Rajesh Kumar | Retrospectives

Publications

17 Jun 2006

Essays
- 2008 Journal Entry [HTML - 24 KB]
- Techniques of Problem Solving [PDF - 124 KB]
- Retrospectives 2005 [HTML - 40 KB]
- Two Years in Canada [HTML - 17 KB]
- 2004 Journal Entry [HTML - 9 KB]
- Valedictory Nomination Speech [PDF - 47 KB]
- One Year in IB — A Retrospective [HTML - 15 KB]
YT Short Stories
- November 22, 1986. Published August 22 2000. [TXT - 8 KB]
- 'I love you, Jean!'. Published May 7 2002. [TXT - 8 KB]
International Baccalaureate (IB)
- Miscellaneous Texts
  - One Year in IB — A Retrospective [HTML - 15 KB]
  - Extended Essay [PDF - 97 KB]
  - CAS Reflections [PDF - 51 KB]
- IB Math Portfolios
  - Portfolio 1 - Investigating the Quadratic Function [PDF - 82 KB]
  - Portfolio 2 - Transforming Data [PDF - 69 KB]
  - Portfolio 3 - Speed Limits [PDF - 156 KB]
  - Portfolio 4 - Analysis of a Quartic Function [PDF - 88 KB]
- IB Group 4 Lab Writeups
  - Physics Group 4 Report [PDF - 76 KB]
  - Chemistry Group 4 Report [PDF - 197 KB]
- IB English
  - Re-interpretation of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich [TXT - 21 KB]
  - The Owl Commentary [PDF - 62 KB]
  - The Cherry Orchard: Answers to Definitive Questions [PDF - 69 KB]
  - Food for Thought: Definitive Translations and Utopianism [HTML - 7 KB]
  - Agitated Adolescence: A Commentary on "Twice Shy" by Seamus Heaney [HTML - 10 KB]
  - World Lits
    - World Lit 1 — The Use of Parallel Narration to Complement Character Thought and Action [PDF - 57 KB]
    - World Lit 2 — Azarius’s Motive: an inner monologue [PDF - 56 KB]
- IB TOK
  - Sir Arthur Eddington’s Ichthyologist [PDF - 39 KB]
  - Mathematics and Beauty [PDF - 38 KB]
  - TOK Paper Outline — Is knowledge in mathematics and other Areas of Knowledge dependent on culture to the same degree and in the same ways? [PDF - 38 KB]
  - TOK Paper — Dependence of Mathematical Knowledge on Culture [PDF - 58 KB]
- IB Physics
  - Principle of Conservation of Mechanical Energy [PDF - 40 KB]
  - Period of an Oscillating Mass (Planning A,B) [PDF - 48 KB]
  - Period of a Simple Pendulum Lab (Planning A,B) [PDF - 44 KB]
  - Simple Harmonic Oscillator Evaluation [PDF - 44 KB]
  - Standing Waves on a String (Planning A,B) [PDF - 48 KB]
  - The Simple Pendulum [PDF - 56 KB]
  - Resonance of Air Columns [PDF - 64 KB]
  - Specific Heat Capacity of an Unknown Material [PDF - 72 KB]
  - Derivation of Beat Frequency Formula [PDF - 48 KB]
  - The Gas Laws [PDF - 88 KB]
- IB Chemistry
  - Enthalpy of Combustion of Paraffin Wax (Planning A, B) [TXT - 4 KB]
  - Determining the Order of a Reaction [PDF - 64 KB]
  - Spectator Ions and Solubility Equilibrium [PDF - 76 KB]
  - Biological Oxygen Demand (BOD): Factors Affecting Dissolved Oxygen [PDF - 84 KB]
  - Factors Affecting Rate of Corrosion of Iron [PDF - 72 KB]
- IB History
  - Characteristics of Totalitarianism (1917-1939) [PDF - 43 KB]
  - An Interview with an Historian: On Chamberlain's Policy of Appeasement [HTML - 6.5 KB]
  - Guerrilla Warfare: To what extent was the guerrilla warfare in Guinea-Bissau successful? [PDF - 12 KB]
  - Allied Strategic Conferences - A Subjective Ranking [PDF - 36 KB]
  - Internal Assessment — A Historical Investigation: To what extent did Indian military aid to Britain help defeat the Japanese in the Burma Campaign? [PDF - 94 KB]
Biology Summer School 2004
- Biology for Dummies: The Excretory System [PDF - 49 KB]
University of Waterloo
- Miscellaneous
  - Course Plan [TXT - 7.9 KB]
- Work Term Reports
  - 1B May-Aug 2006. Upgrading to SQL Server 2005 [PDF - 664 KB]
  - 2A Jan-Apr 2007. Cross-Platform Application Development using .NET and Mono [PDF - 198 KB]
  - 2B Sep 2007 - Apr 2008. Self-Configuring and Self-Healing Web Services in Complex Software Systems [PDF - 157 KB]
