let me expose you to something called AP courses. They are college level courses taught at high school your senior (12th grade) year. I'm sure everyone that has ever applied to MIT took AP courses in Calculus and Physics, where by you learn the stuff you are seeing in the video, minus a few topics not covered because they aren't covered on the AP exam.

  • @jshowa6 I took all AP courses starting my sophomore year in high school. You're not "exposing" me to anything. I learned this thing in particular in my freshman year honors physics class. Teacher did the same exact presentation.

  • Phyics works, indeed. This guy is great.

  • hiya wer is deutsch

  • a new beakman!

  • I study theology and want to watch his lectures!

  • I want to attend even just one of his classes. So awesome.

  • @datxcod: nice point. I love physics and I really wanna be able to study in this kind of environment but...MIT is too expensive.

  • i don't go to MIT and for some reason my professor thinks we need to have more baller physics knowledge than this guy dishes out. fuck

  • He's my hero, I pretty much want to be him when I'm older!

  •  thanks for your such great teaching,sir. i love physics and the way you teach it

  • you are my favourite teacher... you really rock

  • Well, is nice but..... What would happen is the string is not fully stretched when he lets go the iron ball in front of him? , would be the same result? then you have to take in account the material of which the string is made of? that is when physics get interesting... “real world physics, where physics does not always works… as you thought it would”

  • @monoarania10 that's comparing apples to hand grenades dude.

    "Real world physics, where you need to change the way you think if it doesn't work the way you thought"

  • Nobel price for teaching!

  • He's Dutch!

  • You are the best person I have ever heard of!

  • is he dutch ?

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  • I seriously wish i had the honor of taking him...physics would have ruled my world!!! His students are lucky people

  • You don't have to love the US for him, he's dutch.

  • physic works and im still alive :D

  • lewin u r da best.............

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  • he helped me bring up my grade 10 points

  • 1:00 Headshot!

  • Yeah hes a superstar. Didnt James Woods, yeah the actor go to MIT? And also with honors?

  • The second time he explains the swinging movement the ball loses energy to swing due to gravity pulling the ball down, but at the first time the ball somehow gains energy to move further than it's starting point?? I suppose the video is incomplete and he gave the ball an additional push or what?

  • @tolli111 He did not let the bowl swing on itself the first time, he rather pushed it! The second time he just let the bowl swing.

  • @tolli111 Erm, the ball doesn't lose energy due to gravity, it loses energy due to the friction between its surface and air, and (far lesser) due to the elastic deformation of the thread which anchors it to the roof. If the pendulum were in a perfect vacuum and held by a perfectly non-elastic thread, it would keep swinging until the Sun blows up.

    And yeah, what Joshua said: the first time he pushed the ball.

  • @StrikaAmaru if there wouldn't be gravity, the air molecules wouldn't be hovering in our surface -> no friction (so it is due to gravity :)

  • physics work and i'm still alive

  • absolutely fascinating!!!!! physics really seems beautiful!!

  • a great teacher indeed;]

  • thank u.

  • 0:54

  • I had a professor (look up David Willey on YT) who did demonstrations like that. Didn't learn a thing. He tried to make physics all "fun" and in doing so eschewed all of the higher-level mathematics so that despite being "calculus-based" the class was no harder than a non-AP high school physics class.

    Those that are truly interested in physics do not need their professors to make it "fun" and will in fact be more interested if they don't.

  • @CosmicKitten89 I suppose THAT is the difference between Walter Lewin and your professor. I had Professor Lewin. Physics was my bane until his class. The fun part was extra. He's a flat out good teacher - and a darned incredible human being on top of everything else. Believe me, a calculus-based physics class at MIT requires that you know calculus. I also had A.P. French...wow i think i was pretty lucky...

  • @tirres Which is why I have to teach myself. Problem is I can't pay attention to lectures (believe me, I would often get the highest or second highest grade in the class on the tests without listening or taking notes) and the lectures make me tired, so tired that I cannot read the textbook (I am actually fluent in textbook lexicon, unlike most students) concentrate on the homework, and so I get a bad grade on the homework if it's graded or have gaps in my knowledge on the test if it's not.

