Class 11 / Physics / Waves / All Topics

WAVES

                                                        

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Class 11 / Physics / Waves / All Topics

WAVES

            Detailed analysis of wave motion needs a mathematical language for describing waves. Transverse waves on a string will be considered first, but the method

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Class 11 / Physics / Waves / Displacement relation in Progressive wave

WAVES

A wave which travels continuously in a medium in the same direction without any change in its amplitude is called a progressive wave or a traveling wave. A progressive wave may be transverse or

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Class 11 / Physics / Waves / Displacement relation in Progressive wave

WAVES

A wave which travels continuously in a medium in the same direction without any change in its amplitude is called a progressive wave or a traveling wave. A progressive wave may be transverse or

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Class 11 / Physics / Waves / Superposition Of Waves

WAVES

Superposition principle states that the net disturbance at a given place and time caused by a number of waves in the same space is the vector sum of the disturbance i.e., displacements produced by

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Class 11 / Physics / Work, Energy and Power / All Topics

work power energy

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Class 11 / Physics / Work, Energy and Power / All Topics

work power energy

The work done by a constant force of magnitude F on a point that moves a displacement d in the direction of the force is the product: W = Fd. Integration approach can

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Class 11 / Physics / Work, Energy and Power / All Topics

work power energy

Ø   Energy is ability or capacity to do work. Greater  the amount of energy possessed by the body, greater the work it will be able to do. Ø   Energy is c

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Class 11 / Physics / Work, Energy and Power / All Topics

work power energy

Statement:  Work done by all forces acting on a body is equal to change in its kinetic energy.   Proof:              Cons

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Class 11 / Physics / Work, Energy and Power / All Topics

work power energy

           A body is said to be in tanslatory equilibrium, if net force acting on the body is zero                

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Class 11 / Physics / Work, Energy and Power / All Topics

work power energy

   The time of doing work is called power. Power or average power is given by          \({{P}_{avg}}=\frac{work\ done}{time}\)  Power is a scalar

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Class 11 / Physics / Work, Energy and Power / All Topics

work power energy

suppose only conservative forces operate on a system of particles and potential energy U is difined correspoding to these  forces. There are either no other forces or the workdone by them is

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Class 11 / Physics / Work, Energy and Power / All Topics

work power energy

Potential energy of a body is the enrgy possessed by a body by virtue of its position or configuration in the gravitational field. Penergy is defined only for conservative forces. It does not

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Class 11 / Physics / Work, Energy and Power / Conservative Force and Non Conservative Force

work power energy

Conservative Forces:        If workdone by the force around a closed path is zero and it is independent of path then it is a conservative force. Under conserva

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Class 11 / Physics / Waves / Reflection and Transmission of wave

WAVES

At boundaries between different media, there is generally both reflection and transmission. A “boundary” is a place where there is a change in “how hard it is” for the wave

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Class 11 / Physics / Waves / Standing waves in Strings

WAVES

A standing wave is formed when two identical waves travelling in the opposite directions along the same line, interfere. On the path of a stationary wave, the amplitude of vibration varies simple

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Class 11 / Physics / Waves / Standing waves in Strings

WAVES

A standing wave is formed when two identical waves travelling in the opposite directions along the same line, interfere. On the path of a stationary wave, the amplitude of vibration varies simple

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Class 11 / Physics / Waves / Harmonics

WAVES

An ideal vibrating string will vibrate with its fundamental frequency and all harmonics of that frequency. The position of nodes and antinodes is just the opposite of

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Class 11 / Physics / Waves / Beats

WAVES

When two sound waves of same amplitude travelling in a same direction with slightly different frequencies superimpose, then intensity varies periodically with time. This effect is called Beats. Co

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Class 11 / Physics / Waves / Doppler Effect

WAVES

You all must have heard the whistle of a moving train. What do you feel when the train approaches you? The pitch of the whistle seems to rise. But when the engine passes by, the pitch appears to d

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Class 12 / Physics / Electrostatic potential and Capacitance / All Topics

ELECTROSTATICS

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Class 12 / Physics / Current Electricity / All Topics

CURRENT ELECTRICITY

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Class 12 / Physics / Electrostatic potential and Capacitance / All Topics

ELECTROSTATICS

        COULOMB’S INVERSE SQUARE LAW:                                    

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Class 12 / Physics / Electrostatic potential and Capacitance / All Topics

ELECTROSTATICS

  Electric Field :                        The region of space around an

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Class 12 / Physics / Current Electricity / All Topics

CURRENT ELECTRICITY

The drift velocity is the average uniform velocity acquired by free electrons inside a metal by the application of an electric field which is responsible for current through it. Free electrons

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Class 12 / Physics / Electrostatic potential and Capacitance / All Topics

ELECTROSTATICS

   Electric filed at the axis of a  circular uniformly charged ring:                           Intensity of ele

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Class 12 / Physics / Moving Charges and Magnetism / Biot-savart's Law and Ampere's Law

MAGNETISM

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Class 12 / Physics / Moving Charges and Magnetism / Biot-savart's Law and Ampere's Law

MAGNETISM

            Similar to the Gauss’s law of electrostatics, this law provides us short cut methods of finding magnetic field in cases of symmetry.  &nbs

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Class 12 / Physics / Moving Charges and Magnetism / Motion of Charged Particle In Magnetic Field

MAGNETISM

Magnetic field at the center:           The distance between current element on the circular coil and the center is ‘r’ and the angle be

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Class 12 / Physics / Current Electricity / Electric Conduction, Ohm's Law and Resistance

CURRENT ELECTRICITY

If the temperature of a conductor remains constant, then the ratio of thepotential difference (or voltage) V to the current I remain constant for any conductor, which is known as resistance o

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Class 12 / Physics / Current Electricity / Electric Conduction, Ohm's Law and Resistance

CURRENT ELECTRICITY

Resistance is the property of a substance by  which it opposes the flow of current through it.     For a given body, the resistance is defined as the ratio of applied poten

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Class 12 / Physics / Current Electricity / Electric Conduction, Ohm's Law and Resistance

CURRENT ELECTRICITY

Resistance is the property of a substance by  which it opposes the flow of current through it.     For a given body, the resistance is defined as the ratio of applied poten

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Class 12 / Physics / Electrostatic potential and Capacitance / All Topics

ELECTROSTATICS

a)     A charged body of mass ‘m’ and charge ‘q’ is initially at rest in a uniform electric field of intensity E.       

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Class 12 / Physics / Electrostatic potential and Capacitance / All Topics

ELECTROSTATICS

Electric Dipole:             An electric dopole is a pair of equal and opposite point charge   and  seperated by a distance 2a

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Class 12 / Physics / Electrostatic potential and Capacitance / All Topics

ELECTROSTATICS

ELECTRIC POTENTIAL : i)     Electric potential at a point in an electric field  is the amount of workdone in bringing a unit positive charge from infinity to that point

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Class 12 / Physics / Moving Charges and Magnetism / Motion of Charged Particle In Magnetic Field

MAGNETISM

Suppose a straight current carrying wire AB, carrying current i, lies in the plane of the paper as shown in the figure, P is a point at a perpendicular distance R from conductor, where magnetic fi

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Class 12 / Physics / Electrostatic potential and Capacitance / All Topics

ELECTROSTATICS

ØTwo charges  and  are separated by a distance 'd'. The     P.E.      of the system of charges is     &

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Class 12 / Physics / Current Electricity / Kirchhoff's Law, Cells

CURRENT ELECTRICITY

Kirchhoff's Laws for current and voltage lie at the heart of circuit analysis. With these two laws, plus the equations for individual component (resistor, capacitor, inductor), we have the bas

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Class 12 / Physics / Moving Charges and Magnetism / Motion of Charged Particle In Magnetic Field

MAGNETISM

A solenoid is a long cylindrical helix, which is obtained by winding closely a large number of turns of insulated copper wire over a tube of cardboard or china clay. When electric current is passe

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Class 12 / Physics / Moving Charges and Magnetism / Motion of Charged Particle In Magnetic Field

MAGNETISM

A solenoid is a long cylindrical helix, which is obtained by winding closely a large number of turns of insulated copper wire over a tube of cardboard or china clay. When electric current is passe

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Class 12 / Physics / Moving Charges and Magnetism / Force and Torque on a Current Carrying Conductor

MAGNETISM

When a charged particle having charge 'q' is projected into a magnetic field, it experiences a magnetic force which is given by the expression        

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Class 12 / Physics / Moving Charges and Magnetism / Force and Torque on a Current Carrying Conductor

MAGNETISM

When a charged particle having charge 'q' is projected into a magnetic field, it experiences a magnetic force which is given by the expression        

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Class 12 / Physics / Current Electricity / Kirchhoff's Law, Cells

CURRENT ELECTRICITY

An electrical cell is a device that is used to generate electricity, or one that is used to make chemical reactions possible by applying electricity.     i) A c

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Class 12 / Physics / Moving Charges and Magnetism / Force and Torque on a Current Carrying Conductor

MAGNETISM

Consider a particle of mass m , charge q , moving horizontally with velocity u , as shown in the figure. The charge enters a region between two parallel plates (length L), where an electric field

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Class 12 / Physics / Moving Charges and Magnetism / Force and Torque on a Current Carrying Conductor

MAGNETISM

Consider a particle of mass m , charge q , moving horizontally with velocity u , as shown in the figure. The charge enters a region between two parallel plates (length L), where an electric field

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Class 12 / Physics / Moving Charges and Magnetism / Force and Torque on a Current Carrying Conductor

MAGNETISM

Consider a particle of mass m , charge q , moving horizontally with velocity u , as shown in the figure. The charge enters a region between two parallel plates (length L), where an electric field

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Class 12 / Physics / Moving Charges and Magnetism / Force and Torque on a Current Carrying Conductor

MAGNETISM

           A current carrying conductor is itself formed by moving charges. Hence, when a current carrying conductor is placed in a magnetic field it experiences a fo

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Class 12 / Physics / Moving Charges and Magnetism / Force and Torque on a Current Carrying Conductor

MAGNETISM

           A current carrying conductor is itself formed by moving charges. Hence, when a current carrying conductor is placed in a magnetic field it experiences a fo

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Class 12 / Physics / Moving Charges and Magnetism / Force and Torque on a Current Carrying Conductor

MAGNETISM

Two current carrying straight conductors placed near each other will exert (magnetic) forces on each other due to magnetic field of each other.              

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Class 12 / Physics / Moving Charges and Magnetism / Force and Torque on a Current Carrying Conductor

MAGNETISM

Two current carrying straight conductors placed near each other will exert (magnetic) forces on each other due to magnetic field of each other.              

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Class 12 / Physics / Moving Charges and Magnetism / Force and Torque on a Current Carrying Conductor

MAGNETISM

Case I:              When place of the loop is perpendicular to magnetic field \(\ell \)           &

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Class 12 / Physics / Moving Charges and Magnetism / Force and Torque on a Current Carrying Conductor

MAGNETISM

Case I:              When place of the loop is perpendicular to magnetic field \(\ell \)           &

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Class 12 / Physics / Current Electricity / Heating & Chemical Effect of Current

CURRENT ELECTRICITY

Introduction:  When an electric current is passed through a conductor, the conductor becomes hot after some time and produce heat. This happens due to the conversion of some electric energ

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Class 12 / Physics / Moving Charges and Magnetism / All Topics

MAGNETISM

Moving coil galvanometer is an electromagnetic device that can measure small values of current. It is also known as Weston galvanometer. It works on the principle that when a current loop is place

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Class 12 / Physics / Moving Charges and Magnetism / All Topics

MAGNETISM

Moving coil galvanometer is an electromagnetic device that can measure small values of current. It is also known as Weston galvanometer. It works on the principle that when a current loop is place

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Class 12 / Physics / Current Electricity / Different Measuring Instruments

CURRENT ELECTRICITY

A Wheatstone bridge is an electric circuit used to measure an unknown electrical resistance by balancing two legs of a bridge circuit, one leg of which includes the unknown com

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Class 12 / Physics / Moving Charges and Magnetism / All Topics

MAGNETISM

A magnetic field line or magnetic flux line shows the direction of a magnet's force and the strength of a magnet.         &

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Class 12 / Physics / Moving Charges and Magnetism / All Topics

MAGNETISM

A magnetic field line or magnetic flux line shows the direction of a magnet's force and the strength of a magnet.         &

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Class 12 / Physics / Current Electricity / All Topics

CURRENT ELECTRICITY

It is the device mainly used to measure emf of a given cell and to compare emf’s of cells. It is also used to measure internal resistance of a given cell. P.D across the balancing length

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Class 12 / Physics / Moving Charges and Magnetism / All Topics

MAGNETISM

Coulomb's law, or  Coulomb's inverse-square law, is a law of physics for quantifying the amount of force with which stationary electrically charged particles repel or attrac

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Class 12 / Physics / Moving Charges and Magnetism / All Topics

MAGNETISM

Coulomb's law, or  Coulomb's inverse-square law, is a law of physics for quantifying the amount of force with which stationary electrically charged particles repel or attrac

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Class 12 / Physics / Moving Charges and Magnetism / All Topics

MAGNETISM

(A)       If a magnet of length l and magnetic moment M gets bent in the form of a semicircular, then its new magnetic moment will          &

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Class 12 / Physics / Moving Charges and Magnetism / All Topics

MAGNETISM

(A)       If a magnet of length l and magnetic moment M gets bent in the form of a semicircular, then its new magnetic moment will          &

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Class 12 / Physics / Current Electricity / All Topics

CURRENT ELECTRICITY

Consider the following statements :           A: As no current is drawn from the cell in the secondary of a potentiometer  at   the t

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Class 12 / Physics / Current Electricity / All Topics

CURRENT ELECTRICITY

1.In the circuit shown in figure     (a)    Find the final charge on each capacitor after closing the switch.          (b)  &n

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Class 11 / Chemistry / Classification of Elements and Periodicity in Properties / Periodic Trends in Physical Properties

Periodic Trends in Physical Properties

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Class 10 / Science / Chemical Reactions and Equations / All Topics

CHEMICAL REACTIONS AND EQUATIONS

INTRODUCTION:   Chemistry is defined as that branch of science which deals with the composition and properties of matter and the changes that matter undergone by various interactions. A

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Class 11 / Physics / Motion in a Plane / Introduction , Scalars and Vectors, Addition , Subtraction , Multiplication and Resolution of Vectors

Motion in a plane

Motion of the body can be represented in many ways according to the vision of observer. The motion of an object is called two dimensional, if two of the three co-ordinates required specifying the

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Class 11 / Physics / Motion in a Plane / Motion in a plane with constant acceleration

Motion in a plane

Motion in two dimension with constant acceleration we we know is the motion in which velocity changes at a constant rate i.e, acceleration remains constant throughout the motion We should set

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Class 11 / Physics / Motion in a Plane / Oblique Projectile , Time of flight (T) , Maximum height H() , Range (R)

Motion in a plane

Let a particle is projected from the ground with velocity u m s–1––--­666565 at an angle \(\theta\)  with the ground and it follow a curved path OAB as show in figure.

