DAMP Physics, IITB

Instructor Name Shiva Prasad Prerequisites Basic knowledge of CMP Topics Crystallographic techniques, AFM, SEM Lectures 80% attendance required. Lectures were ok. Instructor used blackboard. Quality is subjective. If one likes the course content they were nice otherwise boring. Assignments Many assignments. Exams were somewhat easy. Grading 40% Assignments, 30% midsem, 30% endsem Pro tips Make sure you have laptops with you during the lectures and assignment slot with Microsoft office (mainly excel) or Numbers in case of MacBook and foxit reader installed in it. Saves a lot of time. Respondent - Shounak Note: This is a review to help you make a more informed choice about how to study for this course and/or choosing this course. While we've tried to keep it objective and complete, one must keep in mind that students have varying interests, methods of study, and the course itself changes from year to year.

Instructor  Pragya Das Course Type Core for EP students Course overview 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)  Prerequisites Quantum Mechanics I, Perturbation Theory Part of QM II Credit distribution 2 quizzes; usual weightage: 10% each with midsem and endsem Feedback on 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 Feedback on tutorials, assignments and exams Tutorials uploaded; no grading; weekly discussions; questions are usually straightforward; exams are of moderate difficulty; questions are straightforward once you understand the concepts Relevant References 1. Wong - Intro Nuclear Phys...

Instructor Name K. G. Suresh Course Type Core Prerequisites QM I, Perturbation Theory part of QM II Topics 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 Assignments Tutorials uploaded on moodle; no grading; easy or moder...

Instructor Name Prof. P. C. Ghosh Course Type Core for EP students, along with Energy sophies Course Overview 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. Hydropo...

DAAD - Working Internships in Science and Engineering (WISE) Scholarship A brief informal review Contributed by: Basuhi Ravi (DAAD WISE Scholar, 2017) DAAD stands for Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (Translation: German Academic Exchange Service) and before you proceed further, we would like to request you to read this page thoroughly. DAAD offers several types of merit based grants for study and research in Germany to Indian students but the only one applicable to you as undergraduates would be the WISE scholarship. It is for students in their third year (if B.Techs) and third or fourth year (if DDs) who wish to work on a project at a public or state-recognised German University or Research Institute. Again, we defer from repeating the information succinctly put on their webpage. Instead, we focus on the couple of the points that are not discussed there, and we do so while adhering to the chronological order of things.  First, finding a project.  B...

Contributed by: Sandesh Kalantre (SN Bose Scholar, 2017) S. N. Bose scholars program provides an opportunity for students to do a summer internship in the US. Eligibility Criterion The department nominates 2 students from each batch, nomination is generally on the basis of CPI. Note that you cannot directly apply unless the department nominates you. The nomination is through a form included in the online application, which has to be signed by the Faculty advisor and the HoD. Application Requirements The entire application is through an online portal on the website. 2 letters of recommendation which have to be sent directly A statement of purpose describing your interests and your proposed topics of interest A current research experience statement which lists all your projects Copy of your transcript Nomination from the department signed by HoD and Faculty advisor NoC from IITB Timeline The application deadline is generally October. Results are announced in January...

The High Energy Accelerator Research Organisation(KEK), invited 10 sophomores from EP, to work on various projects, for a duration of 3 weeks, beginning 11 May. This cam under the Japanese government’s Sakura Science Program. This came under the KEK has two campuses - one in Tsukuba which is an electron-positron accelerator and the other in Tokai on the east coast. The Tokai campus goes by the name JPARC (Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex). As the name states, JPARC is a proton accelerator. We were invited to the Tsukuba campus which is about 70km from Tokyo. Our airfare was covered and we received a generous amount of money for day to day use. We were divided into 3 groups, with each group working under the supervision of a Professor. 1. Detection of CMB through Radio analysis of the sky spectrum Gurbir, Yashvi, and Viraj worked on this project. The CMB group at KEK had developed KUMoDES, a radio system spinoff of a cosmic microwave background detector, which uses t...