1 MARYAM, October 13, 2009 at 1:28 a.m.:

I hope the best wishes for you,because you made a situation for me to enjoy the world of physics.thank you indeed.

2 suryanarayanan, November 26, 2009 at 5:39 p.m.:

good lecture. but back in INdia, 1960's when I did my M.S phys, none of my teachers had any notes nor vu graphs nor powerpoints; i was so lucky they were so good; we used to think that they were all trained in usa; but very few of them ever croosed madras city!!!

3 Fred, December 16, 2009 at 8:23 a.m.:

simply amazing

4 chris peters, December 26, 2009 at 1:40 a.m.:

Great teachers are true treasures and Walter Lewin should consider himself as one of them. I have watched some of his other lectures online without being a paying student at MIT. (a very gracious thank you to MIT for making such wonderful material available online)

My interest to heisenberg's uncertainty was by way of reading Stephen Jay Gould's short by delightfully readable book "Questioning the Millenium" in which he describes Pierre Simon Laplace's famous remark in the preface that if the direction and speed of every particle in the universe were known, if we had a 'snapshot" of every known particle without disturbing its direction or speed, we would know all past present and future events, down to the most arbitary spontaneous of human actions (not withstanding natural phenomena like the weather, the rate at which leaves fall from any random tree, etc) just from this one snapshot. And so heisenbergs uncertainty challenges those of us who believe causal determinism, that present and future are results of unbroken chains of events from the past that cascaded forward and are still so doing.

Heisenbergs uncertainty, keeping Laplace's comments in mind, is that the direction and velocity of all particles in the universe can be known by motion and still photography, that the image of light printed to the film on a camera is a lamda cold dark matter (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zO2vfY...) model that casts forward events of the future by the linguistical objective positioning of objects and elements in the frame of reference of the photograph.

How the professor uses the vertical slits to widen the photons of light through the shutter onto the screen raises questions to me about the uncertainty of a snapshot vertically captured and its horizontal uncertainty in consideration of Laplace's remarks. would, for example, a horizontally wide angle photograph have a vertical uncertainty (longitude? above or below where the picture is hung on the wall or how it is viewed on a screen later on to a briefed observer?..)

5 Cosmina , July 7, 2010 at 10:17 p.m.:

Professor Lewin, at the end of 2010 you still have the greatest lectures available, thank you for making 1 year of self taught Physics doable and great fun. Sometimes your lectures felt better than in a real classroom.

Sir, have you ever taught quantum mechanics? If so is the video webcast available anywhere?

Thank you again, for all the energy and heart you put in your lectures !

6 Francisco J. Vila, May 11, 2012 at 7:58 p.m.:

First of all, thanks Mr. Lewing for helping me to love physics. Dealing with this single slit topic, one question I can´t fully understand : I see you use the single slit experiment to justify the Heisemberg Principle, and of course it works mathematically. But I think someone could say: ok, I think this is not a quantum effect, it is just the diffraction of light and pure classic mechanics.
I mean, I just can not understand how you can justify this experiment in two such different ways, in some way they should contradict each other: classics vs. quantum worlds!

7 Evans Ojwak, May 21, 2012 at 9:55 a.m.:

Thanks for the lecturer Prof.

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9 berger, November 27, 2023 at 5:39 a.m.:

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