Lectures (Video)
- 1. Measurements And Dimensional Analysis
- 2. 1D Kinematics
- 3. Vectors
- 4. 3D Kinematics
- 5. Circular Motion
- 6. Newton's Laws
- 7. Weight - Perceived Gravity
- 8. Friction
- 9. Review
- 10. Hooke's Law
- 11. Work - Kinetic Energy - Potential Energy
- 12. Non-Conservative Forces
- 13. Potential Energy
- 14. Sources of energy
- 15. Momentum
- 16. Elastic and Inelastic Collisions
- 17. Impulse
- 18. Review II
- 19. Rotating Rigid Bodies
- 20. Angular Momentum
- 21. Torques - Oscillating Bodies
- 22. Kepler's Laws
- 23. Doppler Effect
- 24. Rolling Motion and Gyroscopes
- 25. Static Equilibrium
- 26. Elasticity and Young's Modulus
- 27. Introduction to Fluid Mechanics
- 28. Hydrostatics and Bernoulli's Equation
- 29. Review III
- 30. Simple Harmonic Oscillations
- 31. Forced Oscillations
- 32. Heat - Thermal Expansion
- 33. Kinetic Gas Theory
- 34. Breakdown of Classical Mechanics
- 35. High-energy Astrophysics
Classical Mechanics - Lecture 15
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Lecture 15 - Momentum
Momentum and its conservation during collisions is introduced. Kinetic energy can decrease or increase during collisions. When kinetic energy is conserved, we call it an elastic collision.
Prof. Walter Lewin
8.01 Physics I: Classical Mechanics, Fall 1999 (Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare) http://ocw.mit.edu Date accessed: 2008-12-12 License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA |