| 8.012 Physics I, Fall 2002 | Books |
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Prerequisites: 18.01 Calculus Level: Undergraduate Elementary mechanics, presented at greater depth than in 8.01(Calculus). Newton's laws, concepts of momentum, energy, angular momentum, rigid body motion, and non-inertial systems. Uses elementary calculus freely. Concurrent registration in a math subject more advanced than 18.01 is recommended. |
| Physics 8.02: Electricity and Magnetism | Books |
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Prerequisites:
Level: Undergraduate Covers:
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| 8.03 Physics III, Spring 2003 | Books |
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Level: Undergraduate Mechanical vibrations and waves, simple harmonic motion, superposition, forced vibrations and resonance, coupled oscillations and normal modes, vibrations of continuous systems, reflection and refraction, phase and group velocity. Optics, wave solutions to Maxwell's equations, polarization, Snell's law, interference, Huygens's principle, Fraunhofer diffraction, and gratings. |
| 8.04 Quantum Physics I, Spring 2003 | Books |
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Level: Undergraduate Photoelectric effect, Compton scattering, photons, Franck-Hertz experiment, the Bohr atom, electron diffraction, De Broglie waves, and wave-particle duality |
| 8.044 Statistical Physics I, Spring 2003 | Books |
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Level: Undergraduate Introduction to probability, statistical mechanics, and thermodynamics. |