8.02x - Lect 29 - Snell's Law, Index of Refraction, Huygen's Principle, Illusion of Color

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  • Snell's Law, Refraction, Total Reflection, Dispersion, Prisms, Huygen's Principle, The Illusion of Color, Weird Benham Top, Land's Famous Demo, Great Demos
    Lecture Notes, Speed of EM Waves in Matter - Index of Refraction: freepdfhosting.com/c5f03c32d4.pdf
    Lecture Notes, Color-Wavelength Chart: freepdfhosting.com/cd428dccf8.pdf
    Assignments Lecture 29, 30 and 31: freepdfhosting.com/7d76b7e131.pdf
    Solutions Lecture 29, 30 and 31: freepdfhosting.com/cc1c6d39d1.pdf
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    @rao26jan1991 Před 4 lety +122

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  • @williamtaylor776
    @williamtaylor776 Před 2 lety +8

    This is the first time in my life I've heard a native Dutch speaker pronounce "Huygens." Thank you so much.

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    @ElectromecanicaIndustrial Před 4 lety +15

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    @ths3100 Před 3 lety +10

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    @obayev Před 2 lety +5

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    @jameswilson8270 Před 6 lety +27

    Your lectures are always amazing!

  • @sm-croia5427
    @sm-croia5427 Před 11 měsíci +1

    great lecture , professor. Your way of teaching physics through practical applications is truly commendable!

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    @stalemateraja Před 2 lety +2

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    @ruchirrawat8804 Před 4 lety +2

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    @archanababeley656 Před 2 lety +2

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  • @preetikasana9841
    @preetikasana9841 Před 8 měsíci +1

    Thank you , professor LEWIN . I was totally engaged IN THE LECTURE

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    @nutankumari6674 Před rokem +1

    These lectures are timeless. Thank you so much sir.

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  • @risegaming586
    @risegaming586 Před 3 lety +2

    You make me able to love physics
    I am very thankful to you Sir.
    Love from India 🇮🇳

  • @Abhishekdubeybusted
    @Abhishekdubeybusted Před 7 lety +2

    Sir which sign conventions to follow : real as +ve or the cartesian one?

  • @sudiptaroy9725
    @sudiptaroy9725 Před 4 lety +9

    Thanks a lot Professor, these notes were extremely helpful.

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    @josiahwankhar4807 Před 3 lety +3

    Your lectures are the best and has helped me a lot. Thank you so much.

  • @forkids2642
    @forkids2642 Před rokem

    Prof Walter Lewin's lectures are very good, it can make you understand the concept in physics

  • @riteshbhartiya6155
    @riteshbhartiya6155 Před 4 lety +1

    n = √(K*Km)
    K is dielectric constant, is Km relative permeability?

  • @mnagarajan2010
    @mnagarajan2010 Před 7 lety

    How does Cauchy's relation affect the formation of Auroras in the poles of the planet ?

  • @MrTHEcoolECOdude
    @MrTHEcoolECOdude Před 6 lety +1

    I just had a very brief question about the benham top. Why do would see the colors switching position when we reverse the direction of rotation? Isn't the rate at which a particular spot on the top the same whether we rotate it clockwise or counterclockwise and therefore we should see the same color regardless of direction?

    • @lecturesbywalterlewin.they9259
      @lecturesbywalterlewin.they9259  Před 6 lety

      It's a good question. It has nothing to do with physics. Seeing colors is due to the way our brains are wired and the reversal of colors too. Try google

  • @pragalbhawasthi1618
    @pragalbhawasthi1618 Před 2 lety +2

    I have a question regarding Newton's Explanation.
    15:29
    I think he could have argued as follows:
    Instead of the increase in vertical component of velocity, he could have said that there is a decrease in horizontal component of velocity. Then too, the ray would have bent towards the normal and the speed of light would have decreased as expected(keeping all else unchanged). Moreover, the reason for decrease in horizontal component could be possibly considered to be "friction", as water is denser(well, I don't think newton really distinguished optical density from matter density; correct me if I am wrong)
    So far, I think this explanation could have managed to survive for some time at least...

