Category: Inspiring Teachers
Banerjee & Duflo: 14.73 Lecture 24 — Policies, Politics: Can Evidence Play a Role… Part 1
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Policies, Politics: Can Evidence Play a Role in the Fight Against Poverty? (Part 1). Prof. Abhijit Banerjee discusses theories and policies developed to help fight poverty. 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.
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....
James K. Roberge: 6.302 Lecture 09 — More Compensation
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Topics include: increasingly complex modifications of the loop-transmission; unity magnitude point; example: electronic regulator; lead transfer function; lag transfer function; lead and lag networks. Recorded: 1985.
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.
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 12 — Feedback Compensation of an Operational Amplifier
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Topics include: behavior of non-linear systems; non-linearity and dynamics; linearization technique and notation; Earnshaw's Theorem; demo with iron ball and magnetic field; linearized analysis; flywheel energy storag...
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 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: Lecture 23—Fields and Air Absorption
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Topics include: direct and reverberant fields; air absorption; experiences recording orchestras; localization; stories about patent trials. Recorded: Nov. 30, 1995.
