Course12710622772 lectures
Research Methodology in Natural Sciences
Prof. Soumitro Banerjee · IISER Kolkata
Lectures
week-01
- mod01lec01 - What is Science? - Part 01
- mod01lec02 - What is Science? - Part 02
- mod01lec03 - Subjective Thinking Versus Objective Thinking
- mod01lec04 - Idealism Versus Materialism
- mod01lec05 - Causality - Part 01
- mod01lec06 - Causality - Part 02
week-02
- mod02lec07 - Logical Reasoning: Inductive Logic
- mod02lec08 - Logical Reasoning: Deductive Logic - Part 01
- mod02lec09 - Logical Reasoning: Deductive Logic - Part 02
- mod02lec10 - Logical Reasoning: Syllogistic Logic - Part 01
- mod02lec11 - Logical Reasoning: Syllogistic Logic - Part 02
- mod02lec12 - Logical Reasoning: Syllogism Logic, Truth and Validity
week-03
- mod03lec13 - Historical Perspective: Emergence of Materialism and Idealism - Part 01
- mod03lec14 - Historical Perspective: Emergence of Materialism and Idealism - Part 02
- mod03lec15 - Historical Perspective:Renaissance to the Development of Mechanical Materialism-Part 01
- mod03lec16 - Historical Perspective:Renaissance to the Development of Mechanical Materialism-Part 02
- mod03lec17 - Historical Perspective: The Advent of Empiricism and the Idea of Evolution
- mod03lec18 - Historical Perspective: Science in Ancient India
week-04
- mod04lec19 - Historical Perspective: The Advent of Scientific Materialism - Part 01
- mod04lec20 - Historical Perspective: The Advent of Scientific Materialism - Part 02
- mod04lec21 - Historical Perspective: The Rise and Fall of Positivism - Part 01
- mod04lec22 - Historical Perspective: The Rise and Fall of Positivism - Part 02
- mod04lec23 - What Scientists Actually Do - Part 01
- mod04lec24 - What Scientists Actually Do - Part 02
week-05
- mod05lec25 - Falsifiability and Reproducibility - Part 01
- mod05lec26 - Falsifiability and Reproducibility - Part 02
- mod05lec27 - Proposing a Hypothesis - Part 01
- mod05lec28 - Proposing a Hypothesis - Part 02
- mod05lec29 - Elements of Scientific Measurement - Part 01
- mod05lec30 - Elements of Scientific Measurement - Part 02
week-06
- mod06lec31 - The Central Limit Theorem and its Applications - Part 01
- mod06lec32 - The Central Limit Theorem and its Applications - Part 02
- mod06lec33 - Error Bars and Confidence Interval - Part 01
- mod06lec34 - Error Bars and Confidence Interval - Part 02
- mod06lec35 - Measurement of a Proportion - Part 01
- mod06lec36 - Measurement of a Proportion - Part 02
week-07
- mod07lec37 - Examples of Proportion Measurement
- mod07lec38 - Box and Whisker Plot
- mod07lec39 - Propagation of Errors - Part 01
- mod07lec40 - Propagation of Errors - Part 02
- mod07lec41 - Issues in Hypothesis Testing - Part 01
- mod07lec42 - Issues in Hypothesis Testing - Part 02
week-08
- mod08lec43 - Statistical Methods in Hypothesis Testing: Z-Test and T-Test - Part 01
- mod08lec44 - Statistical Methods in Hypothesis Testing: Z-Test and T-Test - Part 02
- mod08lec45 - Hypothesis Testing: The Chi-Square Test - Part 01
- mod08lec46 - Hypothesis Testing: The Chi-Square Test - Part 02
- mod08lec47 - Hypothesis Testing: The Chi-Square Test - Part 03
- mod08lec48 - Hypothesis Testing: The Chi-Square Test - Part 04
week-09
- mod09lec49 - Theoretical Research: Functional Relationships from Experimental Data - Part 01
- mod09lec50 - Theoretical Research: Functional Relationships from Experimental Data - Part 02
- mod09lec51 - Theoretical Research: Mathematical Models of Physical Systems
- mod09lec52 - Order of Magnitude Calculations
- mod09lec53 - Theoretical Research: Modeling Using Dimensional Analysis - Part 01
- mod09lec54 - Theoretical Research: Modeling Using Dimensional Analysis - Part 02
week-10
- mod10lec55 - An Example of Mathematical Modeling
- mod10lec56 - Importance of Theory-Building in Science
- mod10lec57 - Scientific Writing: Journal Papers - Part 1
- mod10lec58 - Scientific Writing: Journal Papers - Part 2
- mod10lec59 - Scientific Writing: Journal Papers - Part 3
- mod10lec60 - Scientific Writing: Journal Papers - Part 4
week-11
- mod11lec61 - Scientific Writing: PhD Thesis
- mod11lec62 - Scientific Writing: Text Stylistics
- mod11lec63 - Presentation in Scientific Conferences - Part 01
- mod11lec64 - Presentation in Scientific Conferences - Part 02
- mod11lec65 - Writing Grant Proposals - Part 01
- mod11lec66 - Writing Grant Proposals - Part 02
week-12
- mod12lec67 - Ethical Conduct in Science: Aspects of Scientific Ethics
- mod12lec68 - Ethical Conduct in Science: Research Misconduct
- mod12lec69 - Ethical Conduct in Science: Ethics in Scientific Publication - Part 01
- mod12lec70 - Ethical Conduct in Science: Ethics in Scientific Publication - Part 02
- mod12lec71 - Ethical Conduct in Science: Cases of Scientific Misconduct - Part 01
- mod12lec72 - Ethical Conduct in Science: Cases of Scientific Misconduct - Part 02
Syllabus and materials
At NPTEL, as the course publishes them.
Credits and licence
- Institution
- IISER Kolkata
- Department
- Multidisciplinary
- Teacher
- Prof. Soumitro Banerjee
- Level
- Undergraduate
- Language
- English
- Source
- NPTEL
- Licence
- CC BY-NC-SA, as NPTEL states it. Non-commercial use only. NPTEL's terms
- Attribution
- NPTEL states: "Distributed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike / CC BY - NC - SA", beside a BY-NC-SA badge. Coordinated by IIT Madras.
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