  • @andrcarb
    @andrcarb Před 5 měsíci

    wow. Quite amazing lecture, one of the best of yours as far

  • @saptashwabaisya4202
    @saptashwabaisya4202 Před 3 lety

    Sir, is there a playlist which contains all your lectures on ray optics?

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  • @BobanVovan
    @BobanVovan Před 8 lety +3

    Thank you for this wonderful courses, Mr. Lewin! I can never truly express my entire gratitude for your efforts.
    I do however have a question. At around 25 minutes into this lecture, you mention that, in case the sound waves would behave as EM waves (lower frequencies have a lower refractive index, thus a higher velocity), the sound coming from a violin during a concert would come first, then would come the sound of a bass per se. Isn't it supposed to be the other way around, given that the violin has a higher sound frequency?
    (By the way, I became very excited when I found out that the university into which I've been accepted is the one you've graduated from :) )

    • @lecturesbywalterlewin.they9259
      @lecturesbywalterlewin.they9259  Před 8 lety +3

      Liaten carefully to what I said: "if the high freq sound traveled faster than low freq as an example". In other words I did not make a direct connection with EM waves. What I said is fine.

  • @musicbox6287
    @musicbox6287 Před 7 lety

    Lectures by Walter Lewin. They will make you ♥ Physics.
    I didn't really understand the kappa and kappa of m. Isn't kappa used to described the permeability of the insulating material? How does it link to the refractive index?

  • @MishkaKorobkov
    @MishkaKorobkov Před 8 lety

    FYI
    was made experiments with measuring EM waves speed of different frequency and result very interesting,
    close to low frequency (few kHz) speed very low (significantly slower then speed of light)
    it will be very interesting to repeat this experiment and explain mechanism why this happens
    but that mean that speed of light is not constant at all (even red and violet waves must have significant and measurable difference of speed) and with waves of higher frequency it can be more than c

  • @pritishekhawat9744
    @pritishekhawat9744 Před 7 lety

    Sir I have a partially silvered glass plate and a simple glass plate in my Michelson experiment. I just want to know how path difference in these two cases changes?

  • @poojaubanshi8782
    @poojaubanshi8782 Před 3 lety +1

    Why do we have to take different ratio of the color in th disc it couldn't be like circular pizza 🍕 of equal ratio?

  • @pushpanjaykumar3985
    @pushpanjaykumar3985 Před 3 lety

    Sir should I use Rensik Halliday 'Walker' or 'Krane' for theory? PLS REPLY

  • @shivanshnigam8412
    @shivanshnigam8412 Před 3 lety +2

    Your lecture are amazing sir

  • @KrishnaCalling
    @KrishnaCalling Před 2 lety

    Your are my favourite teacher...love from India Guruji

  • @swaroopcool22
    @swaroopcool22 Před 6 lety

    I wanted to ask the following. When we turn on a torchlight we are producing electromagnetic waves. So are these a result of accelerating charges? Put differently is accelerating charges the only way to produce electromagnetic waves ? Or is there any other way to produce them ?

  • @arafsartistry5421
    @arafsartistry5421 Před rokem +1

    So the fact that when you pause the video or watch carefully, you can see the colours. I think that is because of the shutter speed of the camera. In a one frame (24fps of 30fps footage) duration ,the disk does not rotate a full revolution, that's why we see colours but a bit faded.
    If in one frame duration the disk could rotate a full revolution, then we might have seen pure white light. So my assumption is, if the footage was rolling at 30fps, then the disk have to rotate 30 rps(revolution per second) to be seen white to the CZcams viewers. Correct me if I am wrong sir.

  • @joelchocron
    @joelchocron Před 11 měsíci

    Thanks for the eye opening lectures on physics - with all my humble opinion - i would be very glad to see - now that all physics basic university courses video are in place. A published book series of the "lecture on physics - by Walter Levin".

