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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Lecture 23: Doppler Effect - Binary Stars - Neutron Stars and Black Holes Topics on this video include: Doppler Shift with Sound Waves - Circular Orbits, Doppler Shift of Electromagnetic Radiation, Star Mass Determinations from Doppler Shift, X-ray Binary Systems and Black Holes. 8.01 is a first-semester freshman physics class in Newtonian Mechanics, Fluid Mechanics, and Kinetic Gas Theory. In addition to the basic concepts of Newtonian Mechanics, Fluid Mechanics, and Kinetic Gas Theory, a variety of interesting topics are covered in this course: Binary Stars, Neutron Stars, Black Holes, Resonance Phenomena, Musical Instruments, Stellar Collapse, Supernovae, Astronomical observations from very high flying balloons (lecture 35), and you will be allowed a peek into the intriguing Quantum World. MIT OpenCourseWare also presents Professor Lewin's freshman physics course series 8.02 - Electricity and Magnetism - with a complete set of 36 video lectures from the Spring of 2002 and 8.03 - Vibrations and Waves - with a complete set of 23 video lectures from the Fall of 2004. This material was created or adapted from material created by MIT faculty member Walter Lewin, Professor. Copyright © 2007 Walter Lewin. For more videos from MIT OCW, please visit: ocw.mit.edu For more educational videos, please visit: www.CosmoLearning.com