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Banerjee & Duflo: 14.73 Lecture 02 — What is a Poverty Trap?

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Prof. Esther Duflo provides an introduction to the idea of poverty traps. Recorded 2011.

Amar G. Bose: 6.312 Lecture 04—Sinusoidal Examples

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Topics include: one-dimensional wave case; sinusoidal case; exponential building block; characteristic impedance of the medium; transmission line equations. Recorded: Sept. 19, 1995.

Amar G. Bose: 6.312 Lecture 01—Introduction

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Topics include: course mechanics and philosophy; interdisciplinarity of acoustics; centrality of modeling; lump parameters; Maxwell's Equations; experiences with Norbert Wiener; physical acoustics and psychoacoustics....

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.

Patrick Winston: 6.034 Lecture 13 — Learning: Genetic Algorithms

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Recorded October 27, 2010.

Amar G. Bose: 6.312 Lecture 05—Reflection, Standing Waves, Network Synthesis

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Topics include: normal reflection; standing waves; lump parameter approximation; network synthesis. Recorded: Sept. 21, 1995.

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.  

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.