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Satellite technology is very useful in collecting information about various factors of the atmosphere, which governs the weather and climatic conditions. An aerial photograph of the Country is shown daily on the television. It is also published daily in the newspapers. The data collected..

An Overview of Natural Resource Management - Our natural resources are our assets whose prudent and sustainable use is necessary for the well being of humans and other living other organisms. Unfortunately, the continuous and ever increasing demand for basic items of survival and technological deve..

. As a result large scale soil erosion and local climate change have occurred. Air pollution due to automobile exhausts and industrial emission levels has caused green house gases to rise and cause global warming. All these have combined to deplete and endanger some of our most valuable natural res..

Certain liquids flow faster than others. Water and kerosene oil flow rapidly while honey and castor oil flow slowly. The cause of different rates of flow of liquids may be easily understood by considering flow of liquid in a beaker. If water is stirred in a beaker with a rod and left undisturbed f..

Introduction - Although population of some animals is also studied, the population of human beings is most extensively studied. Whenever the word population is used, it connotes the human population. Population is one of the most important subjects known for having large scale ramifications on econ..

Dams contribute enormously to deforestation and the loss of biological diversity. They can also result in potentially huge accidents during disasters like earthquakes. The embracing of centralized mega water management and regulation has also led to two more criticisms. The politicization and mi..

Measurements - Everything that we use in our daily life is ultimately governed by principles of physics. All gadgets we use everyday at home, bicycles and cars, all different types of machinery and instruments, work on principles of physics. Hence to understand even the elementary working..

The process of splitting of a heavy nucleus into a number of light nuclei with the liberation of tremendous amount of energy and two or three neutrons is called nuclear fission. In the fissioning of the Uranium-235 isotope, some mass of Uranium disappears (or is lost) and this small mass gets c..

. So I telephoned his office, was told when and where he gave darshan and turned up to sit squashed in a room with hundreds of supplicants, patiently waiting my turn to be called. When it came and I gave my name, Swamy was innocently aghast. Why hadn't I asked for a proper appointment? I had. But c..

Bronsted - Lowry Concept of Acids and Bases - In 1923, J.N.Bronsted and T.M.Lowry proposed a more general theory known as the Bronsted-Lowry proton transfer theory. According to this concept, any hydrogen containing species (a molecule, a cation or an anion), which is capable of donating one or mor..