The students, faculty and staff in the MIT Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics share a passion for air and space vehicles, the technologies that enable them, and the missions they fulfill. Our environment is connected, busy, global, hectic, open, collegial ... and fun.
This course extends fluid mechanic concepts from Unified Engineering to the aerodynamic performance of wings and bodies in sub/supersonic regimes. 16.100 generally has four components: subsonic potential flows, including source/vortex panel methods; viscous flows, ...
This course extends fluid mechanic concepts from Unified Engineering to the aerodynamic performance of wings and bodies in sub/supersonic regimes. 16.100 generally has four components: subsonic potential flows, including source/vortex panel methods; viscous flows, ...
This course extends fluid mechanic concepts from Unified Engineering to the aerodynamic performance of wings and bodies in sub/supersonic regimes. 16.100 generally has four components: subsonic potential flows, including source/vortex panel methods; viscous flows, ...
This course extends fluid mechanic concepts from Unified Engineering to the aerodynamic performance of wings and bodies in sub/supersonic regimes. 16.100 generally has four components: subsonic potential flows, including source/vortex panel methods; viscous flows, ...
This course extends fluid mechanic concepts from Unified Engineering to the aerodynamic performance of wings and bodies in sub/supersonic regimes. 16.100 generally has four components: subsonic potential flows, including source/vortex panel methods; viscous flows, ...
During 2012 IAP, AeroAstro undergraduate students had seven days to redesign (and fly!) commercial, off-the-shelf, remote-controlled aircraft kits.
A reflection of work at MIT, the University of Michigan and other institutions on small satellites.
Demonstration of multiple beam interference in transmission using a cavity with curved mirrors and a single-frequency laser light source Observation of the intensity distribution associated with a variety of radial (or transverse) modes as a function of cavity tuning Observation of the cavity ...
How might one encourage the deflection of an asteroid headed toward Earth? The answer could be with a volley or two of space-launched paintballs.
Demonstration of constructive and destructive interference in a Michelson interferometer using diverging beams Demonstration of complete destructive interference between the two beams leaving the interferometer for equal path lengths Where does the light go in ...
Doublecross is a 16mm film made during the summer of 1967 by a group of more than 60 Lexington Mass students ages 15-17. The project was conceived, produced, filmed, and funded by the students - except for the drivers of the cars and the incredible soundtrack by Ernie Stires, there were no ...
Dr. Steve Yim speaks about his work as a Research Scientist in the Laboratory for Aviation and the Environment in MIT's Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics.Read more: http://lae.mit.edu/?page_id=601
Demonstration of the excitation of atomic sodium in a heated cell by a tunable dye laser Observation of intense radiation from the sodium vapor when the laser is on resonance with a ground state transition in sodium
Demonstration of fluorescence induced by a tunable dye laser in a cell of molecular iodine Simultaneous display of the color of the dye laser and the color of the iodine fluorescence as a function of laser tuning showing large differences in color under certain conditions
In a surprise appearance at the conclusion of the 2012 Brass Rat unveiling, MIT alumni and astronaut TJ Creamer offered his congratulations and thoughts on the Brass Rat in a pre-recorded downlink from the International Space Station.
MIT alum and physicist Ronald E. McNair, who was the second African American to enter space, was first a kid with big dreams in Lake City, S.C.
Demonstration of Fraunhofer diffraction by a narrow slit Demonstration of Fraunhofer diffraction by an adjustable narrow slit
Demonstration of Fraunhofer diffraction by a circular aperture Demonstration of Fraunhofer diffraction by circular apertures with different diameters
Demonstration of Fraunhofer diffraction by fixed crossed multiple slits Demonstration of Fraunhofer diffraction by crossed multiple slits as a function of the relative orientation of the slits
