Saurish Chakrabarty Physicist

Hello, this is Saurish Chakrabarty. I am a physicist and teach at Acharya Prafulla Chandra College. Welcome to my webpage. Below are links to some of my recent posts. Some information about me and my teaching and research interests can be found in the links below the header.


Recent Posts


Seminar on Physics in Biology

One Day Seminar organized by the Department of Physics, in collaboration with IQAC, Acharya Prafulla Chandra College 6th May 2025 Physics is the most basic natural science and is therefore at the lowest level on a tree diagram depicting the natural sciences and all its branches. It is often possible to cover a lot of distance on one of the nat... Read more

Goutam Biswas at 65

Dr. Goutam Biswas, fondly known to us as Goutamda, worked as an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics, Acharya Prafulla Chandra College. Today was his last day of regular service. During the many years of service at Acharya Prafulla Chandra College (since February, 2019) and at Ramananda College, Bishnupur (from 1995 to 2019), Goutamd... Read more

Bose Statistics Centenary

Today, we organized a seminar at our college to celebrate the centenary of Bose statistics. This event was initiated and co-organized by the Bangiya Bijnan Parishad and the S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences. We had two invited talks – one by Dr. Debnarayan Jana from the University of Calcutta and the other by Dr. Manik Banik from the... Read more

Too Many Incomplete Posts

I have been inactive in posting to my website for the last eight months. There are too many incomplete posts with lecture notes. With my students, whenever required, I have been sharing handwritten notes (most of my students are unaware of my website). However, I usually discourage students from relying just on the lecture notes. Instead, I enco... Read more

Fluid properties

Equation of state For a given mass of fluid in thermodynamic equilibrium, the state is uniquely specified by the values of two parameters, e.g., the pressure and the temperature. Thus, there exists a relation connecting the pressure, the temperature and the density. \(f(p,\rho,T)=0.\) Such a relation is known as the equation of state of the flu... Read more