The Art of Approximation in Science and Engineering | Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | MIT OpenCourseWare

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Sanjoy Mahajan

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Spring 2008

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Undergraduate

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Readings

Approximating Logarithms Using Musical Intervals

Back-of-the-envelope Numbers

Bending of Light

Bon Voyage!

Box Models and Conservation

Buckingham Pi Theorem

Cycling, Swimming, Flying

Densities

Dimensionless Groups

Dimensions

Dimensions

Discretization

Divide and Conquer

Drag

Drag and Jumping

Drag!

Economics Example; Pyramid Example

Explicit computations

Flight

Flight (Scaling)

Gold or Bills?

Hydrogen Size

Hydrogen Size by Physics

Jump Heights

Mechanics

Mountain Heights

Oil Imports

Pentagonal Heat Flow

Percolation Model

Pit Spacing

Power Limits

Preview

Proportional Reasoning

Proportional Reasoning

Random Walks

Random Walks

Special Cases

Springs

Symmetry

Symmetry

Symmetry and Invariance

The Art of Approximation

Tree Representations

Unix

Course Info

Instructor

Sanjoy Mahajan

Departments

As Taught In

Spring 2008

Level

Undergraduate

Topics

Learning Resource Types

Problem Sets

Problem Set Solutions

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