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22.64[J] Ionized Gases

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(Same subject as 16.55[J])
Prereq: 8.02 or permission of instructor
Units: 3-0-9
Lecture: TR9.30-11 (33-319)

Properties and behavior of low-temperature plasmas for energy conversion, plasma propulsion, and gas lasers. Equilibrium of ionized gases: energy states, statistical mechanics, and relationship to thermodynamics. Kinetic theory: motion of charged particles, distribution function, collisions, characteristic lengths and times, cross sections, and transport properties. Gas surface interactions: thermionic emission, sheaths, and probe theory. Radiation in plasmas and diagnostics.
C. Guerra Garcia
No textbook information available

STS.434 Postapocalyptic Science and Technology Studies

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Prereq: None
Units: 3-0-9
Lecture: R2-5 (E51-390)

Examines how science fiction is deployed as a political tool for enacting change in the present and how it has emerged as a privileged symbolic field for the expression of hopes and anxieties that drive both culture and tech industries. Explores how societies around the globe — both mainstream and in the periphery — are confronting a triple crisis that threatens not only civil order but also the very existence of certain forms of life: financial collapse which increased the awareness of mass inequality; climate change and loss of biodiversity; and the rise of ethno-nationalisms, which threaten representative democracies.
E. Nelson
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STS.901-STS.904 Independent Study in Science, Technology, and Society

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Prereq: Permission of instructor
Units arranged
STS.902: TBA.

For students who wish to pursue special studies or projects at an advanced level with a faculty member of the Program in Science, Technology, and Society.
D. Fitzgerald
STS.901: No required or recommended textbooks
STS.902: No required or recommended textbooks
STS.903: No required or recommended textbooks
STS.904: No required or recommended textbooks

STS.482[J] Science, Technology, and Public Policy

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(Same subject as 17.310[J], IDS.412[J])
Prereq: Permission of instructor
Units: 4-0-8
Credit cannot also be received for 17.309, IDS.055, STS.082
Lecture: MW1-2.30 (E25-111) Recitation: TBA

Analysis of issues at the intersection of science, technology, public policy, and business. Cases drawn from antitrust and intellectual property rights; health and environmental policy; defense procurement and strategy; strategic trade and industrial policy; and R&D funding. Structured around theories of political economy, modified to take account of integration of uncertain technical information into public and private decision-making. Meets with 17.309 when offered concurrently.
N. Selin
No textbook information available

Total units: 36+

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