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  • Today · 7 min

    L7.3 Higgs Physics: Production and Decay

    MIT 8.701 Introduction to Nuclear and Particle Physics, Fall 2020 Instructor: Markus Klute View the complete course: https://ocw.mit.edu/8-701F20 YouTube Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUl4u3cNGP60Do91PdN978llIsvjKW0au Look into how Higgs bosons are production at the LHC and how they decay. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA More information at https://ocw.mit.edu/terms More courses at https://ocw.mit.edu Support OCW at http://ow.ly/a1If50zVRlQ We encourage constructive comments and discussion on OCW’s YouTube and other social media channels. Personal attacks, hate speech, trolling, and inappropriate comments are not allowed and may be removed. More details at https://ocw.mit.edu/comments. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Today · 1 hr 24 min

    11. Recursion Theorem and Logic

    MIT 18.404J Theory of Computation, Fall 2020 Instructor: Michael Sipser View the complete course: https://ocw.mit.edu/18-404JF20 YouTube Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUl4u3cNGP60_JNv2MmK3wkOt9syvfQWY Uploaded 06-10-21 Quickly reviewed last lecture. Discussed self-reference and the recursion theorem. Gave various applications. Sketched Godel’s first incompleteness theorem in mathematical logic. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA More information at https://ocw.mit.edu/terms More courses at https://ocw.mit.edu Support OCW at http://ow.ly/a1If50zVRlQ We encourage constructive comments and discussion on OCW’s YouTube and other social media channels. Personal attacks, hate speech, trolling, and inappropriate comments are not allowed and may be removed. More details at https://ocw.mit.edu/comments. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Today · 59 min

    Lecture 4: Sedimentary Structures Produced by Sediment Transport

    MIT RES.12-003 Fluid Motions, Sediment Transport, and Current-Generated Sedimentary Structures, Fall 2025 Instructor: John Southard View the complete course: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/res-12-003-fluid-motions-sediment-transport-and-current-generated-sedimentary-structures-fall-2025/ YouTube Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUl4u3cNGP60q1Ib4pyz_FBs_lYUPr9MN A detailed exploration of cross‑stratification reveals how sedimentary structures record the history of flowing water and waves. The video explains how bedforms such as ripples and dunes migrate and deposit layers that are later preserved as inclined laminae separated by erosion surfaces, allowing geologists to interpret past flow directions and conditions. It highlights different styles of cross‑stratification—such as climbing ripples, trough structures, and large dune deposits—and shows how their geometry depends on the balance between sediment supply and bedform movement. The discussion also extends to oscillatory and combined flows, introducing complex features like hummocky cross‑stratification and emphasizing the challenges of distinguishing between flow types in the rock record. Overall, the presentation demonstrates how careful observation of sedimentary patterns can be used to reconstruct ancient environments and flow dynamics. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA More information at https://ocw.mit.edu/terms More courses at https://ocw.mit.edu Support OCW at http://ow.ly/a1If50zVRlQ We encourage constructive comments and discussion on OCW’s YouTube and other social media channels. Personal attacks, hate speech, trolling, and inappropriate comments are not allowed and may be removed. More details at https://ocw.mit.edu/comments. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Today · 13 min

    L4.7 QED: Casimir's Trick

    MIT 8.701 Introduction to Nuclear and Particle Physics, Fall 2020 Instructor: Markus Klute View the complete course: https://ocw.mit.edu/8-701F20 YouTube Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUl4u3cNGP60Do91PdN978llIsvjKW0au Discussion on how to treat spin in the calculation of amplitudes. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA More information at https://ocw.mit.edu/terms More courses at https://ocw.mit.edu Support OCW at http://ow.ly/a1If50zVRlQ We encourage constructive comments and discussion on OCW’s YouTube and other social media channels. Personal attacks, hate speech, trolling, and inappropriate comments are not allowed and may be removed. More details at https://ocw.mit.edu/comments. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Today · 54 min

    Lecture 1: Fluid Dynamics

    MIT RES.12-003 Fluid Motions, Sediment Transport, and Current-Generated Sedimentary Structures, Fall 2025 Instructor: John Southard View the complete course: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/res-12-003-fluid-motions-sediment-transport-and-current-generated-sedimentary-structures-fall-2025/ YouTube Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUl4u3cNGP60q1Ib4pyz_FBs_lYUPr9MN This lecture introduces the fundamentals of fluid dynamics as they relate to sediment transport in natural environments like rivers and oceans. Prof. Southard explains key concepts such as laminar versus turbulent flow, Reynolds number, and dimensional analysis, using classic experiments to illustrate how fluid behavior changes with velocity. The discussion then expands to forces acting on particles, including drag, lift, and the role of viscosity, as well as how flow interacts with boundaries in channels. The lecture also explores oscillatory flows generated by waves, their effects on sediment movement, and how combined flow conditions can become complex. Finally, it examines how sediment begins to move, highlighting factors like shear stress, particle size, and turbulence, and introduces concepts such as the Shields diagram to describe the onset of motion. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA More information at https://ocw.mit.edu/terms More courses at https://ocw.mit.edu Support OCW at http://ow.ly/a1If50zVRlQ We encourage constructive comments and discussion on OCW’s YouTube and other social media channels. Personal attacks, hate speech, trolling, and inappropriate comments are not allowed and may be removed. More details at https://ocw.mit.edu/comments. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Today · 48 min

