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Conference to celebrate 125 years of solar physics research in India

More than 200 solar physicists from India and abroad have come together in Bengaluru this week to discuss research in areas like solar magnetism, solar-stellar connection and space weather at an international conference on the occasion of 125 years of solar physics research in India.

Of entropy, and the stripper across town

The subject of physics was very interesting to me in high school because I could relate what I was studying in physics with events in my daily life: various kinds of motion, boiling and freezing of water, generation and propagation of sound, colours in a rainbow, operation of a light bulb and so on.

Engineer’s English

In their campus interviews, the ability to communicate their technical knowledge is also tested. Many of them fail to assert their depth with confidence. Only after cutting a sorry figure, do they realise that the final stroke of victory is achieved by the magic of spoken words. Selectors look for technically sound, smart and well-balanced personalities. And the game is lost by those deficient in the English language.

Physics & business: The science of the start

Early explorers did not chart the unknown world all in one go. They went from port to port and gradually expanded their knowledge and gradually mapped the planet as we know it.