  • @thexcentric3655
    @thexcentric3655 Před 2 lety +1

    29:49 Explanation went straight to the ❤️

  • @shreejaltiwari4130
    @shreejaltiwari4130 Před 3 lety

    What is the constant in u(mu) sin theta = constant and from where it is derived
    And thanks sir for these amazing lectures

  • @MishkaKorobkov
    @MishkaKorobkov Před 8 lety

    we have interesting paradox when saying the light is electromagnetic waves - it penetrating very deep (about 1000 meters) into salt water (it is good conductor) and this can`t be explained with Maxwell's equations, regarding his equations light should stops in the layer of few millimeters,
    how this can be explained?
    (author of this idea\question Atsukovsky Vladimir Akimovich, author of Etherodynamics)

  • @lollolzi2996
    @lollolzi2996 Před 6 lety

    How does ferrormaterials affect how light travel? Why do we have a kappa_m in the equation v=c/sqrtKK_m when light cant even travel through a solid?

    • @lecturesbywalterlewin.they9259
      @lecturesbywalterlewin.they9259  Před 6 lety

      ferromagnetic materials have a negative index of refraction over a range of frequencies. It's a difficult topic. Use the web, use google www.researchgate.net/post/What_happens_to_the_speed_of_light_as_it_enters_through_the_metamaterial_wrt_that_of_vacuum

  • @poojyadav7442
    @poojyadav7442 Před 3 lety +1

    As a matter of fact, we can also tell that total internal refraction phenomena only take place when light enters from denser medium to rarer medium

  • @samb55
    @samb55 Před 7 lety +5

    I'm confused about the relationship between the frequency of an electromagnetic wave and the index of refraction between air and water. At about 24:13, we see that lower frequency waves have a slower speed through a dielectric and a higher index of refraction than higher frequency waves. In particular, we see that waves with 10 to the 8th Hz frequency have a K of 78 in water and an n of 8.8. Visible light has a higher frequency (5 times 10 to the 14th) and a lower n, 1.33. Later, though, we learn that blue light has a higher n than red light. Blue light has a higher frequency than red light. How can blue light have a higher n than red light, and radio waves also have a higher n than red light? Seems inconsistent. What am I confusing?

    • @lecturesbywalterlewin.they9259
      @lecturesbywalterlewin.they9259  Před 7 lety +6

      In the optical part of the spectrum the index of refraction (water and glass) are higher for blue light than fir red. Blue has a higher freq than red. Thus the speed of light in water is lower for blue light than for red light; this is some kind of an anomaly. Use google to see how speed of light varies at different frequencies. It's also discussed on Bekefi and Barrett which is the book I use for 8.03.
      Electromagnetic Vibrations, Waves and Radiation
      by Bekefi and Barrett.
      The MIT Press
      ISBN 0-262-52047-8

    • @kahoung9901
      @kahoung9901 Před 6 lety

      same problem for me...

    • @lecturesbywalterlewin.they9259
      @lecturesbywalterlewin.they9259  Před 6 lety +1

      that is correct. The speed of light will change, but NOT the frequency of the light.

    • @BaldurKhr
      @BaldurKhr Před 5 lety

      I had the same mind blowing question!! How can n(blue)>n(red)?? This implies that k(blue)>k(red)... but as we know the frequency of blue light is higher than red light so it should have been that n(blue)

  • @guntassaran3667
    @guntassaran3667 Před 6 lety +19

    What's the secret behind eatable things(cup of coffee/tea sometimes banana) on Professor's shirt?????

    • @srinivasub6149
      @srinivasub6149 Před 4 lety

      u didnt see wht he taught but seeing other than physics

    • @sebastianrada4107
      @sebastianrada4107 Před 2 lety

      I have been also thinking about it hahahaha
      What a mystery

  • @pritishekhawat9744
    @pritishekhawat9744 Před 7 lety +2

    Sir I have watched your videos on interference and diffraction but still I am not able to differentiate between these two and specially in case of slits.So can you please help me in understanding these concepts

    • @lecturesbywalterlewin.they9259
      @lecturesbywalterlewin.they9259  Před 7 lety +3

      Single slit diffraction and double slit interference are BOTH interference and also BOTH diffraction. For historical reasons one is call "diffraction", the other "interference". But the bottom line is that the physics is the same ; it's due to Huygens wavelets that interfere with each other.

