Category: Inspiring Teachers
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...
Banerjee & Duflo: 14.73 Lecture 15 — Risk and Insurance
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Prof. Abhijit Banerjee discusses the ways in which risk is costly to the poor and if insurance is beneficial to this population. Recorded 2011.
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.
Patrick Winston: 6.034 Lecture 11 — Learning: Identification Trees, Disorder
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Recorded October 18th, 2010.
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.
Banerjee & Duflo: 14.73 Lecture 26 — Five Thoughts in Place of a Sweeping Conclusion
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Five Thoughts in Place of a Sweeping Conclusion. Prof. Abhijit Banerjee provides some final thoughts to conclude the course on the challenges of world poverty. Recorded 2011.
Patrick Winston: 6.034 Lecture 22 — Probabilistic Inference II
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Recorded December 6, 2010.
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.
James K. Roberge: 6.302 Lecture 20 — Model Train Speed Control
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Topics include: speed control of a model (Lionel Corp.) train; time division multiplex telemetry scheme; cogging; up-down counter; review of the hardware; demos with oscilloscope; switching amplifiers. Recorded: 1985.