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Class 11 / Botany / Biological Classification / Viruses, Viroids, Prions & Lichens

Viruses , Viroids , Prions and Lichens

CLASSIFICATION OF VIRUSES Holmes in 1948 proposed the classification of viruses. He placed all the viruses into a single order virales. Which is further divided into three sub orders as under. &

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Class 11 / Physics / Motion in a Plane / Circular Motion

Motion in a plane

Uniform Circular Motion If a particle moves along the circumference of a circle with constant speed, the motion is termed as uniform circular motion.   Here, the magnitude of the veloci

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Class 11 / Botany / Biological Classification / Monera , Protista , Fungi

Monera , Protista , Fungi

 KINGDOM - MONERA   Christesen & dougherty - gave the term ‘prokaryote’ and ‘eukaryote’ C.B. Van Neil : Divided the living organisms into prokaryotes an

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Class 11 / Physics / Motion in a Plane / Projectile Motion from top of a tower

Motion in a plane

Equation of trajectory: Consider a point \(P\left( x,y \right)\) at time \(t\). Horizontal motion: Since acceleration due to gravity acts along the vertical and hence, has got no com

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Class 11 / Physics / Work, Energy and Power / Work, Types of Work Done, Frame of Reference and Graphs

Work, Energy, Power and Collision

Introduction The terms 'work', 'energy' and 'power' are frequently used in everyday language. A farmer clearing weeds in his field is said to be working hard. A woman c

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Class 11 / Botany / Plant Kingdom / Algae

Algae

Introduction : The branch of botany dealing with the study of algae is called as phycology or algology. It is derived from the Greek word Phykos which means 'alga' or 'sea weed'. T

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Class 11 / Physics / Work, Energy and Power / Energy , Types of Energy , Conservation of Energy

Work, Energy, Power and Collision

ENERGY, TYPES OF ENERGY , CONSERVATION OF ENERGY   Energy The energy of a body is defined as its capacity for doing work. (1) Since energy of a body is the total quantity of work don

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Class 11 / Physics / Work, Energy and Power / Kinetic Energy

Work, Energy, Power and Collision

Kinetic Energy The energy possessed by a body by virtue of its motion, is called kinetic energy. Examples : (i) Flowing water possesses kinetic energy which is used to run the water mills. (

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Class 11 / Physics / Work, Energy and Power / Potential Energy

Work, Energy, Power and Collision

Potential Energy Potential energy is defined only for conservative forces. In the space occupied by conservative forces every point is associated with certain energy which is called the energy of

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Class 11 / Physics / Work, Energy and Power / Conservation of Energy and Momentum

Work, Energy, Power and Collision

Law of Conservation of Energy   (1) Law of conservation of energy For a body or an isolated system by work-energy theorem we have \({{K}_{2}}-{{K}_{1}}=\int_{{}}^{{}}{\vec{F}.\,d\vec{r}

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Class 11 / Physics / Work, Energy and Power / Power

Work, Energy, Power and Collision

Power   Power of a body is defined as the rate at which the body can do the work. Average power \(({{P}_{\text{av}\text{.}}})=\frac{\Delta W}{\Delta t}=\frac{W}{t}\) Instantaneous pow

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Class 11 / Physics / Work, Energy and Power / Collision , Types of Collisions

Work, Energy, Power and Collision

COLLISION ,TYPES OF COLLISIONS   Collision Collision is an isolated event in which a strong force acts between two or more bodies for a short time as a result of which the energy and mom

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Class 11 / Botany / Plant Kingdom / Bryophytes

Bryophytes

INTRODUCTION The term “Bryophyta” was proposed by “Robert Braun” The study of Bryophytes is known as Bryology.   Hedwing is considered to be the father of Br

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Class 11 / Physics / Work, Energy and Power / Elastic and Inelastic Collision

Work, Energy, Power and Collision

Elastic head on collision and inelastic head on collision   Perfectly elastic head on collision Let two bodies of masses \({{m}_{1}}\) and \({{m}_{2}}\) moving with initial velocities \(

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Class 11 / Botany / Plant Kingdom / Pteridophytes

Pteridophytes

Introduction : The pteridophytes (Gk. Pteron = feather and phyton = plants ; means plants with feather like fronds or ferns). They are flowerless, seedless, spore producing vascular plant which ha

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Class 11 / Physics / Work, Energy and Power / Perfectly Inelastic Collision

Work, Energy, Power and Collision

Perfectly Inelastic Collision   In such types of collisions, the bodies move independently before collision but after collision as a one single body.   (1) When the colliding bod

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Class 11 / Botany / Plant Kingdom / Gymnosperms

Gymnosperms

Introduction : Gymnosperm (Gk. Gymnos = naked ; sperma = seed) are the plants with exposed or naked seeds or ovules Term Gymnosperm given by Theophrastus. Study of Gymnosperm known as Gymnosp

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Class 11 / Botany / Plant Kingdom / Angiosperms

Angiosperms

Introduction : The angiosperms, or flowering plants, constitute the most dominant and ubiquitous vascular plants of present day flora which changed the green and yellow melancholy of the earth's v

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Class 11 / Botany / Morphology Of Flowering Plants / Vegetative morphology and modifications- Root, Stem and Leaf

Vegetative Morphology of Root , Stem and Leaf

Introduction : Angiospermic or flowering plants show a great variety of shape, size and form. The size ranges from the minute Wolffia and Lamna (0.1cm) to the tall Eucalyptus (up to 100 metre) and

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Class 11 / Chemistry / Chemical Bonding and Molecular Structure / Kossel – Lewis approach to chemical bonding

Chemical bonding and Molecular structure

Chemical bond is the physical and chemical process responsible for the attractive interactions between atoms molecules, ions and that which confers stability to diatomic and polyatomic chemical entiti

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Class 11 / Chemistry / Chemical Bonding and Molecular Structure / Ionic or electrovalent bond - Favourable Factors and Properties of Ionic Compounds

Chemical bonding and Molecular structure

Ionic Bond or Electrovalent Bond An ion is an atom or group of atoms which has acquired charge due to the loss or gain of one or more electrons. When an atom gains an electron to form a negative io

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Class 11 / Chemistry / Chemical Bonding and Molecular Structure / Bond Parameters – Bond length, Bond angle, bond Enthalpy, Bond order, Resonance, Dipole moment

Chemical bonding and Molecular structure

Bond parameters Bond Strength and Bond Length The average distance between the centres of two nuclei of the bonded atoms measured in angstrongs. Bond energy or bond strength is the amount of ene

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Class 11 / Chemistry / Chemical Bonding and Molecular Structure / Covalent Bond - Valence Bond Theory , Hybridisation , VSEPR Theory

Chemical bonding and Molecular structure

Covalent Bond (By Mutual Sharing of Electrons) The covalent bond is formed when two atoms achieve stability by the sharing of an electron pair, each contributing one electron to the electron pair.

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Class 11 / Chemistry / Chemical Bonding and Molecular Structure / Molecular Orbital Theory

Chemical bonding and Molecular structure

Molecular Orbital Theory Shapes of Molecular Orbitals When atomic orbital overlaps in phase then B-MO are formed and if overlaps out of phase then ABMO are formed. And both process occurs simult

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Class 11 / Chemistry / Chemical Bonding and Molecular Structure / Coordinate bond , Hydrogen Bonding and Metallic Bonding

Chemical bonding and Molecular structure

Coordinate bond, Hydrogen Bonding and Metallic Bonding Coordinate bond It is a special type of covalent bond in which both the shared electrons are contributed by one atom only. The atom which c

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Class 11 / Physics / Gravitation / Newton's Law of Gravitation , Acceleration due to Gravity

Gravitation

Introduction Newton at the age of twenty-three is said to have seen an apple falling down from tree in his orchid. This was the year 1665. He started thinking about the role of earth's attract

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Class 11 / Physics / Gravitation / Gravitation Potential , Energy and Escape Velocity

Gravitation

Gravitational Potential At a point in a gravitational field potential \(V\) is defined as negative of work done per unit mass in shifting a test mass from some reference point (usually at infinity)

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Class 11 / Physics / Gravitation / Motion of Satellite and Kepler's laws of Planetary Motion

Gravitation

Kepler’s Laws of Planetary Motion   Planets are large natural bodies rotating around a star in definite orbits. The planetary system of the star sun called solar system consists of ni

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Class 11 / Botany / Morphology Of Flowering Plants / Reproductive - Inflorescence , Flower , Fruits

Inflorescence , Flower , Fruits

INFLORESCENCE Arrangement of flower on floral axis is called inflorescence. Racemose – In this type of inflorescence the main axis continues to grow and does not terminate in a flower and

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Class 11 / Botany / Histology and Anatomy / Tissues - Types , Structure and Functions

Types , Structure and Functions of Tissues

TISSUE: A group of cells which is having similar or dissimilar in shape, having a common origin and usually performing a common function is called tissue. The term tissue was coined by Nehe

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Class 11 / Physics / Thermal Properties Of Matter / Heat and Temperature and its measurements

Thermal Properties of Matter

Heat, Temperature and its measurements   Introduction William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, (1824 –1907) was a British mathematical physicist, engineer, and outstanding leader in the

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Class 11 / Physics / Thermal Properties Of Matter / Thermal Expansion

Thermal Properties of Matter

Thermal Expansion   Most substance expand when they are heated. Thermal expansion is a consequence of the change in average separation between the constituent atoms of an object. Atoms of a

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Class 11 / Physics / Thermal Properties Of Matter / Ideal Gas Equation and Absolute Temperature

Thermal Properties of Matter

Ideal Gas Equation and Absolute Temperature   Concept of an Ideal gas A gas has no shape and size and can be contained in a vessel of any size or shape. It expands indefinitely and unifo

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Class 11 / Physics / Thermal Properties Of Matter / Heat Transfer by Conduction

Thermal Properties of Matter

Conduction The process of transmission of heat energy in which the heat is transferred from one particle to other particle without dislocation of the particle from their equilibrium position is cal

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Class 11 / Physics / Thermal Properties Of Matter / Heat Transfer by Convection and Laws of Radiation

Thermal Properties of Matter

Convection Mode of transfer of heat by means of migration of material particles of medium is called convection. It is of two types.   (1) Natural convection: This arise due to differ

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Class 11 / Maths / CT / All Topics

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Class 11 / Maths / Sets / All Topics

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What is Lorem Ipsum? Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknow

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Class 10 / Science / Acids , Bases and Salts / All Topics

Introduction

Count and compare the number of atoms of each element on the LHS and RHS of the arrow. Is the number of atoms of each element the same on both the sides? If yes, then the equation is balanced. If not,

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Class 10 / Physics / Light - Reflection and Refraction / Reflection of Light

Introduction

electricity has an important place in modern society. It is a controllable and convenient form of energy for a variety of uses in homes, schools, hospitals, industries, and so on. What constitutes ele

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Class 10 / Science / Metals and Non-metals / Physical Properties of Metals and Non-Metals

Introduction

We are familiar with air current and water current. We know that flowing water constitute water current in rivers. Similarly, if the electric charge flows through a conductor (for example, through a m

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Class 10 / Physics / Light - Reflection and Refraction / Reflection of Light

Reflection of Light

 law of reflection is defined as In the case of dielectrics such as glass, the electric field of the light acts on the electrons in the material, and the moving electrons generate fields and beco

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Class 6 / Geography / The Earth in the Solar System / Celestial Bodies

WHAT ARE CELESTIAL BODIES

WHAT ARE CELESTIAL BODIES How wonderful it is to watch the sky after sunset! One would first notice one or two bright dots shining in the sky. Soon you would see the number increasing. You cannot c

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Class 6 / Geography / The Earth in the Solar System / Celestial Bodies

STARS AND CONSTELLATIONS

STARS AND CONSTELLATIONS Stars Some celestial bodies are very big and hot. They are made up of gases. They have their own heat and light, which they emit in large amounts. These celestial bodies

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Class 6 / Geography / The Earth in the Solar System / Celestial Bodies

PLANETS

PLANETS Some celestial bodies do not have their own heat and light. They are lit by the light of the stars. Such bodies are called planets. The word ‘planet’ comes from the Greek word &

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Class 6 / Geography / The Earth in the Solar System / The Solar System

THE SUN

THE SUN The sun, eight planets, satellites, and some other celestial bodies known as asteroids and meteoroids form the solar system. We often call it a solar family, with the sun as its Head.

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Class 6 / Geography / The Earth in the Solar System / The Solar System

PLANETS

PLANETS There are eight planets in our solar system. In order of their distance from the sun, they are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.    

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Class 6 / Geography / The Earth in the Solar System / The Solar System

THE MOON

THE MOON A Satellite A Satellite is a celestial body that moves around the planets in the same way as the planets move around the sun.   Our earth has only one satellite, that is, the

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Class 6 / Geography / The Earth in the Solar System / The Solar System

ASTEROIDS & METEOROIDS

ASTEROIDS & METEOROIDS Asteroids Apart from the stars, planets, and satellites, there are numerous tiny bodies which also move around the sun. These bodies are called asteroids. They are fou

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Class 6 / Geography / The Earth in the Solar System / The Solar System

GALAXY & UNIVERSE

GALAXY & UNIVERSE Galaxy Do you see whitish broadband, like a white glowing path across the sky on a clear starry night? It is a cluster of millions of stars. This band is the Milky Way

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Class 6 / Geography / Globe : Latitudes and Longitudes / Our Globe

GLOBE AND AXIS

GLOBE AND AXIS Globe In the previous chapter, you have read that our planet earth is not a sphere. It is slightly flattened at the North and the South Poles and bulge in the middle. Can you imag

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Class 6 / Geography / Globe : Latitudes and Longitudes / Our Globe

EQUATOR

EQUATOR Another imaginary line running on the globe divides it into two equal parts. This line is known as the equator. The northern half of the earth is known as the Northern Hemisphere and the so

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Class 6 / Geography / Globe : Latitudes and Longitudes / Latitudes

PARALLELS OF LATITUDES

PARALLELS OF LATITUDES All parallel circles from the equator up to the poles are called parallels of latitudes. Latitudes are measured in degrees.   The equator represents the zero-degre

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Class 6 / Geography / Globe : Latitudes and Longitudes / Latitudes

IMPORTANT PARALLELS OF LATITUDES

IMPORTANT PARALLELS OF LATITUDES Besides the equator (0°), the North Pole (90°N), and the South Pole (90° S), there are four important parallels of latitudes– 1.Tropic of Cance

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Class 6 / Geography / Globe : Latitudes and Longitudes / Heat Zones of Earth

TORRID, TEMPERATE & FRIGID ZONES

TORRID, TEMPERATE & FRIGID ZONES Torrid Zone The mid-day sun is exactly overhead at least once a year on all latitudes in between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn. This area,

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Class 6 / Geography / Globe : Latitudes and Longitudes / Longitudes

WHAT ARE LONGITUDES?