    • @pritishekhawat9744
      @pritishekhawat9744 Před 7 lety

      Thanx Sir it will help me alot.

  • @edwardroyaying9704
    @edwardroyaying9704 Před 4 lety

    Professor, do you have some thermodynamic stuffs on your lectures?

  • @MishkaKorobkov
    @MishkaKorobkov Před 8 lety

    is it technically\physically possible to try an experiments to produce electromagnetic waves with wave size like a light
    the same way we making radio waves? (by real antenna like Hertz did)
    maybe using some sort of dividing original wave into short pieces?
    it will be very interesting to compare real light with such synthetic version (of real EM wave)

    • @lecturesbywalterlewin.they9259
    • @MishkaKorobkov
      @MishkaKorobkov Před 8 lety

      Lectures by Walter Lewin. They will make you ♥ Physics. thanks, already think about lasers,light diodes and just simple lamps - seems need review mechanism to understand processes inside (not sure yet there something similar to Hertz experiment)

  • @tehyonglip9203
    @tehyonglip9203 Před 7 lety

    sir i accept that c is 1/root (μ0ε0κκm) but in special relativity, there is a law that says that light should travel at the same speed for all observer, so who was right?

  • @robertroberts5627
    @robertroberts5627 Před 5 lety

    I don’t know how it’s done, but that sound of a dotted line when he is working with chalk is cool. If I wasn’t watching I’d swear it’s exactly the same sound the A-10 Warthog makes when it’s firing it’s 30 mm gun. Brrrraaaaa

  • @SciencewithRishit
    @SciencewithRishit Před 2 lety +1

    The top is so cooool ! Amazing

  • @dipender11
    @dipender11 Před 7 lety

    sir is it always true for water or other medium of refractive index greater than 1 that if angle of incidence is 0 then angle of refraction must be 0 here incident light come from air medium

  • @alistiqamat7066
    @alistiqamat7066 Před 4 lety

    شكرا جزيلا الأخ ليون

  • @stevenkaplan8471
    @stevenkaplan8471 Před 2 lety

    Can sin (theta 2) never equal 45 degrees? because x=0 (which can't be divided), what happens in nature?

  • @thebends6580
    @thebends6580 Před 2 lety

    Can someone please explain to me why when you look at a IOR table there's an index of refraction for materials like metal or stone or concrete? Light doesn't travel through stone... so wtf?

  • @poojyadav7442
    @poojyadav7442 Před 3 lety

    30:15 persistance of vision is the cause ?

  • @abdurrauf7525
    @abdurrauf7525 Před rokem +1

    Respected Sir, could you please explain the reason for why light slows down on entering an optically dense medium. Also, does light refract when it enters from one medium to another perpendicular (parallel to the normal).

    • @lecturesbywalterlewin.they9259
      @lecturesbywalterlewin.they9259  Před rokem +1

      the short answer is that the speed of light in a medium with index of refraction n is c/n. Thus it slows down in going from air to water.
      Why does light slow down when it enters matter?
      There are many ways to answer the question, and many ways to look at it, including “it just does - that’s the nature we have”.
      One easy way to actually answer it is to examine how Maxwell’s Equations, which interrelate space, time, electric fields, magnetic fields, charge, and how the two fields affect the matter in which they exist.
      The speed of light in vacuum, c, does not appear in Maxwell’s equations, but when you derive the electromagnetic wave equations by cleverly combining several of the field equations, something almost magical appears seemingly out of nowhere: a wave velocity equal to 1/Sqrt(µ0 ε0) where ε0 is the constant in Coulomb’s force law for electric fields from charges and µ0 is the corresponding constant for the magnetic force law - and this velocity 1/Sqrt(µ0 ε0) turns out to be exactly c!
      [In modern times the speed of light in vacuum isn’t measured experimentally anymore - it has been made a definition, and experiments are now done to measure the length of the meter based on the defined speed of light and the measured second, but historically what I said in the previous paragraph applied usefully at the time all this was done.]
      In matter, the electric and magnetic polarization of the matter by the fields requires replacing µ0 by µ and ε0 by ε, where is always the case that µ >= µ0 and ε >= ε0. These two measured properties of the matter describe how its polarization by the electric and magnetic fields weakens the strength of the electric and magnetic force laws inside the matter.
      Now here’s the important point, and the answer to your question: the speed of light in the matter now becomes 1/Sqrt(µ ε)

    • @abdurrauf7525
      @abdurrauf7525 Před rokem

      @@lecturesbywalterlewin.they9259 , Respected Sir, thank you so much. I will read it to make my concept clear.

