Artists
Manish Jain
Teaching Professor
Center for Creative Learning, IIT Gandhinagar
Gujarat, India
Statement
Prof Manish Jain is a teaching associate professor at IIT Gandhinagar and heads the Center for Creating Learning. The Center has been working to transform STEM education in India and communicate Science and Maths in an engaging manner to the public since the last 5 years. It has conducted workshops for over 10,000 teachers and developed over 750+ activities and models and has reached over 5 lakh teachers and students. Also, the online programs have received an online viewership of over 1 crore.
Artworks
Wave Cars - Sine, Circle and Fourier
10.0 x 15.0 x 20.0 cm
Medium-Density Fibreboard (MDF)
2024
This exhibit has mechanical cars that help visualize the effect of parametrically combining various waves/curve i.e. sine/cosine waves, circle and also adding two sine waves. Each car uses gear mechanisms to guide a marker along the locus of the curve and plots it on the ground. The first car traces the path of a point on the wheel’s rim. The second car, via the gear system, oscillates and plots a circle through its x and y movements. The third car has a gear rotating inside an another gear, traces waveforms which is addition of two sine waves. Collectively these cars demonstrate how adjustments in mechanical configurations help visualize abstract mathematical functions.