EMT lectures at MIT Open Course Ware (OCW)

[richard mullens]

At the risk of swamping their website, for those who want to brush up their Electromagnetism, I think that the Video lectures at
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Physics/8-02Electricity-and-MagnetismSpring2002/VideoLectures/index.htm are pretty damn good.

Aside from these videoed lectures, I found just 3 others:-

From the same professor:-
http://aka-ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Physics/8-01Physics-IFall1999/VideoLectures/index.htm

and two mathematics lectures (Linear Algebra):-
http://aka-ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Mathematics/18-06Linear-AlgebraFall2002/VideoLectures/index.htm and
http://aka-ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Mathematics/18-085Mathematical-Methods-for-Engineers-IFall2002/VideoLectures/index.htm


You'll need RealPlayer to watch the lectures


Of course there is lots of other stuff - maybe something of interest in Aeronautics & Astronautics and some stuff in mpeg format.

 

[Scott Stephens]

richard mullens wrote:

At the risk of swamping their website, for those who want to brush up
their Electromagnetism

Its damn disappointing after they hyped they were going to "give away"
"free" course information several years ago that's all they have.

Politicians take our tax dollars and get jobs as university presidents,
professors and bureaucrats (the ones that don't become lobbiests) after
they leave office. And then when some catastrophe happens, they raise
money for scholarships for their children, which will get "legacy
preferences", not because of merit, but because of accident of birth.

Thanks a lot MIT, I feel so damn grateful!

Would you trade your favorite government program if the government
stopped taking half your paycheck, and stopped taking half of everyone
else's (fed bureaucrats and educrats notwithstanding) paychecks, so the
goods and services you paid for all cost half as much?

What is the opportunity cost of these parasites?

 

[Charles Schuler]

Its damn disappointing after they hyped they were going to "give away"
"free" course information several years ago that's all they have.

I have viewed two of the lectures and found them well done. Basic stuff,
but nice demonstrations.

Politicians take our tax dollars and get jobs as university presidents,
professors and bureaucrats (the ones that don't become lobbiests) after
they leave office. And then when some catastrophe happens, they raise
money for scholarships for their children, which will get "legacy
preferences", not because of merit, but because of accident of birth.

I suppose a few politicians have become professors by using their clout but
that is hardly the norm in the US. I taught for 33 years at two
universities and almost all professors had earned Ph.D.s and were into
research or publishing or both.

Thanks a lot MIT, I feel so damn grateful!

I, for one, am grateful that they took the time to package the physics
lectures and make them available. If they used my tax money to do it,
that's still OK by me.

Would you trade your favorite government program if the government stopped
taking half your paycheck, and stopped taking half of everyone else's (fed
bureaucrats and educrats notwithstanding) paychecks, so the goods and
services you paid for all cost half as much?

I'd love to pay no tax but understand the basics of running a country.

What is the opportunity cost of these parasites?

I don't understand this question. To the OP, thanks. It is a nice
resource.

 

[Jim Thompson]

On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 10:28:58 -0600, Scott Stephens
<scottxs@comcast.net> wrote:

[snip]

Thanks a lot MIT, I feel so damn grateful!

[snip]

Then stay the fuck away from my alma mater. What have YOU contributed
to the betterment of the world?

...Jim Thompson
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[Scott Stephens]

Jim Thompson wrote:

On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 10:28:58 -0600, Scott Stephens
scottxs@comcast.net> wrote:

Thanks a lot MIT, I feel so damn grateful!

Then stay the fuck away from my alma mater.

Let them stay the fuck away from my God Damn fucking tax dollars!

What have YOU contributed

to the betterment of the world?

The premise behind that statement is *an individuals worth is based on
their social contribution*. That isn't communist, that is a fascist
speaking! I know we hear all the time Americans are "hard working", but
"hard working" for whom and why?

My contribution to the world isn't for you to judge Mr. Thomson. You
Republican fascists think your stinking self-assessed virtue entitles
you to judge the value of others, and appropriate, extort, and if they
don't cooperate and follow your religious, sexual, food or drug
preferences, destroy their time, talent and treasure.

But I've got news for you. You Republican fascists are as bad, even
though less effective than communists when you make your judgments. You
are not God, nor are you Nature, nor are you the custodian of the
collective even if fools saint you or confer a diploma on you in some
kind of corrupt, deluded popularity contest.

As President Bush likes to believe, freedom is God's (Natures) gift to
rational beings, and it isn't for his fascist followers to judge my
value with respect to the world or existence. In fact, numerous time
Jesus Christ admonished his followers to love the poor, abandoned, lame
and "worthless".

But you are no follower of Christ, are you Mr. Thomson? You are the
ashes of the fascist theocracy the liberals have burned the religious
camouflage off of during the 60's. At least you don't claim Christ as
your own, and can condemn undermenschen without fear of being labeled a
hypocrite!

Perhaps my ultimate value is calling you a fascist and Hill a Bolshevik,
and publicly stating freedom isn't serving a collective organized
according to clergy-defined religious dogma, or academia-defined
socialist dogma, but serving your own interests in a civilized context.

I live for myself and to enjoy relationships with those I exchange value
with, not to serve and sacrifice for whatever jihad de-jour elites
contrive to enrich themselves with at my expense. Expecting your
neighbor to live for you is theft, and believing in your judgments
regarding their worth, and getting your fascist friends to discriminate
against them is theft of spirit, and neither is civilized.

 

[Scott Stephens]

Charles Schuler wrote:

Its damn disappointing after they hyped they were going to "give away"
"free" course information several years ago that's all they have.


I have viewed two of the lectures and found them well done. Basic stuff,
but nice demonstrations.

Perhaps, but near totally useless for most citizen taxpayers. A gap in
your knowledge would have to exist for that specific content, because no
preceding or following lectures are presented. Useful as a refresher,
useless to aid those that might be given a truly free education.

But MIT doesn't want that. The fascist elite don't want peasant
competitors, they want to assign "legacy preference" scholarships.

If they were a privately funded institution that didn't take federal
loans or grants or do federal contract work, I would have no complaint.
But there not, and I find there "charity" a despicable camouflage for
looting parasites.

Politicians take our tax dollars and get jobs as university presidents,

I suppose a few politicians have become professors by using their clout but
that is hardly the norm in the US. I taught for 33 years at two
universities and almost all professors had earned Ph.D.s and were into
research or publishing or both.

I should use more exclusive language to distinguish the scholars from
the parasites. Every so often I find high-profile offenders, like Al
Gore, Donna Shalala, et.

Thanks a lot MIT, I feel so damn grateful!

I, for one, am grateful that they took the time to package the physics
lectures and make them available. If they used my tax money to do it,
that's still OK by me.

Opportunity cost.

Would you trade your favorite government program if the government stopped
taking half your paycheck, and stopped taking half of everyone else's (fed
bureaucrats and educrats notwithstanding) paychecks, so the goods and
services you paid for all cost half as much?

I'd love to pay no tax but understand the basics of running a country.

Surely you understand government that is a proscriptive, positive good
taxes you to your tolerance while its bureaucrats pay themselves and
their cronies the most they can, as in any oppressive monopoly. And
limits your freedom as it manages you for its own convenience.

Functional capitalism competes to give the customer the most value while
consuming the least profit, because customers vote with their dollars,
unlike taxpayers that are extorted by armed tax collecting government goons.

What is the opportunity cost of these parasites?


I don't understand this question.

You don't know all the good that you are missing out on, because
government is devouring the time, talent and treasure efficient private
enterprise would flourish on. That is opportunity cost.