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This course covers the fundamental concepts of structural mechanics with applications to marine, civil, and mechanical structures. Topics include analysis of small deflections of beams, moderately large deflections of beams, columns, cables, and shafts; elastic and plastic buckling of columns, thin walled sections and plates; exact and approximate methods; energy methods; principle of virtual work; introduction to failure analysis of structures. We will include examples from civil, mechanical, offshore, and ship structures such as the collision and grounding of ships.
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- Structural Engineering and Mechanical Engineering
- Keywords:
- Structural analysis (Engineering)
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This course provides students with concepts, techniques and tools to design, analyze, and improve core operational capabilities, and apply them to a broad range of application domains and industries. It emphasizes the effect of uncertainty in decision-making, as well as the interplay between high-level financial objectives and operational capabilities. Topics covered include production control, risk pooling, quality management, process design, and revenue management. Also included are case studies, guest lectures, and simulation games which demonstrate central concepts.
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- Logistics
- Keywords:
- Production management
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This course teaches the principles and analysis of electromechanical systems. Students will develop analytical techniques for predicting device and system interaction characteristics as well as learn to design major classes of electric machines. Problems used in the course are intended to strengthen understanding of the phenomena and interactions in electromechanics, and include examples from current research.
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- Building Services Engineering and Electrical Engineering
- Keywords:
- Electric machines Electric machinery
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Fundamentals of photoelectric conversion: charge excitation, conduction, separation, and collection. Lectures cover commercial and emerging photovoltaic technologies and cross-cutting themes, including conversion efficiencies, loss mechanisms, characterization, manufacturing, systems, reliability, life-cycle analysis, risk analysis, and technology evolution in the context of markets, policies, society, and environment.
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- Environmental Engineering and Building Services Engineering
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- Photovoltaic cells Photovoltaic power systems Photovoltaic power generation
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This video introduces basic terminology in cryptography, including what is a ciphertext, plaintext, keys, public key crypto, and private key crypto. This is a video shared via the picoCTF youtube channel. picoCTF is a platform organized by Carnegie Mellon University (“CMU”)
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- Computing
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- Cryptography Data encryption (Computer science)
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- Video
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An openly accessible textbook for a two-semester human anatomy and physiology course for life science and allied health majors. Instructor resources including instructors guide and Powerpoint slides are downloadable from the site. Download options in various formats: Openstax Apps, PDF, Kindle, ibooks, Chegg, and read online are available.
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- Health Sciences
- Keywords:
- Human physiology Human anatomy
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- e-book
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This course offers a rigorous treatment of linear algebra, including vector spaces, systems of linear equations, bases, linear independence, matrices, determinants, eigenvalues, inner products, quadratic forms, and canonical forms of matrices.
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- Mathematics and Statistics
- Keywords:
- Algebras Linear
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In this video we look at how to decide for a given scenario (worded problem) if the distribution described is a Binomial distribution or Poisson distribution and whether its probability distribution function or its cumulative distribution function is required to calculate a specified probability.
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- Mathematics and Statistics
- Keywords:
- Binomial distribution Probabilities Poisson distribution Distribution (Probability theory)
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- Video
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In this video we look at how to use statistical tables to calculate probabilities in a Binomial distribution. This includes an example of using the table for the probability density function to determine the probability the random variable takes a particular value and an example of using the table for the cumulative distribution function to determine the probability the random variable is less than or equal to a certain value and an example determining the probability it is greater than or equal to a certain value.
- Subjects:
- Mathematics and Statistics
- Keywords:
- Probabilities Poisson distribution Distribution (Probability theory)
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- Video
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In this video we look at how to use statistical tables to calculate probabilities in a Poisson distribution. This includes an example of using the table for the probability density function to determine the probability the random variable is equal to particular value in a case where the average number of events per interval needs to be adjusted to match the units specified in the question and an example of using the table for the cumulative distribution function to determine the probability the random variable takes a value between two specified numbers.
- Subjects:
- Mathematics and Statistics
- Keywords:
- Binomial distribution Probabilities Distribution (Probability theory)
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- Video