DAMP Physics, IITB

Course Instructor: Microeconomics : Prof Puja Padhi Macroeconomics : Prof Haripriya Gun dimeda Course Name: HS 101 ( Core ) Credits : 6 Prerequisites : none Course Content:  Principles of economics by Mankiw - Ch 25 -34 Principles of microeconomics by Mankiw -ch 1-5, ch 13-15, ch 21 Resources: Principles of Economics ( Mankiw ), Principles of microeconomics ( Mankiw ) Lecture Slides Lectures: Prof Puja  believes in teaching by  raising questions, letting students think and discuss with her. Prof Haripriya's lectures were quiet engaging, with a lot of interesting facts and figures and case studies on the macro scale the course is based on logical thinking and can be very interesting especially the macro part, if you follow the books and lectures The books by Mankiw are really thorough, engaging, provide comprehensive case studies and very easy to follow. Overall the course helps us develop perspective and how to logically think about the world arou...

Instructor:  Dinesh Kabra Course Name:   Photonics ( EP309 ) Course Type:   Theory ( Core ) Credits:  6 Prerequisites:   Optics - Physics Core (Light prereq) Course Content:   Mirror waveguides, Graded index waveguide, optical fibres, planar and spherical resonator optics, Laser amplifier, Laser, Semiconductor Photon Sources, Semiconductor Photon Detectors Books/Other Resources: Fundamentals of Photonics by Bahaa E. A. Saleh and Malvin C. Teich, Laser Fundamentals by William T. Silfvast  The book was more than sufficient for a thorough understanding . Tutorials/ Exams/ Grading: There were assignments that we would casually announce, and ask for submission (whether they were ever checked and added into final grades is something that only he knows). He did ask questions the assignment questions in the exams though. Difficulty of assignments- Easy to moderate.  Exams - 2 quizzes(10 each), 1 midsem(30), 1 endsem(5...

Instructor:  Sadhana Dash Course Name:   Introduction to Nuclear and Particle Physics ( PH505 ) Course Type:  Theory ( Core ) Credits:  6 Prerequisites: Classical scattering theory, perturbation theory, electromagnetism Course Content:   Nuclear structure, Shell model, inter-nucleon forces, Scattering theory, Classification of Elementary Particles, Forces and Force carriers, Symmetries in nature Books/Other Resources: Nuclear Physics by Kenneth Krane, Elementary Particle Physics by David Griffiths Alexander Belyaeev's site at the University of Southampton Lectures/Tutorials: Primarily blackboard-based. There were some slides uploaded for deuteron theory. There were very few tutorials which were solved in class Pro tip: There are no formula sheets, so you're not going to remember everything unless you work through it once on your own, especially derivations Advanced follow-up courses ( Courses that can b...

Instructor Name:  Prof.  Sudarshan Gurjar Course Type:  Core Pre-requisites:  MA105 Course Content:  Analytics functions, Cauchy-Reimann equations, harmonic functions, Power series and their properties, Elementary functions, Cauchy's theorem, Taylor series and Laurent expansions, Residues and the Cauchy residue formula, Improper integrals, Conformal mappings, Inversion of Laplace transforms Books:  R.V. Churchill and J.W. Brown, Complex variables and applications Lectures:  It is a half semester course. No attendance policy. The instructor mostly follows slides while teaching, and the slides are more than sufficient for the exams. Assignments:  The tutorial are pretty extensive and are of a good level.  Exams and Grading:  1 quiz, of weightage 10% is considered, apart from endsem.   Pro-tips:  Reading the slides and solving the tutorial sheets are enough to get a good grade for the exams. The books can be referred ...

Instructor Name: Prof. Pragya Das Course Type: Core Pre-requisites:  Quantum Mechanics I, Perturbation Theory part of QM II Course Content:  Binding Energy, Magnetic Moments; Radioactive Decay: alpha, beta, gamma; Deuteron; Nuclear Models: Independent Particle and Shell Models; Reactions; Elementary particles: Isospin, conserved quantum numbers, quarks (fact-based) Books:  Wong - Intro Nucl Phy; Cohen - Concepts of Nucl Phy; Enge - Intro Nucle Phy; Lilley - Nucl Phy; Hyde - Basic ideasin Nucl Phy; Burcham, Jobes - Nucl & Part Phy; Kane - Modern Elem Part Phy; Griffiths - Intro Elem Part (haven't read any of these - just mentioning the list given in the slides) Lectures:  Attendance is flexible; slides require some decoding if you don't attend lectures; attending doesn't make much of a difference either since Prof. Das mostly just reads out what's in the slides Assignments:  Tutorials uploaded; no grading; weekly discussions; questions are u...

