We are literally carrying our lives on our mobile phones. Contacts, emails, SMS, messenger services, chat apps, bank account apps, photographs of friends and family members, places we have traveled to (remember, Google Maps is following you!). And yet, mobile… Read More ›
Feynman: on physics learning …there is this possibility: after I tell you something, you just can’t believe it. You can’t accept it. You don’t like it. It’s a problem that physicists have learned to deal with: they’ve learned to realise… Read More ›
Here is a list of IMPORTANT QUESTIONS for ISC Physics Board Exam for 2020. Ensure that you can answer each of these questions. In case of doubts, it is best to refer to your lecture notes or textbook. If you… Read More ›
So you have been bitten by the coding bug and want to learn programming? That’s good news because computer programmers are still in high demand. As technology-based devices and services boom across the globe, this demand will only increase with… Read More ›
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The Council for Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) has reduced the syllabus for class X and XII for the academic year 2020-21. The Covid-induced lockdown has forced this decision as the number of instructional days has been reduced. Already 2… Read More ›
Microsoft has announced that a new Large Gallery view, with the ability to see up to 49 participants in a meeting, is coming soon to Teams! Large Gallery will release as an optional (preview) feature that can be turned on… Read More ›
In 2020, webinars, WhatsApp video calls, Zoom and Google Meets are routine, just like a telephone call was 30 years back. Yet, it had to start at some time in the past, and video calling technology first broke in on… Read More ›
This was a question in a physics degree exam at the University of Copenhagen: “Describe how to determine the height of a skyscraper with a barometer.” One student replied: “You tie a long piece of string to the neck of… Read More ›
FOR FIRST YEAR UNDERGRADUATE DEGREE COURSES IN ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY BASIC SCIENCE COURSES PHYSICS 1. Engineering Physics, Malik and Singh, Tata Mc Graw Hill 2. Engineering Physics, Naidu, Pearson 3. Mechanics, Mathur, S.Chand Publishing 4. Classical Mechanics, Upadhyaya, Himalaya Publishing House 5. Classical Mechanics,… Read More ›
Why is it Important To Solve a Question Bank? Before you run a marathon, you must practice everyday. Your Board exams are like a marathon. You must be prepared to answer the question paper, in the allotted time and be… Read More ›
Online teaching and learning has become essential in these testing times of COVID19. Teachers all across the world are using their desktop computers, laptops, mobile phones, tablets to stay in touch with students. Earlier, while a teacher would teach 40-60… Read More ›
The cost of a laptop is made up of three components: Cost of hardware Cost of installed software (operating system + applications like MS Office, etc) Warranty, extended warranty costs An open-source Linux-based software should be cheaper but if there… Read More ›
This poll aims to find the topics that students find difficult in the subjects of Digital Electronics, Logic Gates, Boolean Algebra and computer architecture. Please select the topics that you find difficult. It will help me in deciding for which… Read More ›
I am preparing worksheets based on a common syllabus of Digital Electronics for most college and university exams., especially for engineering, computer science and information technology courses. This will be a set of worksheets based on different topics and there… Read More ›
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To all teachers: “Teach well, because you are going to retire in a world that your students will run”. Here’s a bit I came across recently in a very old issue of the, now defunct, Science Age magazine (Sept 1985)… Read More ›
Question 1: Which is the second largest search engine? Question 2: Which is the largest online platform for learning? You got it right both times: YouTube. Today, more than ever before, video has become the de facto medium of sharing… Read More ›
The word algorithm is named after the ninth century scholar Abu Jafar Muhammad Ibn Musu Al-Khowarizmi. An algorithm is a step-by-step procedure by which a computer can produce the required outputs from the available inputs. An algorithm must have a… Read More ›
This short quiz is based on the topic of “Computer Fundamentals”. There are 15 questions in all and total marks are 15. Immediately on completing this quiz and clicking the SUBMIT button, you will receive your score result.
This short quiz is based on the topic of “OSI Reference Model”. There are 15 questions in all and total marks are 15. Immediately on completing this quiz and clicking the SUBMIT button, you will receive your score result. You… Read More ›
This short quiz is based on the topic of Computer Number Systems. This includes questions on decimal, binary, octal, hexadecimal numbers. There are 15 questions in all and total marks are 20. Immediately on completing this quiz and clicking the… Read More ›
The words ‘bits’ and ‘software’ are part of our daily vocabulary now. Yet, you will be surprised to know that the word ‘bit’ was originally planned to be called either “bigit” or “binit” – from the words BInary diGIT or… Read More ›
Statistics and data dominate our lives. Increasingly, data-based decisions are being used by people, organizations and governments. Here are a few links that will be very interesting for everyone starting out in data science, visualization and with an interest in… Read More ›
COVID19 has caused more destruction than anyone could have ever imagined. What is becoming clear now is that COVID19 has also challenged the traditional school–> college —> university education model. It remains to be seen how education will change in… Read More ›
