Category: Inspiring Teachers
Banerjee & Duflo: 14.73 Lecture 08 — Health: Low Hanging Fruit?
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Prof. Esther Duflo discusses some of the most effective and cheapest ways to promote good health, such as bednets, immunization, and breast feeding. Recorded 2011.
Banerjee & Duflo: 14.73 Lecture 20 — Savings Part 1
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Prof. Abhijit Banerjee covers the realities of saving and borrowing for the world's poor. Recorded 2011.
James K. Roberge: 6.302 Lecture 09 — More Compensation
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Topics include: increasingly complex modifications of the loop-transmission; unity magnitude point; example: electronic regulator; lead transfer function; lag transfer function; lead and lag networks. Recorded: 1985.
Banerjee & Duflo: 14.73 Lecture 19 — The Promise and Perils of Microfinance
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Prof. Abhijit Banerjee discusses the topic of pros and cons of microfinance for the poor. Recorded 2011.
Banerjee & Duflo: 14.73 Lecture 12 — (Somewhat) Un-Orthodox Findings on the Family
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Prof. Esther Duflo discusses what drives fertility decisions. Topics include family planning, population growth, quality-quantity trade off, and China's one-child policy, among other topics. Recorded 2011.
James K. Roberge: 6.302 Lecture 01 — Introduction and Basics: Properties of Feedback Systems
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Topics include: introduction to the design of feedback systems; properties and advantages of feedback systems; time-domain and frequency-domain performance measures; stability and degree of stability; root locus metho...
Amar G. Bose: 6.312 Lecture 12—Resistance and Acoustical Circuits
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Topics include: resistance, resistive elements; transformers; anechoic chamber; acoustical circuits; Kirchhoff's laws: KVL and KCL; Helmholtz resonator. Recorded: Oct. 19, 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...
Banerjee & Duflo: 14.73 Lecture 14 — Gender Discrimination
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Prof. Abhijit Banerjee covers gender discrimination and uneven gender ratios in various countries, including India. Recorded 2011.
James K. Roberge: 6.302 Lecture 10 — Compensation Example
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Topics include: operational amplifier used to illustrate how to physically compensate a system; lead network; comparing lead and lag compensation; bandwidths; series, or cascade, compensation. Recorded: 1985.