  • @ronitdahiya7523
    @ronitdahiya7523 Před 3 lety

    Sir what is the maximum and minimum size of water molecule that can refract the sunlight

  • @DebayanGhosh-ym8kl
    @DebayanGhosh-ym8kl Před 9 měsíci

    It will be more useful for Indian Students in Neet preparation because syllabus is more practical than theorytical

  • @poojyadav7442
    @poojyadav7442 Před 3 lety

    37:34 the green light indicator more looks like blue in color why ?

  • @mrkakotube
    @mrkakotube Před 3 lety

    (25:00) electro-magnetic waves with higher frequencies have a lower K, so they travel faster in water. Why then the blue light is slower in water than the red light?

    • @lecturesbywalterlewin.they9259
      @lecturesbywalterlewin.they9259  Před 3 lety +1

      good question. It is an anomaly - discussed in Bekefi and Barrett which I used for my 8.03 lectures.

    • @mrkakotube
      @mrkakotube Před 3 lety

      @@lecturesbywalterlewin.they9259 Thanks a lot Walter. :)

  • @harshameti1066
    @harshameti1066 Před 5 lety

    Why does light bend towards normal when it travels from rarer medium to denser medium?

  • @ashishkumarpemmaraju2491

    Sir...as you said if all the VIBGYOR colors rotate at a high speed then due to persistence of vision it appears white.TRUE.But does that mean that something in the light bulb or any white source of light keeps rotating so that it appears white??

  • @minhalrizvi587
    @minhalrizvi587 Před 2 lety

    Best lecture of my life

  • @dipender11
    @dipender11 Před 7 lety

    sir in case of concave lens when virtual object is right side of lens then why object distance is taken positive

  • @fromexoplanet21
    @fromexoplanet21 Před 2 lety +1

    Absolutely amazing lecture💖💐👏

  • @MrTrickster273
    @MrTrickster273 Před 4 lety +1

    Hello Sir, I was a bit puzzled when I saw blue light with higher index of refraction than red. Blue has higher frequency, implying lower K (dielectric constant), shouldn't this mean lower index of refraction? Am I missing something? Thank you.

  • @prakashofficial3662
    @prakashofficial3662 Před 2 lety

    Sir I am a commerce student but I watch your all vidoes .I am confused on myself why I am watching your vidoes. Thank you sir your a great lecturer

  • @FF_BMG
    @FF_BMG Před 3 lety

    sir, can you plz say what is the name of that box 37:19

  • @mayankpandey5079
    @mayankpandey5079 Před 3 lety +1

    Sir how refractive index of air is 1 is it imaginary or any calculation behind it?? Pls tell 🙏🏻

  • @debasishdutta9661
    @debasishdutta9661 Před 6 lety

    Professor ,I asked you regarding the sign convention in lens makers formula. How is this possible

  • @09gul
    @09gul Před 4 lety

    Dear Dr Lewin, based on the dispersion inside the glass prism (at 27:15), why is it that even if the rectangular glass block (at 28:31) is very thick, we wouldn't see a red lining and a violet lining at the upper and lower edge of the emitted light from the rectangular block? If parallel light of different colours are sufficiently far apart, shouldn't we be able to distinguish the different colours?

    • @lecturesbywalterlewin.they9259
      @lecturesbywalterlewin.they9259  Před 4 lety

      use ray tracing and you will get your answer.