WHAT ARE LONGITUDES? To fix the position of a place, it is necessary to know something more than the latitude of that place. You can see, for example, that Tonga Islands (in the Pacific Ocean) and

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Class 6 / Geography / Globe : Latitudes and Longitudes / Longitudes

PRIME MERIDIAN

PRIME MERIDIAN Unlike parallels of latitude, all meridians are of equal length. Thus, it was difficult to number the meridians. Hence, all countries decided that the count should begin from the mer

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Class 6 / Geography / Globe : Latitudes and Longitudes / Longitudes

LONGITUDE AND TIME

LONGITUDE AND TIME The best means of measuring time is by the movement of the earth, the moon, and the planets. The sun regularly rises and sets every day, and naturally, it is the best time-keeper

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Class 6 / Geography / Globe : Latitudes and Longitudes / Longitudes

WHY DO WE HAVE STANDARD TIME?

WHY DO WE HAVE STANDARD TIME? The local time of places which are on different meridians is bound to differ. For example, it will be difficult to prepare a time-table for trains which cross several

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Class 6 / Geography / Motions of the Earth / Rotation and Revolution

WHAT IS ROTATION?

WHAT IS ROTATION? As you know that the earth has two types of motions, namely rotation, and revolution. Rotation is the movement of the earth on its axis. The axis of the earth which i

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Class 6 / Geography / Motions of the Earth / Rotation and Revolution

WHAT IS REVOLUTION?

WHAT IS REVOLUTION? The movement of the earth around the sun in a fixed path or orbit is called Revolution.            (or) The secon

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Class 6 / Geography / Motions of the Earth / Rotation and Revolution

SUMMER SOLSTICE

SUMMER SOLSTICE On 21st June, the Northern Hemisphere is tilted towards the sun. The rays of the sun fall directly on the Tropic of Cancer. As a result, these areas receive more heat. The areas nea

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Class 6 / Geography / Motions of the Earth / Rotation and Revolution

WINTER SOLSTICE

WINTER SOLSTICE On 22nd December, the Tropic of Capricorn receives direct rays of the sun as the South Pole tilts towards it. As the sun’s rays fall vertically at the Tropic of Capricorn (23&

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Class 6 / Geography / Motions of the Earth / Rotation and Revolution

EQUINOX

EQUINOX On 21st March and September 23rd, direct rays of the sun fall on the equator. At this position, neither of the poles is tilted towards the sun; so, the whole earth experiences equal days an

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Class 6 / Geography / Maps / Introduction to Maps

WHAT ARE MAPS?

WHAT ARE MAPS? You have learnt in the previous chapter about the advantages of a globe. However, the globe has limitations as well. A globe can be useful when we want to study the earth as a whole.

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Class 6 / Geography / Maps / Types Of Maps

PHYSICAL, POLITICAL AND THEMATIC MAPS

PHYSICAL, POLITICAL AND THEMATIC MAPS Maps provide more information than a globe. They are of different types. Some of them are described below. Physical maps Maps showing natural features of

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Class 6 / Geography / Maps / Components of Maps

DISTANCE

DISTANCE There are three Components of Maps – distance, direction, and symbol. Distance Maps are drawings, which reduce the entire world or a part of it to fit on a sheet of paper

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Class 6 / Geography / Maps / Components of Maps

DIRECTION

DIRECTION Most maps contain an arrow marked with the letter ‘N’ at the upper right-hand corner. This arrow shows the north direction. It is called the north line. When you know the nort

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Class 6 / Geography / Maps / Components of Maps

SYMBOLS

SYMBOLS It is the third important component of a map. It is not possible to draw on a map of the actual shape and size of different features such as buildings, roads, bridges, trees, rail

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Class 6 / Geography / Maps / Components of Maps

SKETCH AND PLAN

SKETCH AND PLAN Sketch A sketch is a drawing mainly based on memory and spot observation and not to scale. Sometimes a rough drawing is required of an area to tell where a  partic

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Class 6 / Geography / Major Domains of the Earth / Introduction to Major Domains Of Earth

INTRODUCTION

INTRODUCTION As you have read in the first chapter, the earth is the only planet that has life. Human beings can live here because the life-sustaining elements of land, water, and air are pres

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Class 6 / Geography / Major Domains of the Earth / Introduction to Major Domains Of Earth

BIOSPHERE – THE DOMAIN OF LIFE

BIOSPHERE – THE DOMAIN OF LIFE The Biosphere is the narrow zone where we find land, water, and air together, which contains all forms of life. (Or) The biosphere is the narrow zone of c

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Class 6 / Geography / Major Domains of the Earth / Lithosphere

LITHOSPHERE – CONTINENTS AND OCEANS BASINS

LITHOSPHERE – CONTINENTS AND OCEANS BASINS Lithosphere The solid portion of the earth is called the Lithosphere. It comprises the rocks of the earth’s crust and the thin layers of so

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Class 6 / Geography / Major Domains of the Earth / Lithosphere

ASIA, EUROPE

ASIA, EUROPE Asia is the largest continent. It covers about one-third of the total land area of the earth. The continent lies in the Eastern Hemisphere. The Tropic of Cancer passes through this con

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Class 6 / Geography / Major Domains of the Earth / Lithosphere

AFRICA

AFRICA Africa is the second-largest continent after Asia. The Equator or 00 latitude runs almost through the middle of the continent. A large part of Africa lies in the Northern Hemisphere. Look at

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Class 6 / Geography / Major Domains of the Earth / Lithosphere

NORTH AMERICA AND SOUTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA AND SOUTH AMERICA North America is the third largest continent in the world. It is linked to South America by a very narrow strip of land called the Isthmus of Panama. The continent l

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Class 6 / Geography / Major Domains of the Earth / Lithosphere

AUSTRALIA AND ANTARCTICA

AUSTRALIA AND ANTARCTICA Australia is the smallest continent that lies entirely in the Southern Hemisphere. It is surrounded on all sides by the oceans and seas. It is called an island co

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Class 6 / Geography / Major Domains of the Earth / Hydrosphere

HYDROSPHERE

HYDROSPHERE The earth is called the blue planet. More than 71 percent of the earth is covered with water and 29 percent is with the land. Hydrosphere consists of water in all its&nbs

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Class 6 / Geography / Major Domains of the Earth / Hydrosphere

OCEAN

OCEAN Oceans are a major part of the hydrosphere. They are all interconnected. The ocean waters are always moving. The three chief movements of ocean waters are the waves, the tides, and the ocean

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Class 6 / Geography / Major Domains of the Earth / Atmosphere

ATMOSPHERE AND ITS COMPONENTS

ATMOSPHERE AND ITS COMPONENTS The earth is surrounded by a layer of gas called the atmosphere. This thin blanket of air is an integral and important aspect of the planet. It provides us with the ai

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Class 6 / Geography / Major Landforms of the Earth / Introduction to Landforms

INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL PROCESS

INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL PROCESS These landforms are a result of two processes. You will be amazed to know that the ground you are standing on is slowly moving. Within the earth, a continuous movement

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Class 6 / Geography / Major Landforms of the Earth / Different Landforms

MOUNTAINS

MOUNTAINS Broadly, we can group different landforms depending on elevation and slope as mountains, plateaus, and plains. A hill is a land surface that rises higher than the surrounding area. Gen

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Class 6 / Geography / Major Landforms of the Earth / Different Landforms

PLATEAUS

PLATEAUS A plateau is an elevated flat land. It is a flat-topped table land standing above the surrounding area. A plateau may have one or more sides with steep slopes. The height of plateaus often

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Class 6 / Geography / Major Landforms of the Earth / Different Landforms

PLAINS

PLAINS Plains are large stretches of flat land. They are, generally, not more than 200 meters above mean sea level. Some plains are extremely level. Others may be slightly rolling and undulating. M

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Class 6 / Geography / Major Landforms of the Earth / Landforms and People

PEOPLE IN DIFFERENT LANDFORMS

PEOPLE IN DIFFERENT LANDFORMS Humans have been living in different kinds of landforms in different ways. Life is difficult in mountainous areas. Plains provide much better conditions. It is easy to

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Class 6 / Geography / Our Country – India / India - Its Location

LOCATION OF INDIA

LOCATION OF INDIA India is a country of vast geographical expanse. In the north, it is bound by the lofty Himalayas. The Arabian Sea in the west, the Bay of Bengal in the east, and the Indian Ocean

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Class 6 / Geography / Our Country – India / India's Neighbours

OUR NEIGHBOURS

OUR NEIGHBOURS There are seven countries that share land boundaries with India. Across the sea to the south, lie our island neighbors— Sri Lanka and the Maldives. Sri Lanka is separated from

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Class 6 / Geography / Our Country – India / Divisions of India

POLITICAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE DIVISIONS

POLITICAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE DIVISIONS India is a vast country. For administrative purposes, the country is divided into 29 States and 9 Union Territories. Delhi is the national capital. The states

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Class 6 / Geography / Our Country – India / Divisions of India

PHYSICAL DIVISIONS

PHYSICAL DIVISIONS India is marked by a diversity of physical features such as mountains, plateaus, plains, coasts, and islands. Standing as sentinels in the north are the lofty snow-c

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Class 6 / Geography / India : Climate, Vegetation and Wildlife / Weather, Climate and Seasons

WHAT IS WEATHER OR CLIMATE?

WHAT IS WEATHER OR CLIMATE? You read in newspapers daily and watch on T.V. or hear others talking about the weather. You must know that weather is about day to day changes in the atmosphere. It inc

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Class 6 / Geography / India : Climate, Vegetation and Wildlife / Weather, Climate and Seasons

WINTER

WINTER Cold weather season *Cold Weather Season (Winter) December to February. *During the winter season, the sun rays do not fall directly in the region. As a result, the temperatures are qu

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Class 6 / Geography / India : Climate, Vegetation and Wildlife / Weather, Climate and Seasons

SUMMER

SUMMER Hot weather season * Hot Weather Season (Summer) March to May. * In the hot weather season sun rays more or less directly fall in this region. Temperature becomes very high.

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Class 6 / Geography / India : Climate, Vegetation and Wildlife / Weather, Climate and Seasons

RAINY SEASON

RAINY SEASON Southwest monsoon season * Southwest Monsoon Season (Rainy) June to September. * This season is marked by the onset and advance of the monsoon. The winds blow from Ara

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Class 6 / Geography / India : Climate, Vegetation and Wildlife / Weather, Climate and Seasons

AUTUMN

AUTUMN Season of retreating monsoons * Season of Retreating Monsoon (Autumn) October and November. * Winds move back from the mainland to the Bay of Bengal. This is the season of t

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Class 6 / Geography / India : Climate, Vegetation and Wildlife / Natural Vegetation

WHAT IS NATURAL VEGETATION?

WHAT IS NATURAL VEGETATION? The climate of a place is affected by its location, altitude, distance from the sea, and relief. Therefore, we experience regional differences in the climate of India. J

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Class 6 / Geography / India : Climate, Vegetation and Wildlife / Forests and Wild Life

WHY ARE FORESTS NECESSARY?

WHY ARE FORESTS NECESSARY? Forests are very useful for us. They perform various functions. Plants release oxygen that we breathe and absorb carbon dioxide. The roots of the plants bind the soil; th

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Class 6 / Geography / India : Climate, Vegetation and Wildlife / Forests and Wild Life

WILD LIFE

WILDLIFE Forests are home to a variety of wildlife. There are thousands of species of animals and a large variety of reptiles, amphibians, mammals, birds, insects, and worms which dwell in the fore

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Class 6 / History / What, Where, How And When? / What can we know about the past ?

STORY OF PAST

STORY OF PAST Finding out what happened Yesterday: you could listen to the radio, watch television, read a newspaper. Last year: ask somebody who remembers. But what about long, long ago?

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Class 6 / History / What, Where, How And When? / Where did people live ?

BANKS OF NARMADA, INDUS AND GANGA

BANKS OF NARMADA, INDUS AND GANGA Find the river Narmada on Map 1. People have lived along the banks of this river for several hundred thousand years. Some of the earliest people who lived here

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Class 6 / History / What, Where, How And When? / Where did people live ?

SULAIMAN, KIRTHAR, GARO HILLS AND VINDHYAS

SULAIMAN, KIRTHAR, GARO HILLS AND VINDYAS Now find the Sulaiman and Kirthar hills to the northwest. Some of the areas where women and men first began to grow crops such as wheat and barley abou

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Class 6 / History / What, Where, How And When? / Where did people live ?

WHY DO PEOPLE TRAVEL NOWADAYS?

WHY DO PEOPLE TRAVEL NOWADAYS? Hills, mountains, and seas form the natural frontiers of the subcontinent. While it was difficult to cross these frontiers, those who wanted could and did scale the m

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Class 6 / History / What, Where, How And When? / Where did people live ?

NAMES OF THE LAND

NAMES OF THE LAND Two of the words we often use for our country are India and Bharat. The word India comes from the Indus, called Sindhu in Sanskrit. The Iranians and the Greeks who came through t

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Class 6 / History / What, Where, How And When? / Finding Out About The Past

MANUSCRIPTS

MANUSCRIPTS There are several ways of finding out about the past. One is to search for and read books that were written long ago. These are called manuscripts because they were written by hand (thi

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Class 6 / History / What, Where, How And When? / Finding Out About The Past

INSCRIPTIONS

INSCRIPTIONS We can also study inscriptions. These are writings on relatively hard surfaces such as stone or metal. Sometimes, kings got their orders inscribed so that people could see, read and ob

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Class 6 / History / What, Where, How And When? / Finding Out About The Past

ARCHEOLOGY

ARCHEOLOGY There were many other things that were made and used in the past. Those who study these objects are called archaeologists. They study the remains of buildings made of stone and brick,

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Class 6 / History / What, Where, How And When? / One Past or Many ?

