MIT gives free physics course

quantum123

http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Physics/index.htm

Hootenanny

Wow, nice! Full course lecture notes, problem sets and solutions! Great find, you should stick this in the tutorials section.

J77

And, more generally, http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Global/all-courses.htm

Moridin

Out of all educational material available at MIT-related websites, I must say that I can and do appreciate the large quantity of physics video lectures with Walter Lewin. He has a very dynamic lecturer.

8.01 Physics I: Classical Mechanics, Fall 1999
8.02 Electricity and Magnetism, spring 2002
8.03 Physics III: Vibrations and Waves, Fall 2004

The above is about 100 videos (approx. 40-50 min each) for Physics I-III instructed at MIT.

While I am on the subject, he is also in some independent video lectures available over at MIT World:

Polarization: Light Waves, Rainbows, and Cheap Sunglasses
The Birth and Death of Stars
The Sounds of Music
The Mystery of Light
The Wonders of Electricity and Magnetism

While the five above is more of introductory rather than from actual course. Still it is an interesting experience to watch them.

Saketh

Each one is more like 50 minutes (not that it really makes a difference).

vincentm

Crap i just really wished they didn't use Real player as their format. Nevertheless downloading that crappy software to play these videos is worth it. Thank you.

kanak

If you have access to the itunes store, you can download these videos in mp4 format for free from the iTunesU section.

mgb_phys

Google for 'Real alternative' it's a free implemation of the realplayer protocol without all the ad-ware and dancing hamsters of real's official player.

nanoWatt

I tried with both Real and Real Alternative, and I just get a "Missing Codec" error. I can't seem to play their videos.

Saladsamurai

Do they have a real alternative or some other player that supports .rm for a Mac?

regal231

Just want to say thanks for posting this.

gamesguru

Problem sets are good and all, but you really do need video lectures to fully learn the material.

russelljbarry15

You-Tube also has the videos. I can play them fine from there.

TheRealColbert

Using Firefox, there is an add-on extension called DownloadHelper that allows you to "easily" download youtube videos into .flv format.

But I wish they would put them up in a torrent....