Professor Walter Levin from M.I.T.

[airkapp]

Hi, just some advice searching here. I'm doing my classes online through this guy from M.I.T. http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Physics/8-02Electricity-and-MagnetismSpring2002/VideoLectures/index.htm

Any comments? Anybody here about him? he seems pretty good so far.

 

[devious_]

It's Lewin.

I personally enjoy his style. He's also a pretty funny guy.

 

[cronxeh]

what the crap.. there are females at MIT??

On a second thought.. this reminds me of a joke I once read

"Another day they may pull a prank by sneaking a girl into a group of high school students and parents visiting Caltech, then 'kidnapping' the girl and yelling, 'We got one! We got one!'"

 

[DarkEternal]

i had him last semester for 8.03 lecture, which i believe have also been posted on the web. the lecture on rainbows was especially interesting, check that one out.

 

[FredGarvin]

what the crap.. there are females at MIT??

They obviously imported them in from Wellesley.

 

[Andromeda321]

I remember a few months ago he put up an interesting picture and asked people on the internet to identify the phenomenon seen in it (if I recall correctly if you were in his class at the time you'd get extra credit if you got it right). I gave it my best shot and was one of thousands who did, but he wrote back to each and every one of those people. I wasn't that far off from the actual answer, actually, and was really excited to see that he'd taken the time to write back!

 

[DeadWolfe]

i had him last semester for 8.03 lecture, which i believe have also been posted on the web. the lecture on rainbows was especially interesting, check that one out.

Hmm..

Don't see it there.

Just 8.01 and 8.02

I really wish there were more videos on OCW, the ones they have are priceless.

 

[cronxeh]

I remember a few months ago he put up an interesting picture and asked people on the internet to identify the phenomenon seen in it

Ha! You talking about http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap040913.html

 

[primal schemer]

Hmm..

Don't see it there.

Just 8.01 and 8.02

I really wish there were more videos on OCW, the ones they have are priceless.

Just watched the first one in the 8.02 course, very good. Is there a way of getting a list of all of the courses that have video lectures??

 

[pmb_phy]

what the crap.. there are females at MIT??

Why does that surprise you??

Pete

 

[cronxeh]

Because statistically there are far less females going into science/engineering
School - % females:
Caltech (31 %)
Columbia - Fu (26 %)
Worcester Poly - (24 %)
RPI - (25 %)
my school - (19 %)

 

[Bartholomew]

I think I read recently that MIT is close to 50-50 male-female.

 

[DeadWolfe]

Just watched the first one in the 8.02 course, very good. Is there a way of getting a list of all of the courses that have video lectures??

In Physics there's 8.01 and 8.02

In Math there's 18.01, 18.085 and 18.06

Those are all that I know of.

 

[Andromeda321]

It's 30% female in my class... *shrug*
Doesn't help our odds much though, because the odds may be good but the goods may be odd.

 

[t!m]

In Math there's 18.01, 18.085 and 18.06

I think you mean 18.03, and not 18.01. Differential Equations, not Single Variable Calculus.

But those are also the only 5 courses with video lectures that I know of, as well.

 

[DeadWolfe]

Yes, 18.03.

Sorry.