    • @09gul
      @09gul Před 4 lety

      @@lecturesbywalterlewin.they9259 Dear sir, I traced a ray of white light, incident at 45 degrees through a rectangular body of water that is 20.3 cm thick. The separation between the parallel rays of red and violet light is about 1.7 mm upon exiting the rectangular body. Shouldn't this separation be visible to the naked eye? It doesn't seem to be so in reality.

    • @lecturesbywalterlewin.they9259
      @lecturesbywalterlewin.they9259  Před 4 lety

      >>>>>If parallel light of different colours are sufficiently far apart, shouldn't we be able to distinguish the different colours?>>>> *yes, of course*

    • @09gul
      @09gul Před 4 lety

      @@lecturesbywalterlewin.they9259 that's not helpful. lol

  • @suryak.pathak8741
    @suryak.pathak8741 Před 4 lety

    Hello Professor,how does refractive index of air varies with altitude?

  • @mahjoubahmed9595
    @mahjoubahmed9595 Před 3 lety

    Thank you very much prof l learn all the time from lectures
    I have suggestion you can explain quantum machines

  • @trendingshorts4144
    @trendingshorts4144 Před rokem +1

    Sir I try to download your lecture notes but your link is not working can you suggest me another way to download?

  • @debasishdutta9661
    @debasishdutta9661 Před 6 lety

    Professor, we apply the sign convention in the derivation of lens makers formula yet we apply them in solving the problems. Won't both cancel​ each other.

  • @luciferwalker2910
    @luciferwalker2910 Před 2 lety +1

    The day when I heard about you from Alakh Pandey sir I decided to study optics from you but now I have realised that my decision was not wrong

  • @ganesh3533
    @ganesh3533 Před rokem

    Demonstrations are awesome sir perfect ❤️😍🙏

  • @mathssoso4261
    @mathssoso4261 Před 6 lety

    hi professor, if i want to understand Huygen's principle, what would you advise me?

  • @multitude1337
    @multitude1337 Před 3 lety

    AMAZING ending, wow!

  • @canned_heat1444
    @canned_heat1444 Před 5 lety

    Hi, I thought the speed of light was a fixed constant that couldn't be changed, but in this lecture you say it's speed depends on the medium, was I wrong or did I misinterpret what you said?

  • @astitvagarg8997
    @astitvagarg8997 Před 4 lety

    Hello sir , thanku for all the information you provide sir.
    My question is what is the explanation for energy dependence of a EM wave on frequency.. i.e. mathematically we know E =hf but how can this be explained in theory the reason for this dependence ? Why energy depends on frequency?

    • @lecturesbywalterlewin.they9259
      @lecturesbywalterlewin.they9259  Před 4 lety +4

      EM radiation is waves as well as particles (in the case of light we call them photons with E=pc=hf). This is non-Newtonian and thus imcomprehensible we all think Newtonian. But that's the way the world ticks. I suggest as the time comes that you take a course in Einstein's theory of SR.

    • @astitvagarg8997
      @astitvagarg8997 Před 4 lety

      @@lecturesbywalterlewin.they9259 So sir this explanation can't be obtained from Newtonian physics about energy dependence on frequency??
      Another question sir we relate colour associated to an EM wave with its wavelength but we also have a range of frequency associated to a colour of a EM wave ? But u said a physicist will ask the wavelength to tell u the colour. Can't this be done with the help of frequency also?

    • @lecturesbywalterlewin.they9259
      @lecturesbywalterlewin.they9259  Před 4 lety +1

      @@astitvagarg8997 E=hf=pc De Broglie λ=h/p thus E=hc/λ the lower the wavelength, the higher the freq the higer the energy.

  • @manuferre7186
    @manuferre7186 Před 2 lety

    Hi Sir, Do you know why the "triangle of the primary colours" is not exactly a TRIANGLE in your slides? I mean, they are curved! Has this any explanation? How do they affect the proportions when you try to find a colour rate by mixing them?

  • @KaviPriyan-qt6vc
    @KaviPriyan-qt6vc Před 4 lety +2

    sir you told high frequency EM waves will tavel faster ..then how come blue light travels 1% slower sir?