    Lecture 21: Phase Coexistence and Separation

    MIT 3.020 Thermodynamics of Materials, Spring 2021 Instructor: Rafael Jaramillo Uploaded 23-10-23 View the complete course: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/3-020-thermodynamics-of-materials-spring-2021/ YouTube Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUl4u3cNGP61g-yRbJz4ghFPJLiok1HxX This lecture covers the condition for 2-phase coexistence, common tangent construction, and the spinodal phase diagram. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA More information at https://ocw.mit.edu/terms More courses at https://ocw.mit.edu Support OCW at http://ow.ly/a1If50zVRlQ We encourage constructive comments and discussion on OCW’s YouTube and other social media channels. Personal attacks, hate speech, trolling, and inappropriate comments are not allowed and may be removed. More details at https://ocw.mit.edu/comments. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Today · 4 min

    L3.1 Feynman Calculus: Introduction

    MIT 8.701 Introduction to Nuclear and Particle Physics, Fall 2020 Instructor: Markus Klute View the complete course: https://ocw.mit.edu/8-701F20 YouTube Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUl4u3cNGP60Do91PdN978llIsvjKW0au A brief introduction to Feynman calculus. Starting the quantitative discussion of particle dynamics License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA More information at https://ocw.mit.edu/terms More courses at https://ocw.mit.edu Support OCW at http://ow.ly/a1If50zVRlQ We encourage constructive comments and discussion on OCW’s YouTube and other social media channels. Personal attacks, hate speech, trolling, and inappropriate comments are not allowed and may be removed. More details at https://ocw.mit.edu/comments. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Today · 59 min

    Lecture 2: Mechanics of Sediment Transport

    MIT RES.12-003 Fluid Motions, Sediment Transport, and Current-Generated Sedimentary Structures, Fall 2025 Instructor: John Southard View the complete course: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/res-12-003-fluid-motions-sediment-transport-and-current-generated-sedimentary-structures-fall-2025/ YouTube Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUl4u3cNGP60q1Ib4pyz_FBs_lYUPr9MN In this lecture, Prof. John Southard continues his exploration of sediment transport by focusing on how sediments move, how transport is measured, and how different flow conditions create distinct bedforms. He explains key concepts such as bedload and suspended load, transport rates, and the challenges of measuring sediment movement in natural systems. The lecture also introduces aeolian (wind-driven) transport, highlighting saltation and the role of density differences between air and water. A major portion is devoted to the formation and evolution of bed configurations—especially ripples and dunes—using both laboratory flume experiments and natural examples to illustrate how flow velocity, sediment size, and turbulence interact to shape the landscape. Southard emphasizes the dynamic feedback between flow and sediment, showing how bedforms both result from and influence fluid motion. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA More information at https://ocw.mit.edu/terms More courses at https://ocw.mit.edu Support OCW at http://ow.ly/a1If50zVRlQ We encourage constructive comments and discussion on OCW’s YouTube and other social media channels. Personal attacks, hate speech, trolling, and inappropriate comments are not allowed and may be removed. More details at https://ocw.mit.edu/comments. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Today · 12 min

    L6.4 Weak Interactions: Quarks

    MIT 8.701 Introduction to Nuclear and Particle Physics, Fall 2020 Instructor: Markus Klute View the complete course: https://ocw.mit.edu/8-701F20 YouTube Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUl4u3cNGP60Do91PdN978llIsvjKW0au Discussion of the charged weak interaction with quarks and an introduction of the CMS matrix. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA More information at https://ocw.mit.edu/terms More courses at https://ocw.mit.edu Support OCW at http://ow.ly/a1If50zVRlQ We encourage constructive comments and discussion on OCW’s YouTube and other social media channels. Personal attacks, hate speech, trolling, and inappropriate comments are not allowed and may be removed. More details at https://ocw.mit.edu/comments. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Today · 1 hr 23 min

