Thursday, March 14, 2013

Presidency University in New Town

Yesterday, Dr Malabika Sarkar, Vice Chancellor, Presidency University visited the 10 acre plot of Action Area I allotted to Presidency University for their second campus. We discussed at length how the second campus could start early and the steps required to be taken. I learnt several new concepts like digital humanities, multi-disciplinary courses and other sunshine themes that may be considered in the second campus.
Here s a photo:

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We held meeting of the Fact Finding Committee til late evening yesterday (left office a little before 9 pm). We toyed with a cardboard curved flyover to see how it would topple. We discovered that that there was an inherent tendency for it to fall down only on the outer curve - as distinct from the inner curve - even if there were no moving objects.Here is a photo of our makeshift experiment in my office chamber yesterday:

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3 comments:

  1. Debabrata DeyMarch 15, 2013 at 5:06 PM

    Advice from Civil Engineer Expert Mr. Dasgupta of DCPL may be sought. He has wealth of experience. His investigation and analysis will be of great help in this regard.

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  2. Gairick MukherjeeMarch 16, 2013 at 9:39 PM

    Inside of every curvature is smaller than the outside, that is why the outer part is always heavier and will surely have more tendency to fall on the outer side.

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  3. UnknownMarch 17, 2013 at 11:08 AM

    @ Debabrata Dey: I'll talk to him
    @ Gairick Mukherjee: You are right, but the mock experiment opened our eyes to what is probably already known

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