OUR PASTS

OUR PASTS Did you notice the title of this book, Our Pasts? We have used the word ‘pasts’ in the plural to draw attention to the fact that the past was different for different groups of

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Class 6 / History / What, Where, How And When? / What Do Dates Mean ?

BC AND AD

BC AND AD If somebody asks you the date, you will probably mention the day, month, and year, 2000 and something. These years are counted from the date generally assigned to the birth of Jesus

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Class 6 / History / From Hunting–Gathering To Growing Food / Movement of Earliest People

STORY OF HUNTER-GATHERS

STORY OF HUNTER-GATHERS The earliest people: why were they on the move? We know about people who lived in the subcontinent as early as two million years ago. Today, we describe them as hunter

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Class 6 / History / From Hunting–Gathering To Growing Food / Movement of Earliest People

FINDING HUNTER-GATHERS

FINDING HUNTER-GATHERS Archaeologists have found some of the things hunter-gatherers made and used. It is likely that people made and used tools of stone, wood, and bone, of which stone tools have

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Class 6 / History / From Hunting–Gathering To Growing Food / Movement of Earliest People

EVIDENCE OF HUNTER-GATHERS

EVIDENCE OF HUNTER-GATHERS Look at Map below. All the places marked with red triangles are sites from which archaeologists have found evidence of hunter-gatherers. (Hunter-gatherers lived in many m

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Class 6 / History / From Hunting–Gathering To Growing Food / Movement of Earliest People

ROCK PAINTINGS

ROCK PAINTINGS Many of the caves in which these early people lived have paintings on the walls. Some of the best examples are from Madhya Pradesh and southern Uttar Pradesh. These paintings show wi

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Class 6 / History / From Hunting–Gathering To Growing Food / Movement of Earliest People

FINDING OUT ABOUT FIRE

FINDING OUT ABOUT FIRE Traces of ash have been found in Kurnool caves. This suggests that people were familiar with the use of fire. Fire could have been used for many things: as a source of light,

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Class 6 / History / From Hunting–Gathering To Growing Food / Names and Dates

PALAEOLITHIC

PALAEOLITHIC Archaeologists have given lengthy names for the time that we are studying. They call the earliest period the Palaeolithic. This comes from two Greek words, ‘palaeo’, meanin

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Class 6 / History / From Hunting–Gathering To Growing Food / Names and Dates

MESOLITHIC

MESOLITHIC The period when we find environmental changes, beginning about 12,000 years ago till about 10,000 years ago is called the Mesolithic (middle stone). Stone tools found during this period

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Class 6 / History / From Hunting–Gathering To Growing Food / Names and Dates

NEOLITHIC

NEOLITHIC The next stage, from about 10,000 years ago, is known as the Neolithic. What do you think the term Neolithic means? We have also mentioned the names of some places. You will find th

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Class 6 / History / From Hunting–Gathering To Growing Food / The beginning of Farming and Herding

A CHANGING ENVIRONMENT

A CHANGING ENVIRONMENT Around 12,000 years ago, there were major changes in the climate of the world, with a shift to relatively warm conditions. In many areas, this led to the development of grass

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Class 6 / History / From Hunting–Gathering To Growing Food / The beginning of Farming and Herding

START OF FARMING AND HERDING

START OF FARMING AND HERDING This was also a time when several grain bearing grasses, including wheat, barley, and rice grew naturally in different parts of the subcontinent. Men, women, and c

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Class 6 / History / From Hunting–Gathering To Growing Food / The beginning of Farming and Herding

DOMESTICATION

DOMESTICATION Beginnings of domestication (about 12,000 years ago). Domestication is the name given to the process in which people grow plants and look after animals. Very often, plants and anim

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Class 6 / History / From Hunting–Gathering To Growing Food / A New Way of Life

GROWING PLANTS AND STORING ANIMALS

GROWING PLANTS AND STORING ANIMALS If you plant a seed, you will notice that it takes some time to grow. This may be for several days, weeks, months, and in some cases years. When people began

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Class 6 / History / From Hunting–Gathering To Growing Food / A New Way of Life

FINDING FIRST FARMERS AND HERDERS

FINDING FIRST FARMERS AND HERDERS Turn to Map. You will notice a number of blue squares. Each marks a site from where archaeologists have found evidence of early farmers and herders. These are foun

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Class 6 / History / From Hunting–Gathering To Growing Food / A New Way of Life

TOWARDS A SETTLED LIFE

TOWARDS A SETTLED LIFE Archaeologists have found traces of huts or houses at some sites. For instance, in Burzahom (in present-day Kashmir) people built pit-houses, which were dug into the ground,

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Class 6 / History / From Hunting–Gathering To Growing Food / A New Way of Life

LIVING AND DYING IN MEHRGARH

LIVING AND DYING IN MEHRGARH Beginning of settlement at Mehrgarh (about 8000 years ago). Mehrgarh is located in a fertile plain, near the Bolan Pass, which is one of the most important rout

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Class 6 / History / In The Earliest Cities / The Story of Harappa

A STORY TO TELL

A STORY TO TELL Very often, old buildings have a story to tell. Nearly a hundred and fifty years ago, when railway lines were being laid down for the first time in Punjab, engineers stumbled upon t

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Class 6 / History / In The Earliest Cities / The Story of Harappa

SPECIAL ABOUT THESE CITIES

SPECIAL ABOUT THESE CITIES Many of these cities were divided into two or more parts. Usually, the part to the west was smaller but higher. Archaeologists describe this as the citadel. Generally, th

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Class 6 / History / In The Earliest Cities / The Story of Harappa

HOUSES, DRAINS AND STREETS

HOUSES, DRAINS AND STREETS Generally, houses were either one or two storeys high, with rooms built around a courtyard. Most houses had a separate bathing area, and some had wells to supply water.

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Class 6 / History / In The Earliest Cities / The Story of Harappa

LIFE IN THE CITY

LIFE IN THE CITY A Harappan city was a very busy place. There were people who planned the construction of special buildings in the city. These were probably the rulers. It is likely that the rulers

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Class 6 / History / In The Earliest Cities / New Crafts, Raw Materials and Food

NEW CRAFTS IN THE CITY

NEW CRAFTS IN THE CITY Let us look at some of the objects that were made and found in Harappan cities. Most of the things that have been found by archaeologists are made of stone, shell, and metal,

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Class 6 / History / In The Earliest Cities / New Crafts, Raw Materials and Food

IN SEARCH OF RAW MATERIALS

IN SEARCH OF RAW MATERIALS Raw materials are substances that are either found naturally (such as wood, or ores of metals) or produced by farmers or herders. These are then processed to produce fini

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Class 6 / History / In The Earliest Cities / New Crafts, Raw Materials and Food

FOOD FOR PEOPLE IN THE CITIES

FOOD FOR PEOPLE IN THE CITIES While many people lived in the cities, others living in the countryside grew crops and reared animals. These farmers and herders supplied food to craftspersons, scribe

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Class 6 / History / In The Earliest Cities / Harappan Towns in Gujarat

A CLOSER LOOK

A CLOSER LOOK The city of Dholavira was located on Khadir Beyt (also spelled as Bet) in the Rann of Kutch, where there were freshwater and fertile soil. Unlike some of the other Harappan cities, wh

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Class 6 / History / In The Earliest Cities / Decline of Harappa

THE MYSTERY OF THE END

THE MYSTERY OF THE END Around 3900 years ago we find the beginning of a major change. People stopped living in many of the cities. Writing, seals and weights were no longer used. Raw materials brou

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Class 6 / History / What Books And Burial Tell Us / Vedas

ONE OF THE OLDEST BOOKS IN THE WORLD

ONE OF THE OLDEST BOOKS IN THE WORLD You may have heard about the Vedas. There are four of them – the Rigveda, Samaveda, Yajurveda, and Atharvaveda. Activity: Find out whether you

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Class 6 / History / What Books And Burial Tell Us / Rigveda

SAGES AND SUKTA

SAGES AND SUKTA The oldest Veda is the Rigveda, composed about 3500 years ago. The Rigveda includes more than a thousand hymns, called sukta or “well-said”. These hymns are in praise of

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Class 6 / History / What Books And Burial Tell Us / Rigveda

HOW HISTORIANS STUDY THE RIGVEDA

HOW HISTORIANS STUDY THE RIGVEDA Historians, like archaeologists, find out about the past, but, in addition to material remains, they examine written sources as well. Let us see how they study the

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Class 6 / History / What Books And Burial Tell Us / Rigveda

CATTLE, HORSES AND CHARIOTS

CATTLE, HORSES AND CHARIOTS There are many prayers in the Rigveda for cattle, children (especially sons), and horses. Horses were yoked to chariots that were used in battles, which were fought to c

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Class 6 / History / What Books And Burial Tell Us / Rigveda

WORDS TO DESCRIBE PEOPLE

WORDS TO DESCRIBE PEOPLE There are several ways of describing people — in terms of the work they do, the language they speak, the place they belong to, their family, their communities, and cu

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Class 6 / History / What Books And Burial Tell Us / Silent Sentinels

THE STORY OF THE MEGALITHS

THE STORY OF THE MEGALITHS Look at the Figure below. These stone boulders are known as megaliths (literally big stones). These were carefully arranged by people and were used to mark burial

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Class 6 / History / What Books And Burial Tell Us / Silent Sentinels

FINDING OUT ABOUT SOCIAL DIFFERENCES

FINDING OUT ABOUT SOCIAL DIFFERENCES Archaeologists think that objects found with a skeleton probably belonged to the dead person. Sometimes, more objects are found in one grave than in another. In

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Class 6 / History / What Books And Burial Tell Us / Silent Sentinels

FAMILY BURIAL SPOTS

FAMILY BURIAL SPOTS Sometimes, megaliths contain more than one skeleton. These indicate that people, perhaps belonging to the same family, were buried in the same place though not at the same time.

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Class 6 / History / What Books And Burial Tell Us / Silent Sentinels

A SPECIAL BURIAL AT INAMGAON

A SPECIAL BURIAL AT INAMGAON Inamgaon is a site on the river Ghod, a tributary of the Bhima. It was occupied between 3600 and 2700 years ago. Here, adults were generally buried in the ground, laid

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Class 6 / History / What Books And Burial Tell Us / Silent Sentinels

OCCUPATIONS AT INAMGAON

OCCUPATIONS AT INAMGAON Archaeologists have found seeds of wheat, barley, rice, pulses, millets, peas, and sesame. Bones of a number of animals, many bearing cut marks that show they may have been

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Class 6 / History / Kingdoms, Kings And An Early Republic / Rulers

HOW SOME MEN BECAME RULERS?

HOW SOME MEN BECAME RULERS? Choosing leaders or rulers by voting is something that has become common during the last fifty years or so. How did men become rulers in the past? Some of the rajas we r

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Class 6 / History / Kingdoms, Kings And An Early Republic / Rulers

VARNAS

VARNAS We have many books that were composed in north India, especially in the areas drained by the Ganga and the Yamuna, during this period. These books are often called later Vedic because they w

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Class 6 / History / Kingdoms, Kings And An Early Republic / Janapadas to Mahajanapadas

JANAPADAS

JANAPADAS The rajas who performed these big sacrifices were now recognized as being rajas of janapadas rather than Janas. The word janapada literally means the land where the Jana set its foot and

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Class 6 / History / Kingdoms, Kings And An Early Republic / Janapadas to Mahajanapadas

MAHAJANAPADAS

MAHAJANAPADAS About 2500 years ago, some janapadas became more important than others and were known as mahajanapadas. Some of these are shown on Map. Most mahajanapadas had a capital city, many of

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Class 6 / History / Kingdoms, Kings And An Early Republic / Janapadas to Mahajanapadas

TAXES

TAXES As the rulers of the mahajanapadas were (a)building huge forts (b) maintaining big armies, they needed more resources. And they needed officials to collect these. So, instead of depending on

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Class 6 / History / Kingdoms, Kings And An Early Republic / Janapadas to Mahajanapadas

CHANGE IN AGRICULTURE

CHANGE IN AGRICULTURE There were two major changes in agriculture around this time. One was the growing use of iron ploughshare. This meant that heavy, clayey soil could be turned over better than

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Class 6 / History / Kingdoms, Kings And An Early Republic / Mahajanapada - A Closer Look

MAGADHA

MAGADHA Magadha became the most important mahajanapada in about two hundred years. Many rivers such as the Ganga and Son flowed through Magadha. This was important for (a) transport, (b) water supp

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Class 6 / History / Kingdoms, Kings And An Early Republic / Mahajanapada - A Closer Look

VAJJI

VAJJI While Magadha became a powerful kingdom, Vajji, with its capital at Vaishali (Bihar), was under a different form of government, known as Gana or sangha. In a gana or a sangha there were no

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Class 6 / History / Kingdoms, Kings And An Early Republic / Mahajanapada - A Closer Look

AJATASTTU AND THE VAJJIS

AJATASTTU AND THE VAJJIS This is an account of the Vajjis from the Digha Nikaya, a famous Buddhist book, which contains some of the speeches of the Buddha. These were written down about 2300 years

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Class 6 / History / New Questions And Ideas / The Story of the Buddha

FROM SIDDHARTHA TO BUDDHA

FROM SIDDHARTHA TO BUDDHA Siddhartha, also known as Gautama, the founder of Buddhism, was born about 2500 years ago. This was a time of rapid change in the lives of people. As you saw in Chapter 5(

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Class 6 / History / New Questions And Ideas / The Story of the Buddha

BUDDHA TEACHINGS

BUDDHA TEACHINGS The Buddha taught that life is full of suffering and unhappiness. This is caused because we have cravings and desires (which often cannot be fulfilled). Sometimes, even if we get w

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Class 6 / History / New Questions And Ideas / The Story of the Buddha

THE STORY OF KISAGOTAMI

THE STORY OF KISAGOTAMI Here is a famous story about the Buddha. Once there was a woman named Kisagotami, whose son had died. She was so sad that she roamed through the streets of the city carry

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Class 6 / History / New Questions And Ideas / Indian Philosophy

