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The fundamental concepts, and approaches of aerospace engineering, are highlighted through lectures on aeronautics, astronautics, and design. Active learning aerospace modules make use of information technology. Student teams are immersed in a hands-on, lighter-than-air (LTA) vehicle design project, where they design, build, and fly radio-c
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- aeronautics and astronautics
- aerospace engineering
- aerospace design
- aeronautics
- astronautics
- lighter-than-air (lta) vehicle design
- physics
- mathematics
- chemistry
- journey to mars
- challenger
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The theme that unites the Level II studios in the fall semester is a focus upon the 'making of architecture and built form' as a tectonic, technical and materially driven endeavor. It is a design investigation that is rooted in a larger culture of materiality and the associated phenomena, but a study of the language and production of built
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- architecture
- architecture
- tectonics
- materials
- relationships
- interventions
- physics
- place and space
- wellesley campus
- thomson island
- glass
- structures
- advanced design
- rapid prototyping
- environmental control
- "art of technology"
- fabrication
- design from detailing
- built form
- technical
- design investigation
- materiality
- art of technology
- glas
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Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
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This course will thoroughly educate the successful student with the knowledge and skills necessary to be a certified beginning SCUBA diver. The prerequisite for the course is passing the MIT SCUBA swim test and demonstrating a "comfort level" in the water. At the end of the class, students will attempt to pass the certification exam to beco
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- athletics physical education and recreation
- scuba
- diving
- physics
- water
- ocean
- neutral buoyancy
- regulator
- decompression
- rescue
- swim techniques
- kick cycles
- marine life
- ocean environment
- navigation
- dive tables
- air consumption
- snorkeling
- skin diving
- naui
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6.720 examines the physics of microelectronic semiconductor devices for silicon integrated circuit applications. Topics covered include: semiconductor fundamentals, p-n junction, metal-oxide semiconductor structure, metal-semiconductor junction, MOS field-effect transistor, and bipolar junction transistor. The course emphasizes physical und
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- electrical engineering and computer science
- integrated microelectronic devices
- physics
- silicon
- circuit
- semiconductor
- p-n junction
- metal-oxide semiconductor structure
- metal-semiconductor junction
- mos field-effect transistor
- bipolar junction transistor
- energy band diagram
- short-channel mosfet
- device characterization
- device design
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This class explores the creation (and creativity) of the modern scientific and cultural world through study of western Europe in the 17th century, the age of Descartes and Newton, Shakespeare, Milton and Ford. It compares period thinking to present-day debates about the scientific method, art, religion, and society. This team-taught, interd
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- literature
- history
- art and science
- art vs. science
- history of science
- religion
- natural philosophy
- mathematics
- literature
- church
- cosmology
- physics
- philosphy
- astronomy
- alchemy
- chemistry
- plays
- theater history
- cultural studies
- shakespeare
- ford
- tate
- behn
- francis bacon
- burton
- hobbes
- boyle
- 17th century
- england
- scotland
- english hi
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This course focuses on the latest scientific developments and discoveries in the field of nanomechanics, the study of forces and motion on extremely tiny (10-9 m) areas of synthetic and biological materials and structures. At this level, mechanical properties are intimately related to chemistry, physics, and quantum mechanics. Most lectures
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- materials science and engineering
- biology
- biological engineering
- cells
- afm
- atomic force microscope
- nanoindentation
- gecko
- malaria
- nanotube
- collagen
- polymer
- seashell
- biomimetics
- molecule
- atomic
- bonding
- adhesion
- quantum mechanics
- physics
- chemistry
- protein
- dna
- bone
- lipid
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This course presents the mechanical, optical, and transport properties of polymers with respect to the underlying physics and physical chemistry of polymers in melt, solution, and solid state. Topics include conformation and molecular dimensions of polymer chains in solutions, melts, blends, and block copolymers; an examination of the struc
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- materials science and engineering
- mechanical
- optical
- transport
- physical chemistry
- chemistry
- physics
- melt
- solution
- solid
- polymer chain
- copolymer
- glass
- crystal
- rubber
- elastic
- thermodynamics
- microphase separation
- organic
- inorganic
- nanocomposite
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Are you interested in investigating how nature engineers itself? How engineers copy the shapes found in nature ("biomimetics")? This Freshman Seminar investigates why similar shapes occur in so many natural things and how physics changes the shape of nature. Why are things in nature shaped the way they are? How do birds fly? Why do bird nes
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- materials science and engineering
- biomimicry
- bird
- feather
- bone
- structure
- plant structure
- cellular solids
- freshman seminar
- service learning
- biomimetic research
- biomimetics
- biology
- mimetic
- physics
- nature
- natural engineering
- wood
- tree
- tree trunk
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Integration of design, engineering, and management disciplines and practices for analysis and design of manufacturing enterprises. Emphasis is on the physics and stochastic nature of manufacturing processes and systems, and their effects on quality, rate, cost, and flexibility. Topics include process physics and control, design for manufact
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- mechanical engineering
- manufacturing enterprises
- physics
- stochastic nature of manufacturing processes
- quality
- rate
- cost
- flexibility
- process physics
- process control
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This course is an interdisciplinary exploration of three broad topics concerning music in relation to time.Music as Architecture: the creation of musical shapes in time;Music as Memory: how musical understanding depends upon memory and reminiscence, with attention to analysis of musical structures; andTime as the Substance of Music: how dif
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- music and theater arts
- musical analysis
- music theory
- music appreciation
- music composition
- music performance
- temporality
- physics
- memory
- film score
- poetry
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Junior Lab consists of two undergraduate courses in experimental physics. The courses are offered by the MIT Physics Department, and are usually taken by Juniors (hence the name). Officially, the courses are called Experimental Physics I and II and are numbered 8.13 for the first half, given in the fall semester, and 8.14 for the second hal
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- physics
- junior lab
- experimental
- atomic
- nuclear
- physics
- optics
- photoelectric effect
- poisson
- statistics
- electromagnetic pulse
- compton scattering
- franck-hertz experiment
- relativistic dynamics
- nuclear magnetic resonance
- spin echoes
- cosmic-ray muons
- rutherford scattering
- emission spectra
- neutron physics
- johnson noise
- shot noise
- quan
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This subject traces the evolution of ideas about nature, and how best to study and explain natural phenomena, beginning in ancient times and continuing through the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. A central theme of the subject is the intertwining of conceptual and institutional relations within diverse areas of inquiry: cosmology, natural
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- science technology and society
- antiquity
- middle ages
- renaissance
- science
- cosmology
- natural history
- physics
- mathematics
- astronomy
- medicine
- alchemy
- technology
- plato
- aristotle
- hippocrates
- ptolemy
- euclid
- galen
- vesalius
- copernicus
- kepler
- galileo
- bacon
- descartes
- newton
- history
- culture
- scientific revolution
- latin west
- western
- natural science
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SP.255 is a lecture, discussion, and project based seminar about the physics of rock climbing. Participants are first exposed to the unsolved problems in the climbing community that could be answered by research and then asked to solve a small part of one of these problems. The seminar provides an introduction to engineering problems, an opportunity to practice communication skills, and a brief stab at doing some research. This seminar explicitly does not include climbing instruction nor is climbing/mountaineering experience a prerequisite.
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