Instructor Name:  Prof. K. G. Suresh Course Type:  Core Pre-requisites:  QM I, Perturbation Theory part of QM II Course Content:  Hydrogen, Lamb shift; Angular momentum in multi-electron atoms; atomic magnetism, Zeeman and Paschen Bach effects; Hyperfine interaction; Nuclear interaction; Atomic spectra - vibrational, rotational; basics of NMR, ESR, etc. Books:  Brandsen, Joachain - Phy of Atoms and Molecules; Cagnac and Pabey-Payroula - Modern Atomic Phy; Fano and Fano - Phy of Atoms and Molecules; Bates and Estermann - Advances in Atomic and Molecular Phy (never read any of these - mentioned in the slides as references); usual QM textbooks like Shankar and Sakurai Lectures:  Attendance not mandatory; slides are a bit of a mess - too many errors; Prof. Suresh spends too much time spending qualitative stuff and too little on the actual calculations so you won't notice the errors till you go back and actually read the slides (which ...

Instructor Name:  Prof. P. C. Ghosh Course Type:  Core Pre-requisites: None Course Content: 1. Solar radiation: spectrum, air mass, beam and diffuse radiation 2. Solar Geometry (covered for almost a month, aim is to calculate the solar radiation falling on a tilted surface) 3. Solar Thermal Energy Conversion: Flat Plate Collectors, Losses, Evacuated tube collectors, Concentration of beam radiation, efficiency 4. Solar Photovoltaic Energy Conversion: Bandgap, theory of p-n junction, illuminated junction characteristics (solar cell), maximum power point, construction of solar cell, losses, efficiency 5. Wind Energy: Wind speed distribution (Weibull and Rayleigh distribution), basics of aerofoils, Linear Momentum Theory, Blade element theory, power from wind 6. Bioenergy: Biomass definition and distribution, proximate and ultimate analysis, combustion, gasification, pyrolysis, anaerobic digestion, fermentation, biofuels: biogas, biodiesel, methanol, etc 7. Hydropower...

Instructor Name:  Prof. Tapanendu Kundu Course Type:  Core Pre-requisites:  None Course Content:  Oscillations: Damped Oscillations, Forced Oscillations in both spring mass systems and electrical circuits Waves: Travelling waves, Standing waves (Standing Waves on a string, Cavity Quantisation), Maxwell's Equations, Fourier Transform, Surface Plasmons and Bulk Plasmons Optics: Polarisation, Fresnel Equations, Waveguides Books:  (For Waves and Oscillations) Berkeley Physics Course Vol 3 (by Frank S. Crawford) (For Optics) K.K. Sharma Optics, Eugene Hecht Lectures:  The Prof did not use slides at all. Everything was taught on the board. A lot of experiments were demonstrated in lectures.  Attendance was taken everyday. The lectures were comprehensive enough, but on some very rare occasions, the derivations were a little tough to understand. Assignments:  No assignments were given for the course. There were two tutorials given as...

First response Instructor Name:  Prof. Sivaji Ganesh, Prof. S. Baskar Course Type: Core Pre-requisites:  MA 105, MA 106, MA 108 Course Content:  Error Analysis - Floating Point Representation, Propagation of Errors, Numerical Linear Algebra - algebraic and iterative methods to solve a system of linear eqns, eigenvalue problems, Nonlinear Equations - iterative methods like bisection, Newton-Raphson, Interpolation-finding an interpolating polynomial given a set of data points and errors, Numerical Integration and Differentiation, Numerical Ordinary Differential Equations.  Books:  The lecture notes are more than enough Lectures:  Lectures take place in LA, Slides based teaching. strict 80% attendance policy - several DXs were handed out. Teaching quality is decent. Assignments:  Tutorials are of moderate level and complement the course well. Exams and Grading:  2 quizzes (15%), midsem(30%) and endsem(40%).  Follow up courses:...

Instructor Name:  Prof. Anirban Sain Course Type:  Core Pre-requisites:  Formal: none; Informal: MA 105 (Multi-variable calculus) Course Content:  Principle of least action, small oscillations, central force problems, rigid body motion, canonical transformations Other Topics Covered:  Euler-Lagrange equations for various minimization/optimization problems, Noether's theorem and converse (a poor man's version of the proof of Noether's theorem) Books:  Classical mechanics by Herbert Goldstein; Analytical mechanics by Louis N. Hand and Janet D. Finch Lectures:  No formal attendance policy, blackboard teaching method was followed Assignments:  Ungraded tutorials, mostly taken either from Goldstein or Hand and Finch; quality of problems was on the better side, but a mixed bag in terms of difficulty Exams and Grading:  2 quizzes (10% each), 1 midsem (30%), 1 endsem (50%) Pro-Tips:  Goldstein takes more time to study, so...

