Dear Students,
I am getting a lot of queries about Mid Sem I. So here is a guide to
preparations. This is only a guide.
1. Dont panic or be stressed. It is never helpful. If you need help
please call the exam helplines ( this will be sent by DOAA) or talk to
your student counsellor.
2. Study the class notes with Griffiths text and clarify all the concepts.
Work out fully all the DIPA and IPSA Problems. Mid Sems will be of the
level of DIPA problems and some short questions both problems and
concepts. There will be no long theoretical questions like derivations.
3. You can try other problems of same level in Griffiths but very
complicated and hard problems are not necessary to be done. Griffiths has
many problems and you should refer to only what I have taught. Everything
in Griffiths is not in the syllabus.
4. I have already announced in class that long expressions for operators
in curvilinear coordinates will be supplied. You dont have to memorize them.
You should know how to use and manipulate them as in the DIPA and IPSA
problems. ( The general derivation is in Appendix A of Griffiths, but that
is only for your interest. Its not included in the syllabus.)
5. Complicated problems with delta function and its properties will not be
asked. Only the problems of the same level as in IPSA and DIPA.
6. It will be useful ( time saving) to remember some standard
expressions/formula for potentials and fields of standard configurations.
Anything that has been derived/worked out in the class or DIPA or IPSA can
be used directly.
6. IMPORTANT: Please take some time to read and understand the question.
Many times people misread the question and then their answers are
completely incorrect. You will have to answer only what has been asked.
I hope this will help.
Best of luck
GS
Sunday, August 22, 2010
A Guide to Preparations.
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exams had made us too tense.............feeling as if to run back home. i had attended all the dipa ipsa and lectures never missing out any.........but still i feel too tense and hectic due to exams.......
ReplyDeleteI think that this is because of JEE. This exam is not JEE and for my course the mid sem will have only 30 marks out of a total of 150. That is only 20 %. There is one more mid sem and and end sem
ReplyDeleteso there is no need to feel tense at all if you
have been working.
Even then if you feel tense even after my explanation, you can use the exam helplines which the DOAA will circulate or talk to your student counsellor.
You will get used to exams in IIT. This is the first one that is why you are feeling tense. Later
on you will not even be bothered about an exam
and still do well.
So relax and prepare well following my guidelines.
Sir,
ReplyDeletethere a request....
can you prepare and mail us the ipsa n dipa at least 4 days prior???
bcoz we are not in a situation to go to copy point every now and then....for example the new ipsa u posted jus nw.....we cant collect it now after the exhaustive day n labs.....forget about trying to solve them!!!! :(
4-5 days would be good and a week ahead would be GREAT....
The DIPA and IPSA are tuned to what has been done in the Lectures. So unless and untill the Lectures have been done in that topic its not possible to set the DIPA and IPSA so much in advance. By tradition for IITK Physics Dept. its almost always given the evening before. I am sending the PDF file also so this should not be a problem unless there are figures. Even if there are figures you can just check them out from your friends.
ReplyDeleteIIT K academics is tough, no use complaining, it would be far better to get used to it.
Sir, I have problem in remembering formulas.
ReplyDeleteMeans I can understand and remember it till I am reading that topic and when I switch over to another topic I forget what I have done last.
So sir can you please guide me for my this difficulty ?
thanking you
All of us forget things, so its pretty normal. But we should study things in such a way that when we see it again instantly we will remember the logic and full view of the topic. If your problems is only with formulae then its bestt o write them down on a white sheet and stick it up somewhere that you
ReplyDeletecan see most of the time. Or try to have some schemes by which you remember specific formulae. Uusally you can always roughly recollect a formula
by its logic and then make it fully correct by dimensional analysis.