Forthcoming Events:
- Saturdays, 11:00 AM IST:
Question-Answer Session
Speaker: K. V. Shajesh, Associate Professor of Practice,
Southern Illinois University--Carbondale, Carbondale, Illinois 62901, USA.
Event: Weekend Discussions
Venue: Sphics Science Center, Thalassery, Kerala 670107, India.
Zoom Meeting ID: 829 6770 5989, Passcode: ihbar
Past Events (in year 2024)
- 2024 Jun 20, Thursday:
Deductive reasoning in Physics: Counterintuitive examples
Organizer: Teacher Students
Demonstrations by: Aagney, Athira, Karthik, Sreelakshmi, and Sreeraj.
Speaker: K. V. Shajesh, Associate Professor of Practice,
Southern Illinois University--Carbondale, Carbondale, Illinois 62901, USA.
Speaker: Linukumar
Event: College Visit
Venue: Govt. Brennen College of Teacher Education, Thalassery, Kerala, India.
Past Events (in year 2023)
- 2023 Aug 3, Thursday:
Demonstration based Discussion
Organizer: Bijith
Demonstrations by: Aagney, Sreeraj, Karthik, Joan, Niranjan, and Adharv.
Speaker: K. V. Shajesh, Associate Professor of Practice,
Southern Illinois University--Carbondale, Carbondale, Illinois 62901, USA.
Event: High School Visit
Venue: St. Joseph's Higher Secondary School, Thalassery, Kerala, India.
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- 2023 Jun 20:
Art of Photography
Speaker: Rishikesh Vaidya, Associate Professor,
Birla Institute of Technology & Science Pilani, Pilani, Rajasthan 333031, India.
Event: Interaction with Aswathy
Venue: Sphics Science Center, Thalassery, Kerala 670107, India.
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- 2023 Jun 10, Saturday, 11:00 AM IST:
A brief history of gravity
Speaker: Harsha Sreekumar, School of Physics,
University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, Telangana 500046, India
Event: Weekend Discussions
Venue: Sphics Science Center, Thalassery, Kerala 670107, India.
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- 2023 May 27, Saturday, 11:00 AM IST:
Discussion: Solar system
Speaker: K. V. Shajesh, Associate Professor of Practice,
Southern Illinois University--Carbondale, Carbondale, Illinois 62901, USA.
Event: Weekend Discussions
Venue: Sphics Science Center, Thalassery, Kerala 670107, India.
- 2023 May 6, Saturday, 11:00 AM IST:
Discussion: Phases of moon
Speaker: K. V. Shajesh, Associate Professor of Practice,
Southern Illinois University--Carbondale, Carbondale, Illinois 62901, USA.
Event: Weekend Discussions
Venue: Sphics Science Center, Thalassery, Kerala 670107, India.
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- 2023 Apr 29, Saturday, 11:00 AM IST:
Tinkering with arduino
Speaker: Sami Alkhouli,
Caterpillar, Peoria, Illinois 61629, USA.
Event: Workshop on Electrical Marvels
Venue: Sphics Science Center, Thalassery, Kerala 670107, India.
- 2023 Apr 22, Saturday, 11:00 AM IST:
Trigonometry: Addition formula
Speaker: K. V. Shajesh, Associate Professor of Practice,
Southern Illinois University--Carbondale, Carbondale, Illinois 62901, USA.
Event: Weekend Discussions
Venue: Sphics Science Center, Thalassery, Kerala 670107, India.
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- 2023 Apr 8, Saturday, 11:00 AM IST:
Lecture 02
Speaker: Sami Alkhouli,
Caterpillar, Peoria, Illinois 61629, USA.
Event: Workshop on Electrical Marvels
Venue: Sphics Science Center, Thalassery, Kerala 670107, India.
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- 2023 Apr 1, Saturday, 11:00 AM IST:
Trigonometry: Chord length associated to an angle
Speaker: K. V. Shajesh, Associate Professor of Practice,
Southern Illinois University--Carbondale, Carbondale, Illinois 62901, USA.
Event: Weekend Discussions
Venue: Sphics Science Center, Thalassery, Kerala 670107, India.
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- 2023 Mar 4, Saturday, 11:00 AM IST:
Lecture 01
Speaker: Sami Alkhouli,
Caterpillar, Peoria, Illinois 61629, USA.
Event: Workshop on Electrical Marvels
Venue: Sphics Science Center, Thalassery, Kerala 670107, India.
