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We would love to be in touch with our alumnae and know about their life after

they left college...do contact us and let us know how you are doing

http://www.ladydoakcollege.edu.in/node/physics/60

E-mail : physics.dept@gmail.com

Dear Physics Department and Dear Dr Beulah J.M RajKumar, It was nice talking to you today over phone to Ms Bridget. I am from the 86-89 batch of this department. Chi-tra Sundararajan then and Chitra Viswanathan now. Back then Indrani, Rosalind were some of my class-mates. I would like to thank this college and the department for bringing a lot of good in my professional life. I am now working as a senior scientist in Center for AI and Robotics which is a premier lab of DRDO.

Dr Beulah, I still remember what you had written in my autograph, : That I am like the proverbial tor-toise who will eventually win the race by sticking her neck out". Well I think it is time now to find that part of me now. I am looking forward to hearing from you again.

Regards,

Chitra Viswanathan.

Memories...

M s . B . J a n a n i ( 2 0 0 6 - 2 0 0 9 batch) , JRF in IGCAR, Kalpakkam, shared her research experience to our III UG students.

Physics

Congratulations C.Roobala(2006-2009) has cleared CSIR– NET

B. Janani, C. Karthiga and L.K Preethi of batch (2006-

2009) have been selected as JRF in IGCAR

Probe the sites and Enrich your knowledge..

http://nptel.iitm.ac.in/courses/115104043/1

http://nptel.iitm.ac.in/courses/115102014/1

http://nptel.iitm.ac.in

Thanks to C. Roobala (2006-2009) for introducing Dr. SVN Sathya Narayanan to the Department...his lec-ture was truly inspiring...and through him we got to know Dr. Basherrudin Mahmud Ahmed….

S E L B A F

Ans for Hidden Phrase : Holding Hands with Physics

Inside this issue...

Spectrum 1

Something to Learn 2 Something to Know 2

Facilitator Achievements 2

Student Achievements 3

Fun Physics 3 Physics Fables 4 Memories 4

Spectrum - Departmental Activities

28 January 2012 – Star Gazing Students from other colleges and faculty were excited as they observed the Moon, Jupiter and different constellations in sky, through telescopes.

30 June 2012 – Club Inauguration. The activities of Janus, Lynx, and Energy clubs & the PG Associa-tion, for the Academic year 2012 -2013, were inaugurated by Dr.Cynthiya Duttman, Visiting Fulbright Scholar, USA .

11 August 2012 - Parents Teachers Meet was held for III UG stu-dents. Ms.R.Vidyalakshmi, PRO, Career guidance and placement center, Lady Doak College elaborated on Career and Research Opportunities for B.Sc. Physics students.

27 August 2012 –Rajiv Gandhi Energy Day

The seventh Rajiv Gandhi Energy Day celebrations was based on

the theme Explore the World of Renewable Energy. Competitions

were held for school & College students on the college campus.

5 September 2012 – Teachers’ day Students honored the facilitators through skits, poems and quotes. They presented 8 potted plants which now adorn the corridor adjoining the department.

28th & 29th Nov' 2012—Field Trip

The UG students visited the Centre for Earth Science Studies,

Trivandrum, and Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, Thumba, Kerala

and PG students visited IGCAR ,Kalpakkam.

Dr.S.V.N.SathyaNarayanan, Assistant Professor, Pondi-cherry University, Pondi-cherry gave a lecture on Electromagnetic theory, for the preparation of UGC/CSIR/NET Exam, especially for PG students, scholars & faculty on 21st July ’12

M r . N a m b i r a j a n , Sr.Executive – projects, SELCO India , Madurai delivered a lecture on Green Environment for UG Internship training stu-dents on 29 September ‘12

Dr. Basherrudin Mahmud Ahmed, Assistant professor, School of Physics, Madurai Kamaraj University gave a lecture on Quantum mechanics and its applications for the preparation of UGC/CSIR/NET exam, for PG students, scholars & faculty.

Lynx club has conducted an awareness lecture on Doomsday – Myth or Fact ? for other major students.

The department aims in developing

academically competent and profes-

sionally motivated women leaders,

equipped with objective and critical

thinking that compassionately foster

the scientific temper with a sense of

social responsibility.

Issue # 4 January 2013

An Annual Newsletter of PG & Research Department of Physics, Lady Doak College, Madurai –2

Dr. Arumugam, Professor, Gandhigram University, Dindugal gave a lecture on “Proposal Writing” to our faculty mem-bers on 23rd January 2013.

Holding

Hands

with

Nature

PHYXPLOSION ‘ 13

On

30.01.13

Sense of fulfillment... It is indeed a pleasure to write a few lines in the fourth issue of this newsletter. This forum summa-

rizes all the significant events of the department in the past one year but it does more..it captures the

‘fun and enjoyment’ of the members of the department. We are truly grateful for the vibrant and

creative talent we possess. Connecting with an alumna—S. Chitra from the 1986-89 batch is an

added bonus this year. It is thrilling to hear how well our alumnae are doing around the globe. The

notice put up for the students way back in 1987 gives us an idea of how we were then and how far

we have come now. My congratulations to the team that worked on this news letter - both students

and faculty members. May God continue to shower us with His abundant blessings.

Beulah Rajkumar (HOD)

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B.Sc. (Spl.) Physics B.Sc. (Spl.) Physics with Com-

puter Applications M.Sc. Physics M.Phil. Ph.D.

Service Learning Programmes

Motivating School stu-dents to learn Physics

Help Desk in school

GIS Based Community project

Electronic service corner

Beyond the Classroom

Janus Club

Lynx Club

Energy Club

PG Association

Diploma and Certificate Courses

PG Diploma in Remote sensing and GIS

Certificate course in Re-

mote Sensing and GIS.