  • @DinosaursRule29
    @DinosaursRule29 Před 7 lety

    Professor, could you please tell me what books were prescribed for this course? I would like to check them out.
    Thank you

    • @lecturesbywalterlewin.they9259
      @lecturesbywalterlewin.they9259  Před 7 lety +2

      8.01
      Physics
      Hans C. Ohanian
      2nd edition
      W.W. Norton & Company
      ISBN 0-393-95748-9
      8.02
      Physics for Scientists & Engineers by Douglas C. Giancoli.
      Prentice Hall
      ISBN 0-13-021517-1
      8.03
      Vibrations and Waves by
      Anthony French
      CRC Press
      ISBN 9780748744473
      8.03
      Electromagnetic Vibrations, Waves and Radiation
      by Bekefi and Barrett.
      The MIT Press
      ISBN 0-262-52047-8

    • @DinosaursRule29
      @DinosaursRule29 Před 7 lety +1

      Thank you, Sir! Your lectures are wonderful! My school teacher is (unfortunately) muddled up in her basics, so your videos have helped me a lot!

    • @michaelknight2342
      @michaelknight2342 Před 4 lety

      @@lecturesbywalterlewin.they9259 thank you

  • @vologaze7608
    @vologaze7608 Před 3 lety +2

    48:14
    Walter lewin: something bizarre is happening in ur brain
    me: is that a jojo reference?

  • @MishkaKorobkov
    @MishkaKorobkov Před 8 lety

    interesting fact, that with 100% refraction we have possibility to transfer energy without loss for any distance,
    is that true? or there some physical limit?

  • @FF_BMG
    @FF_BMG Před 3 lety +1

    15:21 didn't get that sir. sine of an angle is the speed of that light ray? i mean V1/V2 ,and how can V1/V2 be the same as the sine of both angles? it confuses meeeeee

  • @akashaabeysundara8454
    @akashaabeysundara8454 Před rokem +1

    Shouldn't that blue light be faster than red light because K for blue light is smaller than K for red light?(because velocity of EM wave is inversely proportional to the square root of K and if K is decreasing with increase in frequency, K(blue)

    • @lecturesbywalterlewin.they9259
      @lecturesbywalterlewin.they9259  Před rokem

      speed of all EM waves (incuding light) in vacuum is c. in material with index of refraction n, the speed ic c/n. The difference in n for blue light vs red is an anomaly as discussed by Bekefi and Barrett.

    • @akashaabeysundara8454
      @akashaabeysundara8454 Před rokem

      @@lecturesbywalterlewin.they9259 Thanks a lot for replying, sir.

  • @prajnansharma3009
    @prajnansharma3009 Před rokem +1

    Sir, lots of love and respect from Assam, India. I am a student of class XII. I have a question. If an object is moving with a speed v then its mass will also increase a little (though negligibly). Which will add up to a new kinetic energy. Since E=mc^2 therefore its mass will again increase and this process will continue. Is this depicting inertia of motion?

    • @lecturesbywalterlewin.they9259
      @lecturesbywalterlewin.they9259  Před rokem +4

      if an object is moving with speed v, its mass wil not increase, but gamma will increase. E=gamma*m*c^2

    • @prajnansharma3009
      @prajnansharma3009 Před rokem

      @@lecturesbywalterlewin.they9259 Thanks for replying sir. But I don't know what gamma is. I will certainly try to learn these things. Thanks again sir.

  • @GaganpreetSingh-ft1xi
    @GaganpreetSingh-ft1xi Před 5 lety +1

    What was the reason behind last demonstration ?

    • @exlife9446
      @exlife9446 Před 5 lety

      the brain think the environment is full of red lights, and make a adjustment to the colors it feels it should be in the sunlights.

  • @mohammedwaseemahmed2145

    Leaked the question for exam like a boss

  • @arunavasarkar3508
    @arunavasarkar3508 Před 6 lety

    When the light entered the water wouldnt it get a upward force thus reducing the velocity unlike what you drew in 15:51

    • @lecturesbywalterlewin.they9259
      @lecturesbywalterlewin.they9259  Před 6 lety

      water has a refraction index of about 1.34 for light. Thus as light enters its speed becomes c/1.34.

