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Season 1 of MIT Physics

    Episode : Course Introduction  
    Episode 1: Powers of Ten - Units - Dimensions - Measurements - Uncertainties - Dimensional Analysis - Scaling Arguments  
    Episode 2: 1D Kinematics - Speed - Velocity - Acceleration  
    Episode 3: Vectors - Dot Products - Cross Products - 3D Kinematics  
    Episode 4: 3D Kinematics - Free Falling Reference Frames  
    Episode 5: Circular Motion - Centrifuges Moving - Reference Frames - Perceived Gravity  
    Episode 6: Newton's Laws  
    Episode 7: Weight - Perceived Gravity - Weightlessness Free Fall - Zero Gravity in Orbit (misnomer)  
    Episode 8: Friction  
    Episode 9: Exam Review  
    Episode 10: Hooke's Law - Springs - Simple Harmonic Motion - Pendulum - Small Angle Approximation  
    Episode 11: Work - Kinetic Energy - Potential Energy - Conservative Forces - Conservation of Mechanical Energy - Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation  
    Episode 12: Non-Conservative Forces - Resistive Forces - Air Drag - Terminal Velocity  
    Episode 13: Potential Energy - Energy Considerations to Derive Simple Harmonic Motion  
    Episode 14: Escape Velocities - Bound and Unbound Orbits - Circular Orbits - Various Forms of Energy - Power  
    Episode 15: Momentum - Conservation of Momentum - Center of Mass  
    Episode 16: Collisions - Elastic and Inelastic - Center of Mass Frame of Reference  
    Episode 17: Impulse - Rockets  
    Episode 18: Exam Review  
    Episode 19: Rotating Rigid Bodies - Moment of Inertia - Parallel Axis and Perpendicular Axis Theorem - Rotational Kinetic Energy - Fly Wheels - Neutron Stars - Pulsars  
    Episode 20: Angular Momentum - Torques - Conservation of Angular Momentum - Spinning Neutron Stars - Stellar Collapse  
    Episode 21: Torques - Oscillating Bodies - Hoops  
    Episode 22: Kepler's Laws - Elliptical Orbits - Satellites - Change of Orbits - Ham Sandwich  
    Episode 23: Doppler Effect - Binary Stars - Neutron Stars and Black Holes  
    Episode 24: Rolling Motion - Gyroscopes - VERY NON-INTUITIVE  
    Episode 25: Static Equilibrium - Stability - Rope Walker  
    Episode 26: Elasticity - Young's Modulus  
    Episode 27: Fluid Mechanics - Pascal's Principle - Hydrostatics - Atmospheric Pressure - Over Pressure in Lungs and Tires  
    Episode 28: Hydrostatics - Archimedes' Principle - Fluid Dynamics - What Makes Your Boat Float? - Bernoulli's Equation  
    Episode 29: Exam Review  
    Episode 30: Simple Harmonic Oscillations - Energy Considerations - Torsional Pendulum  
    Episode 31: Forced Oscillations - Normal Modes - Resonance - Natural Frequencies - Musical Instruments  
    Episode 32: Heat - Thermal Expansion  
    Episode 33: Kinetic Gas Theory - Ideal Gas Law - Isothermal Atmosphere - Phase Diagrams - Phase Transitions  
    Episode 34: The Wonderful Quantum World - Breakdown of Classical Mechanics  
    Episode 35: Farewell Special - High-energy Astrophysics  

