PH 401 Classical Mechanics (Autumn 2016-17)

Instructor Name: Prof. Punit Parmanand

Course Type: Core (BSc.)

Pre-requisites: Basic BSc knowledge

Course Content: Lagrangian and Hamiltonian

Other Topics Covered: Very few topics were covered

Books: Thornton and Marion

Lectures: Very poor... should have used the board to teach but instead the full course ran on projector.

Assignments: Tutorial were nice but grading policy very bad...the class average turned out to be about 5 in this course

Exams and Grading: Midsem(30%) , 1 quiz(20%) and endsem(30%) and 20% attendance

Follow up courses: Any applied CMP course/project!

Pro-Tips: Don't believe what the Prof. says as half the time he fools around with students

Personal Comments: The instructor is not at all serious about the course and TA's shouldn't be allowed to make question papers.

Respondent: Souvik Das