  • @tirres Also, if you don't mind me ranting, THAT'S NOT FAIR!!! WHAT DO THEY THINK WE ARE ALL DUMB BECAUSE WE DIDN'T MAKE IT INTO MIT (WHICH I WOULD HAVE NOT ONLY GONE TO BUT GRADUATED BY NOW BTW IF IT WEREN'T FOR MY EVIL FOSTER PARENT BUT I DON'T WANT TO GET INTO THAT) SO THEY JUST DON'T BOTHER TO TEACH US???!!! NO WONDER JOHNSTOWN'S INFRASTRUCTURE IS CRUMBLING AND FLOODING ALL THE TIME! IF YOU ASK ME IT'S THE SUPERIOR DUNCES THAT NEED SUPERIOR TEACHING!

  • @tirres Also, teaching classical mechanics by throwing pendula around and shooting and dropping objects at the same time is like teaching quantum mechanics by having the students watch a snowy TV

    "WATCH ALL THE LITTLE ELECTRONS HIT THE SCREEN! BEHOLD! THE THERMIONIC EFFECT!"

  • es un monster hoe physic and teacher, ojalá en uruguay sigámos sus pasos

  • the bast professor in the world i hope i will see hem some day

  • "Physics works, and i'm still alive" haha

  • this man is my new rockstar, haha :D

  • I HATE MIT, you gotta be a real smart guy AND have the money to be able to have a slim chance to enroll. Education should be free, it shouldn't be based on money or intellectual ability, it should be available to anyone willing to put in the effort. When education stops being about money and becomes something available to anyone willing to learn human civilization will progress.

  • @datxcod If you were truely smart enough you would get a scholarship. Education is free, but the highly skilled jobs that require higher education can't be given to the average joe.

    You suck.

  • @ff7masta you got me wrong, most people who work at MIT don't go to NASA or something like that. Most end up working at companies, I even know of people who don't have a good job. I'm complaining about the whole "you gotta have a lot of money to study here" let's face it there are more people who pay for education than those who get there through a scholarship

  • @datxcod That's not true. MIT takes in a lot more international students than American students, and they probably don't have much money.

  • @ff7masta Sure, a meritocracy. But whats the yardstick? For some, sure, its simple. High merit displayed early and consistently. And they do go on to make what academic fields consider great discoveries.

    But there is a whole range of far more important discoveries that were made not by professional academics, but by entrepreneurs, statesmen, amateurs, inventors and the self taught.

    It only makes sense to give them the best education available too, if they want it.

  • @irR4tiOn4L You're saying that naturally brilliant people deserve the best education for free if they want it. You know what? These naturally brilliant people should prove they are brilliant. If they are so smart, they would have good grades as proof. If they didn't go to school, where is an example of their brilliance? Where is an example of some invention of theirs that was totally revolutionary?

    Important discoveries aren't made by the uneducated.

  • @ff7masta Actually my friend's sister goes to harvard and she says alot of the kids there are dumb and they got in with daddy's money! George w bush went to Yale and where did that get him? its sad that some pitiful people define themselves by what diploma/degree they have. its unfortunate really! the greatest philosophers are being studied! and none of these philosophers went to 'MIT", it really is true that people will be arrogant about anything, pride will lead to ur demise.

  • @markee871 Here's a few tips

    1) Anecdotal evidence isn't real evidence.

    2) George W Bush became the president of the USA for two terms.

    3) No one cares about your degree when your doing research, because everyone has Ph.Ds. What matters is the research, and your reputation.

    4) Philosopher is a fancy word for unemployed. Absolutely useless profession taken by elitist hipsters. It hasn't been necessary since the scientific method was created.

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  • @ff7masta All your "tips" were weak and lame. You lack structure.

    The bottom line is A HUMAN DOESNT NEED AN OBJECT TO VALIDATE THEIR WORTH! Im not talking about these low budget "hipsters" Im talking about ancient philosophers! the people who came before us! even some people now have GREAT WISDOM and credibility. What my point was flew over your cuckoo nest.

    You can swim all day in the sea of knowledge and still come out dry.

  • @markee871 Ancient philosophers are equivalent to modern day scientists. Both seek knowledge. A degree proves you have gone through higher education and how well.

    Modern day philosophers have zero job prospects, contribute nothing to society, and are not legendary thinkers. When is the last time a philosopher accomplished anything?

  • Just a question. Don't know if anyone can answer me this.

    But that ball on a cord. When you would do this in a vacuum space? Would the ball ever come to a stop? Or would it slow down less quickly?

