Stay Home And Revise Physics: Padma Shri Awardee And Retired IIT-K Prof HC Verma To Teach Free Online Physics Classes 

Noted Educator and Padmi Shri awardee retired IIT Kanpur professor HC Verma has started offering free online physics classes to help students stay in touch with their studies during the novel coronavirus pandemic, reports Hindustan Times.

The course called ‘Stay Home And Revise Physics’ (SHARP) has been launched in association with centre of continuous education, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (IIT-K).

Informing about the course Professor Abhay Karandikar, director IIT-K, tweeted, “This course is for school students of class 9 onwards, college students, teachers and for anyone interested in physics. Stay at home, Stay healthy and learn. In the time of this lockdown due to Covid-19 when students are forced to study at home, one should make good use of these free classes.”

He also shared a small video clip in which Professor HC Verma can be heard saying, “IIT-Kanpur centre has come up with a special course for all students of schools and colleges, universities, Physics teachers, physics lovers. The name of the course is Stay Home and Revise Physics (SHARP), and I will be giving this course.”

“It is an 8-week course with 24 lectures of roughly half-an-hour each and the specialty of this course is learning physics through simple experiments,” said prof Verma.

It should be noted that earlier in January, the Government of India had conferred the prestigious Padma-Shri award, the fourth highest civilian honour in the country, to Professor Harish Chandra Verma for distinguished contribution in the field of science and technology in the country.