SIX SCHOOLS OF INDIAN PHILOSOPHY

SIX SCHOOLS OF INDIAN PHILOSOPHY Over centuries, India’s intellectual exploration of truth has come to be represented by six systems of philosophy. These are known as Vaishesika, Nyaya, Samkh

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UPANISHADS

UPANISHADS Around the time that the Buddha was preaching and perhaps a little earlier, other thinkers also tried to find answers to difficult questions. Some of them wanted to know about life after

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JAINISM

JAINISM The last and 24th tirthankara of the Jainas, Vardhamana Mahavira, also spread his message around this time, i.e. 2500 years ago. He was a kshatriya prince of the Lichchhavis, a group that w

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THE SANGHA

THE SANGHA Both the Mahavira and the Buddha felt that only those who left their homes could gain true knowledge. They arranged for them to stay together in the sangha, an association of those who l

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Class 6 / History / New Questions And Ideas / Shelters

MONASTERIES

MONASTERIES To begin with, both Jaina and Buddhist monks went from place to place throughout the year, teaching people. The only time they stayed in one place was during the rainy season, when it w

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Class 6 / History / New Questions And Ideas / Shelters

THE SYSTEM OF ASHRAMAS

THE SYSTEM OF ASHRAMAS Around the time when Jainism and Buddhism were becoming popular,brahmins developed the system of ashramas. Here, the word ashrama does not mean a place where people live a

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Class 6 / History / Ashoka, The Emperor Who Gave Up War / A Very Big Kingdom

AN EMPIRE

AN EMPIRE The lions that we see on our notes and coins have a long history. They were carved in stone and placed on top of a massive stone pillar at Sarnath (about which you read in Chapter 6(

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Class 6 / History / Ashoka, The Emperor Who Gave Up War / A Very Big Kingdom

RULING THE EMPIRE

RULING THE EMPIRE As the empire was so large, different parts were ruled differently. The area around Pataliputra was under the direct control of the emperor. This meant that officials were appoint

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Class 6 / History / Ashoka, The Emperor Who Gave Up War / A Very Big Kingdom

THE EMPEROR AND THE CAPITAL CITY

THE EMPEROR AND THE CAPITAL CITY Megasthenes was an ambassador who was sent to the court of Chandragupta by the Greek ruler of West Asia named Seleucus Nicator. Megasthenes wrote an account abou

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Class 6 / History / Ashoka, The Emperor Who Gave Up War / Ashoka - The Great

ASHOKA, A UNIQUE RULER

ASHOKA, A UNIQUE RULER The most famous Mauryan ruler was Ashoka. He was the first ruler who tried to take his message to the people through inscriptions. Most of Ashoka’s inscriptions were in

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Class 6 / History / Ashoka, The Emperor Who Gave Up War / Ashoka - The Great

ASHOKA’S KALINGA WAR AND INSCRIPTION

ASHOKA’S KALINGA WAR AND INSCRIPTION Kalinga is the ancient name of coastal Orissa. Ashoka fought a war to conquer Kalinga. However, he was so horrified when he saw the violence and bloodshed

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Class 6 / History / Ashoka, The Emperor Who Gave Up War / Ashoka - The Great

WHAT WAS ASHOKAS’S DHAMMA

WHAT WAS ASHOKAS’S DHAMMA Ashoka’s dhamma did not involve the worship of a god, or performance of a sacrifice. He felt that just as a father tries to teach his children, he had a duty t

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Class 6 / History / Ashoka, The Emperor Who Gave Up War / Ashoka - The Great

ASHOKA’S MESSAGES

ASHOKA’S MESSAGES “People perform a variety of rituals when they fall ill when their children get married when children are born, or when they go on a journey. These rituals are not

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Class 6 / History / Vital Villages, Thriving Towns / Agriculture and Irrigation

TOOLS AND TRANSPLANTATION

TOOLS AND TRANSPLANTATION We often take the use of iron for granted today. Things made of iron (and steel) are a part of our daily lives. The use of iron began in the subcontinent around 3000 years

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Class 6 / History / Vital Villages, Thriving Towns / Who Lived in The Villages ?

THE VILLAGE HEADMAN

THE VILLAGE HEADMAN There were at least three different kinds of people living in most villages in the southern and northern parts of the subcontinent. In the Tamil region, large landowners were k

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Class 6 / History / Vital Villages, Thriving Towns / Finding Out About Cities

STORIES AND TRAVELLERS

STORIES AND TRAVELLERS You may have heard of the Jatakas. These were stories that were probably composed by ordinary people, and then written down and preserved by Buddhist monks. Here is part of

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Class 6 / History / Vital Villages, Thriving Towns / Finding Out About Cities

SCULPTURE AND ARCHAEOLOGY

SCULPTURE AND ARCHAEOLOGY We can use other kinds of evidence to find out about life in some of these early cities. Sculptors carved scenes depicting peoples’ lives in towns and villages, as

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Class 6 / History / Vital Villages, Thriving Towns / Means of Exchange

COINS

COINS You may have noticed how wealth is measured in terms of coins in the story (The clever poor man). Archaeologists have found several thousands of coins belonging to this period. The earliest

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Class 6 / History / Vital Villages, Thriving Towns / Cities With Many Functions

MATHURA – AN EXAMPLE

MATHURA – AN EXAMPLE Very often, a single town was important for a variety of reasons. Let us look at the example of Mathura (see in Map). Mathura has been an important settlement for

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Class 6 / History / Vital Villages, Thriving Towns / Crafts and Crafts Persons

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE FOR CRAFTS

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE FOR CRAFTS We also have archaeological evidence for crafts. These include extremely fine pottery, known as the Northern Black Polished Ware (NBPW). It gets its name from th

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Class 6 / History / Vital Villages, Thriving Towns / Crafts and Crafts Persons

RULES FOR SPINNING AND WEAVING

RULES FOR SPINNING AND WEAVING These rules are from the Arthashastra, mentioned in Chapter 7(ASHOKA, THE EMPEROR WHO GAVE UP WAR). They describe how spinning and weaving could be done in workshops

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Class 6 / History / Vital Villages, Thriving Towns / Arikamedu

ARIKAMEDU – ITS CLOSER LOOK

ARIKAMEDU – ITS CLOSER LOOK Between 2200 and 1900 years ago, Arikamedu was a coastal settlement where ships unloaded goods from distant lands. A massive brick structure, which may have been

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Class 6 / History / Traders, Kings And Pilgrims / Finding Trade and Traders

EVIDENCE OF TRADE AND TRADERS

EVIDENCE OF TRADE AND TRADERS You read about the Northern Black Polished Ware in Chapter 8(VITAL VILLAGES, THRIVING TOWNS). This fine pottery, especially bowls and plates, were found from several a

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Class 6 / History / Traders, Kings And Pilgrims / Costal Kingdoms

STORY OF CHOLAS, CHERAS, AND PANDYAS

STORY OF CHOLAS, CHERAS, AND PANDYAS The southern half of the subcontinent is marked by a long coastline, and with hills, plateaus, and river valleys. Amongst the river valleys, that of the Kaveri

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Class 6 / History / Traders, Kings And Pilgrims / Costal Kingdoms

SATAVAHANAS

SATAVAHANAS Around 200 years later a dynasty known as the Satavahanas became powerful in western India (see Map). The most important ruler of the Satavahanas was Gautamiputra Shri Satakarni. We kno

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Class 6 / History / Traders, Kings And Pilgrims / The Story of the Silk Route

INVENTION OF SILK

INVENTION OF SILK The rich, glossy colours of silk, as well as its smooth texture, make it a highly valued fabric in most societies. Making silk is a complicated process. Raw silk has to be extract

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Class 6 / History / Traders, Kings And Pilgrims / The Story of the Silk Route

SILK ROUTE

SILK ROUTE Look at Map which shows the Silk Route and its branches. Some kings tried to control large portions of the route. This was because they could benefit from taxes, tributes, and gifts that

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Class 6 / History / Traders, Kings And Pilgrims / The Spread of Buddhism

FROM BIOGRAPHY TO STATUES

FROM BIOGRAPHY TO STATUES The most famous Kushana ruler was Kanishka, who ruled around 1900 years ago. He organised a Buddhist council, where scholars met and discussed important matters. Ashvag

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Class 6 / History / Traders, Kings And Pilgrims / The Spread of Buddhism

BODHISATTVAS

BODHISATTVAS The second change was a belief in Bodhisattvas. These were supposed to be persons who had attained enlightenment. Once they attained enlightenment, they could live in complete iso

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Class 6 / History / Traders, Kings And Pilgrims / The Quest of The Pilgrims

JOURNEY OF FA XIAN, XUAN ZANG AND I-QING

JOURNEY OF FA XIAN, XUAN ZANG, AND I-QING As traders journeyed to distant lands in caravans and ships, pilgrims often travelled with them. The best-known of these are the Chinese Buddhist pilgri

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Class 6 / History / Traders, Kings And Pilgrims / The Quest of The Pilgrims

NALANDA – A UNIQUE LEARNING CENTER

NALANDA – A UNIQUE LEARNING CENTER Xuan Zang and other pilgrims spent time studying in Nalanda, (Bihar) the most famous Buddhist monastery of the period. This is how he describes it: &ldqu

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Class 6 / History / Traders, Kings And Pilgrims / The Beginning of Bhakti

IDEA OF BHAKTI

IDEA OF BHAKTI This was also the time when the worship of certain deities, which became a central feature of later Hinduism, gained in importance. These deities included Shiva, Vishnu, and goddesse

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Class 6 / History / Traders, Kings And Pilgrims / The Beginning of Bhakti

BHAKTI AND POEM BY A BHAKTA

BHAKTI AND POEM BY A BHAKTA Bhakti Bhakti comes from the Sanskrit term bhaj meaning ‘to divide or share.’ This suggests an intimate, two-way relationship between the deity and the de

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Class 6 / History / New Empires And Kingdoms / Prashastis and What They Tell Us ?

SAMUDRAGUPTA’S PRASHASTI

SAMUDRAGUPTA’S PRASHASTI Arvind was supposed to be acting as Samudragupta, a famous ruler of a dynasty known as the Guptas. We know about Samudragupta from a long inscription, inscribed on th

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Class 6 / History / New Empires And Kingdoms / Prashastis and What They Tell Us ?

SAMUDRAGUPTA’S POLICIES

SAMUDRAGUPTA’S POLICIES If you look at Map, you will notice an area shaded in green. You will also find a series of red dots along the east coast. And you will find areas marked in purple an

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Class 6 / History / New Empires And Kingdoms / Prashastis and What They Tell Us ?

Genealogies

GENEALOGIES Most prashastis also mention the ancestors of the ruler. This one mentions Samudragupta’s great grandfather, grandfather, father and mother. His mother, Kumara Devi, belonged to t

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Class 6 / History / New Empires And Kingdoms / Harshavardhana and The Harshacharita

BIOGRPHY – THE HARSHACHARITA

BIOGRAPHY – THE HARSHACHARITA While we can learn about the Gupta rulers from their inscriptions and coins, we can find out about some kings from biographies. Harshavardhana, who ruled nearly

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Class 6 / History / New Empires And Kingdoms / The Pallavas, Chalukyas and Pulakeshin’s Prashasti

PALLAVAS VS CHALUKYAS

PALLAVAS VS CHALUKYAS The Pallavas and Chalukyas were the most important ruling dynasties in south India during this period. The kingdom of the Pallavas spread from the region around their capital,

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Class 6 / History / New Empires And Kingdoms / The Pallavas, Chalukyas and Pulakeshin’s Prashasti

PULAKESHIN II BIOGRAPHY

PULAKESHIN II BIOGRAPHY The best-known Chalukya ruler was Pulakeshin II. We know about him from a prashasti, composed by his court poet Ravikirti. This tells us about his ancestors, who are traced

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Class 6 / History / New Empires And Kingdoms / Administration Of Kingdoms

STEPS ADOPTED 

STEPS ADOPTED  As in the case of earlier kings, land revenue remained important for these rulers, and the village remained the basic unit of administration. There were some new developments a

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A NEW KIND OF ARMY

A NEW KIND OF ARMY Like earlier rulers, some of these kings maintained a well-organised army, with elephants, chariots, cavalry and foot soldiers. Besides, there were military leaders who provided

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Class 6 / History / New Empires And Kingdoms / Administration Of Kingdoms

ASSEMBLIES

ASSEMBLIES The inscriptions of the Pallavas mention a number of local assemblies. These included the sabha, which was an assembly of brahmin landowners. This assembly functioned through subcommitte

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Class 6 / History / New Empires And Kingdoms / Administration Of Kingdoms

ORDINARY PEOPLE

ORDINARY PEOPLE We can catch an occasional glimpse of the lives of ordinary people from plays, and other accounts. Let us look at some of these. 1. Kalidasa is known for his plays depicting life

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Class 6 / History / New Empires And Kingdoms / Administration Of Kingdoms

THE KING’S ARMY

THE KING’S ARMY Banabhatta provides us with a vivid picture of the king’s army on the move: The king travelled with an enormous amount of equipment. Apart from weapons, there were th

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Class 6 / History / Buildings, Paintings And Books / History of Metallurgy

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXCAVATIONS

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXCAVATIONS Ancient Indian metallurgists made major contributions to the metallurgical history of the world. Archaeological excavations have shown that the Harappans were master craf

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Class 6 / History / Buildings, Paintings And Books / History of Metallurgy

THE IRON PILLAR ON PILLAR

THE IRON PILLAR ON PILLAR The iron pillar at Mehrauli, Delhi, is a remarkable example of the skill of Indian craftspersons. It is made of iron, 7.2. m high, and weighs over 3 tonnes. It was made ab

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Class 6 / History / Buildings, Paintings And Books / Buildings in Brick and Stone

STUPAS

STUPAS The skills of our craftspersons are also apparent in the buildings that have survived, such as stupas. The word stupa means a mound. While there are several kinds of stupas, round and tall,

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Class 6 / History / Buildings, Paintings And Books / Buildings in Brick and Stone

GARBHAGRIHA, SHIKHARA AND MANDAPA

GARBHAGRIHA, SHIKHARA AND MANDAPA Some of the earliest Hindu temples were also built at this time. Deities such as Vishnu, Shiva, and Durga were worshipped in these shrines. The most important part

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Class 6 / History / Buildings, Paintings And Books / How were Stupas and Temples Built ?

AN EXPENSIVE AFFAIR

AN EXPENSIVE AFFAIR There were several stages in building a stupa or a temple. Usually, kings or queens decided to build these as it was an expensive affair. First, the good quality stone had to be

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Class 6 / History / Buildings, Paintings And Books / How were Stupas and Temples Built ?

