25 August, 2006

JEE May Go Online In Future

Ref: Lower part of the article with heading JEE-2007 ON APRIL 8.

The online testing has to happen sooner or later. The article says it may happen in 2010. I think that if the paper is objective then online testing is a more efficient way to test. The adaptive* method of testing can only be implemented in online tests which is practically not possible in paper based tests. This has been proved by several international tests and I feel it should be done earlier.

*Adaptive test is a method in which difficulty level is adjusted by examinees' response.

16 August, 2006

Levitating frog in magnetic field

You will find mention of this experiment in Halliday, Resnick, Walker. Things showing diamagnetism - that includes humans - can be made to levitate if placed in strong magnetic field. Here the frog is levitated using magnetic field of about 10 Tesla.

12 August, 2006

Dissolution of ionic compound

A clear demonstration on how an ionic compound dissolves in water from micro perspective.

03 August, 2006

IITM Student to Code4Bill

Article can be seen here.

As computers start controlling the world more and more and software becoming the fastest growing segment in this field, it looks like the current era belongs to IITians. The training provided at IIT being primarily theoretical is suitable to provide quality software experts.