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Description: This lecture continues discussion on energy transport when it travels perpendicularly to a film. It also provides solving Boltzmann equation with consideration of classical size effects under circumstances of heat carriers colliding with boundaries. ...
Description: This intro lecture gives an overview of the course and the research in the field of nanoscience and technology. It starts with review of the classical laws related to energy transport processes, and introduces microscopic pictures of energy carriers. ...
Description: In this lecture, using Boltzmann equation to solve the heat and electrical conduction problem along a two-dimensional thin film is the main focus. It discusses current research in thermoelectrics and further covers the topic of classical size effects. ...
Description: This lecture starts from Boltzmann equation under time relaxation approximation, and discusses more on electron transport process. Later, it explains thermoelectric effects and other fundamentals related to the phenomena. Instructor: Prof. Gang Chen
Description: Students learn to solve the Boltzmann equation in the classical limit under relaxation time approximation in this lecture. Students also learn to derive the Fourier law, Newton shear law, and the electron transport process with the Ohm's Law. Instructor: ...
Description: This lecture begins with description of term paper project and discussion on first midterm exam. It covers topics, including the collision term and scattering term in Boltzmann transport equation, relaxation time approximation, and scattering mechanics. ...
Description: In this lecture, students learn to determine how fast particles travel, and topics including wave to particle transition and particle transport processes with Liouville equation and Boltzmann equation. It also commented on the result of first midterm exam. ...
Description: This lecture continues previous discussion of wave propagation in thin films, and determines the energy exchange between two points. It also explores various examples in application of tunneling. Instructor: Prof. Gang Chen
Description: This lecture provides more details on the application of Snell's Law at one single interface; later, more discussion of the wave propagation in multi-layered structures, for instance thin films. It also gives out information about the first midterm exam. ...
Description: In this lecture, students learn to calculate the energy carried by electromagnetic (EM) waves, and understand how EM waves propagate in a medium and at an interface. Instructor: Prof. Gang Chen
Description: The main focus is the microscopic picture of waves. This lecture discusses the energy transport by waves, by using the Maxwell's equations in different electric/magnetic fields and between different interfaces. Instructor: Prof. Gang Chen
Description: The discussion on statistical physics continues in this lecture. The instructor gives several examples in different ensemble cases, and also an application example in gas molecule. Instructor: Prof. Gang Chen
A brief discussion with John Lienhard, the Samuel C. Collins Professor of Mechanical Engineering.
Two students sent a camera-dangling balloon to near space and took stunning photography of Earth: all for $150.
A new semiautonomous driver system can take the wheel to keep drivers safe.
Snavely present his work at EmTech 2011: Synthesizing 3-D models from 2-D photographs
Design 2.007, MIT's annual festival of machine design, manufacturing and adrenalin, culminated in a clash between two major crowd-pleasers: a grappler-trailer combo designed and driven by David Arguelles, and a truck-and-winch machine designed and driven by Kurtis McKenney. The contest, now ...
A video tour of the Building 35 Lab, which is used for manufacturing in MechE coursework and research.
Nick Fang says predicting how hydrogels transform could help in the design of more complex and effective drug-delivery systems.
A team of researchers at MIT has discovered a way to harness the wrinkling process in a controlled and orderly way.