    • @arunavasarkar3508
      @arunavasarkar3508 Před 6 lety

      Lectures by Walter Lewin. They will make you ♥ Physics. Yes so the spees decreases but what you drew imdicated otherwise?

  • @KaviPriyan-qt6vc
    @KaviPriyan-qt6vc Před 4 lety

    sir in lecture notes what do you mean by 0 hz how to understand it sir

  • @dione57
    @dione57 Před 7 lety

    Dear professor, for the clown slides at 48:27, does the video show the same colors as you saw in the class? According to what you said about brain getting `mixed up,' I thought we should see different colors in this video recording, since the colors are not `real.'

    • @lecturesbywalterlewin.they9259
      @lecturesbywalterlewin.they9259  Před 7 lety

      good point - I suggest you read about more about the Edwin Land demos.
      I have discussed this him. It so happens that photographic paper and video (color) have sensitivity for 3 different colors and the result is that photo copies and videos show a very similar result.

    • @dione57
      @dione57 Před 7 lety

      Thanks, professor! I found a seemingly nice site about this interesting Land's effect: www.aw3rd.us/scief/colorviz.htm (The site has a link to Land's article in Scientific American at the end.)

  • @ahmadeldesokey9844
    @ahmadeldesokey9844 Před 4 lety

    Sir , why index of refraction of water for blue light is higher than that for red light ?
    In your lecture notes , i found that index of refraction decreases as frequency increases and blue light has a higher frequency than red light .

    • @lecturesbywalterlewin.they9259
      @lecturesbywalterlewin.they9259  Před 4 lety +1

      it's an anomaly - google it

    • @ahmadeldesokey9844
      @ahmadeldesokey9844 Před 4 lety

      @@lecturesbywalterlewin.they9259 i can not find an answer on google , all what i found is articles talking about snell's law .please refere to any page .

  • @boredscientist5756
    @boredscientist5756 Před rokem

    Well, if I may be picky, you don't have 100% total reflection. You forgot to mention the evanescent waves, but this is just a PCF specialist talking here.
    *ps:* a part about supercontinuum generation is clearly missing here (it is MIT after all....)! It was quite new when these lessons took place, it would have been super interesting to introduce them to it! Would have been amazing for them to be introduced to the marvel of optical fibers with a FULL lesson about it!

  • @poli987789
    @poli987789 Před rokem

    21:45
    Doesn't this, at least in principle, allow for a diamagnetic material with Km less than 1, in which the speed of light is faster than the speed of light in vacuum?

  • @AliceKMay
    @AliceKMay Před rokem +1

    Good day, sir. I do enjoy your lectures and those help me a lot to visualise Physics with the reality. The thing is I have a problem. I do enjoy Physics and Physic classes, but I start to feel anxious whenever I have to solve the questions with mathematics, even though I practise maths properly. How can I improve it, sir?
    Thanks in advance!

    • @lecturesbywalterlewin.they9259
      @lecturesbywalterlewin.they9259  Před rokem +1

      You have 2 options
      option 1: eat yogurt every day but *never on Fridays*
      option 2: Watch all my 94 MIT course lectures. Start with 8.01, then 8.02, then 8.03. Do all the homework and take all my exams. *I guarantee you that you will then do very well on the Physics portion of any freshman college or JEE exam* You will find all information you need on this channel in three playlists "Homework, Exam, Solutions & Lecture Notes".
      8.01 & 8.02 will each take about 200 hours, 8.03 about 250 hours.

    • @AliceKMay
      @AliceKMay Před rokem

      @@lecturesbywalterlewin.they9259 Thank you so much for your reply, sir. I appreciate your efforts and kindness.

    • @Kelvin-ed6ce
      @Kelvin-ed6ce Před rokem

      @@lecturesbywalterlewin.they9259 I don't eat yogurt everyday.

  • @sools313
    @sools313 Před 4 lety +1

    these lectures should be translated to many languages

  • @pawejerzyna5674
    @pawejerzyna5674 Před 2 lety

    great lecture I really appreciate that :)