Feedback for Fundamentals of optical and scanning electron microscopy
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Best wishes for the examination
Dear students, Firstly all the very best for the examination. Hope everyone will enjoy the 3 hours and come out with flying colours. The solutions to assignment 7 and 8 is now open and available
Examination pattern
Dear students, Final exam pattern is as follows 15 marks - Fill ups and MCQs 15 marks - Short answers 20 marks - Long answer questions with subdivisions Total 50 marks Remember the exam is for 3hrs. So you will have enough time to answer all the questions. If you have carefully solved the assignments and tutorials after listening to all the videos, then the exam will be easy. Best 5 assignments will be considered for 50% marks. Remainder: assignment 6,7,8 closing date is 18th. All the best.
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NPTEL Certification exam: Hall tickets available for download
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Hall tickets have been published for the courses that have exams on March 20 and 27. The link for the same is
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Important: Week 9,10 videos & assignment 8 - available now
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Since some of you will be writing exams on 20th march, all the 4 videos corresponding to week 9 & 10 (Lecture 18,19,20,21) have been uploaded early in our course website https://onlinecourses.nptel.
Also the assignment-8 is available now. Please submit assignment 7 & 8 on/before 18th march. So that we can publish the answers on 19th.
Final exam will be based on videos, assignments and tutorials only. For further queries please write to us.
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Answers to assignment 4 and 5, release of assignment 7
Dear all, Link to the answers of assignment 4 and 5 is shared in the forum as a PDF. Please go through. Also assignment 7 is open for submission,due date being 18-3-2016
Week-8 Videos
Dear all
Week-8 videos (Lecture 15, 16 and 17) are now available in the course website https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc16_mm03 under Module-3 (Basics of scanning electron microscopy). Please go through.
Week 7 videos and assignment 6
Week-7 videos (Lecture 13 and 14) are now available in the course website https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc16_mm03 under Module-3 (Basics of scanning electron microscopy). Please go through. Also the Assignment 6 is open for submission. The answers for assignment 4 and 5 will be posted on 4th march after the deadline of assignemnt 5.
REMINDER: Registration closes on 1st MAR 2016 5 PM (Tuesday) - Register today!!!
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Release of Week 6 videos and assignment 5
Week-6 videos (Lecture 11 and 12) are now available in the course website https://onlinecourses.
Please go through.
Week-5 videos are online now
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Week-5 videos (Lecture 9, 10 and 10-continuation) are now available in the course website https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac
Please go through.
Announcement regarding exam and certificate format.
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Registration open for certification exam
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Week4- Assignment
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The assignment for week-4 has been uploaded in our course website under module 2. The last date for submission is 20-2-2016 18.00 hrs. Please go through it.
Remainder: Assgnment 1, 2, 3- submission (till 15-2-16 : 18.00 hrs)
Dear all
To remind you that all the three assignments 1,2,3 can be submitted till 15-2-16 18.00 hrs and it is available in our course website https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac
Week- 4 Videos
Dear all
Week-4 videos (Lecture 7 and 8) are now available in the course website https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac
Please go through.
Week3- assignment
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Hope you all are comfortable with our course by now. If you are not clear in some concepts please feel free to ask or post your questions.
The assignment for week-3 is now available in our course website https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac
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Week3- videos available
Dear all
Week3 videos (Lecture5 and 6) are now available in the course page https://onlinecourses.nptel.
Please go through.
Week-2 Assignment2
Dear all
Please check the Assignment-2 uploaded in the course website https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac
The last date for submission is 15-02-2016 18.00 hrs
Week 2 videos released!
Dear all,
The second week lectures are now available in two parts as Lecture 3 and Lecture 4 in Unit I.
For any queries write in the forum - so that everyone benefits from the questions/doubts you may have.
Assignment -1 deadline has been extended to 15 February 2016. The scores will be available in the "Progress" tab once the deadline is over and the assignment closes. We shall release the solutions to it then.
The assignment-2 will be released on 27th of January and deadline will be 15 February 2016.
- NPTEL team
Week1-Videos download
Dear students
Now you can download the videos of first week lectures in the following link: http://nptel.ac.in/
Week1- Assignment1
Dear all
Please check the assignment-1 uploaded in the course website and the last date for submission is 28-01-2016 18.00 hrs.
please copy & paste the link: https://onlinecourses.nptel.
once
you login, if you click on the left hand side Unit1-Fundementals of
optics, you could access the videos and assignments. please let us know
if you still have trouble for the same
Welcome to NPTEL Online Certification Course: Fundamentals of optical and scanning electron microscopy
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Welcome
to NPTEL
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Thank you
for signing up for our online course " Fundamentals of optical and scanning electron microscopy". We wish you an enjoyable and informative
learning experience.
The
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get an email alerting you. Please watch the lectures, follow the course
regularly and submit all assessments and assignments before the due date. Your
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We will open registration for
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Details regarding the course:
Name of the course: Fundamentals of optical and scanning electron microscopy (8 weeks : 20 hrs)
Course url: https://onlinecourses.nptel.
Course duration : January 18 2016 - 11 March 2016
Dates of exams : 20 March 2016 and 27 March 2016
Time of exam : 2pm - 5pm
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