  • @tankeriv the small amount of friction supplied by the string's attachment to the ceiling would eventually bring it to a halt, but very very very slowly.

  • essas cinco pessoas que nao gostaram devem ser muito retardados

  • FUCK THOSE 5 RETARDS...... THIS PROF ROCKS MAN!!!

  • DR. WALTER LEWIN(Physics) AND DR. SADOWAY(Materials Chemistry/Solid State Chemistry Professor) are the best in the world! let alone MIT, they are just amazing!

  • Amaaazing professor

  • This "superstar" is A JEW and supports Jewish infiltration into USA Sciences and Universities. He is also quite fond of Israel and their stupid Culture

    Jews are smart and cunning but lack everything else

  • @oioioi3000 point?

  • @cherrybawls Jews especially today have murdered thousands of Palestinians Eastern Europeans controlled Western media and politics with many whom while armchair politicians have publically time and time again demanded US support They exist and function as a seperate society that controls from within and they usually generally use their academic stances to hijack sympathy for their Murderous causes of Pro-Israel

    As for America only Americans should teach in USA Unis

  • @cherrybawls This person pushes Jewish culture and interests in MIT read into it and is widely placed in their publications. Now the only reason why Jews are so heavily entrenched in USA would be?...

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  • CAPO !

  • @32matildajones32 sounds ike you said wow search "mal nach geldeasy" of google.

  • I'm going to MIT next year! Definitely going to take this guy's class... I feel so fortunate

  • @tehzayay you know he retired a while ago right? ....

  • the best way to learn physics is to see it in action

  • He makes me think to Prof. Newling at UNB-Fredericton

  • Professor Walter Lewin, you rock!!!!!

  • the demostration given by prof. are awesome

  • Now when i get bored of studying too much at a stress i watch his lecture videos.I'm in grade 11 and i don't have to put in the slightest efforts to understand what he teaches.It's like listening to a pleasant music.

  • 5 people don't believe in gravity

  • i wonder how people ever hate this video O_o

    most probably they don't wanna laugh xP

  • Teach what you practice- works only for physics....?

  • i've been thinking of becoming a physicist and this vid just made me even more interested! what an awesome professor

  • @realest114

    take up BS-Physics it's cool but hard! its worth it. you can explain everything you see and later even what you can't see! :)

  • @realest114

    Who the fuck would ever want to be a physicist?

  • WOW, I want him as my teacher haha :D

  • What A Professor...........And I Bet Those students who are sitting in front of him never ever forget the theories and phenomenas of physics because He Practically explained these theories to them

  • what a teacher i wanna be in his class

  • It would be a blast going to classes with an amazing professor like this, instead of having a professor that'd terrorize me into learning (which really isn't learning) just to memorize in the head and not really understand what I'm studying. 

  • This guy is great.

  • This guy is Dutch. You can hear it.

  • @thearchiveable I'm not sure if he's dutch :p It's a germanic language, that's almost certain, but I doubt it's dutch(I'm dutch, and he doesn't sound like any of my classmates ^^)

  • @jeroenvt2

    Check him out on wikipedia.

  • @thearchiveable Yes, I've noticed him sounding dutch in a different vid. I hereby retract my previous statement :D

  • does he teach high school or university (college) in america

  • @265HITMAN265 MIT

  • its a joke ..............

  • This is a genius teacher...in high school I couldn't stand this subject's teacher!

  • he is dutch but he has to adapt the lessons to american iq levels, explaning the monkey etc

  • @sopranomvp You realize that he is teaching to MIT students, with an average IQ of perhaps 115-125, right?

  • RIP my physics professor :( :( he was really great too :(

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  • Awesome Energy put to right cause -- EDUCATING PEOPLE !!

    Great professor.. Thank u so much for all ur videos. U inspire people of ur action and energy irrespective of their age.

    Also, Thanks to MIT that makes U reachable to all corners of this world .

  • I guess the main benefit of going to MiT "type" schools is the quality of professors you get.

  • @rohannat

    I doubt it. American "universities" are just another Disneyland. With Disneyland professors like this miserable clown (physics with a plush ape!), and with Disneyland "diplomas". And then you don't know Budapest is the capital of Hungary ("Hungry? I knew Turkey, but Hungry?"), and you can't even find the USA on a world map.

    American intellectual quality? Hahaha.

