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IGNOU MPYE-09 (July 2024 – January 2025) Assignment Questions
1. Write a note on the commonality and difference between scientific and philosophical methods.
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Discuss and evaluate the idea of Paradigm Shift?
2. Differentiate perceptual and conceptual space and time. Compare idealistic and realistic theory of space and time.
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What is falsification? Write an essay on the contribution of Karl H Popper in the development of philosophy of science.
3. Answer any two questions in about 250 words each.
a) What do you understand by observation? Discuss the limits of observation in Science.
b) What are the philosophical implications of the Bayesian theory of Probability
c) Compare Classical Mechanics with Quantum Mechanics.
d) How does Heisenberg relate the principle of Uncertainty to the principle of causality?
4. Answer any four questions in about 150 words each.
a) Write a note on the Aupanishdik understanding of cosmology.
b) Highlight the main features of feminist account of science.
c) Write a note on the philosophical implications of quantum mechanics?.
d) Write a note on the contribution of Kepler to cosmology.
e) What are the postulates of special theory of relativity?
f) Compare the idea of gravitation given by Newton and Einstein.
5. Write short notes on any five in about 100 words each.
a) Decoherence
b) Idea of incommensurability
c) Paradigm Shift
d) Dark Matter
e) False Vacuum
f) Hubble’s Law
g) The inflationary Theory
h) Dual Nature of a Particle
IGNOU MPYE-09 (December 2023 – June 2024) Assignment Questions
1. Discuss and evaluate the idea of Paradigm Shift?
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Write an essay on the contribution of Karl H Popper in the development of philosophy of science.
2. What is the significance of Quantum Mechanics? Compare it with Classical Mechanics.
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Discuss and evaluate the arguments for expanding Universe.
3. Answer any two questions in about 250 words each.
a) Differentiate perceptual and conceptual space and time.
b) Write a note on the relation between Science and Philosophy.
c) How does Heisenberg relate the principle of Uncertainty to the principle of causality?
d) Write a note on the role of teleological explanation in Science.
4. Answer any four questions in about 150 words each.
a) Write a short essay on Schrodinger’s cat experiment.
b) Discuss the limits of observation in Science.
c) Write a note on the idea of Incommensurability.
d) Compare Lakatos’s SRP and Kuhn’s notion of Paradigm.
e) What is Quantum Tunneling?
f) “Some say that the only thing that quantum theory has going for it, in fact, is that it is unquestionably correct.” Comment on it.
5. Write short notes on any five in about 100 words each.
a) Epistemological Anarchism
b) Falsification
c) Scientific theory
d) Law of Gravitation
e) Uncertainty Principle
f) Special Theory of Relativity
g) Dual Nature of a Particle
h) Philosophy of Science
