Workshop on 'Mastering Physics through experiments'

A two-day long workshop on “Mastering Physics through Experiments” was organised by Hazaribagh Sahodaya School Complex in collaboration with Vinoba Bhave University Hazaribagh, at Vivekanand Auditorium, VBU. It was inaugurated by Prof. Gurdeep Singh, Vice Chancellor, VBU Hazaribagh. The students of DAV,Angels High School, Naman Vidya, St. Xavier’s, Jack & Jill, SSVM, Surekha Bhai PS etc. participated in it.

Ashok Kumar, President Hazaribag Sahodaya School Complex welcomed the Chief Guest, the resource persons and other dignitaries, present there. VC Dr. Gurdeep Singh said that Physics has a lot of its use in our day to day life. Science is the basis of all kind of knowledge acquired. It is indeed a glorious moment for students that they are going to interact with such a learned person like Prof. (Dr.) HC Verma, Dept. of Physics, IIT Kanpur.

Manish Jaiswal, MlA Hazaribag congratulated the Sahodaya School Complex for taking such an initiative and said that there is crisis of quality Physics teachers. He wished that the students, listening to Prof. Verma would become eminent scholars of Physics in their life.The resource person, Prof. Verma said, in his interaction with the students and teachers that teachers must be committed and competent. Very few parents are there who wish their children to be very good teachers. Most of them wish to see their children as doctors, engineers, IAS, IPS etc. The society has wrong SI unit of measuring the achievement of someone, he added.

Talking on Physics, Prof. Verma said that when a child finds his toy there itself where he has kept earlier, means he is applying the first law of motion. If he doesn’t find his toy there, he starts shouting who has taken his toy from there. Here it means he is again applying the first law of motion. By citing such example he hinted that even a small child is also aware of Newton’s law. Physics is part and parcel of our life. Therefore, one should never remain confined to only physics formulae rather one should also apply one’s presence of mind according to situational approach.