Few books get down to fundamentals and these are books that are written by authors that really love understanding those fundamentals. I strongly maintained that FM White was far beyond reckoning in presenting basic fluid mechanics. Till I read Kundu.
And this description of viscosity simply sent me overboard! Kundu takes the flow over a flat [...]
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May 26, 2009
The joy of knowing
January 17, 2009
The Break
It all began that fateful day as I waited in the porch of the department of mechanical engineering at IISc. It was after an hour of dreary waiting that The Vysyan strode into the entrance hall of the department carrying a smug expression that I’ve now learned to associate with being The Vysyan. My academic [...]
January 2, 2009
Ahem…
Yeah, I can hear you saying “At last!”. It’s about time I wrote something here to keep this blog alive. So here goes…
The last week, Tux and me spent a considerable portion of the IC Engine class discussing electromagnetic waves. I was trying to understand why the interaction between electromagnetic waves and matter must depend [...]
September 5, 2008
September the fifth
Today’s Op-ed page in The Hindu carries a reflective article on teachers in India. Significant, as India observes the day as a tribute to its teacher-president Dr. Radhakrishnan. You can read the article here.
One of my chums here at college observed “KV, your students are gonna pelt stones at you for screwing them in the [...]
July 26, 2008
Living is nice
Randy Pausch died this morning. The widely known ‘last-lecture’ Carnegie Mellon professor shot to fame after his famous and very-well-received “The Last Lecture” that was later published too. I too was mailed a video clip of the last lecture. Truth be said, I hadn’t heard of the guy and I barely viewed a minute of [...]
May 10, 2008
Christening my blog
It’s been a year since I decided to relax my non-archetype ideals and blog. It was (surprisingly) my lab-mate Aneesh’s blog (Whimsical Musings) that kinda inspired me. But the acclivity of the path that finally resulted in this post was enormous, as I shall currently make clear.
The ordeal began with naming the blog. As [...]
