Physics · Year I

8.01SC Classical Mechanics

Vectors, motion, Newton's laws, energy, momentum, rotation and gravity — the mechanics of particles and planets.

Based on MIT OpenCourseWare, Fall 2016 · Prof. Deepto Chakrabarty, Dr. Peter Dourmashkin, Dr. Michelle Tomasik, Prof. Anna Frebel, Prof. Vladan Vuletic · Course on OCW

Lessons (6 of 8 with pages so far)

Lesson 0VectorsMIT ↗
- VectorsQuantities with a size and a direction, how to add them, and how to describe them with numbers in a coordinate system.
Lesson 11D Kinematics - Position and VelocityMIT ↗
- Position and velocity in one dimensionDescribing motion along a line with a position function, and defining velocity as the rate of change of position.
Lesson 21D Kinematics - AccelerationMIT ↗
- Acceleration in one dimensionAcceleration as the rate of change of velocity, motion with constant acceleration, and getting velocity and position back by integration.
Lesson 32D Kinematics - Position, Velocity, and AccelerationMIT ↗
- Motion in two dimensions and projectilesPosition, velocity and acceleration as vectors in a plane, and why a thrown ball follows a parabola.
Lesson 4Newton's Laws of MotionMIT ↗
- Newton's laws of motionWhat a force is, how mass is measured, and the three laws that connect forces to motion.
Lesson 5GravityMIT ↗
- The universal law of gravitationNewton's inverse-square law of gravity, adding gravitational forces, and where the value of g comes from.
Lesson 6Contact ForcesMIT ↗
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Lesson 7Tension and SpringsMIT ↗
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Note: Lessons 8–37 (Weeks 3–12: circular motion, momentum, energy, collisions, rotation, angular momentum) are added to this syllabus as their pages are written.