Course Introduction | MIT 8.02 Electricity and Magnetism, Spring 2002

8.02 Classical Theory of Electromagnetism. In addition to the basic concepts of Electromagnetism, a vast variety of interesting topics are covered in this course: Lightning, Pacemakers, Electric Shock Treatment, Electrocardiograms, Metal Detectors, Musical Instruments, Magnetic Levitation, Bullet Trains, Electric Motors, Radios, TV, Car Coils, Superconductivity, Aurora Borealis, Rainbows, Radio Telescopes, Interferometers, Particle Accelerators (a.k.a. Atom Smashers or Colliders), Mass Spectrometers, Red Sunsets, Blue Skies, Haloes around Sun and Moon, Color Perception, Doppler Effect, Big-Bang Cosmology.

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[pavzirka]

there are three types of scince professors in the world.

The brilliant scientists who don't know jack about teaching but kick ass at reaserch.

The ones who suck at research but can teach you everything you can possibly need to know.

And a rare type, like Lewin, who can do both.

[Shalimarfemme]

Thank you for making your lectures public. Prof. Lewin is astounding and should be a national treasure.

[jjclassjj]

Very enjoyable thank you

[Kricardose]

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[bebeheuy]

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[Mjhond]

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[NoelShantaik632]

lool bin ein luder

[BeylaKaythin]

I have only seen two videos of him yet, but I have subscribed right away. And I hope that I will finally stop hating physics, but like, NO love it ;)

I love the ideas so much, the thinking, the things you can do with it, but our teacher can do nothing than be angry at us, yell at us, and tell us we aren't doing things right and that physics are SO DAMN HARD! D: This makes me so demotivated, while I once used to love physics...! Thank you, Walter Lewin!

[mdgreg]

Is it Possible to Construct a Motor Using Electric Fields and Not Magnetic Fields?

[BartLouwers]

I wondered why I could understand his English so well... It was because he is apparantly also Dutch :)

[pforzen93]

@pavzirka i find it funny how every singe lecture video on youtube by MIT and such attracts lots of comments like yours. sort of like, OMG you are so awesome and my teacher sucks! 10 seconds of this video gives me more info that all the lessons i took in my life! yeah, every single professor on youtube is a "rare" type and those in real life all suck.