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- 2023 Feb 25, Saturday, 11:00 AM IST:
Question Answer Session
Speaker: K. V. Shajesh, Associate Professor of Practice,
Southern Illinois University--Carbondale, Carbondale, Illinois 62901, USA.
Event: Lecture-Series in Theoretical Physics
Venue: Sphics Science Center, Thalassery, Kerala 670107, India.
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- 2023 Feb 18, Saturday, 11:00 AM IST:
Real numbers, complex numbers, quaternions, ...
Speaker: K. V. Shajesh, Associate Professor of Practice,
Southern Illinois University--Carbondale, Carbondale, Illinois 62901, USA.
Event: Lecture-Series in Theoretical Physics
Venue: Sphics Science Center, Thalassery, Kerala 670107, India.
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- 2023 Feb 11, Saturday, 11:00 AM IST:
Range of a projectile: Long jump (Failed to record the session)
Speaker: K. V. Shajesh, Associate Professor of Practice,
Southern Illinois University--Carbondale, Carbondale, Illinois 62901, USA.
Event: Lecture-Series in Theoretical Physics
Venue: Sphics Science Center, Thalassery, Kerala 670107, India.
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- 2023 Feb 4, Saturday, 11:00 AM IST:
Critical temperature
Speaker: K. V. Shajesh, Associate Professor of Practice,
Southern Illinois University--Carbondale, Carbondale, Illinois 62901, USA.
Event: Lecture-Series in Theoretical Physics
Venue: Sphics Science Center, Thalassery, Kerala 670107, India.
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- 2023 Jan 31, Tuesday:
Science Fair
Event: Scientia, Shastra Pradarshanam
Venue: St. Joseph's Higher Secondary School, Thalassery, Kerala 670101, India.
Participant: Sphics Science Center, Thalassery, Kerala 670107, India.
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- 2023 Jan 28, Saturday, 11:00 AM IST:
Infinite retarded time
Speaker: K. V. Shajesh, Associate Professor of Practice,
Southern Illinois University--Carbondale, Carbondale, Illinois 62901, USA.
Event: Lecture-Series in Theoretical Physics
Venue: Sphics Science Center, Thalassery, Kerala 670107, India.
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- 2023 Jan 21, Saturday, 11:00 AM IST:
Vulcan: The planet that wasn't
Speaker: K. V. Shajesh, Associate Professor of Practice,
Southern Illinois University--Carbondale, Carbondale, Illinois 62901, USA.
Event: Lecture-Series in Theoretical Physics
Venue: Sphics Science Center, Thalassery, Kerala 670107, India.
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- 2023 Jan 14, Saturday, 11:00 AM IST:
Time period of a pendulum: Small angle approximation
Speaker: K. V. Shajesh, Associate Professor of Practice,
Southern Illinois University--Carbondale, Carbondale, Illinois 62901, USA.
Event: Lecture-Series in Theoretical Physics
Venue: Sphics Science Center, Thalassery, Kerala 670107, India.
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- 2023 Jan 7, Saturday, 11:00 AM IST:
Modern physics for the newly interested
Speaker: John Joseph Marchetta,
Baylor University, Waco, Texas 76798, USA.
Event: Lecture-Series in Theoretical Physics
Venue: Sphics Science Center, Thalassery, Kerala 670107, India.
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Past Events (in year 2022)
- 2022 Dec 31, Saturday, 11:00 AM:
Cycloidal pendulum
Speaker: Neil Kaushik, High School Student,
Pennsylvania, USA.
Event: Lecture-Series in Theoretical Physics
Venue: Sphics Science Center, Thalassery, Kerala 670107, India.
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- 2022 Dec 24, Saturday, 11:00 AM:
Circumference of an ellipse
Speaker: K. V. Shajesh, Associate Professor of Practice,
Southern Illinois University--Carbondale, Carbondale, Illinois 62901, USA.
Event: Lecture-Series in Theoretical Physics
Venue: Sphics Science Center, Thalassery, Kerala 670107, India.
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- 2022 Dec 3, Saturday, 3:00 PM:
Stable probability distributions
Speaker: Venkat Abhignan, Ph. D. Student,
National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli 620015, Tamilnadu, India.
Event: Lecture-Series in Theoretical Physics
Venue: Sphics Science Center, Thalassery, Kerala 670107, India.
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- 2022 Nov 26, Saturday, 3:00 PM:
Gamma ray bursts
Speaker: April Hendley, Senior Lecturer,
Southern Illinois University--Carbondale, Carbondale, Illinois 62901, USA.