    8. Undecidability

    MIT 18.404J Theory of Computation, Fall 2020 Instructor: Michael Sipser View the complete course: https://ocw.mit.edu/18-404JF20 YouTube Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUl4u3cNGP60_JNv2MmK3wkOt9syvfQWY Uploaded 06-10-21 Quickly reviewed last lecture. Showed that natural numbers and real numbers are not the same size to introduce the diagonalization method and used it to prove acceptance problem for TMs is undecidable. Introduced the reducibility method to show that HALT for TMs is undecidable. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA More information at https://ocw.mit.edu/terms More courses at https://ocw.mit.edu Support OCW at http://ow.ly/a1If50zVRlQ We encourage constructive comments and discussion on OCW’s YouTube and other social media channels. Personal attacks, hate speech, trolling, and inappropriate comments are not allowed and may be removed. More details at https://ocw.mit.edu/comments. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Today · 58 min

    Lecture 3: Bed Forms

    MIT RES.12-003 Fluid Motions, Sediment Transport, and Current-Generated Sedimentary Structures, Fall 2025 Instructor: John Southard View the complete course: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/res-12-003-fluid-motions-sediment-transport-and-current-generated-sedimentary-structures-fall-2025/ YouTube Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUl4u3cNGP60q1Ib4pyz_FBs_lYUPr9MN Prof. John Southard builds on earlier concepts by examining how different flow conditions, sediment properties, and dimensional analysis combine to produce distinct bed configurations such as ripples, dunes, and plane beds. He uses laboratory data and conceptual models to map out how these features vary with flow velocity, depth, and grain size, highlighting patterns like the transition between flow regimes and the presence of spectral gaps between ripples and dunes. The lecture then expands to oscillatory flows and wave-generated bedforms, explaining how ripple geometry changes from two-dimensional to three-dimensional forms and how complex patterns emerge under natural wave conditions. Southard also introduces the added complexity of combined flows, where currents and waves interact, emphasizing the challenges of predicting resulting structures. The session concludes by linking these physical processes to sedimentary structures preserved in rocks, setting the stage for interpreting past flow environments from geological records. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA More information at https://ocw.mit.edu/terms More courses at https://ocw.mit.edu Support OCW at http://ow.ly/a1If50zVRlQ We encourage constructive comments and discussion on OCW’s YouTube and other social media channels. Personal attacks, hate speech, trolling, and inappropriate comments are not allowed and may be removed. More details at https://ocw.mit.edu/comments. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Today · 18 min

    L0.8 Introduction to Nuclear and Particle Physics: Relativistic Kinematics

    MIT 8.701 Introduction to Nuclear and Particle Physics, Fall 2020 Instructor: Markus Klute View the complete course: https://ocw.mit.edu/8-701F20 YouTube Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUl4u3cNGP60Do91PdN978llIsvjKW0au Review of relativistic kinematics with examples of particle decay, production of scattering. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA More information at https://ocw.mit.edu/terms More courses at https://ocw.mit.edu Support OCW at http://ow.ly/a1If50zVRlQ We encourage constructive comments and discussion on OCW’s YouTube and other social media channels. Personal attacks, hate speech, trolling, and inappropriate comments are not allowed and may be removed. More details at https://ocw.mit.edu/comments. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Today · 1 hr 28 min

    Lecture 4: Rationalizability

    MIT 14.12 Economic Applications of Game Theory, Fall 2025 Instructor: Ian Ball View the complete course: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/14-12-economic-applications-of-game-theory-fall-2025/ YouTube Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUl4u3cNGP63quuKvMHCt3cmTmt0O2qpv In this lecture, Ian Ball explains rationalizability, which is a concept defining the set of strategies that rational players might choose, assuming common knowledge of rationality. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA More information at https://ocw.mit.edu/terms More courses at https://ocw.mit.edu Support OCW at http://ow.ly/a1If50zVRlQ We encourage constructive comments and discussion on OCW’s YouTube and other social media channels. Personal attacks, hate speech, trolling, and inappropriate comments are not allowed and may be removed. More details at https://ocw.mit.edu/comments. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Today · 50 min

    Lecture 3: Process Variables and the First Law

    MIT 3.020 Thermodynamics of Materials, Spring 2021 Instructor: Rafael Jaramillo Uploaded 23-10-23 View the complete course: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/3-020-thermodynamics-of-materials-spring-2021/ YouTube Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUl4u3cNGP61g-yRbJz4ghFPJLiok1HxX This lecture covers the conceptual introduction to work and heat, classifying adiabatic, isobaric, and isochronic processes, heat capacity, and the first law. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA More information at https://ocw.mit.edu/terms More courses at https://ocw.mit.edu Support OCW at http://ow.ly/a1If50zVRlQ We encourage constructive comments and discussion on OCW’s YouTube and other social media channels. Personal attacks, hate speech, trolling, and inappropriate comments are not allowed and may be removed. More details at https://ocw.mit.edu/comments. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Today · 7 min