  • @zensorship yes and they building rockets, send them in to space... dont forget that not all USA population goes to MIT, and nice piece of it are not americans.

  • @shimajda

    The NASA rockets are German technology. Google "Wernher von Braun".

  • @zensorship

    Thats true but NASA belongs to USA, and Wernher von Braun worked for them. Like I said great part of USA population came from other countries.

  • @zensorship Wernher von Braun invented the V2 rockets. The Russians claimed the still intact V2's and their plans after the 2nd WW. That was the start of the Cold War, a war between the USA and Russia (back in the time, it was the USSR). America didn't get use the V2 rocket's technology, but they were the first to get a human into space. Russia was first at getting a spacecraft into space though.

  • @BvOBart

    no.

    the German technology was shared between USA and USSR. NASA is purely German technology, America only gave the money.

  • @zensorship Hmmm... I didn't know about that yet. Thanks for letting me know.

  • Não tenho duvidas em afirmar que Este Senhor é o melhor professor que alguma vez vi em minha vida e já estou a ficar velho.

    I have no doubts to say that This Sir is the best teacher I ever seen in my live and I am getting old.

  • Nothing but praise for this man.

  • he sounds dutch

  • "As long as I'm healthy, physically and mentally, I will teach until i die in the classroom." Wow, talk about passion for teaching. That was actually quite touching.

    I wish I can stay that committed to my craft when I'm his age. Wish everybody can.

  • @oabrahamsson Agreed! youre suppossed to wake up and love your job not wake up and dread going to work! alot of people are caught in that cycle, a job theyre not happy with. They sit in their cubicle miserbale, which is sad. Ive seen stories of people leaving careers in law or forensics to be bakers and own their own business from home selling their crafts..

  • I wonder what external forces could have changed the results...like if an earthquake were to happen at that exact moment. Or if a nearby butterfly farted.

  • @wyckster "the butterfly fart effect"

  • I think we all agree he is a wonderful professor. However, I read a lot of comments criticizing professors, and I wonder to myself if you are so passionate about improving the quality of teaching in our country, do something about it.  Get away from the computer and pursue teaching. You will have a greater appreciation for Dr. Lewin but also others who try very hard but do not quite have his gift for making lessons come alive.

  • 1:00 Got the monkey right in the nuts!

  • you can never forget a lecture like these

  • legend!

    i so wish you were my professor!

  • "Physics works, and I'm still alive; see you Wednesday." The way any good physics lecture (or any other lecture for that matter) should conclude. Kudos to what appears to be a great instructor teaching through one of the greatest mediums this world has ever seen (the recorded lectures from MIT).

  • And this is the biggest problem with todays school, or I should say ONE OF. Yes, there's alot of idiot students who're being assholes in class etc, but even if there's alot of students who want to learn - There's so many teachers who forgot HOW TO TEACH. If you make the whole learning-process a whole lot more FUN, students will _want_ to learn more. This teacher has no problem making himself "Look like a clown" - For the greater good? I'm sure no one cuts his class atleast.

  • @aztaclalz

    i agree with most, and i repear , most of the concepts you've said

    but you see aztaclalz , its absolutely not like that teacher has no problems looking like a clown in front of everyone for greater good, reality is that through his way of behaving like what you have called a clown , he makes us understand the lecture better and understand way better how much of a genius he is rather than a clown. i ve never been so entertained during a lesson. this teacher is a genius indeed...

  • @UrSadMate Well, acting like a clown is not necessarily a bad thing. I'd also like to remember I put quote-signs to clarify I wasn't being too serious about it. I'm pretty sure you know what I meant, thus there wasn't really a reason to try and correct me. This man is a genious, and if you have to make yourself "Look silly"[or as mentioned before, like a clown] -So be it, as long as you reach the students, which Professor Lewin did.

  • complete and unbelievable bamf

  • This guy is great. He should teach other teachers how to teach.

  • the last experiment the one with the ball can go horrible wrong...

    we had this experiment with a volunteer sitting on a chair.

    soon after it stoped b4 his head the ball fell of the wire it was attached to...

    luckily it landed a few cm in front of his feet.... :D

  • great teacher ...

  • best prof i've ever seen!

  • Professors that love their jobs and show it make all the difference.

