Category: Inspiring Teachers
Banerjee & Duflo: 14.73 Lecture 16 — Insurance
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Prof. Abhijit Banerjee's lecture covers risk and insurance for the world's poor. Recorded 2011.
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....
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.
James K. Roberge: 6.302 Lecture 19 — Phase-locked Loops
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Topics include: phase-locked loops and their applications; output signal frequency; loop filter; phase detection; demo with type 565 integrated circuit phase-locked loop; ripple filtering. Recorded: 1985.
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...
Patrick Winston: 6.034 Lecture 10 — Learning: Nearest Neighbors, Diverse Applications
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Recorded October 15th, 2010.
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 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.
Banerjee & Duflo: 14.73 Lecture 13 — How Do Families Decide?
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Prof. Esther Duflo continues the discussion from lecture 12, and also includes material on how families make decisions about family planning. Recorded 2011.