Category: higher-edu

  • The wrong questions and responses in GATE 2018, Physics.

    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…

  • Wrong question in GATE 2018 physics?

    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…

  • Are younger generations opposed to Capitalism?

    Are younger generations opposed to Capitalism? This is a guest post by Sabuj, who writes with much clarity on Quora and I thought this is interesting enough to be shared on this website. He also writes voluminously about various issues of his interest. Since he is very young, it throws a particularly refreshing view into…

  • The quality of a scientific paper … A casual reposition.

    The quality of a scientific paper are not ZERO if citation is zero. Perhaps we need to define two parameters, quality and significance of scientific communication. Quality; a well done research in the best traditions and methods available. Significance; the outreach of the paper to bring effect into others work and others understanding toward the…

  • Why Bose is not the scientist after whom Higgs is named.

    A very few particles (out of 1000s) are named after scientists, eg the so called mu meson was called a Yukawa Meson, although it turned out to be a misnomer. Mu-meson was found to be a lepton, rather than a meson, as was thought by Yukawa and others. Now called Muon it belongs in the…