MIT 3.60 Lec 14a Symmetry, Structure, Tensor Properties of Materials
PROFESSOR: My watch says five after 2:00, so why don't we get started? This is going to be a strange lecture. I'm expecting some wise guy in the back to say, all your lectures are rather peculiar! But I have a phone call from Europe coming in sometime around 2:15, 2:30. Somebody's coming to visit us next week, and we're going to set up a seminar. So I don't know exactly when it's going to come in, but I have to be in my office. So what I will do is adjourn at quarter after, 20 past the hour. And then so I don't keep you here sitting restively wondering when I'm going to come back, we'll adjourn until 3 o'clock. So you seem to have been taken longer and longer breaks during intermission. So I'll give you a full 3/4 of an hour so you can get it out of your systems. And then, we'll take shorter breaks from here on in. OK this is going to be pretty much our last lecture on symmetry. And we will begin, at least in half of the nex...