Publications
Research Publications - Wildlife
- Nagarajan, Vikas Madhav, et al. “Diversity of Moths from the Urban Set-up of Valmiki Nagar, Chennai, India.” Journal of Threatened Taxa, no. 14, Wildlife Information Liaison Development Society, Dec. 2021, pp. 20174–89. Crossref, doi:10.11609/jott.7515.13.14.20174-20189.
- Narayanaswamy, Mahathi. (2017, March 31). "A Drongo Cuckoo Surniculus lugubris from Chennai" [Letter to the editor]. Indian Birds, p175. http://indianbirds.in/pdfs/IB_12.6_Final.pdf
Popular Articles
- Narayanaswamy, Mahathi. "Vibrant Visitors: An account of moths at my doorstep". Nature Trail, no. 3.2, Chennai Young Naturalists' Network, July 2022, pp. 10-12. https://ynnchennai.weebly.com/our-e-magazine.html
- Narayanaswamy, Mahathi. "One Man's Litter, A Naturalist's Treasure". Nature Trail, no. 3.1, Chennai Young Naturalists' Network, Jan 2022, pp. 9-10. https://ynnchennai.weebly.com/our-e-magazine.html
- Narayanaswamy, Mahathi and Pinheiro, Claudia. "Through our Homes and Backyards: A Peek Into Our Urban Biodiversity". Nature Trail, no. 2.3, Chennai Young Naturalists' Network, September 2021, pp. 11-15. https://ynnchennai.weebly.com/our-e-magazine.html
- Narayanaswamy, Mahathi and Praveen, Kavya. "Interviewing Kartik Shanker: Shore Walks and Fisherfolk Talks". Nature Trail, no. 2.2, Chennai Young Naturalists' Network, May 2021, pp. 22-26. https://ynnchennai.weebly.com/our-e-magazine.html
- Narayanaswamy, Mahathi and Satagopan, Nanditha Ram. "Interviewing Kartik Shanker: Life as an Ecologist". Nature Trail, no. 1.2, Chennai Young Naturalists' Network, October 2020, pp. 20-24. https://ynnchennai.weebly.com/our-e-magazine.html
- Narayanaswamy, Mahathi. "Paper Abstract: Resonating Feathers produce Courtship Song". Nature Trail, no. 1.1, Chennai Young Naturalists' Network, July 2020, pp. 17-18. https://ynnchennai.weebly.com/our-e-magazine.html
Projects
- Talbot Effect in Water Waves(in progress)
- Theorising the existence of Magnetic Monopoles(in progress) - UNDERGRADUATE HONOURS PROJECT
honoursprojectreport.pdf |
Undergraduate Coursework
Coursework write-ups
As part of my coursework, I have written several reports for lab work and other assignments. I have linked the folders containing these documents below. Please note that all of them are in the format required for assessment and have not been updated or corrected for mistakes post submission.
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Course on Non-intertial Frames, Lagrangian Mechanics, Two-body Central Force Problems, Classical Scattering, Rigid Body Rotation. |
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Course on basic Chemistry. |
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Course on computation using Python. |
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Course on Electro-magnetic fields |
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Course on Analog and Digital Electronics |
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Course on Experimental Foundations in Physics |
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Course on Linear Alebra, Complex Numbers, Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations. |
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Course on basic Newtonian Mechanics |
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Course of behaviour of light and instruments that harnesses its properties. |
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Course on Thermal and Statistical Physics |
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Course on Oscillatory behaviour |
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Based on humanities and social science courses and interdisciplinary minor in Sustainability |
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Coding
As part of my coursework for my undergraduate degree in Physics, I have learnt Python and applied it to solve different problems. Some of the problems that I have applied it to solve and the code used to solve them can be accessed from my GitHub Profile(username: mahathin).
Other Work
Slides
For a couple of topics I have compiled presentations summarising them. Please feel free to use them as educational material with appropriate credits.
Mathematics
Arithmetic Progression |
Biology
Biomagnefication.pdf |
Solutions to Mathematical Olympiad Problems
I have solved a couple of Pre-regional Mathematical Olympiad(PRMO) papers as well as some problems from the Regional, Indian National, International Mathematical Olympiad. Please feel free to use them as references. Questions may not be in order and couple of other RMO, INMO and IMO questions may be mixed in.
prmo17.pdf |
prmo18.pdf |