Physics teachers get hands on experience at UG level

Hyderabad: The department of Physics and Electronics, Bhavan's Vivekananda College in association with Indian Association of Physics Teachers (IAPT-RC22) conducted a two-day workshop on "Experimental Physics" on March 22, 23.

The workshop is intended to give hands-on experience to physics teachers at the undergraduate level with practical experiments comprising of relatively sophisticated and expensive set-ups.

A total 19 participants from 13 colleges and one international school participated in the workshop with 4 outstation candidates. There participants also include physics teachers from Engineering colleges.

The dignitaries present for the inaugural session were Air Commodore (Retd) JLN Sastry, VSM, Vice Chairman, BVB, Sainikpuri Kendra, Prof Y Ashok, Principal, Bhavan's Vivekananda College, Sainikpuri, Prof V Chandrasekhar, Center Director, TIFR, Hyderabad ; Prof K Venugopal Reddy, Professor in Physics (Retd.), Former Head, Department of Physics, Osmania University, B Niraimathi HOD, Dept of Physics & Electronics ; Dr. Ravi Chandra G, Scientist 'F', ARCI Hyderabad, Prof. D. Ravinder, BOS-Physics, Department of Physics, Osmania University and Prof. Syed Rehman, BOS-Electronics, Department of Physics, Osmania University.

The chief guest, Prof. V. Chandrasekhar delivered a lecture on 'Year of the Periodic Table'. His speech was in an effort to highlight why this year is named the year of Periodic Table. In his lecture he went through the glorious past of the periodic table with little anecdotes and tales mixed-in along with cold hard facts. He finished it off with an optimistic view of how things might evolve in the future.

The Technical Session-I followed with a talk by Dr K VenuGopal Reddy, Professor in Physics (Retd.), Former Head, Department of Physics, Osmania University. His talk was titled 'Science for the people and Experimental Physics'. It followed the theme set for the National Science Day which reads 'Science for the people and people for science'. He spoke of how one must not forget that in the quest for science, certain ethics must not be forgotten and that science and physics in particular must ultimately benefit the society in some way.

Day two started with a technical session by Dr VenkataiahGorige on the topic "Experimental Demonstration of Magnetization Reversal in Ferro magnetic/Ferroelectrics". His lecture focused on the use of magneto elastic and magneto electric materials for switching circuits this session was followed by practical session wherein the participants continued having hands-on experience. With the experiments with this the workshop came to a successful end.