  • I love the Way he teaches.....gr8 teacher...nice

  • 1. Scientific experiments

    The argument about the expanding space is an empty argument! There is no way

    to make scientific experiments with a space. The argument about expanding

    space is not science. It is a religion!

    The thing that particules radiate their energy is not an empty claim.

    Particules can be examined and make scientifical experiment with them and

    this way proof this claim to be true.

  • i agree - there is a strong need to differentiate science from religion. Science on the whole is empirical, even many scientific theories need to be taken with a similar attitude as theory is very different from practice.

  • 2. Let´s take long chutes from different materials into the space and place

    telescopes to them to observe some known place of a star. If the energy that

    comes to the chutes makes the photons moving in the chute to bend towards

    the chute, we can this way observe that this star concerned seems to be in a

    different place than it is known to be!

  • 3. The sun does not curve the space. The energy coming towards the sun makes

    photons passing by the sun to bend towards the sun, because the hot / thick,

    small and little exterior surface possessing particules do not interact with

    the photons passing by the sun!

  • 4. Even Einstein once told us that the massive the object is, the slower the

    time is.

    In relation to the size of a star there is much more energy / substance in

    the stars than in the photons. The substance / energy is denser in the stars

    than what it is in the photons. The time of the stars is so slower than the

    time of the photons!

  • 5.This way the time of the old photons is faster than the time of the new

    photons and the photons radiating from the stars do not tranfer their

    kinetic energy to the photons passing by the star as much as the photons

    coming towards the star do. This way the light bends at the same time it

    passes the star without supposedly the star would bend the space!

  • @Etimespace omg, that post nearly made me cry, the way you can so forcefully declare that nonsense without any care for the nature of reality.

    I was pretty sure you were being satirical before I saw how much effort you put into your channel.

    Please please please don't spread that nonsense around the Internet. It's hard enough for someone to get a good science education on here without people like you.

  • If only I had just one professor like him in college...

  • I wish I was half as smart as this man. I mean, it's not fair that he can grasp all this, and I can't even do half of it... Way to go all the professors at MIT

  • What a great professor.

  • He's natively Dutch, his accent reveals him. That's how most Dutch professors teach, with a lot of humor :)

  • smoke and a pancake.

  • Hey, can someone tell me where can i get all his lectures? Not all of course, but at least the latest. one. I only found his lectures in 1999. That's so old

  • This man saved my life . I found it so difficult to understand physics in high school that i was going to give it up but his lectures made me give it another try. He is more than a teacher he is a performer.

  • just a living genius though! I dont have words

  • Walter Lewin is my hero, and any student that has the privilege to take his class is very much fortunate. (if only i could afford to go to MIT).

  • note that you have to qualified to go there as well =p

  • @BYMYSYD You know, MIT is ranked as one of the "best value" colleges nationwide--they'll cover your financial need. Brings the sticker price WAY down. Harvard doesn't require any student whose famiy makes less than $60k per year to pay ANYTHING, and all of Princeton's fin. aid is grant-based. I'm not made of money, but I'm still trying for all three :)

  • The most amazing lecturer, i have ever seen.

  • Wow, three dry runs for each lecture! That is amazing passion and dedication. I am inspired.

  • While I don't disapprove, I would like to credit Richard Feynman for the original bowling ball to the face trick.

  • I'm a highschool student who's taken all the math and physics classes available at my highschool and sometimes i have trouble understanding his lectures but most of the time i can follow, and i have to say i really really like them i wish my physics teacher was like this guy. Because i hold a great passion for the subject.

  • I spent my last year studying in Cambridge - MA as an exchange student.

    And I never thought I would be teaching myself physics. I didn't really like it in Highschool probably because I found it hard to understand - part because of my boring or too strict, old-fashioned ex-teachers and part because of my lack of interest in that specific area. However, when I see how passionate this man is about what he does, I just feel like going to college and studying physics!

    The man is a legend.

  • LoL!!! damping in harmonic motions!!! we covered that in high school snr physics!! good ol days!

  • The ending made me laugh :)

    This guy is a great professor.

  • this guys a fukin ledgnd

  • wish my Physics teacher was this cool... our physics prof is a bit boring. I know he tries but this man Walter Lewis is great, id love to have him visit some day and give my school a lecture.

  • Walter Lewin is my favorite professor.

    I did the web page on my web site CANADIAN WIND specially for him.

    Thank you, Walter!!!