PAINTING

PAINTING Ajanta is a place where several caves were hollowed out of the hills over centuries. Most of these were monasteries for Buddhist monks, and some of them were decorated with paintings. Here

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Class 6 / History / Buildings, Paintings And Books / The World of Books

SILAPPADIKARAM AND MANIMEKALAI

SILAPPADIKARAM AND MANIMEKALAI Some of the best–known epics were written during this period. Epics are grand, long compositions, about heroic men and women, and include stories about gods.

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Class 6 / History / Buildings, Paintings And Books / The World of Books

MEGHADUTA

MEGHADUTA Other writers, such as Kalidasa, (about whom you read in Chapter 10(NEW EMPIRES AND KINGDOMS)) wrote in Sanskrit. Here is a verse from Kalidasa’s best-known poem, the Meghaduta,

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Class 6 / History / Buildings, Paintings And Books / The World of Books

RECORDING AND PRESERVING OLD STORIES

RECORDING AND PRESERVING OLD STORIES A number of Hindu religious stories that were in circulation earlier were written down around the same time. These include the Puranas. Purana literally means o

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Class 6 / History / Buildings, Paintings And Books / The World of Books

STORIES BY ORDINARY PEOPLE – THE MONKEY KING

STORIES BY ORDINARY PEOPLE – THE MONKEY KING Ordinary people also told stories, composed poems and songs, sang, danced, and performed plays. Some of these are preserved in collections of stor

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Class 6 / History / Buildings, Paintings And Books / The World of Books

WRITING BOOKS ON SCIENCE

WRITING BOOKS ON SCIENCE This was also the time when Aryabhata, a mathematician, and astronomer, wrote a book in Sanskrit known as the Aryabhatiyam. He stated that day and night were caused by the

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Class 6 / Social And Political Life / Diversity and Discrimination / Difference and Prejudice

WHAT IS DIFFERENCE AND PREJUDICE?

WHAT IS DIFFERENCE AND PREJUDICE? There are many things that make us what we are – how we live, the languages we speak, what we eat, wear, the games we play, and the things we celebrate. A

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Class 6 / Social And Political Life / Diversity and Discrimination / Difference and Prejudice

CREATING STEREOTYPES

CREATING STEREOTYPES All of us are familiar with gender differences. What does it mean to be a boy or a girl? Many of you would say, "We are born as boys and girls. It is a given. What is ther

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Class 6 / Social And Political Life / Diversity and Discrimination / Inequality and Discrimination

REASONS FOR INEQUALITY AND DISCRIMINATION

REASONS FOR INEQUALITY AND DISCRIMINATION Discrimination happens when people act on their prejudices or stereotypes. If you do something to put other people down, if you stop them from taking part

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Class 6 / Social And Political Life / Diversity and Discrimination / Inequality and Discrimination

ON BEING DISCRIMINATED AGAINST

ON BEING DISCRIMINATED AGAINST People are engaged in different kinds of work like teaching, carpentry, pottery, weaving, fishing, farming, etc. to earn a livelihood. However, certain kinds of work

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Class 6 / Social And Political Life / Diversity and Discrimination / Inequality and Discrimination

ABOUT BHIM RAO AMBEDKAR

ABOUT BHIM RAO AMBEDKAR Dr. Bhim Rao Ambedkar (1891-1956) is considered the father of the Indian Constitution and is also the best-known leader of the Dalits. Dr. Ambedkar fought for the rights of

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SAD JOURNEY OF AMBEDKAR

SAD JOURNEY OF AMBEDKAR Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar, one of the greatest leaders of India, shares his first experience of caste-based discrimination, which took place in 1901 when he was just nine years o

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Class 6 / Social And Political Life / Diversity and Discrimination / Striving for Equality

INEQUALITY VS EQUALITY

INEQUALITY VS EQUALITY The struggle for freedom from British rule also included within it the struggle of large groups of people who not only fought against the British but also fought to be treate

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Class 6 / Social And Political Life / Urban Livelihoods / Working on the Street

LIFE ON THE STREET

LIFE ON THE STREET There are more than five thousand towns and twenty-seven big cities in India. Big cities like Chennai, Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata, etc. have more than a million people living and wor

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Class 6 / Social And Political Life / Urban Livelihoods / Working on the Street

LIFE OF BACHCHU MANJHI

LIFE OF BACHCHU MANJHI I, BACHCHU MANJHI come from a village in Bihar where I worked as a mason. My wife and three children live in the village. We don't own land. In the village, I did not get

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Class 6 / Social And Political Life / Urban Livelihoods / Working on the Street

VENDORS AND SERVICES

VENDORS AND SERVICES Provide a service Like Bachchu Manjhi a large number of people in the city work on the streets. In a survey of Ahmedabad city, it was found that 12 percent of all the worker

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Class 6 / Social And Political Life / Urban Livelihoods / Market

IN THE MARKET

IN THE MARKET When we reached the market the shops were just beginning to open. But the place was already crowded because of the festival season. There were rows and rows of shops selling sweets, t

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HARPREET AND VANDANA: BUSINESSPERSONS

HARPREET AND VANDANA: BUSINESSPERSONS My father and uncle worked in a small shop. During festival times and on Sundays my mother and I helped them in the shop. I started working there only after I

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Class 6 / Social And Political Life / Urban Livelihoods / Work in the Factory

IN THE FACTORY – WORKSHOP AREA

IN THE FACTORY – WORKSHOP AREA I wanted to have zari work done on one of my dresses which I needed for a special occasion. My cousin said that she knew Nirmala who works in a garment factory.

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Class 6 / Social And Political Life / Urban Livelihoods / Office Work

WORKS IN THE OFFICE

WORKS IN THE OFFICE My aunt, Sudha works as a Marketing Manager. She had asked us to reach her office before 5.30 p.m. We thought we'd get late so we took an autorickshaw that managed to get us

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Class 6 / Social And Political Life / Rural Livelihoods / Kalpattu Village

ABOUT KALPATTU VILLAGE

ABOUT KALPATTU VILLAGE Kalpattu is a village that's close to the sea coast in Tamil Nadu. People here do many kinds of work. As in other villages, here too there is non-farm work such as making

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Class 6 / Social And Political Life / Rural Livelihoods / Kalpattu Village

THULASI

THULASI All of us here work on Ramalingam's land. He has twenty acres of paddy fields in Kalpattu. Even before I was married I used to work on paddy fields in my parental village. I work from 8

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Class 6 / Social And Political Life / Rural Livelihoods / Kalpattu Village

SEKAR

SEKAR We have to carry this paddy to our house. My family has just finished harvesting our field. We don't own much land, only two acres. We manage to do all the work on our own. At times, espe

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Class 6 / Social And Political Life / Rural Livelihoods / Kalpattu Village

RAMALINGAM AND KARUTHAMMA

RAMALINGAM AND KARUTHAMMA In addition to land, Ramalingam’s family owns a rice mill and a shop selling seeds, pesticides, etc. For the rice mill, they used some of their own money and also bo

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Class 6 / Social And Political Life / Rural Livelihoods / Kalpattu Village

ON BEING IN DEBT

ON BEING IN DEBT As you've read previous topics, very often farmers like Sekar need to borrow money to purchase basic things like seeds, fertilisers, and pesticides. Often they borrow this mone

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Class 6 / Social And Political Life / Rural Livelihoods / Agricultural Labourers and Farmers in India

FAMILIES OF AGRICULTURAL LABOURERS AND FARMERS

FAMILIES OF AGRICULTURAL LABOURERS AND FARMERS In Kalpattu village there are agricultural labourers like Thulasi, and many small farmers like Sekar, and a few big farmers like Ramalingam. In India,

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Class 6 / Social And Political Life / Rural Livelihoods / Agricultural Labourers and Farmers in India

ARUNA AND PAARIVELAN

ARUNA AND PAARIVELAN In the coastal areas, we find fishing villages. Let us find out more about the lives of a fishing family by reading about Aruna and Paarivelan who live in Pudupet, a village cl

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Class 6 / Social And Political Life / Rural Livelihoods / Agricultural Labourers and Farmers in India

RURAL LIVELIHOODS

RURAL LIVELIHOODS People in rural areas earn their living in various ways. Some work on farms while others earn their living on non- farm activities. Working on farms involves operations such as pr

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Class 6 / Social And Political Life / Urban Administration / Introduction to Urban Administration

ROLE OF URBAN ADMINISTRATION

ROLE OF URBAN ADMINISTRATION A city is much bigger than a village and more spread out. A city has crowded markets, many buses and cars, water and electricity facilities, traffic control, and hospit

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Class 6 / Social And Political Life / Urban Administration / Introduction to Urban Administration

THE WARD COUNCILLOR AND ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF

THE WARD COUNCILLOR AND ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF "Yasmin Khala, I'm curious. Who decides where a park should go to? Did you have to make interesting decisions like this when you worked in the

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Class 6 / Social And Political Life / Urban Administration / Introduction to Urban Administration

HOW DOES THE MUNICIPAL CORPORATION GET ITS MONEY?

HOW DOES THE MUNICIPAL CORPORATION GET ITS MONEY? Providing and running so many services requires a lot of money. The Municipal Corporation collects this in different ways. A tax is a sum of money

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Class 6 / Social And Political Life / Urban Administration / A Community Protest

GANGABAI’S STORY

GANGABAI’S STORY Yasmin Khala continued, "The women were very unhappy about the situation and even came to me for advice.  I said I could try and speak with some officers in the dep

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Class 6 / Social And Political Life / Urban Administration / A Community Protest

PALGUE SCARE IN SURAT

PALGUE SCARE IN SURAT The city of Surat had a plague scare in 1994. Surat was one of the dirtiest cities in India. Houses, hotels, and restaurants would dump their garbage into the nearest drain or

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Class 6 / Social And Political Life / Rural Administration / Introduction to Rural Administration

A QUARREL IN THE VILLAGE

A QUARREL IN THE VILLAGE Mohan is a farmer. His family owns a small agricultural field, which they have been farming for many years. Next to his field is Raghu's land which is separated from hi

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Class 6 / Social And Political Life / Rural Administration / Introduction to Rural Administration

AREA OF THE POLICE STATION

AREA OF THE POLICE STATION On the way to the police station, one of the neighbours asked, "Why don't we spend some more money and go to the main police station in the town?" "

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Class 6 / Social And Political Life / Rural Administration / Introduction to Rural Administration

THE WORK AT THE POLICE STATION

THE WORK AT THE POLICE STATION When they reached the police station Mohan went to the person in charge (Station House Officer or S.H.O.) and told him what had happened. He also said that he wanted

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Class 6 / Social And Political Life / Rural Administration / Patwari

MAINTENANCE OF LAND RECORDS

MAINTENANCE OF LAND RECORDS Measuring land and keeping land records is the main work of the Patwari. The Patwari is known by different names in different states - in some villages, such officers ar

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Class 6 / Social And Political Life / Rural Administration / Patwari

SUPERVISION OF PATWARI WORKS

SUPERVISION OF PATWARI WORKS Keeping track of all the crops grown in this area, organising the collection of land revenue from the farmers is the work of the revenue department of the government. S

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Class 6 / Social And Political Life / Rural Administration / Hindu Succession Amendment Act, 2005

A NEW LAW

A NEW LAW (Hindu Succession Amendment Act, 2005) Often when we think of farmers who own land, we think of men. Women are seen as people who work in the fields, but not as people who own agricult

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Class 6 / Social And Political Life / Panchayati Raj / Gram Sabha

WHAT IS GRAM SABHA?

WHAT IS GRAM SABHA? The Gram Sabha is a meeting of all adults who live in the area covered by a Panchayat. This could be only one village or a few villages. In some states, as in the example above,

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Class 6 / Social And Political Life / Panchayati Raj / Gram Sabha

PROBLEMS USUALLY DISCUSSED

PROBLEMS USUALLY DISCUSSED It's a special day today! Everyone's rushing to get to the Gram Sabha!  Do you know why? Because the Gram Sabha is holding its first meeting after the electi

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Class 6 / Social And Political Life / Panchayati Raj / The Gram Panchayat

ROLE OF THE GRAM PANCHAYAT

ROLE OF THE GRAM PANCHAYAT The Gram Panchayat meets regularly and one of its main tasks is to implement development programmes for all villages that come under it. As you have seen, the work of the

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Class 6 / Social And Political Life / Panchayati Raj / The Gram Panchayat

THREE LEVELS OF PANCHAYATS

THREE LEVELS OF PANCHAYATS After reading about what happened in the Gram Sabha and the Gram Panchayat in Hardas village you can understand that the Panchayati Raj System is a process through which

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Class 6 / Social And Political Life / Key Elements of a Democratic Goverment / South Africa - The Democratic Country

NELSON MANDELA VS APARTHEID LAWS

NELSON MANDELA VS APARTHEID LAWS South Africa is a country that has people of several races. There are black people who belong to South Africa, whites who came there to settle, and Indians who came

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Class 6 / Social And Political Life / Key Elements of a Democratic Goverment / Elections

PARTICIPATION

PARTICIPATION Why do we have regular elections? You've already read in the previous chapter that people make decisions in a democracy. Through voting in elections, people elect leaders to repre

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Class 6 / Social And Political Life / Key Elements of a Democratic Goverment / Elections

OTHER WAYS OF PARTICIPATING

OTHER WAYS OF PARTICIPATING Elections are usually held once in five years. Besides voting, there are other ways of participating in the process of government. People participate by taking an intere

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Class 6 / Social And Political Life / Key Elements of a Democratic Goverment / Resolving Conflicts

ROLE OF GOVERNMENT

ROLE OF GOVERNMENT In Maya's story, you read about how conflicts can often lead to violence and death because one group decides that it is all right to use force to prevent the other group from

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Class 6 / Social And Political Life / Key Elements of a Democratic Goverment / Resolving Conflicts

EQUALITY AND JUSTICE

EQUALITY AND JUSTICE One of the key ideas of a democratic government is its commitment to equality and justice. Equality and justice are inseparable. The earlier practice of untouchability is no

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Class 6 / Social And Political Life / What is Government? / Government – The Decision Maker

ROLE OF GOVERNMENT

ROLE OF GOVERNMENT Every country needs a government to make decisions and get things done. These can be decisions about where to build roads and schools, or how to reduce the price of onions when t

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Class 6 / Social And Political Life / What is Government? / Government – The Decision Maker

LAWS AND THE GOVERNMENT

LAWS AND THE GOVERNMENT The government makes laws and everyone who lives in the country has to follow these. This is the only way governments can function. Just like the government has the power to

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Class 6 / Social And Political Life / What is Government? / Levels of Government

LOCAL, STATE AND CENTRAL LEVEL

LOCAL, STATE AND CENTRAL LEVEL Now that you know that the government is responsible for so many different things, can you think of how it manages to do all these? The government works at different

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Class 6 / Social And Political Life / What is Government? / Types of Government

DEMOCRACY VS MONARCHY

DEMOCRACY VS MONARCHY Who gives the government this power to make decisions and enforce laws? The answer to this question depends on the type of government there is in a country. In a democracy,

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Class 6 / Social And Political Life / What is Government? / Types of Government

DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENTS

DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENTS India is a democracy. This achievement is the result of a long and eventful struggle of the Indian people. There are other places in the world where people have also struggle

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Class 6 / Social And Political Life / Understanding Diversity / Introduction to Diversity

WHAT IS DIVERSITY?

