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Open-ended questions are a favored tool among instructors for assessing student understanding and encouraging critical exploration of course material. Providing feedback for such responses is a time-consuming task that can lead to…
Grading of examination papers is a hectic, time-labor intensive task and is often subjected to inefficiency and bias in checking. This research project is a primitive experiment in the automation of grading of theoretical answers written in…
FeynMaster is a multi-tasking software for particle physics studies. By making use of already existing programs (FeynRules, QGRAF, FeynCalc), FeynMaster automatically generates Feynman rules, generates and draws Feynman diagrams, generates…