What you will learn
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Multidisciplinary
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Research Methodology
The course covers all the conceptual and methodological issues that go into successful conduction of research. That includes philosophy of science, the methodological issues in measurement, proposing and testing hypotheses, scientific communication and the ethical issues in the practice of science.
mod01lec01 - What is Science? - Part 01
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mod01lec02 - What is Science? - Part 02
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mod01lec03 - Subjective Thinking Versus Objective Thinking
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mod01lec04 - Idealism Versus Materialism
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mod01lec05 - Causality - Part 01
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mod01lec06 - Causality - Part 02
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mod02lec07 - Logical Reasoning: Inductive Logic
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mod02lec08 - Logical Reasoning: Deductive Logic - Part 01
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mod02lec09 - Logical Reasoning: Deductive Logic - Part 02
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mod02lec10 - Logical Reasoning: Syllogistic Logic - Part 01
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mod02lec11 - Logical Reasoning: Syllogistic Logic - Part 02
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mod02lec12 - Logical Reasoning: Syllogism Logic, Truth and Validity
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mod03lec13 - Historical Perspective: Emergence of Materialism and Idealism - Part 01
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mod03lec14 - Historical Perspective: Emergence of Materialism and Idealism - Part 02
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mod03lec15 - Historical Perspective:Renaissance to the Development of Mechanical Materialism-Part 01
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mod03lec16 - Historical Perspective:Renaissance to the Development of Mechanical Materialism-Part 02
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mod03lec17 - Historical Perspective: The Advent of Empiricism and the Idea of Evolution
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mod03lec18 - Historical Perspective: Science in Ancient India
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mod04lec19 - Historical Perspective: The Advent of Scientific Materialism - Part 01
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mod04lec20 - Historical Perspective: The Advent of Scientific Materialism - Part 02
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mod04lec21 - Historical Perspective: The Rise and Fall of Positivism - Part 01
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mod04lec22 - Historical Perspective: The Rise and Fall of Positivism - Part 02
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mod04lec23 - What Scientists Actually Do - Part 01
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mod04lec24 - What Scientists Actually Do - Part 02
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mod05lec25 - Falsifiability and Reproducibility - Part 01
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mod05lec26 - Falsifiability and Reproducibility - Part 02
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mod05lec27 - Proposing a Hypothesis - Part 01
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mod05lec28 - Proposing a Hypothesis - Part 02
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mod05lec29 - Elements of Scientific Measurement - Part 01
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mod05lec30 - Elements of Scientific Measurement - Part 02
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mod06lec31 - The Central Limit Theorem and its Applications - Part 01
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mod06lec32 - The Central Limit Theorem and its Applications - Part 02
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mod06lec33 - Error Bars and Confidence Interval - Part 01
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mod06lec34 - Error Bars and Confidence Interval - Part 02
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mod06lec35 - Measurement of a Proportion - Part 01
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mod06lec36 - Measurement of a Proportion - Part 02
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mod07lec37 - Examples of Proportion Measurement
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mod07lec38 - Box and Whisker Plot
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mod07lec39 - Propagation of Errors - Part 01
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mod07lec40 - Propagation of Errors - Part 02
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mod07lec41 - Issues in Hypothesis Testing - Part 01
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mod07lec42 - Issues in Hypothesis Testing - Part 02
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mod08lec43 - Statistical Methods in Hypothesis Testing: Z-Test and T-Test - Part 01
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mod08lec44 - Statistical Methods in Hypothesis Testing: Z-Test and T-Test - Part 02
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mod08lec45 - Hypothesis Testing: The Chi-Square Test - Part 01
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mod08lec46 - Hypothesis Testing: The Chi-Square Test - Part 02
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mod08lec47 - Hypothesis Testing: The Chi-Square Test - Part 03
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mod08lec48 - Hypothesis Testing: The Chi-Square Test - Part 04
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mod09lec49 - Theoretical Research: Functional Relationships from Experimental Data - Part 01
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mod09lec50 - Theoretical Research: Functional Relationships from Experimental Data - Part 02
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mod09lec51 - Theoretical Research: Mathematical Models of Physical Systems
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mod09lec52 - Order of Magnitude Calculations
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mod09lec53 - Theoretical Research: Modeling Using Dimensional Analysis - Part 01
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mod09lec54 - Theoretical Research: Modeling Using Dimensional Analysis - Part 02
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mod10lec55 - An Example of Mathematical Modeling
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mod10lec56 - Importance of Theory-Building in Science
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mod10lec57 - Scientific Writing: Journal Papers - Part 1
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mod10lec58 - Scientific Writing: Journal Papers - Part 2
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mod10lec59 - Scientific Writing: Journal Papers - Part 3
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mod10lec60 - Scientific Writing: Journal Papers - Part 4
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mod11lec61 - Scientific Writing: PhD Thesis
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mod11lec62 - Scientific Writing: Text Stylistics
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mod11lec63 - Presentation in Scientific Conferences - Part 01
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mod11lec64 - Presentation in Scientific Conferences - Part 02
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mod11lec65 - Writing Grant Proposals - Part 01
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mod11lec66 - Writing Grant Proposals - Part 02
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mod12lec67 - Ethical Conduct in Science: Aspects of Scientific Ethics
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mod12lec68 - Ethical Conduct in Science: Research Misconduct
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mod12lec69 - Ethical Conduct in Science: Ethics in Scientific Publication - Part 01
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mod12lec70 - Ethical Conduct in Science: Ethics in Scientific Publication - Part 02
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mod12lec71 - Ethical Conduct in Science: Cases of Scientific Misconduct - Part 01
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mod12lec72 - Ethical Conduct in Science: Cases of Scientific Misconduct - Part 02
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Meet Your Instructor
About Instructor
Prof. Soumitro Banerjee (born 1960) did his B.E. from the Bengal Engineering College (Calcutta University) in 1981, M.Tech. from IIT Delhi in 1983, and Ph.D. from the same Institute in 1987. He was in the faculty of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, since 1986, and has moved to the Indian Institute of Science Education & Research, Kolkata, in 2009. Dr. Banerjee's area of research interest is nonlinear dynamics. He has published three books: “Nonlinear Phenomena in Power Electronics” (Ed: Banerjee and Verghese, IEEE Press, 2001), “Dynamics for Engineers” (Wiley, London, 2005), and “Wind Electrical Systems” (Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2005). He is a recipient of the S. S. Bhatnagar Prize (2003), and was recognized as a “Highly Cited Author” by Thomson Reuters from 2004 to 2014. He is a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences, the Indian National Academy of Engineering, the Indian National Science Academy, The World Academy of Sciences, and the IEEE
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Course Duration30 h 17 m 28 s
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Course LevelIntermediate
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LanguageEnglish
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