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Physics and I.
I remember being an 11-year old kid in the 6th standard sitting in my math class when our maths teacher told us about exponents. I remember being in awe, feeling mature, thinking ‘Wow, we’re learning big boy stuff now, this is so cool!’. …
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New year, new summer!
The exams just ended one day back and it is good to be back home. While I am sure that for the next week or two I will still be troubled with nightmares about how I have an exam the next day and I have nothing prepared, or that I slept through the exam, etc., I am excited about the busy summer I am going to have. Why am I looking forward to being busy, you might ask. Well, because I am going to TIFR! …
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This semester is bonkers!
I cannot believe it, I really have an hour to myself? Guess I’ll write a post. This semester is truly bonkers! Am I tired? Yes. Am I frustrated? No. Why? Because this is my last semester of studying at BITS and what a way to go out! :D …
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Reflections on semester 4-1
Semester 4-2 is about to begin. As I am a dualite, I will need to do two theses, both of which will be completed in my 5th year. This means that this semester will be my last semester of study of my BITS college life. How do I feel? Nostalgic? Sad? Anxious? Naaaah! Kinda excited to be honest, given I am so close to an entire year of just research and no exams! :D …
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Generally relative?!
Hello, fellow humans. …
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What could I have done better?
Hey, how are you? …
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Introducing the problem of quantum to classical transition
We know that macroscopic objects are governed by deterministic Newtonian laws, by which I mean that given an inital position, inital momentum and an expression describing the force on the system, I can describe exactly the motion of the system at all later times. When it comes to microscopic objects, objects that are very small, the laws that constitute our current understanding for such objects are very different, specifically for the ‘determinism’ part. The microscopic objects are described by the formalism of quantum mechanics. The basic feature of this formalism would be to assign a state to the system (just like in the case of macroscopic objects we assign an initial position and momentum) and then look at the evolution of that state in time which is described by the Schrodinger’s equation. But this approach is inherently probabilistic, i.e. the initial state describing the system is actually made up of a superposition of many possible states (or many possible outcomes) the system can be in and when a measurement is done on the state only then does the system decide that which state, among the numerous superimposed ones, does it want to reveal itself in. The system can reveal itself in any of the superimposed states according to a certain probability rule, i.e. it might be more probable for a system to reveal itself in one state over another state, or the appearance of all states might be equally probable. …
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My current research- Quantum to classical transition
As you know (if you read my posts), I am doing a Summer Research Fellowship at IIT Madras. As a part of the same I have to work on a problem, something I don’t know much about but is interesting and difficult enough for it to take me two months to get acquainted with. Now that I am almost a month into my fellowship I guess it is time I should tell you about this problem. …
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My struggles with procrastination
Procrastination, oh nemesis of mine. Procrastination might be the only habit of mine that I am not particularly proud of. To postpone the work to the very end and then get stressed and pull an all-nighter to complete it, sounds pretty illogical right? Well, that is what I tend to do. The exam week would be approaching, but instead of preparing for them beforehand, I’ll waste my time doing irrelevant stuff and then when the exams arrive I’ll find myself in a highly stressful environment which makes me hate the subjects I liked otherwise. Take the past semester itself: I had allowed a bunch of project work to pile up until the week before the exams, which had all the project deadlines, so the week before when everyone was studying for the exams, I was busy completing my projects and preparing for quizzes. All that did was that it kept me busy till April 28 and I had exams continuously from May 1 up til May 4. It was probably the only time I ever hoped that April had 31 days instead of 30. …
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Got my grades for Year 3, Semester 2!
Finally got my grades for the semester that just ended, i.e. year 3 semester 2, or 3-2. And I NAILED IT! Yeah, I’ll brag a bit. I guess I deserve that much given the amount of work that went into this! …