States of matter
Abstract
This is a written version of a popular science talk for school children given on India's National Science Day 2009 at Mumbai. I discuss what distinguishes solids, liquids and gases from each other. I discuss briefly granular matter that in some ways behave like solids, and in other ways like liquids.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- April 2009
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.0904.2664
- arXiv:
- arXiv:0904.2664
- Bibcode:
- 2009arXiv0904.2664D
- Keywords:
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- Physics - Popular Physics
- E-Print:
- 5 pages, eps figures, written version of a public lecture given at Mumbai on Feb 28, 2009