DAMP Physics, IITB

Course Name:  Quantum Mechanics-3 (2019-20) Course Code:   PH523 Credits:  6 Course Instructor: Asmita Mukherjee Course Type:   Honors/Department Elective Prerequisites:   QM-1, STR Course Content:   Basic Classical Field theory, Klein Gordon equation, Dirac equation, canonical quantization of scalar and spinor fields, scalar and spinor propagators. Other Topics: Useful Books: Relativistic Quantum Mechanics by Walter Greiner ( This book covers much much more than classwork but is a really good read imho) A First book in QFT by Lahiri and Pal, An Introduction to QFT by Peskin and Schroeder Online Study Material: Lectures: Blackboard and Slides were used. 80% attendance policy. Everything was done on the blackboard. Lectures were ok but the equations and concepts were  always introduced without any prior motivation or intuition. The course content was also quite restricted and a complete picture of most concepts ...

Course Name:  Reading literature (2019-20) Course Code: HS305 Credits: 6 Course Instructor:  Sudha Shastri/Paulomi Chakraborty Course Type: HSS Elective Prerequisites: None Course Content:   The aim of the first half of the course was to introduce students to as many genres and writing styles as possible. There were plenty of short stories to read as well as a couple of poems and a graphic novel. The emphasis was on understanding ,interpretation and literary devices. In the second half of the course, the prof explored (in reasonable depth) the key features of a few genres (detective fiction, fairytales etc). The prof spent a lot of time discussing the characteristics of particular genres without concrete examples. More short stories and poems followed with the emphasis being on understanding, interpretation and recognizing the genre related elements of a story . Other Topics: Useful Books: There are no textbooks for this kind of course and the intern...

Course Name:  Introduction to Sociology Course Code:  HS307 Credits:  6 Course Instructor:  Prof. Suryakant Waghmore Course Type:  Theory (Core) Prerequisite:  No prerequisites Course Content:  Introduction to Sociology, Different forms and perspectives of Sociology, Introduction to Marx and his criticism of Capitalism, Introduction to other sociologists like Durkheim, Weber and their theories, Indian Nationalism, Study of caste system in India, Study of Religion Lectures: Slides and extensive discussion of case scenarios in lectures Exams: One midsem, one endsem, one essay. Grading policy was fairly lenient. Online Study Material: Reading material given by the prof is enough Pro-tips:  Attend classes! Respondent: Ruchika Chavhan

Course Name:  Methods of Analytical Techniques Course Code: PH517 Credits:  6 Course Instructor:  Prof. Kantimay Das Gupta Course Type: Theory (Core) Prerequisite:  Informal: CMP, QM 2, EM Theory Course Content:  X-ray Diffraction, Electron Diffraction, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Useful Books: Slides and attending lectures were enough. Lectures: No attendance policy, the lectures covered a lot more than that was finally in the exams, the teaching was pretty good and prof taught using a combination of slides and blackboard Assignments/Tutorials: 5 Problem sets were uploaded and discussed in the classes Exams: exams had some repetition from previous year papers and infact some were directly from problem sets. There were two quizzes and midsem-endsem. The papers were relatively easy and one could get good marks by solving the problem sets properly. Online Study Material: wasn't needed the book was enough Pro-tips:  DO: attend classes ...

Course Name:  Theory of Analytic Functions Course Code:  MA 521 Credits:  6 Course Instructor:  Prof. Ameer Athavale Course Type:  Minor Prerequisite:  Formal: Complex Analysis of Math Department (can get it manually waived off like I did though) and Real Analysis (unlikely to be waived) Course Content:  Maximum Modulus Principle, Space of Analytic Functions, Compactness and Convergence in the space, Runge's Theorem Other Topics: Some Aspects of simply connected sets Useful Books: John Conway's functions on one complex variable. Prof did everything from here with only slight changes made to make the proofs and statements more easy to understand. Lectures: Lectures were on blackboard with no attendance policy. Professor took an extra slot of 1.5 hours as well so effectively had 4.5 hours of teaching which however included detailed problem solving. I personally felt the classes were boring and slow as the prof was following section by sect...

PH435: Electronics Lab IV (Microprocessor) (2019-20) Course Name: Electronics Lab IV Course Code: PH435 Credits: 5 Course Instructor: Prof. Pradeep Sarin Course Type: Core (Lab) Prerequisite: All the previous electronics lab courses (PH231, PH233, PH230) Course Content: Introduction to Arduino, FSM Interrupts, PID Control Assignments: Five lab sessions pre-midsem and one group project post-midsem. Each lab session was graded. The lab difficulty ranged form moderate to hard. Students were allowed to form their own groups of two members and choose their own arduino based project. Exams: There was no midsem exam for the lab. The grading was distributed among lab sessions, the endsem exam and the project. Personal Comments: The required study material is provided by the professor, which is self-sufficient. A good understanding of how instructions are coded in arduino, along with some basic analog designs form previous lab courses is helpful. Respondent: Nitish Ujjwal...

EE309: Microprocessors (2019-20) Course Name: Microprocessors Course Code: EE309 Credits: 6 Course Instructor: Prof. Virendra Singh Course Type: Institute Elective (Theory) Prerequisite: EE224, VHDL Course Content:  8085 Architecture, 8051 Architecture, Device Interfacing, ISA & CISC, RISC Processor Design, Pipeline design, Memory System Design Lectures: Slides + Blackboard, attending lectures regularly is extremely helpful Assignments and Exams: Mid Term-10% Finals-30% Assignments-15% Course Project-20% Weekly Quiz-25% All exams are open book Absolute Grading Pro-tips: If possible, try to attend the lab course which elec students have along side this course. There is a lot of programming involved and there is a limit to what one can understand on just paper. Personal Comments: With so many assessments you get various options to cover up if you fall behind, but the projects and assignments mount up to a lot of work, even more so if you're not an elec...