Category: Inspiring Teachers
Champions of Teaching Excellence
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A. Neil Pappalardo ’64 is a champion of teaching excellence at MIT. Born in Rochester, New York, Neil Pappalardo received the S.B. degree in Electrical Engineering from MIT. Following graduation Neil pursued his int...
Amar Bose: 6.312 Lecture 27—Personal Reflections
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Dr. Bose addresses students during the last class of the Fall 1995 semester. He first illustrates an experiment about sound deterioration and normal modes, using multiple re-recordings of a piece of music, a human voi...
Amar Bose: 6.312 Lecture 26—Acoustic Wave Technology
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Topics include: distortion; acoustic wave technology; reflections on the process of invention; active noise cancellation; Hilbert transforms; patents and the IPO; demonstration with Bose speaker. Recorded: Dec. 12, 1995.
Amar Bose: 6.312 Lecture 25—Psychoacoustics (cont.)
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Topics include: psychoacoustics; localization of sound; Fletcher Munson curve; sensitivity to phase shift; Pinna pressure; sensitivity to distortion; Haas effect; spectral, spatial and temporal aspects of sound; maski...
Amar Bose: 6.312 Lecture 24—Air Absorption and Psychoachoustics
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Topics include: air absorption; architectural acoustics; psychoacoustics; digital signals; sampling process; convolution; square waves; all-pass network; experiments with acoustical instrument musicians; RCA experimen...
Amar Bose: Lecture 23—Fields and Air Absorption
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Topics include: direct and reverberant fields; air absorption; experiences recording orchestras; localization; stories about patent trials. Recorded: Nov. 30, 1995.
Amar Bose: 6.312 Lecture 22—Mean Free Path and Reverberation
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Topics include: sound in large irregular rooms; mean free path; reverberation time; direct and reverberant fields; effects of environments on music and voice. Recorded: Nov. 28, 1995.
Amar Bose: 6.312 Lecture 21—Normal Modes
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Topics include: 3-D rooms; distribution of normal modes; graphic equalizers; class demo with oscilloscope. Recorded: Nov. 21, 1995.
Amar G. Bose: 6.312 Lecture 20—Room Acoustics
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Topics include: room acoustics; regular and irregular rooms; tubes (1-D) and 2-D rooms; allowable frequency; normal modes. Recorded: Nov. 16, 1995.
Amar G. Bose: 6.312 Lecture 19—Microphones
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Topics include: microphones; pressure sensitive and pressure-gradient (velocity) microphones; Prof. Ernst A. Guillemin (MIT professor of network theory); Maurice Maeterlink; proximity effect. Recorded: Nov. 14, 1995.
