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  • Dr. Elizabeth Cavicchi
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January IAP 2010
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EC.050 | January IAP 2010 | Undergraduate
Recreate Experiments from History: Inform the Future from the Past: Galileo
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    • Telescope
    • Lenses
    • Motion, Lens and the Observatory
    • Motion and Light
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Slide Rule

Activities involving the slide rule

Students share what they discovered about unusual historical slide rules in the MIT Museum. Students read a rotating calculation instrument in the MIT Museum. Students hold and view circular slide rules in the storage area of the MIT Museum. Students calculate with historical slide rules. Student with Mickey Mouse slide rule. Close up of a slide rule. Student demonstrating historical slide rule. A historical cylindrical calculator in the MIT museum. Old-fashioned photo of a slide rule manufacturing company.

Course Info
Instructor
  • Dr. Elizabeth Cavicchi
Departments
  • Edgerton Center
As Taught In
January IAP 2010
Level
Undergraduate
Topics
  • Humanities
    History
    Intellectual History
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notes Lecture Notes
group_work Projects
collections Image Gallery
assignment Activity Assignments
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