Dr. Briget Mary has been recognized as Research Guide in Physics by Madurai Kamaraj University from Sep-tember 2012.

Dr. Nimma Elizabeth has written a chapter “Nano Composite polymer electrolytes for lithium batteries (Chapter 5)” in a book “Polymer Processing & Characterization” published by Apple Academic Press.

Mrs. J. Suvetha Rani has published a paper on “Interaction of N-(2-methyl thiophenyl)-2-hydroxy -1- naph-thaldimine with tin dioxide nanoparticles: A spectroscopic approach”, American Journal of Analytical Chem-istry-Vol.8, August 2012.

Mrs.Nidya & Dr.Beulah J.M Rajkumar have published a paper on “ Chemical reduction synthesis and char-acterization of L-Histidine mediated silver nanoparticles”, International Journal of Nanotechnology and Ap-plications– Vol.6 no.3, 2012.

Dr. Nimma Elizabeth submitted a report on “Theoretical, Practical and technological aspects of whole per-son education and on how the vision and mission of our college meets the requirements of whole person education” at International Christian University and Meiji Gakuin University (Tokyo, Japan) on 26th to 28th October 2012.

Ms. M. Pushpa Selvi has presented a contributed a paper on “Impact of Emerging technologies on students and integrated ICT in teaching ” at Christ University, Bangalore ,on 28.11.12 - 30.11.12.

Ms. S.Ponnancy & Dr.Beulah J.M. Rajkumar have contributed a paper on “ Study of molecular interac-tions in binary mixtures through ultrasonic measurements” at KSR Institute for Engineering and Technol-ogy, Namakal, on 5-7 Dec ’12 .

Facilitator Achievements

courses offered Thomas Edison tried two thousand different materials in search of a filament for the light bulb. When none worked satisfactorily, his assistant complained, “All our work is in vain. We have learned nothing.” Edison replied very confidently, “Oh, we have come a long way and we have learned a lot. We know that there are two thousand elements which we cannot use to make a good light bulb.” Collected by Shruthi III UG - http://academictips.org/blogs/learn-from-mistakes/

Something to Learn...

Something to Know...

There is a cute small round press button at the bottom right corner of almost all monitors: Please make use of it. Screen savers save computer screens, not energy. Start-ups and shutdowns do not use any extra energy, nor are they hard on your computer components. In fact, shutting computers down when you are finished using them actually re-duces system wear - and saves energy.

All of us are big time Googlers. Have you heard of the Blackle search engine? Blackle (Google powered) is a search engine designed all in Rich Black so that your system consumes less power. So change your homepage.

Collected by Shruthi III UG - http://health.dir.groups.yahoo.com/group/public_awareness/message/3580

Plastic bags these days indeed come in bright and flamboyant colours and tempt us to take them home with us. But the saying, "Appearances are deceptive" holds true for these plastic things too. Next time, hold back or go prepared to counter temptation with a cloth bag.

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At the Party with the Physicists One day, all of the world's famous physicists decided to get together for a party . Fortunately, the doorman was a grad student, and able to observe some of the guests...

Cauchy, being the mathematician, still managed to inte-grate well with everyone.

Coulomb got a real charge out of the whole thing.

Ohm spent most of the time resisting Ampere's opinions on current events.

Stefan and Boltzman got into some hot debates.

Born thought the probability of enjoying himself was pretty high.

Rontgen saw through everybody.

Volta thought the social had a lot of potential.

Hertz went back to the buffet table several times a min-ute.

Courtesy: http://www.physlink.com/fun/physicsparty.cfm

Ms.S. Sinthika & Dr. Beulah J.M. Rajkumar have contributed a paper

on “Vibrational spectroscopic analysis of hydrogen bonding of isopropanol

in different solvents” in the proceedings of the National Conference on

Exploring the frontiers of vibrational spectroscopy, (EXFOVIS-2011)

Ms.Gayathri & Mrs.S.Arockia Shyamala Paniyarasi have published a

paper on “Effect of annealing temperatures on the structural, optical

properties of Tungsten Selenide thin films”, Journal of Applied Sci-

ences,2012.

Our III UG students won the overall shield in PHYONICS—’12 con-

ducted by Sermathai Vasan College on 8th August 2012.

Four of our III UG students have been selected in campus interview conducted by CTS on 9th Jan ‘13

Project presentation by our UG students in Youth Science Festival – 2012 conducted by Tamil Nadu Science

Forum at Mahindra Engineering college, Salem on 6th and 7th October2012:

Bushra Anwar, V.P.Lavanyaa, S.Sasikala & Shruthi Suriyakumar — “Study of the prevailing superstitious beliefs among different age groups”

Ameena Begum.A, Srimathi.L, SwathiShree .M & Yamini Durga .G—“Impacts of Science and Technology on youth”.

Karthiga. A , Kavitha.P , Sharmila Ruth Ebenezar & Maharani M.K— “ Study on the possibility of imple-menting the solar gadget as substitute of energy utilization in the Anumarpatti Area “.

Student Achievements

Fun Physics

V D N B M O L U O C

Y A D A R A F L W K

E I N S T E I N S R

H Y I D R K M T L A

P H I E E I A R L N

O G P L D R X S E E

S M V N I A W H N G

A I E C S R E A S H

N I E S O B L D A N

W R E G N I L A S L

Hidden Phrases !

Guidelines:

Shade the Scientists

Pick up the remaining letters

Arrange the letters and find out the hidden phrase.

B.Vishaly ; N.L.Gokila ; C.Nirmala & S. Sharmila (III UG Physics)