WHAT IS DIVERSITY? Look around you in the classroom: do you see anyone who looks exactly like you do? In this topic, you will learn that people are different from each other in many ways. Not only

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Class 6 / Social And Political Life / Understanding Diversity / Making Friends

A NEW PAPER STORY

A NEW PAPER STORY Do you think it would be easy for you to make friends with someone who was very different from you? Read the following story and think about this. I had meant it as a joke. A j

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Class 6 / Social And Political Life / Understanding Diversity / Making Friends

JOURNEY OF SAMIR EK AND SAMIR DO

JOURNEY OF SAMIR EK AND SAMIR DO While Samir Ek is more familiar with English, Samir Do speaks Hindi. Although they both are more at home in different languages they still communicated with each ot

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Class 6 / Social And Political Life / Understanding Diversity / Making Friends

WHY SAMIR DO A PAPER BOY?

WHY SAMIR DO A PAPERBOY? Samir Do did not have the opportunity to attend school. Perhaps you've noticed that there are several people in the area where you live who are poor and who don't h

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Class 6 / Social And Political Life / Understanding Diversity / What does Diversity Add to Our Lives?

STORIES THAT TEACH

STORIES THAT TEACH Just like Samir Ek and Samir Do became friends, you might have friends who are very different from you. You have probably eaten different kinds of food in their homes, celebrated

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Class 6 / Social And Political Life / Understanding Diversity / Diversity In India

INTERMIXING OF CULTURES

INTERMIXING OF CULTURES India is a country of many diversities. We speak different languages, have various types of food, celebrate different festivals, practice different religions. But actually,

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Class 6 / Social And Political Life / Understanding Diversity / Diversity In India

HISTORICAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL FACTORS

HISTORICAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL FACTORS The history of many places shows us how many different cultural influences have helped to shape life and culture there. Thus regions became very diverse because

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Class 6 / Social And Political Life / Understanding Diversity / Unity In Diversity

INDIA’S UNITY IN DIVERSITY

INDIA’S UNITY IN DIVERSITY India's diversity has always been recognised as a source of its strength. When the British ruled India, women, and men from different cultural, religious, and r

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Class 10 / Chemistry / Periodic Classification of Elements / Introduction to Periodic Classification

Introduction of Classification of Elements

INTRODUCTION   In Class IX we have learnt that matter around us is present in the form of elements, compounds, and mixtures and the elements contain atoms of only one type. Do you know h

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Need of Classification

Why Classify Elements?   We have been learning how various things or living beings can be classified on the basis of their properties. Even in other situations, we come across instances o

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Dobereiner's Law of Triads

Döbereiner’s Triads About Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner (1780-1849) Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner studied as a pharmacist at Münchberg in Germany, and then studied chemis

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Class 10 / History / The Rise Of Nationalism In Europe / Democratic and social Republics

ART OF FREDERIC SORRIEU

ART OF FREDERIC SORRIEU In 1848, Frederic Sorrieu, a French artist, prepared a series of four prints visualising his dream of a world made up of ‘democratic and social Republics’, as he

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Class 10 / History / The Rise Of Nationalism In Europe / The French Revolution and the Idea of the Nation

THE FRENCH REVOLUTION

THE FRENCH REVOLUTION The first clear expression of nationalism came with the French Revolution in 1789. France, as you would remember, was a full-fledged territorial state in 1789 under the rule o

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Newland's Law of Octaves

Newlands’ Law of Octaves The attempts of Döbereiner encouraged other chemists to correlate the properties of elements with their atomic masses. In 1866, John Newlands, an English scienti

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Class 10 / History / The Rise Of Nationalism In Europe / The Making of Nationalism in Europe

HISTORY OF EUROPE

HISTORY OF EUROPE What we know today as Germany, Italy, and Switzerland were divided into kingdoms, duchies and cantons whose rulers had their autonomous territories. Eastern and Central Europe wer

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Class 10 / History / The Rise Of Nationalism In Europe / The Making of Nationalism in Europe

THE ARISTOCRACY AND THE NEW MIDDLE CLASS

THE ARISTOCRACY AND THE NEW MIDDLE CLASS Socially and politically, a landed aristocracy was the dominant class on the continent. The members of this class were united by a common way of life that c

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Class 10 / History / The Rise Of Nationalism In Europe / The Making of Nationalism in Europe

WHAT DID LIBERAL NATIONALISM STAND FOR?

WHAT DID LIBERAL NATIONALISM STAND FOR? Ideas of national unity in early-nineteenth-century Europe were closely allied to the ideology of liberalism. The term ‘liberalism’ derives from

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Class 10 / History / The Rise Of Nationalism In Europe / The Making of Nationalism in Europe

A NEW CONSERVATISM AFTER 1815

A NEW CONSERVATISM AFTER 1815 Following the defeat of Napoleon in 1815, European governments were driven by a spirit of conservatism. Conservatives believed that established, traditional institutio

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Class 10 / History / The Rise Of Nationalism In Europe / The Making of Nationalism in Europe

THE REVOLUTIONARIES

THE REVOLUTIONARIES During the years following 1815, the fear of repression drove many liberal-nationalists undergrounds. Secret societies sprang up in many European states to train revolutionaries

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Class 10 / History / The Rise Of Nationalism In Europe / The Age of Revolutions: 1830-1848

TREATY OF CONSTANTINOPLE

TREATY OF CONSTANTINOPLE As conservative regimes tried to consolidate their power, liberalism and nationalism came to be increasingly associated with the revolution in many regions of Europe such a

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Class 10 / History / The Rise Of Nationalism In Europe / The Age of Revolutions: 1830-1848

THE ROMANTIC IMAGINATION AND NATIONAL FEELING

THE ROMANTIC IMAGINATION AND NATIONAL FEELING The development of nationalism did not come about only through wars and territorial expansion. Culture played an important role in creating the idea of

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Class 10 / Chemistry / Periodic Classification of Elements / Mendeleev's Periodic Table

Explanation of Mendeleev's Periodic Table

MAKING ORDER OUT OF CHAOS – MENDELEEV’S PERIODIC TABLE   About Dmitri lvanovich Mendeléev (1834-1907)     Dmitri lvanovich Mendeléev was bor

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Class 10 / History / The Rise Of Nationalism In Europe / The Age of Revolutions: 1830-1848

HUNGER, HARDSHIP AND POPULAR REVOLT

HUNGER, HARDSHIP AND POPULAR REVOLT The 1830s were years of great economic hardship in Europe. The first half of the nineteenth century saw an enormous increase in population all over Europe. In mo

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Class 10 / History / The Rise Of Nationalism In Europe / The Age of Revolutions: 1830-1848

1848: THE REVOLUTION OF THE LIBERALS

1848: THE REVOLUTION OF THE LIBERALS Parallel to the revolts of the poor, unemployed and starving peasants and workers in many European countries in the year 1848, a revolution led by the educated

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Class 10 / History / The Rise Of Nationalism In Europe / The Age of Revolutions: 1830-1848

LIBERTY AND EQUALITY OF WOMEN

LIBERTY AND EQUALITY OF WOMEN How were liberty and equality for women to be defined? The liberal politician Carl Welcker, an elected member of the Frankfurt Parliament, expressed the following v

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Class 10 / History / The Rise Of Nationalism In Europe / The Making of Germany and Italy

GERMANY – CAN THE ARMY BE THE ARCHITECT OF A NATION?

GERMANY – CAN THE ARMY BE THE ARCHITECT OF A NATION? After 1848, nationalism in Europe moved away from its association with democracy and revolution. Nationalist sentiments were often mobilis

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Class 10 / History / The Rise Of Nationalism In Europe / The Making of Germany and Italy

ITALY UNIFIED

ITALY UNIFIED Like Germany, Italy too had a long history of political fragmentation. Italians were scattered over several dynastic states as well as the multi-national Habsburg Empire. During the m

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Class 10 / History / The Rise Of Nationalism In Europe / The Making of Germany and Italy

THE STRANGE CASE OF BRITAIN

THE STRANGE CASE OF BRITAIN The model of the nation or the nation-state, some scholars have argued, is Great Britain. In Britain, the formation of the nation-state was not the result of a sudden up

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Class 10 / Chemistry / Periodic Classification of Elements / Mendeleev's Periodic Table

Achievements of Mendeleev’s Periodic Table

Achievements of Mendeleev’s Periodic Table While developing the Periodic Table, there were a few instances where Mendeléev had to place an element with a slightly greater atomic mass b

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Class 10 / History / The Rise Of Nationalism In Europe / Visualising the Nation

ALLEGORY OF THE NATION

ALLEGORY OF THE NATION While it is easy enough to represent a ruler through a portrait or a statue, how does one go about giving a face to a nation? Artists in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuri

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Class 10 / History / The Rise Of Nationalism In Europe / Nationalism and Imperialism

BALKAN – THE ORIGIN OF FIRST WORLD WAR

BALKAN – THE ORIGIN OF FIRST WORLD WAR By the last quarter of the nineteenth-century nationalism no longer retained its idealistic liberal-democratic sentiment of the first half of the centur

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Class 10 / Chemistry / Periodic Classification of Elements / Mendeleev's Periodic Table

Limitations of Mendeleev's Classification

LIMITATIONS OF MENDELEEV’S CLASSIFICATION The electronic configuration of hydrogen resembles that of alkali metals. Like alkali metals, hydrogen combines with halogens, oxygen, and sulphur to

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Class 10 / Chemistry / Periodic Classification of Elements / The Modern Periodic Table

Introduction to Modern Periodic Table

MAKING ORDER OUT OF CHAOS – THE MODERN PERIODIC TABLE   In 1913, Henry Moseley showed that the atomic number (symbolised as Z) of an element is a more fundamental property than i

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Class 10 / Chemistry / Periodic Classification of Elements / The Modern Periodic Table

Position of Elements in the Modern Periodic Table

Position of Elements in the Modern Periodic Table The Modern Periodic Table has 18 vertical columns known as ‘groups’ and 7 horizontal rows known as ‘periods’. Let us see wh

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Class 10 / Chemistry / Periodic Classification of Elements / Trends in the Modern Periodic Table

Valency

VALENCY As you know, the valency of an element is determined by the number of valence electrons present in the outermost shell of its atom. Activity 5.6 How do you calculate the valency of an

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Class 10 / Chemistry / Periodic Classification of Elements / Trends in the Modern Periodic Table

Atomic Size

ATOMIC SIZE The term atomic size refers to the radius of an atom. The atomic size may be visualised as the distance between the centre of the nucleus and the outermost shell of an isolated atom. T

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Class 10 / Chemistry / Periodic Classification of Elements / Trends in the Modern Periodic Table

METALLIC AND NON-METALLIC PROPERTIES

METALLIC AND NON-METALLIC PROPERTIES   As we can see, the metals like Na and Mg are towards the left-hand side of the Periodic Table while the non-metals like sulphur and chlorine are found

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Class 10 / Chemistry / Acids, Bases and Salts / Introduction of Acids, Bases and Salts

Role of Acids, Bases and Salts in Our Daily Life

ROLE OF ACIDS, BASES AND SALTS IN OUR DAILY LIFE   You have learnt in your previous classes that the sour and bitter tastes of food are due to acids and bases, respectively, present in them

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Class 10 / History / Nationalism In India / Introduction to Nationalism in India

ROSE OF NATIONALISM IN INDIA

ROSE OF NATIONALISM IN INDIA As you have seen, modern nationalism in Europe came to be associated with the formation of nation-states. It also meant a change in people’s understanding of who

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Class 10 / Chemistry / Acids, Bases and Salts / Chemical Properties of Acids and Bases

UNDERSTANDING THE CHEMICAL PROPERTIES OF ACIDS AND BASES

UNDERSTANDING THE CHEMICAL PROPERTIES OF ACIDS AND BASES Acids and Bases in Laboratory Activity 2.1 Collect the following solutions from the science laboratory– hydrochloric acid (HCl),

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Class 10 / Chemistry / Acids, Bases and Salts / Chemical Properties of Acids and Bases

Reactions of Acids and Bases with Metals

How do Acids and Bases React with Metals?   Activity 2.3   CAUTION: This activity needs the teacher’s assistance.   Set the apparatus as shown in Fig. 2.1. &n

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Class 10 / History / Nationalism In India / The First World War, Khilafat and Non-Cooperation

FORCED RECRUITMENT

FORCED RECRUITMENT In the years after 1919, we see the national movement spreading to new areas, incorporating new social groups, and developing new modes of struggle. How do we understand these de

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Class 10 / Chemistry / Acids, Bases and Salts / Chemical Properties of Acids and Bases

Acid Reaction with Metal Carbonates and Bicarbonates

How do Metal Carbonates and Metal Hydrogen carbonates React with Acids? Activity 2.5 Figure 2.2: Passing carbon dioxide gas through a calcium hydroxide solution Take two test tubes,

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Class 10 / History / Nationalism In India / The First World War, Khilafat and Non-Cooperation

THE IDEA OF SATYAGRAHA

THE IDEA OF SATYAGRAHA Mahatma Gandhi returned to India in January 1915. As you know, he had come from South Africa where he had successfully fought the racist regime with a novel method of ma

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Class 10 / Chemistry / Acids, Bases and Salts / Chemical Properties of Acids and Bases

Reactions of Acids and Bases with Each Other

How do Acids and Bases React with each other? Activity 2.6 Take about 2 mL of dilute NaOH solution in a test tube and add two drops of phenolphthalein solution. What is the colour of the solu

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Class 10 / Chemistry / Acids, Bases and Salts / Chemical Properties of Acids and Bases

Reactions of Acids and Bases with Each Other

How do Acids and Bases React with each other? Activity 2.6 Take about 2 mL of dilute NaOH solution in a test tube and add two drops of phenolphthalein solution. What is the colour of the solu

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Class 10 / History / Nationalism In India / The First World War, Khilafat and Non-Cooperation

THE ROWLATT ACT

THE ROWLATT ACT Emboldened with this success, Gandhiji in 1919 decided to launch a nationwide satyagraha against the proposed Rowlatt Act (1919). This Act had been hurriedly passed through the Impe

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Class 10 / Chemistry / Acids, Bases and Salts / Chemical Properties of Acids and Bases

Acids Reaction with Metal Oxide

The Reaction of Metallic Oxides with Acids Activity 2.7 Take a small amount of copper oxide in a beaker and add dilute hydrochloric acid slowly while stirring. Note the colour of the solution

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Class 10 / History / Nationalism In India / The First World War, Khilafat and Non-Cooperation

WHY NON-COOPERATION?

