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 ›
Physics
List Of Suggested Books Of Indian Authors And Publishers for First Year Engineering Education
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 ›
Question Bank – Why & How
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 ›
Poll for Study Material on Digital Electronics
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 ›
Digital Electronics: Self-Study Worksheets
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 ›
Images From The Past
5th Solvay Conference, 1927.
Quiz – Computer Number Systems
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 ›
Decimal Number to Octal Number Conversion
5 Best Books on Digital Electronics
Experimental Physics
Experimental work in a laboratory is an essential component of physics learning and teaching. Students often refer to experimental work in physics laboratory as ‘physics practical’. So why is physics practical important and what do you have to do in… Read More ›
Why is Physics considered to be a Difficult Subject?
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 ›
On A Lighter Note – 2
Satyendranath Bose, whose name is permanently linked with Einstein’s as the formulator of the Bose-Einstein statistics, was known for his extraordinary genius, even as a school boy. His mathematics school teacher at Hindu School, Calcutta, once gave him 110 marks… Read More ›
On A Lighter Note – 1
Thomas Alva Edison liked to surprise guests at his parties with his new discoveries. On New Year’s eve of 1880, he invited a large number of friends to his laboratory at Menlo Park in New Jersey, 25 miles from New… Read More ›
Spectacular View of Our Sun
The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System. It is the most important source of life on earth. It is a nearly perfect sphere of hot plasma. Its surface temperature is about 5800 K. If you… Read More ›
Quiz 1 – Units of Physical Quantities
Each of the following multiple choice questions has 4 options. Select the single correct answer (turns green).
This Could Be The Reason Why You Find Physics Difficult
In an earlier post, I have discussed why students feel that physics is a difficult subject. Part of the fear stems from the fact that physics uses a lot of mathematics. Mathematics is the language through which we can state the… Read More ›
Feb – April 2020 – Difficult Topics in Physics – Poll
Hi. I can help you learn some of the difficult topics for the upcoming Physics exams in Feb-April 2020. I will use the poll given here to decide on which topics to discuss here by giving the important questions and… Read More ›
The Wonders of Physics
Physics is the most basic of all sciences and along with mathematics forms an essential part of study. The numerous applications of physics to communications, space research, medicine, and even branches as diverse as financial engineering only show the vast… Read More ›
God?
In his last book “Brief Answers to the Big Questions”, Stephen Hawking the late theoretical physicist declared that “There is no God”. The British scientist suffered from Lou Gehrig’s disease, or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). According to Hawking, “for centuries it was… Read More ›