Instructor Name:  Prof. Kumar Rao Course Type:  Core Pre-requisites:  None Course Content:  Schrodinger Equation, Particle in a box, quantum harmonic oscillator, infinite vector space, bra-ket notations, angular momentum and spin algebra, spherical harmonics, spherically symmetric potentials, hydrogen atom, addition of angular momenta, Clebsch-Gordan coefficients. Books:  Principles of Quantum Mechanics, by R Shankar; Introduction to Quantum Mechanics by DJ Griffiths. Lectures:  No attendance policy, but the prof highly encourages attending his lectures. Prof teaches from slides in class. The slides are good and complete. Assignments:  Regular tutorial sheets and tutorial sessions. In addition two assignments had to be submitted which carried weightage in the final grading. Exams and Grading:  Quiz1-10% , Quiz2-10%, Midsem-30% , Endsem-40%, 2 Assignments-10% combined. Respondent:  Viraj Karambelkar  

Instructor Name:  Prof. Raghunath Chelakkot Course Type:  Core Pre-requisites:  Formal: None; Informal: PH 108 (Maxwell's equations) Course Content:  Principle of relativity, Lorenz transformation, relativistic kinematics and mechanics, energy-momentum 4-vector, electromagnetic theory, tensors Other Topics Covered:  Concept of invariant interval, Minkowski spacetime, addition of relativistic velocities, conservation of energy and momentum, mass-energy equivalence, basics of tensor analysis, electromagnetic theory in terms of the field tensor Books:  Spacetime physics (Wheeler and Taylor), Introduction to STR (Resnick), Mathematical Methods for Physicists (Arfken) [for theory of tensors], Schaum's Outline of Vector Analysis [for problems from tensors] Lectures:  No formal attendance policy, mostly blackboard teaching method was followed, exams were based largely on content covered in the lectures Assignments:  Ungraded tutorial...

Instructor Name:  Prof. K. Narayanan, Prof. Surajit Bhattacharya  Course Type:  Core   Pre-requisites:  None Course Content:  Supply and Demand, Elasticity, Competition, Money, Multipliers Other Topics Covered:  Inflation Books:  Mankiw(Macro and Micro), Dornbusch and Fischer Lectures:  Attendance was not compulsory, but heavily recommended. The professor would be late uploading slides, and would often edit out important details from them, so it is a must to take good class notes. That being said, the lectures were highly engaging and thought-provoking  Assignments:  None Exams and Grading:  2 quizzes of 10% weightage, 1 midsem of 30% weightage and 1 endsem of 50% weightage Online study materials:   Khan Academy Pro-Tips:  Attend classes Personal Comments:  It was a fun course, but the profs weren't very good Respondent:  Vedant Basu  

Instructor Name:  Prof. Preeti Raman Course Type:  Core Pre-requisites:  MA 105, MA 106, MA 108 Course Content: Construction and formalism of complex numbers, algebra, differentiation, continuity, and integration( path/contour), Cauchy-Reimann theorems, holomomorphism Other Topics Covered: Singularities and zeroes, theorems to calculate contour integration in various interesting scenarios Books:  A Friendly Approach to Complex Analysis - Dr. Amol Sasane - very concise, precise with solved exercises and the exact amount of formalism required for a first course in complex analysis, ideal for a half semester course Lectures:  Very good lecture notes, Lectures twice a week 1.5 hrs each with additional 1 hr tutorial, 80% attendance compulsory Assignments: Fairly doable. a bit of thought is required but if definitions are clear, it shouldnt be a problem Exams and Grading:  1 quiz and endsem (30% - 70%) Follow up courses:  Complex analysis ...

Instructor Name:  Prof. Madhav Desai Course Type: Core Pre-requisites:  EE 112   Course Content:  Boolean Algebra, Sequential Circuits, Finite-State Machines, Timing Analysis, Testability and verification, RTL design Other Topics Covered:  Memories, VHDL synthesis Books:  Kohavi, Kleitz   Lectures:  Attendance is not compulsory. The lectures are blackboard based, and a little superficial, extra reading is recommended Assignments:  Assignments were ungraded, and of average difficulty Exams and Grading:  Two quizzes of 10 marks each, an endsem of 50marks and a 30 mark midsem Follow up courses: None Pro-Tips:  Attend class, and pay attention. It may feel like an unnecessary engineering course to quite a few, but modern electronics is primarily digital, and it's pretty interesting if you remove that chip in your shoulder  Respondent:  Vedant Basu  

Instructor Name:  Prof. Swapneel Mahajan Course Type:  Core Pre-requisites:  MA 108, knowledge of MA 205 might help a little Course Content:  Legendre Equation and its solutions, Legendre Polynomials, Frobenious ODE and its solutions - Bessel ode and functions, fourier series and their properties, 1-D heat and wave equations and boundary conditions. 2-D wave equation (square and circular membrane) and visualisation of modes.  Books:  Boyce de Prima, Fourier Series and Boundary Value Problems, Simmons Differential Equations ( Fuch Frobenius theory is best understood from Coddington - Introduction to Differential Equations) Lectures:  Slides for the entire course. Lecture notes complete the slides and are a better reading for a thorough understanding, classes were pretty engaging and quite enjoyable.  Assignments:  Tutorials were instrumental to the understanding of the course Exams and Grading:  Exams were completely ...