Season 2 of MIT Physics

    Episode 1: What holds our world together? Electric Charges (Historical), Polarization, Electric Force, Coulomb's Law  
    Episode 2: Electric Field, Field Lines, Superposition, Inductive Charging, Dipoles, Induced Dipoles  
    Episode 3: Electric Flux, Gauss's Law, Examples  
    Episode 4: Electrostatic Potential, Electric Energy, eV, Conservative Field, Equipotential Surfaces  
    Episode 5: E = -grad V, More on Equipotential Surfaces, Conductors, Electrostatic Shielding (Faraday Cage)  
    Episode 6: High-Voltage Breakdown, Lightning, Sparks - St Elmo's Fire  
    Episode 7: Capacitance, Field Energy  
    Episode 8: Polarization, Dielectrics, The Van de Graaff, More on Capacitors  
    Episode 9: Currents, Resistivity, Ohm's Law  
    Episode 10: Batteries, EMF, Energy Conservation, Power, Kirchhoff's Rules, Circuits, Kelvin Water Dropper  
    Episode 11: Magnetic Field, Lorentz Force, Torques, Electric Motors (DC), Oscilloscope  
    Episode 12: Review Exam 1 (Secret Top!)  
    Episode 13: Moving Charges in B-fields, Cyclotron, Synchrotron, Mass Spectrometer, Cloud Chamber  
    Episode 14: Biot-Savart Law, Gauss' Law for Magnetic Fields, Revisit the "Leyden Jar", High-Voltage Power Lines  
    Episode 15: Ampere's Law, Solenoids, Revisit the Kelvin Water Dropper, Midterm Evaluation  
    Episode 16: Electromagnetic Induction, Faraday's Law, Lenz Law, Complete Breakdown of Intuition, Non-Conservative Fields  
    Episode 17: Motional EMF, Dynamos, Eddy Currents, Magnetic Braking  
    Episode 18: Displacement Current (Difficult Concept), Synchronous Motors, Induction Motors, Secret Top, How does it work?  
    Episode 19: How do magicians levitate women? Electric Shock Treatment, Electrocardiogram, Pacemakers, Superconductivity, Levitating Bullet Trains, Aurora Borealis  
    Episode 20: Inductance, RL Circuits, Magnetic Field Energy  
    Episode 21: Magnetic Materials, Dia-, Para-, and Ferromagnetism, Prize Ceremony of Motor Contest  
    Episode 22: Hysteresis, Electromagnets, Bohr Magneton, Maxwell's Equations  
    Episode 23: Review Exam 2  
    Episode 24: Transformers, Car Coils, RC Circuits  
    Episode 25: Driven LRC Circuits, Resonance, Metal Detectors (Beach/Airport)  
    Episode 26: Traveling Waves, Standing Waves, Musical Instruments  
    Episode 27: Resonance, Destructive Resonance, Electromagnetic Waves, Speed of Light, Radio, TV, Distance Determinations using Radar and Lasers  
    Episode 28: Index of Refraction, Poynting Vector, Oscillating Charges, Radiation Pressure, Comet Tails, Polarization (Linear, Elliptical, and Circular)  
    Episode 29: Snell's Law, Refraction, Total Reflection, Dispersion, Prisms, Huygen's Principle, The Illusion of Color, The Weird Benham Top, Land's Famous Demo  
    Episode 30: Polarizers, Malus's Law, Brewster Angle, Polarization by Reflection and Scattering, Why is the sky blue, Why are sunsets red?  
    Episode 31: Rainbows, Fog Bows, Supernumerary Bows, Polarization of the Bows, Haloes around the Sun and Moon, Coronae, Glories, Mock Suns (Sun Dogs)  
    Episode 32: Review Exam 3  
    Episode 33: Double-Slit Interference, Interferometers  
    Episode 34: Gratings, Resolving Power, Single-Slit Diffraction, Angular Resolution, Human Eye - Telescopes  
    Episode 35: Doppler Effect, The Big Bang, Cosmology  
    Episode 36: Farewell Special  

Season 3 of MIT Physics

    Episode 1: Periodic Phenomena (Oscillations, Waves) - SHO - Complex Notation - Differential Equations - Physical Pendulum  
    Episode 2: Beats - Damped Free Oscillations (Under- Over- and Critically Damped) - Quality Q  
    Episode 3: Forced Oscillations with Damping  
    Episode 4: Forced Oscillations - Power at Resonance (Resonance Absorption, Resonance Width, Quality Q) - Transient Phenomena (General Solutions including Initial Conditions)  
    Episode 5: Coupled Oscillators  
    Episode 6: Driven Coupled Oscillators - Triple Pendulum - Steady State and Transient Solutions - Cramer's Rule  
    Episode 7: Many Coupled Oscillators - Wave Equation - Transverse Traveling Pulses and Waves  
    Episode 8: Traveling Waves - Boundary Conditions - Standing Waves - Sound (Longitudinal Waves) - Energy in Waves  
    Episode 9: Musical Instruments - Sound Cavities - Normal Modes  
    Episode 10: Exam 1 Review  
    Episode 11: Fourier Analysis - Time Evolution of Pulses on Strings  
    Episode 12: Dispersion - Phase Velocity - Group Velocity  
    Episode 13: Dispersion - Phase Velocity - Group Velocity  
    Episode 14: Accelerated Charges - Poynting Vector - Power - Rayleigh Scattering - Polarization  
    Episode 15: Doppler Effect - Sound - EM Radiation - Binary Stars - Neutron Stars and Black Holes - Expanding Universe  
    Episode 16: Boundary Conditions at Perfect Conductors - Reflection - Standing EM Waves - Transmission Lines - Radiation Pressure  
    Episode 17: Wave Guides - Resonance Cavities of EM-radiation and Sound  
    Episode 18: Boundary Conditions for Dielectrics - Index of Refraction - Snell's Law - Total Internal Reflection - Fresnel Equations - Brewster Angle  
    Episode 19: Exam 2 Review  
    Episode 20: Huygens' Principle - Interference - Thin films - Soap - Oil - Light (double slit interference)  
    Episode 21: Diffraction - Gratings - Pin Holes - Angular Resolution  
    Episode 22: Rainbows - Haloes - Coronae - Glories  
    Episode 23: Farewell Special - Bring a Friend!  
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