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Who should attend?

The discussion will be roughly at +2 and UG first year level but the experiments could be an educative experience for students from grade 9 onwards. Most of these experiments will throw some challenge to understand it, so even the well trained persons up to Postgraduate level will find it interesting!

Core target groups are  

(a)  Physics teachers teaching in schools from grade 9 to 12
(b)  Physics teachers teaching in colleges at B Sc, B.Tech level
(c)  Students from grade 9 to BSc/B.Tech
(d)  Others interested in enjoying Physics displayed by Nature in day-to-day life

Course Content

Optics

Shadows and rectilinear motion Diffraction and Interference Polarization Scattering Reflection

Fermat’s Principle Refraction Dispersion Prisms and Lenses

 Mechanics

Classification of forces Non inertial frames and pseudo forces Rotating frames, Centrifugal and coriolis force Friction and Card-Coin experiment

Rolling Angular momentum, Moment of inertia, Rigid body rotation Conical Pendulum

 Electricity/Magnetism

Circular motion of charge in magnetic field Force on a current in a magnetic field B-field of a bar magnet and forces on a magnetic material in this field Misconceptions on poles Role of inhomogeneity in force on a magnet

Diamagnetic and paramagnetic materials Curie Temperature Faraday’s law of induction Non conservative Electric Field Lenz’s law and eddy currents

Oscillations and waves

Stable equilibrium and oscillations Damped / Forced oscillations Similarity between mechanical and L-C-R oscillations Resonance

Complexity of Simple pendulum Waves on a slinky, a string Wave speed, dependence on tension and linear density Standing waves on strings and on springs

Schedule

Three Lectures to be released every week. Generally one on each Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. The lectures can be viewed any time during the 8 week course.Four Multiple choice quizzes will be held during the course for evaluation.There could be homework for which you might be asked to write and upload the answer file.

Certificates

Certificates will be given to qualifying students based on their involvement and performance. Qualifying criteria will be announced soon. Certificates will be issued by Centre for Development of Technical Education (CDTE) , Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur.

Course Logistics

Start Date: 
September 20 , 2016

Duration : 8 weeks

Prerequisites : None

Registration : 
Open and free of charge

Instructor Incharge

Prof. H C Verma
Professor,
Department of Physics,
Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
http://home.iitk.ac.in/~hcverma/
info@physicsexperiments.in

https://www.physicsexperiments.in