Lec 01: Units, Dimensions, and Scaling Arguments | 8.01 Classical Mechanics (Walter Lewin) @ForTheAllureOfPhysics

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This lecture is about units, dimensions, measurements and associated uncertainties, dimensional analysis, and scaling arguments.

This lecture is part of 8.01 Physics I: Classical Mechanics, as taught in Fall 1999 by Dr. Walter Lewin at MIT.

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