Event: Lecture-Series in Theoretical Physics
Venue: Sphics Science Center, Thalassery, Kerala 670107, India.
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- 2022 Nov 19, Saturday, 3:00 PM:
Brachistochrone of a race car
Speaker: K. V. Shajesh, Associate Professor of Practice,
Southern Illinois University--Carbondale, Carbondale, Illinois 62901, USA.
Event: Lecture-Series in Theoretical Physics
Venue: Sphics Science Center, Thalassery, Kerala 670107, India.
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- 2022 Nov 17, Thursday:
School Visit
Event: School Visit
School: Chonadam School, Thalassery, Kerala 670101, India.
Venue: Sphics Science Center, Thalassery, Kerala 670107, India.
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- 2022 Nov 5, Saturday, 3:00 PM:
Negative mass
Speaker: K. V. Shajesh, Associate Professor of Practice,
Southern Illinois University--Carbondale, Carbondale, Illinois 62901, USA.
Event: Lecture-Series in Theoretical Physics
Venue: Sphics Science Center, Thalassery, Kerala 670107, India.
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- 2022 Oct 29, Saturday, 3:00 PM:
Infinitely thin glass slab
Speaker: K. V. Shajesh, Associate Professor of Practice,
Southern Illinois University--Carbondale, Carbondale, Illinois 62901, USA.
Event: Lecture-Series in Theoretical Physics
Venue: Sphics Science Center, Thalassery, Kerala 670107, India.
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- 2022 Oct 22, Saturday, 3:00 PM:
Field inside a spherical shell
Speaker: K. V. Shajesh, Associate Professor of Practice,
Southern Illinois University--Carbondale, Carbondale, Illinois 62901, USA.
Event: Lecture-Series in Theoretical Physics
Venue: Sphics Science Center, Thalassery, Kerala 670107, India.
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- 2022 Oct 15, Saturday, 3:00 PM:
Relativity principle
Speaker: K. V. Shajesh, Associate Professor of Practice,
Southern Illinois University--Carbondale, Carbondale, Illinois 62901, USA.
Event: Lecture-Series in Theoretical Physics
Venue: Sphics Science Center, Thalassery, Kerala 670107, India.
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- 2022 Oct 8, Saturday, 3:00 PM:
A chat with kids (of age group under thirteen)
Speaker: K. V. Shajesh, Associate Professor of Practice,
Southern Illinois University--Carbondale, Carbondale, Illinois 62901, USA.
Event: Chat with Little Scientists
Venue: Sphics Science Center, Thalassery, Kerala 670107, India.
- 2022 Oct 1, Saturday, 3:00 PM:
Coefficient of static friction for van der Waals materials
Speaker: Ram Narayanan, High School Student,
Horace Mann School, Bronx, New York 10471, USA.
Event: Lecture-Series in Theoretical Physics
Venue: Sphics Science Center, Thalassery, Kerala 670107, India.
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- 2022 Sep 24, Saturday, 3:00 PM:
Tunneling through Earth in 42 minutes
Speaker: K. V. Shajesh, Associate Professor of Practice,
Southern Illinois University--Carbondale, Carbondale, Illinois 62901, USA.
Event: Lecture-Series in Theoretical Physics
Venue: Sphics Science Center, Thalassery, Kerala 670107, India.
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- 2022 Sep 17, Saturday, 3:00 PM:
Drawing n-ellipses
Speaker: K. V. Shajesh, Associate Professor of Practice,
Southern Illinois University--Carbondale, Carbondale, Illinois 62901, USA.
Event: Lecture-Series in Theoretical Physics
Venue: Sphics Science Center, Thalassery, Kerala 670107, India.
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- 2022 Sep 10, Saturday, 3:00 PM:
What happened before the big bang? (Part 2/2)
Speaker: Rathul Nath Raveendran, Postdoctoral Fellow,
Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata, West Bengal 700032, India.
Event: Lecture-Series in Theoretical Physics
Venue: Sphics Science Center, Thalassery, Kerala 670107, India.
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- 2022 Sep 3, Saturday, 3:00 PM:
A chat with kids (of age group under thirteen)
Speaker: K. V. Shajesh, Associate Professor of Practice,
Southern Illinois University--Carbondale, Carbondale, Illinois 62901, USA.
Event: Chat with Little Scientists
Venue: Sphics Science Center, Thalassery, Kerala 670107, India.
- 2022 Aug 27, Saturday, 3:00 PM:
Why is the wavefunction ψ complex?
