MIT: Independent Activities Period: IAP

IAP 2014



Mechanics ReView

Prof. Dave Pritchard + Staff

Jan/13 Mon 02:00PM-04:00PM 4-153
Jan/14 Tue 02:00PM-04:00PM 4-153
Jan/15 Wed 02:00PM-04:00PM 4-153
Jan/16 Thu 02:00PM-04:00PM 4-153
Jan/17 Fri 02:00PM-04:00PM 4-153
Jan/21 Tue 02:00PM-04:00PM 4-153
Jan/22 Wed 02:00PM-04:00PM 4-153
Jan/23 Thu 02:00PM-04:00PM 4-153
Jan/24 Fri 02:00PM-04:00PM 4-153
Jan/27 Mon 02:00PM-04:00PM 4-153
Jan/28 Tue 02:00PM-04:00PM 4-153
Jan/29 Wed 02:00PM-04:00PM 4-153
Jan/30 Thu 02:00PM-04:00PM 4-153

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/10
Attendance: Repeating event, particpants welcome at any session
Prereq: Contact Nancy Boyce at nboyce@mit.edu by 12 noon 1/10/14

Mechanics ReView– Prof. Dave Pritchard Start: Monday, Jan 13,  End: Thursday, Jan  30, 2014.  Building on Newtonian Mechanics at the 8.01 level, we will offer a unified view of how to solve real world mechanics problems that involve several concepts at once. We will emphasize several themes: modeling reality, specifying the system and interactions, making sense of the answer, approximations/estimation, how to approach problems and decompose them into simpler pieces. We will use online models that gives students a hierarchical overview of the core physical content of Mechanics. Limited enrollment – sign up by 12:00 noon Monday Jan. 10th

Sponsor(s): Physics
Contact: Nancy Boyce, 4-315, 617 253-4461, NBOYCE@MIT.EDU