1.105
Environmental Biology Laboratory
Laboratory and data analysis techniques and their application to problems in the environmental life sciences. Design and execution of experiments testing the interactive effects of environmental variables on the growth, physiology, metabolism, and reproduction of plants and microbes. Emphasis on applications in agriculture, vegetation-mediated latent heat flux, and biotechnology. Satisfies 6 units of Institute Laboratory credit. Enrollment limited; preference to 1-ENG and 1-12 majors.
Fall 2003 · Solid Mechanics Laboratory
Topics
- Introduction
- Static Equilibrium
- Concept of Force
- Concept of Moment
- Internal Forces and Moments
- Truss Structures
- Beams
- Shafts in Torsion
- Concepts of Stress
- Transformation Rules
- Equilibrium
- Indeterminate Systems
- Simple Systems
- Matrix Analysis Truss Structures
- Special Methods
- Concept of Strain
- Strain/Displacement
- Materials: Properties/Failure
- Stress/Strain Relations
- Failure Phenomena
- Stresses/Deflections: Torsion
- Stresses: Beams in Bending
- Shear in Beams
- Composite Beams
- Deflections due to Bending
- Buckling of Beams
- Matrix Analysis of Frames
Prerequisites & course information
Prereq: Biology (GIR) U (Fall) 0-4-2 units. Partial Lab
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- MIT OpenCourseWare ↗Fall 2003
- MIT OCW syllabus ↗
- MIT OCW calendar ↗
- Historical MIT OpenCourseWare offering. Named reading entries and schedule topics are automatically extracted from the linked source pages.