Suggested preparation: Calculus and prior exposure to vibrations and waves.
About this course
Practice solving vibrations-and-waves problems through guided examples. The videos cover oscillations, coupled systems, standing waves and interference, complementing a lecture-based physics course.
Topics and lesson examples
- 1. Simple Harmonic Motion & Problem Solving Introduction
- 3. Driven Harmonic Oscillators
- 5. Traveling Waves without Damping
- 7. Standing Waves Part II
- 10. Interference of Electromagnetic Waves
Course at a glance
| Provider | MIT |
|---|---|
| Platform | YouTube · MIT OpenCourseWare |
| Access | Free Video |
| Level | Intermediate — WikiFree study-level assessment |
| Language | English |
| Available lessons | 10 |
| Video duration | 10h 4m · self-paced |
| Details checked | 10 October 2026 |
Preparation and study approach
Suggested preparation: Calculus and prior exposure to vibrations and waves.
Follow the available videos in sequence, pausing to summarize the main argument or reconstruct a worked example. Keep a short list of assumptions, unfamiliar terms and questions to revisit. Additional reading, problem solving and practice will take time beyond the listed video duration.
Using this video classroom
Select a lesson from the list, or search for a topic. Previous and Next move through the sequence. You can mark lessons complete; progress is stored in this browser without a WikiFree account.
Free access and course scope
The public MIT OpenCourseWare videos in this classroom are free to watch. This listing provides the available playlist recordings, which may include selected lectures, recitations, demonstrations or supporting discussions rather than every component of the original campus course. Textbooks, equipment, software licenses, supervised labs, graded assignments and instructor feedback are not supplied by WikiFree. No purchase is required to watch the videos or use the note-based study approach above.
WikiFree independently organizes these resources for self-paced study. Watching does not award an MIT certificate, academic credit or admission to MIT.
Video provider and credit: MIT OpenCourseWare on YouTube. WikiFree titles, descriptions and cover artwork are independently prepared.
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Compare course focus, level and study time
| Course | Level | Focus | Study time |
|---|---|---|---|
| This course — Free MIT Course: Vibrations and Waves Problem-Solving Practice | Intermediate | 1. Simple Harmonic Motion & Problem Solving Introduction · 3. Driven Harmonic Oscillators · 5. Traveling Waves without Damping | 10h 4m of video; practice time is additional |
| Free MIT Course: Physics of Vibrations and Waves | Intermediate | 8.03SC Physics III: Vibrations and Waves Introduction · 8. Translation Symmetry · 17. Polarization, Polarizer | 30h 45m of video; practice time is additional |
| Free MIT Course: Multivariable Calculus Problem-Solving Practice | Intermediate | Coordinate free proofs: centroid of a triangle · Level curves · Integrals with density | 13h 9m of video; practice time is additional |
| Free MIT Course: Single-Variable Calculus Problem-Solving Practice | Intermediate | Recitation Introduction for MIT 18.01SC, 18.02SC · Minimum Triangle Area · Second fundamental theorem and quadratic approximation | 14h 20m of video; practice time is additional |
Provider: MIT. Videos play from the MIT OpenCourseWare channel on YouTube.
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