Category: academics
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Physics interests me, what are my options?
Hi, I am Rithwik Mohanty and I currently go to Shelton High School. I possess a profound passion for the field of physics. More specifically I am interested in the modern aspects of physics. For example, some things that interest me are the search for dark matter and particle physics. I like to keep up…
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My graduate student days.
My graduate student days were fun — most of the times. I had 3 different professors — in 3 different semesters, when I was their teaching assistant (TA). None of them was any acerbic to me ever, even when I would be at fault. Professor 1: Guy Indebetow was the very first one. A cheerful…
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The wrong questions and responses in GATE 2018, Physics.
Here is a summary of the questions which has possibly been set wrong (I have given details below) or numerical answer types whose answers have been given incorrectly as per the declared answer sheet. Q8. The magnetic field also has a odd parity. Not “E and A only”. Since that choice (or “none of the…
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Wrong question in GATE 2018 physics?
I think the above question asked in GATE 2018 (physics) is wrong. Any vector has two components. The component perpendicular to the parity axis has even parity and the parallel component to the axis has odd parity. The opposite is true for axial vectors. E, A vectors. B, L axial vectors. The correct answer per…
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My analysis of Odisha elections — 2017
Odisha Panchayat Election 2017 The concurrent election in Odisha just drew to a close and I did an analysis on the results available tentatively. Notice that there is no visible errors here, even if I e.g. adjusted 854 to 850 and so on. If you add up the % figures they add to 100% perfectly…
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