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Description: This lecture provides a general overview of various energy systems on a global scale as well as a comparison of energy consumption in correlation to GDP, industry, and recent growth. Instructor: Richard Schmalensee
Description: This is the first of two lectures on numerics, covering irrational numbers, high-precision computation, and Karatsuba multiplication. Instructor: Srini Devadas
Description: This lecture elaborates on the microscopic pictures of energy carriers. It explains more details on energy transfer, and compares between micro and nanoscale phenomena, including classical size effects and quantum size effects. Instructor: Prof. Gang Chen
Description: This lecture provides the example solutions to Schrodinger equation. It also investigates the quantized energy in material waves with different quantum numbers and quantum states, including 1-D quantum well and 2-D quantum wire. Instructor: Prof. Gang Chen
Description: This lecture emphasizes on density of (quantum mechanical) states in electrons, phonons, and photons, elaborating the topic with examples in the 2-D and 3-D structure. It also talks about quantum statistics. Instructor: Prof. Gang Chen
Description: Priority queues are introduced as a motivation for heaps. The lecture then covers heap operations and concludes with a discussion of heapsort. Instructor: Srini Devadas
Description: This lecture starts by using the comparison model to prove lower bounds for searching and sorting, and then discusses counting sort and radix sort, which run in linear time. Instructor: Erik Demaine
Description: This lecture starts with dictionaries in Python, considers the problems with using a direct-access table, and introduces hashing. The lecture discusses hashing with chaining, which is one way of dealing with collisions. Instructor: Erik Demaine
Description: This lecture covers table resizing, amortized analysis, string matching with the Karp-Rabin algorithm, and rolling hashes. Instructor: Erik Demaine
This lecture continues the discussion from lecture 12, and also includes material on how families make decisions about family planning. Instructor: Esther Duflo
This lecture covers gender discrimination and uneven gender ratios in various countries, including India. Instructor: Abhijit Banerjee
Description: This lecture covers experiments conducted to understand savings and borrowing in Kenya and the Phillippines. Instructor: Abhijit Banerjee
Note: This video is from the Fall 2007 class. This lecture continues discussion of Charlie Chaplin, comparing his films to those of Buster Keaton. Outline: - Keaton vs. Chaplin - Three passages - Cops (1922) - The Gold Rush (1925) - City Lights (1931) - Modern Times ...
Three student teams give 20 minute presentations about their week-long visits to community partners, in which they test and refine various energy project designs. Speaker: MIT Students, Amy Banzaert
Four student teams (juice bag sealer, charcoal burn, solar charger for cell phones, rice dehusking) present initial designs, preliminary test results, and next steps, and get feedback from guest reviewers and mentors. Speaker: MIT Students
Lecture 1 provides an introduction to the study of global poverty. The class discusses the challenges of world poverty. Instructor: Abhijit Banerjee
This lecture discusses some of the most effective and cheapest ways to promote good health, such as bednets, immunization and breast feeding. Instructor: Esther Duflo
In this pre-lab lecture, students learn about using organic matter to create biogas for cooking and when biodigesters are advantagous vs impractical. Finally, they go over a specific biodigester design in great detail, learning how each part works. Speaker: Amit Gandhi
In this lab, students connect several small PV panels together into a circuit. They then take their solar arrays outside and compare the output of each individual panel to that of the array as a whole, and measure the effect shading has on the array. Speaker: Amit ...
Description: This lecture continues to explore the repulsive force between particles and surfaces in liquids and learn more on electrokinetics. It also investigates the size effect on phase transition. Instructor: Prof. Gang Chen
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