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 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.
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.
James K. Roberge: 6.302 Lecture 15 — Describing Functions
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Topics include: describing function analysis; example of oscillator; infinite gain limiter; gain phase plane. Recorded: 1985.
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.
Banerjee & Duflo: 14.73 Lecture 09 — Education: Setting the Stage
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Prof. Esther Duflo covers the themes portrayed in the film Educating Yaparak and examines education through the lens of economics. Recorded 2011.
Banerjee & Duflo: 14.73 Lecture 03 — Social Experiments: Why and How?
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In this lecture, Prof. Esther Duflo talks about social experiments done to understand what interventions work best to mitigate world poverty. Recorded 2011.
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 G. Bose: 6.312 Lecture 18—Permanent Magnets
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Topics include: permanent magnets; omni vs. cardioid; first transatlantic cable; Norbert Wiener and first use of network synthesis; Kirchhoff's laws; magnetic materials and Alnico; future of electrical systems in auto...
