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24.900 Introduction to Linguistics, Spring 2004
(2004-06)
This class will provide some answers to basic questions about the nature of human language. Throughout the course, we will be learning (in many different ways) that human language is a surprisingly intricate -- yet ...
8.333 Statistical Mechanics, Fall 2002
(2002-12)
8.333 is the first course in a two-semester sequence on statistical mechanics. Basic principles are examined in 8.333: the laws of thermodynamics and the concepts of temperature, work, heat, and entropy. Postulates of ...
9.68 Affect: Biological, Psychological, and Social Aspects of "Feelings'', Spring 2002
(2002-06)
Affect is to cognition and behavior as feeling is to thinking and acting or as values are to beliefs and practices. Subject considers these relations, both at the psychological level of organization and in terms of their ...
2.080J / 1.573J Structural Mechanics (13.10J), Fall 2002
(2002-12)
Fundamental concepts of structural mechanics with applications to marine, civil, and mechanical structures. Residual stresses. Thermal effects. Analysis of beams, columns, tensioned beams, trusses, frames, cables, and ...
17.251 Congress and the American Political System I, Fall 2004
(2004-12)
This course focuses on both the internal processes of the House and Senate and on the place of Congress in the American political system. Attention has been given to committee behavior, leadership patterns, and informal ...
18.781 Theory of Numbers, Spring 2003
(2003-06)
This course provides an elementary introduction to number theory with no algebraic prerequisites. Topics include primes, congruences, quadratic reciprocity, diophantine equations, irrational numbers, continued fractions ...
21H.001 How to Stage a Revolution, Fall 2007
(2007-12)
21H.001, a HASS-D, CI course, explores fundamental questions about the causes and nature of revolutions. How do people overthrow their rulers? How do they establish new governments? Do radical upheavals require bloodshed, ...
21L.448J / 21W.739J Darwin and Design, Fall 2009
(2009-12)
In the Origin of Species (1859), Charles Darwin gave us a model for understanding how natural objects and systems can evidence design without positing a designer: how purpose and mechanism can exist without intelligent ...
MAS.963 Ambient Intelligence, Spring 2004
(2004-06)
This course focuses on Ambient Intelligence, and how it envisions a world where people are surrounded by intelligent and intuitive interfaces embedded in the everyday objects around them. These interfaces recognize and ...
5.301 Chemistry Laboratory Techniques, January IAP 2004
(2004)
This course is an intensive introduction to the techniques of experimental chemistry and gives first year students an opportunity to learn and master the basic chemistry lab techniques for carrying out experiments. Students ...