Speaker: Rishikesh Vaidya, Associate Professor,
Birla Institute of Technology & Science Pilani, Pilani, Rajasthan 333031, India.
Event: Lecture-Series in Theoretical Physics
Venue: Sphics Science Center, Thalassery, Kerala 670107, India.
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- 2022 Aug 20, Saturday, 3:00 PM:
Quantum Mechanics: Measurement disturbs the system
Speaker: K. V. Shajesh, Associate Professor of Practice,
Southern Illinois University--Carbondale, Carbondale, Illinois 62901, USA.
Event: Lecture-Series in Theoretical Physics
Venue: Sphics Science Center, Thalassery, Kerala 670107, India.
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- 2022 Aug 13, Saturday, 3:00 PM:
Ford circles
Speaker: K. V. Shajesh, Associate Professor of Practice,
Southern Illinois University--Carbondale, Carbondale, Illinois 62901, USA.
Event: Lecture-Series in Theoretical Physics
Venue: Sphics Science Center, Thalassery, Kerala 670107, India.
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- 2022 Aug 6, Saturday, 3:00 PM:
What happened before the big bang? (Part 1/2)
Speaker: Rathul Nath Raveendran, Postdoctoral Fellow,
Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata, West Bengal 700032, India.
Event: Lecture-Series in Theoretical Physics
Venue: Sphics Science Center, Thalassery, Kerala 670107, India.
Zoom Meeting ID: 829 6770 5989, Passcode: ihbar
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- 2022 Jul 30, Saturday, 3:00 PM:
Blackbody radiation
Speaker: Venkat Abhignan, Ph. D. Student,
National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli 620015, Tamilnadu, India.
Event: Lecture-Series in Theoretical Physics
Venue: Sphics Science Center, Thalassery, Kerala 670107, India.
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- 2022 Jul 23, Saturday, 3:00 PM:
Curvature of the trajectory of a particle
Speaker: K. V. Shajesh, Associate Professor of Practice,
Southern Illinois University--Carbondale, Carbondale, Illinois 62901, USA.
Event: Lecture-Series in Theoretical Physics
Venue: Sphics Science Center, Thalassery, Kerala 670107, India.
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- 2022 Jul 16, Saturday, 3:00 PM:
How much work is done by force of friction during perfect rolling?
Speaker: K. V. Shajesh, Associate Professor of Practice,
Southern Illinois University--Carbondale, Carbondale, Illinois 62901, USA.
Event: Lecture-Series in Theoretical Physics
Venue: Sphics Science Center, Thalassery, Kerala 670107, India.
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- 2022 Jul 13, Saturday, 3:00 PM:
Physics and Universe: Missing matter and energy
Speakers: K. V. Shajesh, Associate Professor of Practice,
Southern Illinois University--Carbondale, Carbondale, Illinois 62901, USA, and
Prachi Parashar, Assistant Professor,
John A. Logan College, Carterville, Illinois 62918, USA
Event: National Service Scheme, GGHSS Thiruvangad Unit-78
Venue: Sphics Science Center, Thalassery, Kerala 670107, India.
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- 2022 Jul 9, Saturday, 3:00 PM:
A Critical Appraisal of Newton's Laws
Speaker: Rishikesh Vaidya, Associate Professor,
Birla Institute of Technology & Science Pilani, Pilani, Rajasthan 333031, India.
Event: Lecture-Series in Theoretical Physics
Venue: Sphics Science Center, Thalassery, Kerala 670107, India.
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- 2022 Jul 2, Saturday, 3:00 PM:
Rolling objects
Speaker: R. Sankaranarayanan, Associate Professor,
National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli 620015, Tamilnadu, India.
Event: Lecture-Series in Theoretical Physics
Venue: Sphics Science Center, Thalassery, Kerala 670107, India.
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- 2022 Jun 25, Saturday, 3:00 PM:
Direction of friction on rolling wheels
Speaker: K. V. Shajesh, Associate Professor of Practice,
Southern Illinois University--Carbondale, Carbondale, Illinois 62901, USA.
Event: Lecture-Series in Theoretical Physics
Venue: Sphics Science Center, Thalassery, Kerala 670107, India.
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- 2022 Jun 18, Saturday, 3:00 PM:
Fractals: Geometric shapes with fractional dimensions
Speaker: K. V. Shajesh, Associate Professor of Practice,
Southern Illinois University--Carbondale, Carbondale, Illinois 62901, USA.
Event: Lecture-Series in Theoretical Physics
Venue: Sphics Science Center, Thalassery, Kerala 670107, India.
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