    L4.1 QED: Free Wave Equation

    MIT 8.701 Introduction to Nuclear and Particle Physics, Fall 2020 Instructor: Markus Klute View the complete course: https://ocw.mit.edu/8-701F20 YouTube Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUl4u3cNGP60Do91PdN978llIsvjKW0au Introduction of the Klein-Gordon, Weyl, and Dirac equation. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA More information at https://ocw.mit.edu/terms More courses at https://ocw.mit.edu Support OCW at http://ow.ly/a1If50zVRlQ We encourage constructive comments and discussion on OCW’s YouTube and other social media channels. Personal attacks, hate speech, trolling, and inappropriate comments are not allowed and may be removed. More details at https://ocw.mit.edu/comments. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Today · 1 hr 23 min

    Lecture 3: Dominance

    MIT 14.12 Economic Applications of Game Theory, Fall 2025 Instructor: Ian Ball View the complete course: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/14-12-economic-applications-of-game-theory-fall-2025/ YouTube Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUl4u3cNGP63quuKvMHCt3cmTmt0O2qpv This lecture covers the Prisoner's Dilemma, the concept of dominant strategies, best responses, and how to identify which strategies are worth considering in competitive situations. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA More information at https://ocw.mit.edu/terms More courses at https://ocw.mit.edu Support OCW at http://ow.ly/a1If50zVRlQ We encourage constructive comments and discussion on OCW’s YouTube and other social media channels. Personal attacks, hate speech, trolling, and inappropriate comments are not allowed and may be removed. More details at https://ocw.mit.edu/comments. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Today · 4 min

    L6.5 Weak Interactions: Neutral Current

    MIT 8.701 Introduction to Nuclear and Particle Physics, Fall 2020 Instructor: Markus Klute View the complete course: https://ocw.mit.edu/8-701F20 YouTube Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUl4u3cNGP60Do91PdN978llIsvjKW0au Short add-on on neutral currents at energies close to the Z pole. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA More information at https://ocw.mit.edu/terms More courses at https://ocw.mit.edu Support OCW at http://ow.ly/a1If50zVRlQ We encourage constructive comments and discussion on OCW’s YouTube and other social media channels. Personal attacks, hate speech, trolling, and inappropriate comments are not allowed and may be removed. More details at https://ocw.mit.edu/comments. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Today · 1 hr 21 min

    6. TM Variants, Church-Turing Thesis

    MIT 18.404J Theory of Computation, Fall 2020 Instructor: Michael Sipser View the complete course: https://ocw.mit.edu/18-404JF20 YouTube Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUl4u3cNGP60_JNv2MmK3wkOt9syvfQWY Uploaded 06-10-21 Quickly reviewed last lecture. Showed that various TM variants are all equivalent to the single-tape model. Discussed the Church-Turing Thesis: Turing machines are equivalent to “algorithms” and model-independence. Introduced notation for encoding objects and describing TMs. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA More information at https://ocw.mit.edu/terms More courses at https://ocw.mit.edu Support OCW at http://ow.ly/a1If50zVRlQ We encourage constructive comments and discussion on OCW’s YouTube and other social media channels. Personal attacks, hate speech, trolling, and inappropriate comments are not allowed and may be removed. More details at https://ocw.mit.edu/comments. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Today · 1 hr 27 min

    Lecture 19: Revenue Equivalence

    MIT 14.12 Economic Applications of Game Theory, Fall 2025 Instructor: Ian Ball View the complete course: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/14-12-economic-applications-of-game-theory-fall-2025/ YouTube Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUl4u3cNGP63quuKvMHCt3cmTmt0O2qpv In this session, Ian Ball explains revenue equivalence, which is a concept in auction theory that states that given certain conditions, any mechanism that results in the same outcomes, also has the same expected revenue. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA More information at https://ocw.mit.edu/terms More courses at https://ocw.mit.edu Support OCW at http://ow.ly/a1If50zVRlQ We encourage constructive comments and discussion on OCW’s YouTube and other social media channels. Personal attacks, hate speech, trolling, and inappropriate comments are not allowed and may be removed. More details at https://ocw.mit.edu/comments. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Today · 9 min

    L1.1 Fermions, Bosons, and Fields: Quantum Field and Matter

    MIT 8.701 Introduction to Nuclear and Particle Physics, Fall 2020 Instructor: Markus Klute View the complete course: https://ocw.mit.edu/8-701F20 YouTube Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUl4u3cNGP60Do91PdN978llIsvjKW0au Connecting particles and forces with quantum fields. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA More information at https://ocw.mit.edu/terms More courses at https://ocw.mit.edu Support OCW at http://ow.ly/a1If50zVRlQ We encourage constructive comments and discussion on OCW’s YouTube and other social media channels. Personal attacks, hate speech, trolling, and inappropriate comments are not allowed and may be removed. More details at https://ocw.mit.edu/comments. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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