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 At 71, Physics Prof. Walter H. G. Lewin Is a Web Star

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At 71, Physics Prof. Walter H. G. Lewin Is a Web Star Physicsnew600Erik Jacobs for The New York Times



Prof. Walter H. G. Lewin, No. 1 on the most downloaded list at iTunes U
for a while, with objects he uses for his physics lessons.







By SARA RIMER

Published: December 19, 2007













CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Walter H. G. Lewin, 71, a physics professor, has long had a cult following at M.I.T.
And he has now emerged as an international Internet guru, thanks to the
global classroom the institute created to spread knowledge through
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Web Lectures


Here are links to some of Professor Lewin's online physics lectures.

  • A Demonstration of Electrostatics
  • Trajectories of Objects in Freefall
  • How a Rocket Lifts Off
  • A Lecture on Pendulums


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Professor Lewin demonstrates physics of pendulums.







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Professor
Lewin’s videotaped physics lectures, free online on the OpenCourseWare
of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, have won him devotees
across the country and beyond who stuff his e-mail in-box with praise.“Through
your inspiring video lectures i have managed to see just how BEAUTIFUL
Physics is, both astounding and simple,” a 17-year-old from India
e-mailed recently. Steve Boigon, 62, a florist from San Diego,
wrote, “I walk with a new spring in my step and I look at life through
physics-colored eyes.” Professor Lewin delivers his lectures with the panache of Julia Child
bringing French cooking to amateurs and the zany theatricality of
YouTube’s greatest hits. He is part of a new generation of academic
stars who hold forth in cyberspace on their college Web sites and even,
without charge, on iTunes U, which went up in May on Apple’s iTunes Store. In his lectures at ocw.mit.edu, Professor Lewin beats a student with cat fur to demonstrate electrostatics.
Wearing shorts, sandals with socks and a pith helmet — nerd safari garb
— he fires a cannon loaded with a golf ball at a stuffed monkey wearing
a bulletproof vest to demonstrate the trajectories of objects in free fall. He rides a fire-extinguisher-propelled tricycle across his classroom to show how a rocket lifts off. He
was No. 1 on the most downloaded list at iTunes U for a while, but that
lineup constantly evolves. The stars this week included Hubert Dreyfus,
a philosophy professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and
Leonard Susskind, a professor of quantum mechanics at Stanford. Last week, Yale
put some of its most popular undergraduate courses and professors
online free. The list includes Controversies in Astrophysics with
Charles Bailyn, Modern Poetry with Langdon Hammer and Introduction to
the Old Testament with Christine Hayes.M.I.T. recently expanded
its online classes by opening a site aimed at high school students and
teachers. Judging from his fan e-mail, Professor Lewin, who is among
those featured on the new site, appeals to students of all ages. Some
of his correspondents compare him to Richard Feynman, the
free-spirited, bongo-playing Nobel laureate who popularized physics
through his books, lectures and television appearances.With his
wiry grayish-brown hair, his tortoiseshell glasses and his intensity,
Professor Lewin is the iconic brilliant scientist. But like Julia
Child, he is at once larger than life and totally accessible.“We
have here the mother of all pendulums!” he declares, hoisting his
6-foot-2, 170-pound self on a 30-pound steel ball attached to a pendulum hanging from the ceiling. He swings across the stage, holding himself nearly horizontal as his hair blows in the breeze he created. The point: that a period of a pendulum is independent of the mass — the steel ball, plus one professor — hanging from it.“Physics works!” Professor Lewin shouts, as the classroom explodes in cheers. “Hi,
Prof. Lewin!!” a fan who identified himself as a 17-year-old from China
wrote. “I love your inspiring lectures and I love MIT!!!”A fan
who said he was a physics teacher from Iraq gushed: “You are now my
Scientific Father. In spite of the bad occupation and war against my
lovely IRAQ, you made me love USA because you are there and MIT is
there.”Professor Lewin revels in his fan mail and in the idea
that he is spreading the love of physics. “Teaching is my life,” he
said. The professor, who is from the Netherlands, said that
teaching a required course in introductory physics to M.I.T. students
made him realize “that what really counts is to make them love physics,
to make them love science.” He said he spent 25 hours preparing each new lecture, choreographing every detail and stripping out every extra sentence. “Clarity is the word,” he said. Fun also matters. In another lecture on pendulums,
he stands back against the wall, holding a steel ball at the end of a
pendulum just beneath his chin. He has just demonstrated how potential
energy turns into kinetic energy by sending the ball flying across the
stage, shattering a pane of glass he had bolted to the wall. Now he will demonstrate the conservation of energy. “I
am such a strong believer in the conservation of energy that I am
willing to risk my life for it,” he says. “If I am wrong, then this
will be my last lecture.” He closes his eyes, and releases the ball. It flies back and forth, stopping just short of his chin. “Physics works!” Professor Lewin shouts. “And I’m still alive!”Chasing
rainbows hooked Mr. Boigon, the San Diego florist. He was vacationing
in Hawaii when he noticed the rainbow outside his hotel every
afternoon. Why were the colors always in the same order? When he returned home, Mr. Boigon said in a telephone interview, he Googled rainbows. Within moments, he was whisked to M.I.T. Lecture Hall No. 26-100. Professor Lewin was in front of a few hundred students. “All
of you have looked at rainbows,” he begins. “But very few of you have
ever seen one. Seeing is different than looking. Today we are going to
see a rainbow.” For 50 minutes, he bounds across the stage,
writing equations on the blackboard and rhapsodizing about the
“amazing” and “beautiful” physics of rainbows. He explains how the
colors always appear in the same order because of how light refracts
and reflects in the water droplets. For the finale, he creates a rainbow by shining a bright light into a glass sphere containing a single drop of water. “There it is!” Professor Lewin cries. “Your
life will never be the same,” he tells his students. “Because of your
knowledge, you will be able to see way more than just the beauty of the
bows that everyone else can see.” “Professor Lewin was
correct,” Mr. Boigon wrote in an e-mail message to a reporter. “He made
me SEE ... and it has changed my life for the better!!”“I had
never taken a course in physics, or calculus, or differential
equations,” he wrote to Professor Lewin. “Now I have done all that in
order to be able to follow your lectures. I knew the name Isaac Newton,
but nothing about Newtonian Mechanics. I had heard of the likes of
Einstein, Galileo.” But, he added that he “didn’t have a clue on earth
as to what they were all about.” “I walk down the street
analyzing the force of a boy on skateboard or the recoil of a carpenter
using a nail gun,” he wrote. “Thank you with all my heart.”

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