This video introduces the concept of surface tension, and shows how roughness can make a surface superhydrophobic or superhydrophilic. The Wenzel and Cassie-Baxter models are explained. Special thanks to the MIT BioInstrumentation Lab.
Can something be a solid and a liquid at the same time?
Does gravity affect everything at the same rate? An experiment to explain gravity.
What color is white light? Want to know how to make it?
The MIT Glass Lab is administratively co-sponsored by the Materials Processing Center and the Department of Materials Science and Engineering.
Learning the difference between kinetic and static friction.
Jesper Juul offered this lecture on Nov. 28, 2006. Juul is a video game theorist and assistant professor in video game theory and design at the Centre for Computer Game Research Copenhagen, where he also earned his PhD.
In a visit to the MIT campus on May 14, 2013, British Prime Minister David Cameron met with President L. Rafael Reif and Media Lab director Joichi Ito, faculty members and students, and a group of young MIT entrepreneurs.
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