Courses:

Course Info

• Course Number / Code:
• 8.03 (Fall 2004) 
• Course Title:
• Physics III: Vibrations and Waves 
• Course Level:
• Undergraduate 
• Offered by :
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
  Massachusetts, United States  
• Department:
• Physics 
• Course Instructor(s):
• Lectures:
  Prof. Walter Lewin
  
  Recitations:
  Prof. Wolfgang Ketterle
  Prof. Nergis Mavalvala 
• Course Introduction:
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  8.03 Physics III: Vibrations and Waves
  
  
  
  

  Fall 2004

  
  
  

  
  
  

  Course Highlights

  
  
  

  This course features a full set of lecture videos, as well as assignments, exams, and other course materials.

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  Course Description

  
  
  

  In addition to the traditional topics of mechanical vibrations and waves, coupled oscillators, and electro-magnetic radiation, students will also learn about musical instruments, red sunsets, glories, coronae, rainbows, haloes, X-ray binaries, neutron stars, black holes and big-bang cosmology.

  OpenCourseWare presents another version of 8.03 that features a full set of lecture notes and take-home experiments.

  OpenCourseWare also presents Professor Lewin's freshman physics course series  8.01 – Newtonian Mechanics - with a complete set of 35 video lectures from the Fall of 1999 and  8.02 - Electricity and Magnetism - with a complete set of 36 video lectures from the Spring of 2002.

  
  
  

  Special Features

  
  
  

  • Complete video lectures

  
  

  *Some translations represent previous versions of courses.