ESP Biography
GUSTAVO VELEZ, ESP Teacher
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Major: EECS College/Employer: MIT Year of Graduation: G |
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Brief Biographical Sketch:
Not Available. Past Classes(Clicking a class title will bring you to the course's section of the corresponding course catalog)S16221: The vacuum: how low can you go? in Splash Fall 2025 (Nov. 22 - 23, 2025)
A low-pressure class. May contain plasma, solid nitrogen, baking, and $10000 worth of scientific equipment. Free space. Nothing to see here.
S16222: magnets: how do they work? in Splash Fall 2025 (Nov. 22 - 23, 2025)
Can you hear a magnet? Can you see a spin? What is the field in the nucleus of an iron atom? Why do our magnets explode if we don't feed them $4000 of liquid helium every year? Answers to all these questions and more!
S16228: How to measure a gravitational wave in Splash Fall 2025 (Nov. 22 - 23, 2025)
Though General Relativity predicts constant emission of waves, the strongest known sources can only move a mirror by one ten-thousandth the width of a proton.
Learn how LIGO manages to detect this minuscule motion by removing the air from 4km tunnels, damping motion with glass fibers and magnets, aligning invisible lasers with radio signals, and squeezing light with glowing rocks. Includes demonstrations of the major wave and optical phenomena employed.
S16083: The Atom: Theory and Experiment in Splash Spring 2025 (Mar. 15 - 16, 2025)
Celebrate the 100th anniversary of quantum mechanics with an opportunity to get up close and personal with real experimental apparatuses. Some live data collection and analysis included.
S16084: magnets: how do they work? in Splash Spring 2025 (Mar. 15 - 16, 2025)
Can you hear a magnet? Can you see a spin? What is the field in the nucleus of an iron atom? Why do our magnets explode if we don't feed them $4000 of liquid helium every year? Answers to all these questions and more!
S16149: The vacuum: how low can you go? in Splash Spring 2025 (Mar. 15 - 16, 2025)
A low-pressure class. May contain plasma, solid nitrogen, baking, and $10000 worth of scientific equipment. Free space. Nothing to see here.
S15708: The Atom: Theory and Experiment in Splash 2023 (Nov. 18 - 19, 2023)
Explore the evolution of the theory of the atom - with an opportunity to get up close and personal with real experimental apparatuses. Some live data collection and analysis included.
S15709: magnets: how do they work? in Splash 2023 (Nov. 18 - 19, 2023)
Can you hear a magnet? Can you see a spin? What is the field in the nucleus of an iron atom? Why do our magnets explode if we don't feed them $4000 of liquid helium every year? Answers to all these questions and more!
S15196: The Atom: Theory and Experiment in Splash 2022 (Nov. 19 - 20, 2022)
Explore the evolution of the theory of the atom - with an opportunity to get up close and personal with real experimental apparatuses such as a Crookes tube, Rutherford's gold foil experiment, double-slit interference, cloud chamber trajectories, the photoelectric effect, discharge tubes, and a Stern-Gerlach apparatus. Some live data collection and analysis included.
M12334: What is a vector? in Splash 2018 (Nov. 17 - 18, 2018)
No magnitude. No direction. No arrows. No lies. The general truth about day 1 of every STEM class.
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