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Indian physicists develop high-school textbook about frontier physics

AUG 19, 2010
Physics Today
Times of India : In India and elsewhere, high-school physics classes are based mostly on the physics of the 19th and earlier centuries. But as Utpal Sarkar of the Physical Research Laboratory in Ahmedabad, India, found out when a group of students visited his lab, students are interested and inspired by unsolved problems at the frontiers of physics. The result of Sarkar’s epiphany is a new book, Flavours of Physics, which he and other Indian physicists wrote with support from the Indian National Science Academy.
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