Classical Mechanics — Week 3: Circular Motion

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Source: MIT OpenCourseWare 8.01SC Classical Mechanics, Fall 2016, Prof. Deepto Chakrabarty, Dr. Peter Dourmashkin, Dr. Michelle Tomasik, Prof. Anna Frebel, Prof. Vladan Vuletic — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: this unit's sessions in MIT's listing order. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 22, 2026. How RedLectern is built.

Instructors: Prof. Deepto Chakrabarty, Dr. Peter Dourmashkin, Dr. Michelle Tomasik, Prof. Anna Frebel, Prof. Vladan Vuletic
Term: Fall 2016
Level: Undergraduate
What's inside: 15 videos · 1 problem set
Materials open: Videos here · files on MIT OCW

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Classical Mechanics — Week 3: Circular Motion

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Week 3 Introduction

8.1 Polar Coordinates

8.2 Circular Motion: Position and Velocity Vectors

8.3 Angular Velocity

9.1 Uniform Circular Motion

9.2 Uniform Circular Motion - Direction of the Acceleration

10.1 Circular Motion – Acceleration

10.2 Angular Acceleration

10.3 Worked Example - Angular Position from Angular Acceleration

11.1 Newton's 2nd Law and Circular Motion

11.2 Worked Example - Car on a Banked Turn

11.3 Demo: Rotating Bucket

Worked Example - Orbital Circular Motion – Radius

Orbital Circular Motion – Velocity

Orbital Circular Motion – Period