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The Mechanical Universe

The Law of Falling Bodies. With the conventional wisdom of the Aristotelian world view, almost everyone could see that heavy bodies fell faster than lighter ones. Then along came Galileo. His genius deduced that the distance a body has fallen at any given instant is proportional to the square of the time spent falling. From that, speed and acceleration follow with a little help from a mathematical tool called a derivative. (from themechanicaluniverse.org)

Lecture 02 - The Law of Falling Bodies


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Lecture 01 - Introduction
Lecture 02 - The Law of Falling Bodies
Lecture 03 - Derivatives
Lecture 04 - Inertia
Lecture 05 - Vectors
Lecture 06 - Newton's Laws
Lecture 07 - Integration
Lecture 08 - The Apple and the Moon
Lecture 09 - Moving in Circles
Lecture 10 - Fundamental Forces
Lecture 11 - Gravity, Electricity, Magnetism
Lecture 12 - The Millikan Experiment
Lecture 13 - Conservation of Energy
Lecture 14 - Potential Energy
Lecture 15 - Conservation of Momentum
Lecture 16 - Harmonic Motion
Lecture 17 - Resonance
Lecture 18 - Waves
Lecture 19 - Angular Momentum
Lecture 20 - Torques and Gyroscopes
Lecture 21 - Kepler's Three Laws
Lecture 22 - The Kepler Problem
Lecture 23 - Energy and Eccentricity
Lecture 24 - Navigating in Space
Lecture 25 - From Kepler to Einstein
Lecture 26 - Harmony of the Spheres
Lecture 27 - Beyond the Mechanical Universe
Lecture 28 - Static Electricity
Lecture 29 - The Electric Field
Lecture 30 - Potential and Capacitance
Lecture 31 - Voltage, Energy, and Force
Lecture 32 - The Electric Battery
Lecture 33 - Electric Circuits
Lecture 34 - Magnetism
Lecture 35 - The Magnetic Field
Lecture 36 - Vector Fields and Hydrodynamics
Lecture 37 - Electromagnetic Induction
Lecture 38 - Alternating Currents
Lecture 39 - Maxwell's Equations
Lecture 40 - Optics
Lecture 41 - The Michelson Morley Experiment
Lecture 42 - The Lorentz Transformation
Lecture 43 - Velocity and Time
Lecture 44 - Energy, Momentum, Mass
Lecture 45 - Temperature and the Gas Laws
Lecture 46 - The Engine of Nature
Lecture 47 - Entropy
Lecture 48 - Low Temperatures
Lecture 49 - The Atom
Lecture 50 - Particles and Waves
Lecture 51 - From Atoms to Quarks
Lecture 52 - The Quantum Mechanical Universe