DAMP Physics, IITB

Course Instructor :  Pradeep Sarin Course Name:  Electronics Lab 1 Course Type:  Core(Lab) Credits:  3 Pre-requisites:  None Course Content:  Introduction to lab equipment like oscilloscopes and wave generators Transistor and Op-amp behaviours in circuits Books:  Reading material provided before labs was more than enough. Online-Resources:  Online resources found a google search away, and basic videos were quite helpful. Assignments:  The assignments and pre-lab quizzes together consist for 80 percent of the grade, the remaining is for the final lab. Exams and Grading: pr e lab quizzes based on reading material, In lab Assignments and one exam at the end Pro-tips:  In labs, peer communication is encouraged, so labs aren't extremely formal, TA's are very helpful in understanding any concepts, and most of all reading material given by Sarin Sir is more than helpful for anything in lab. The assignments are made so we discover the problem step wise on our own, which ends up making

Course Instructor : Swapneel Mahajan Course Name: Differential Equations 2 Course Type: Core(Theory) Credits: 4 Pre-requisites:  MA108 (Informal) Course Content:  Power series and frobenius methods of solving linear ODEs, Legendre equation and properties of its solutions, Bessel equation and properties of its solutions, fourier series, Heat equation and wave equations in 1 and 2 dimensions ( polar and cartesian coordinates for the latter), laplace equation, eigenvalues and eigen functions of the laplacian operator on the unit sphere. Books:  Elementary Differential Equations - Rainville and Bedient, and the lecture notes were also a book by themselves Lectures: No compulsory attendance. Lectures were rather lackluster in the first half (except for the puzzle Prof. Swapneel would present at the end of every class). Even though it might seem incredibly boring, it's best to slog through the first half of the course, as the course content gets a lot more interesting in the second ha

Course Instructor : Prof. Spatarshi Prosonno Ghosh, Prof. Surajit Bhattacharyya Course Name: Economics Course Type: Core(Theory) Credits: 6 Pre-requisites:  None, this is an introductory level course in Economics Course Content:  Microeconomics- Ten Principles of Economics, Market Supply and Demand, Elasticity, Government Policies (Taxes, Price Ceilings and Floors), Market Equilibrium, Costs of Production, Firms in Competitive Markets, Monopoly, Oligopoly, Efficiency of Markets, Theory of Consumer Choice Macroeconomics- National Economies, Inflation, Unemployment, The Great Depression, Keynesian Macroeconomics, Aggregate Demand and Supply, National Income, GDP, GNP, National Income Accounting Equation, The Multiplier Model, Multipliers (Investment, G, Tax), Money and Banking, Money Multiplier, Consumption Function, Absolute Income Hypothesis (AIH), Life Cycle Hypothesis (LCH) Books:  Principles of Microeconomics, by N. Gregory Mankiw Principles of Macroeconomics, by N. Gregory Mankiw P

Course Instructor : Prof. U K Anandavardhanan Course Name: Complex Analysis MA 205 Course Type: Core(Theory) Credits: 4 Pre-requisites:  MA 105 (Calculus) being an informal pre-requisite. Course Content:  Complex numbers and why are they interesting, limits, continuity and differentiability, Cauchy-Riemann equations, harmonic functions, power series, exponential function, logarithmic function, integration, Cauchy's theorem, Cauchy Integral Formula, holomorphic and analytic functions, Cauchy's estimate, Liouville's theorem, entire functions, Fundamental Theorem of Algebra, Morera's theorem, isolated roots theorem, Identity theorem, singularities, Laurent series, Cauchy Residue Theorem, Riemann Removal Singularities Theorem, real integrals and contour integration, Maximum Modulus Theorem. Conformal mappings were a part of the prescribed syllabus, but could NOT be covered due to time constraints. Books:  Didn't refer to any book in particular, wasn't required to b

Course Instructor : Pradeep Sarin Course Name: Elec Lab 2 Course Type: Lab Credits: 3 Pre-requisites:  EE-112 Course Content:  Practical applications of Op-Amps, Triggers, Filters and Amplifiers Lock-in amplifier, power transfer and reflectometry. Books:  Material provided by professor is sufficient. Lectures: Assignments:  Assignments are fairly simple at the beginning and fairly doable in 15-20 minutes, but towards the end the assignments get much more demanding and need 2-3 read throughs of the material before a good attempt can be made. Overall the assignments and material is interesting and challenging. Grading policy is lenient if the batch is sincere. The lab difficulty goes from trivial to complex from the first session to the last but help is always available. Exams and Grading: One endsem with 30-40% weightage maximum. A small ammount (~10%) of weightage for assignments. Pro-tips: Extremely interesting if even a slight inclination towards Electrical courses. Might prove usefu

Course Instructor : Prof Vikram Rentala Course Name: Special Theory of Relativity Course Type: Core Credits:  3 Pre-requisites : Formal - No prerequisites Informal - Linear Algebra, Calculus Course Content:   Basic Postulates of Special Relativity Time and length interval between events Simultaneity of events Doppler Shift Space-time diagrams Generalized Newton's Laws and Energy-momentum conservation Tensors and Maxwell's equations Books: Introduction to Special Relativity by Robert Resnick Lectures: Attendance Policy: None Lectures: Blackboard Prof Rentala covered the entire portion on time and in complete details and was helpful for solving doubts too. But last topic of 'Tensors and Maxwell's equations' were not covered properly and were left for 'Self Study'. 50% of the endsem exam was based on this last topic and hence was difficult Assignments: No Assignments, No compulsary Tutorial submission but no solution to tutorial was provided. Difficulty level

Course Instructor : Sadhana Dash Course Name: Probability Course Type: Core Credits: 6 Pre-requisites : None Course Content:   Basics of probability, random variables,different types of distributions(discrete-binomial, Poisson etc, Continuous -exponential, normal etc), moment generating functions, parameter testing, hypothesis Testing, goodness of fit tests Books: Introduction to probability and statistics by Sheldon M Ross Lectures: Lectures were on the blackboard, the quality wasn't all that good. Assignments: No graded assignments Exams and Grading: Grading based on : 2 quizzes(10 ,15) Midsem -30 Endsem-45 Exams were were of a moderate level of difficulty Respondent:   Aryan