  - 3B Jan 2009 - Apr 2009. Impact of Output Caching on Website Scalability [PDF - 228 KB]
  - 4A Apr 2009 - Aug 2009. Web Caching with Consistent Hashing [PDF - 348 KB]
- NE 112 Linear Algebra (Fall 2005)
  - An Interior Point (Karmarkar) Project for Solving the Global Routing Problem [PDF - 191 KB]
- MATH 117 Calculus 1 (Fall 2005)
  - Interesting Integrals: The Factorial and the Gamma Function [PDF - 80 KB]
- NE 121 Chemistry (Fall 2005)
  - Midterm Multiple Choice Solutions [PDF - 91 KB]
  - Midterms Long Answer Solutions [PDF - 84 KB]
  - Nano Bio Motors Summary [PDF - 1.3 MB]
- NE 125 Materials Science Laboratory Reports (Winter 2006)
  - Lab 1: Tensile Properties of Various Polymeric Materials [PDF - 93 KB]
  - Lab 2: Dehydration of Ferrous Sulfate Heptahydrate (FeSO₄.7H₂O) by Thermogravimetric Analysis [PDF - 78 KB]
  - Lab 3: Determination of Specific Heat Capacity (C_p) of Materials by Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC) [PDF - 173 KB]
  - Lab 4: Crystallinity in Thermoplastics — Application of Polarized Light Microscopy [PDF - 266 KB]
- MSCI 311 Organizational Design and Technology (Fall 2006)
  - Analysis of an Organizational Process: Banking Procedures Within FEDS Student Clubs [PDF - 90 KB]
- MSCI 331 Operations Research 1: Intro to Optimization (Fall 2006)
  - GE's Sequential Linear Programming Algorithm to Portfolio Optimization [PDF - 204 KB]
  - Project Presentation [PDF - 216 KB]
- NE 226 Characterization of Materials Lab Reports (Spring 2007)
  - Lab 1: Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR) [PDF - 141 KB]
  - Lab 2: Raman Spectroscopy [PDF - 58 KB]
  - Lab 3: X-Ray Powder Diffraction [PDF - 143 KB]
  - Lab 4: Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) [PDF - 229 KB]
- NE 242 Electronic Devices (Spring 2007)
  - Si/Ge Nanowires as High Performance FETs [PDF - 1.45 MB]
- Undergraduate Research Internship (URI) — Introduction to the Boolean Satisfiability Problem (SAT)
  - URI 100 (Fall 2007): Integer linear programming (ILP) and unit resolution techniques for SAT [PDF - 148 KB]
  - URI 200 (Winter 2008): Linear-time algorithms for Horn, Quadratic, Renamable Horn, and Nested Propositions [PDF - 270 KB]
- MATH 239 Intro to Combinatorics (Spring 2008)
  - Key Graph Theory Theorems [PDF - 93.1 KB]
- MSCI 421 Strategic Management of Technology (Spring 2008)
  - Business Plan for Prospective Startup (WiElec) [DOC - 235 KB]
- NE 320L Characterization of Materials 2 Lab Reports (Spring 2008)
  - Lab 1: Synthesis and UV-vis Characterization of CdS Quantum Dots [DOC - 423 KB]
  - Lab 2: FTIR/DSC characterization of MWCNTs/PMMA Nanocomposite [DOC - 184 KB]
  - Lab 3: Raman Spectroscopy [DOC - 4.62 MB]
  - Lab 4: XRD Characterization of CdS Quantum Dots [DOC - 303 KB]
  - Lab 5: SEM Charaterization of Nanomaterials Fibers [DOC - 4.1 MB]
- NE 335 Macromolecular Science Lab Report (Fall 2008)
  - Lab 1: Reactivity Ratio Determination for Radical Copolymerization of Styrene and Methyl Methacrylate [PDF - 256 KB]
  - Lab 2: Solution Polymerization of Styrene: Determination of Chain Transfer Constant for Dodecanethiol [DOC - 163 KB]
  - Lab 3: Emulsion Polymerization of Styrene [PDF - 168 KB]
- NE 353 Nanoprobing and Lithography (Fall 2008)
  - Term Paper: Layer by Layer (Lbl) Self-Assembly Strategy And Applications [PDF - 155 KB]
  - Term Paper Presentation [PPT - 2.08 MB]
- MSCI 422 Economic Impact of Technological Change and Entrepreneurship (Fall 2008)
  - "The Innovator's Dilemma" Chapter 1 Summary [PDF - 1.37 MB]
- NE 307 Fourth Year Design Project (Fall 2008)
  - Self Cleaning Membranes in Sea Water Desalination [PDF - 0.98 MB]
- PMATH 334 Rings and Fields (Fall 2009)
  - Key Rings and Fields Theorems [PDF - 96 KB]
United Syndicate of Nanotechnology Engineers
- Mission statement [TXT - 1.6 KB]
- Group resume [TXT - 14 KB]