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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.

James K. Roberge: 6.302 Lecture 20 — Model Train Speed Control

Teaching Excellence at MIT 13 years ago

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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.

Banerjee & Duflo: 14.73 Lecture 19 — The Promise and Perils of Microfinance

Teaching Excellence at MIT 13 years ago

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Prof. Abhijit Banerjee discusses the topic of pros and cons of microfinance for the poor. Recorded 2011.

Patrick Winston: 6.034 Lecture 09 — Constraints: In Visual Object Recognition

Teaching Excellence at MIT 13 years ago

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Recorded October 13th, 2010.

James K. Roberge: 6.302 Lecture 17 — Conditional Stability

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Topics include: conditionally stable systems; experimental configurations of a demonstration test system; nonlinear compensation; complementary emitter-follower pair. Recorded: 1985.

Amar G. Bose: 6.312 Lecture 16—Speakers, Magnetics

Teaching Excellence at MIT 13 years ago

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Topics include: speaker enclosures; magnetic circuits; resonant frequency; electrostatic speakers; reluctance. Recorded: Nov. 2, 1995.

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.

Amar G. Bose: 6.312 Lecture 04—Sinusoidal Examples

Teaching Excellence at MIT 13 years ago

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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.