WHY NON-COOPERATION? In his famous book, Hind Swaraj (1909) Mahatma Gandhi declared that British rule was established in India with the cooperation of Indians, and had survived only becau

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Class 10 / History / Nationalism In India / Differing Strands within the Movement

THE MOVEMENT IN THE TOWNS

THE MOVEMENT IN THE TOWNS The Non-Cooperation-Khilafat Movement began in January 1921. Various social groups participated in this movement, each with its own specific aspiration. All of them respon

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Class 10 / History / Nationalism In India / Differing Strands within the Movement

REBELLION IN THE COUNTRYSIDE

REBELLION IN THE COUNTRYSIDE From the cities, the Non-Cooperation Movement spread to the countryside. It drew into its fold the struggles of peasants and tribals which were developing in diffe

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Class 10 / History / Nationalism In India / Differing Strands within the Movement

SWARAJ IN THE PLATATIONS

SWARAJ IN THE PLATATIONS Workers too had their own understanding of Mahatma Gandhi and the notion of swaraj. For plantation workers in Assam, freedom meant the right to move freely in and out of th

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Class 10 / Chemistry / Acids, Bases and Salts / Chemical Properties of Acids and Bases

Bases Reaction with Non-Metal Oxides

The Reaction of a Non-metallic Oxide with Base   You saw the reaction between carbon dioxide and calcium hydroxide (lime water) in Activity 2.5. Once we shall revise the Activity 2.5. &n

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Class 10 / Chemistry / Acids, Bases and Salts / Common of All Acids and Bases

Common of All Acids and Bases

WHAT DO ALL ACIDS AND ALL BASES HAVE IN COMMON? In Section 2.1 we have seen that all acids have similar chemical properties. We saw in Activity that all acids generate hydrogen gas on reacti

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Class 10 / History / Nationalism In India / Towards Civil Disobedience

THE INDEPENDENCE DAY PLEDGE,26 JANUARY 1930

THE INDEPENDENCE DAY PLEDGE,26 JANUARY 1930 In February 1922, Mahatma Gandhi decided to withdraw the Non-Cooperation Movement. He felt the movement was turning violent in many places and satyagrahi

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Class 10 / History / Nationalism In India / Towards Civil Disobedience

THE SALT MARCH AND THE CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE MOVEMENT

THE SALT MARCH AND THE CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE MOVEMENT   Mahatma Gandhi found in salt a powerful symbol that could unite the nation. On 31 January 1930, he sent a letter to Viceroy Irwin statin

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Class 10 / Chemistry / Acids, Bases and Salts / Common of All Acids and Bases

Acid or Base in a Water Solution

What Happens to an Acid or a Base in a Water Solution? Do acids produce ions only in an aqueous solution? Let us test this. Activity 2.9               &

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Class 10 / History / Nationalism In India / Towards Civil Disobedience

HOW PARTICIPANTS SAW THE MOVEMENT?

HOW PARTICIPANTS SAW THE MOVEMENT? Let us now look at the different social groups that participated in the Civil Disobedience Movement. Why did they join the movement? What were their ideals? What

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Class 10 / Chemistry / Acids, Bases and Salts / Strength of Acids and Bases

HOW STRONG ARE ACID OR BASE SOLUTIONS?

HOW STRONG ARE ACID OR BASE SOLUTIONS? We know how acid-base indicators can be used to distinguish between an acid and a base. We have also learnt in the previous section about dilution and a decre

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Class 10 / History / Nationalism In India / Towards Civil Disobedience

THE LIMITS OF CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE

THE LIMITS OF CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE Not all social groups were moved by the abstract concept of swaraj. One such group was the nation’s ‘untouchables’, who from around the 1930s had

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Class 10 / Chemistry / Acids, Bases and Salts / Strength of Acids and Bases

Importance of pH in Everyday Life

Importance of pH in Everyday Life Are plants and animals’ pH sensitive?   Our body works within the pH range of 7.0 to 7.8. Living organisms can survive only in a narrow range of p

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Class 10 / Chemistry / Acids, Bases and Salts / Salts

MORE ABOUT SALTS

Family of Salts In the previous sections, we have seen the formation of salts during various reactions. Let us understand more about their preparation, properties, and uses. Activity 2.13 Wri

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Class 10 / Chemistry / Acids, Bases and Salts / Salts

pH of Salts

pH of Salts Activity 2.14 Collect the following salt samples – sodium chloride, potassium nitrate, aluminium chloride, zinc sulphate, copper sulphate, sodium acetate, sodium carbonate and

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Class 10 / History / Nationalism In India / The Sense of Collective Belonging

COLLECTIVENESS IN MAKING NATIONALISM

COLLECTIVENESS IN MAKING NATIONALISM Nationalism spreads when people begin to believe that they are all part of the same nation, when they discover some unity that binds them together. But how did

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Class 10 / History / Nationalism In India / The Sense of Collective Belonging

CONCLUSION

CONCLUSION A growing anger against the colonial government was thus bringing together various groups and classes of Indians into a common struggle for freedom in the first half of the twentieth cen

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Class 10 / History / Nationalism In India / The Sense of Collective Belonging

QUIT INDIA MOVEMENT

QUIT INDIA MOVEMENT The failure of the Cripps Mission and the effects of World War II created widespread discontentment in India. This led Gandhiji to launch a movement calling for the complete wit

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Class 10 / Chemistry / Acids, Bases and Salts / Salts

Chemicals from Common Salt

Chemicals from Common Salt By now you have learnt that the salt formed by the combination of hydrochloric acid and sodium hydroxide solution is called sodium chloride. This is the salt that you use

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Class 10 / Chemistry / Acids, Bases and Salts / Salts

Are the Crystals of Salts really Dry?

Are the Crystals of Salts really Dry? Activity 2.15 Figure 2.9 Removing  water of crystallisation Heat a few crystals of copper sulphate in a dry boiling tube.   What is t

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Class 10 / Chemistry / Metals and Non-Metals / Introduction to Metals and Non-Metals

Review on What We Have Learnt Earlier

Review on Elements learnt in IX Class In Class IX you have learnt about various elements. You have seen that elements can be classified as metals or non-metals on the basis of their properties

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Class 10 / Chemistry / Metals and Non-Metals / Physical Properties of Metals and Non-Metals

Physical Properties of Metals

METALS The easiest way to start grouping substances is by comparing their physical properties. Let us study this with the help of the following activities. For performing Activities 3.1 to 3.6, col

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Class 10 / Chemistry / Metals and Non-Metals / Physical Properties of Metals and Non-Metals

Physical Properties of Non-Metals

NON-METALS   In the previous Class, you have learnt that there are very few non-metals as compared to metals. Some of the examples of non-metals are carbon, sulphur, iodine, oxygen, hydroge

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Class 10 / History / The Making Of A Global World / History of Making Global World

THE PRE-MODERN WORLD

THE PRE-MODERN WORLD When we talk of ‘globalisation’ we often refer to an economic system that has emerged since the last 50 years or so. But as you will see in this chapter, the making

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SILK ROUTES LINK THE WORLD

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FOOD TRAVELS: SPAGHETTI AND POTATO

FOOD TRAVELS: SPAGHETTI AND POTATO Food offers many examples of long-distance cultural exchange. Traders and travellers introduced new crops to the lands they travelled. Even ‘ready’ fo

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Class 10 / History / The Making Of A Global World / History of Making Global World

CONQUEST, DISEASE AND TRADE

CONQUEST, DISEASE AND TRADE The pre-modern world shrank greatly in the sixteenth century after European sailors found a sea route to Asia and also successfully crossed the western ocean to America.

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Class 10 / History / The Making Of A Global World / The Nineteenth Century (1815-1914)

CHANGES OF WORLD IN NINETEENTH CENTURY

CHANGES OF WORLD IN NINETEENTH CENTURY The world changed profoundly in the nineteenth century. Economic, political, social, cultural and technological factors interacted in complex ways to transfor

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Class 10 / History / The Making Of A Global World / The Nineteenth Century (1815-1914)

A WORLD ECONOMY TAKES SHAPE

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Class 10 / History / The Making Of A Global World / The Nineteenth Century (1815-1914)

ROLE OF TECHNOLOGY

ROLE OF TECHNOLOGY What was the role of technology in all this? The railways, steamships, the telegraph, for example, were important inventions without which we cannot imagine the transformed ninet

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Class 10 / History / The Making Of A Global World / The Nineteenth Century (1815-1914)

LATE NINETEENTH-CENTURY COLONIALISM

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RINDERPEST, OR THE CATTLE PLAGUE

RINDERPEST, OR THE CATTLE PLAGUE In Africa, in the 1890s, a fast-spreading disease of cattle plague or rinderpest had a terrifying impact on people’s livelihoods and the local economy. This i

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Class 10 / History / The Making Of A Global World / The Nineteenth Century (1815-1914)

INDENTURED LABOUR MIGRATION FROM INDIA

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Class 10 / History / The Making Of A Global World / The Nineteenth Century (1815-1914)

INDIAN ENTREPRENEURS ABROAD

INDIAN ENTREPRENEURS ABROAD Growing food and other crops for the world market required capital. Large plantations could borrow it from banks and markets. But what about the humble peasant?  

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INDIAN TRADE, COLONIALISM AND THE GLOBAL SYSTEM

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Reaction of Metals with Air

CHEMICAL PROPERTIES OF METALS   We will learn about the chemical properties of metals in the following Sections 3.2.1 to 3.2.4. For this, collect the samples of the following metals &n

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Reaction of Metals with Water

What happens when Metals react with Water? Activity 3.10 CAUTION: This Activity needs the teacher’s assistance. Collect the samples of the same metals as in Activity 3.9. Put small p

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Reaction of Metals with Acids

What happens when Metals react with Acids?   You have already learnt that metals react with acids to give salt and hydrogen gas.   Metal + Dilute acid  \(\to \)  &

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Reaction of Metals with Solutions of Other Metal Salts

How do Metals react with Solutions of other Metal Salts? Activity 3.12 Figure 3.4 The reaction of metals with salt solutions Take a clean wire of copper and an iron nail. Put the

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The Reactivity Series

The Reactivity Series   The reactivity series is a list of metals arranged in the order of their decreasing activities. After performing displacement experiments (Activities 1.9 and 3.12),

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HOW DO METALS AND NON-METALS REACT?

HOW DO METALS AND NON-METALS REACT? In the above activities, you saw the reactions of metals with a number of reagents. Why do metals react in this manner? Let us recall what we learnt about the el

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Properties of Ionic Compounds

Properties of Ionic Compounds   Activity 3.13   Take samples of sodium chloride, potassium iodide, barium chloride or any other salt from the science laboratory. What is the p

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Class 10 / History / The Making Of A Global World / The Inter-war Economy

WARTIME TRANSFORMATIONS

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POSTWAR RECOVERY

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RISE OF MASS PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION

RISE OF MASS PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION In the US, recovery was quicker. We have already seen how the war helped boost the US economy. After a short period of economic trouble in the years aft

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What is Corrosion

CORROSION You have learnt the following about corrosion in Chapter 1 –   Silver articles become black after some time when exposed to air. This is because it reacts with sulphur i

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THE GREAT DEPRESSION

THE GREAT DEPRESSION The Great Depression began around 1929 and lasted till the mid-1930s. During this period most parts of the world experienced catastrophic declines in production, employment, in

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Prevention of Corrosion

PREVENTION OF CORROSION   The rusting of iron can be prevented by painting, oiling, greasing, galvanising, chrome plating, anodising or making alloys.   Galvanisation is a method

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INDIA AND THE GREAT DEPRESSION

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POST –WAR RECONSTRUCTION

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Importance of Carbon in Daily Life

IMPORTANCE OF CARBON IN DAILY LIFE In the last Chapter, we came to know many compounds of importance to us. In this chapter, we will study some more interesting compounds and their properties. Also

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POST- WAR SETTLEMENT AND BRETTON WOODS INSTITUTIONS

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THE EARLY POST-WAR YEARS

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DECOLONISATION AND INDEPENDENCE

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END OF BRETTON WOODS AND THE BEGINNING OF ‘GLOBALISATION’

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Bonding in Carbon – The Covalent Bond

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Class 10 / History / The Age Of Industrialisation / Introduction to Age of Industrialisation

INNOVATION AND CHANGES

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Class 10 / History / The Age Of Industrialisation / Before the Industrial Revolution

PROTO- INDUSTRIALISATION

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THE COMING UP OF THE FACTORY

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Molecules Formed by Sharing Valence Electrons

MOLECULES FORMED BY SHARING VALENCE ELECTRONS Before going on to compounds of carbon, let us look at some simple molecules formed by the sharing of valence electrons.   Formation of Hydr

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THE PACE OF INDUSTRIAL CHANGE

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Allotropes of Carbon

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Class 10 / History / The Age Of Industrialisation / Hand Labour and Steam Power

NEED OF HAND LABOUR

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VERSATILE NATURE OF CARBON

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LIFE OF THE WORKERS

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Class 10 / History / The Age Of Industrialisation / Industrialisation in the Colonies

THE AGE OF INDIAN TEXTILES

THE AGE OF INDIAN TEXTILES Let us now move to India to see how a colony industrialises. Once again we will look not only at factory industries but also at the non-mechanised sector. We will limit o

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Saturated and Unsaturated Carbon Compounds

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WHAT HAPPENED TO WEAVERS?

WHAT HAPPENED TO WEAVERS? The consolidation of East India Company power after the 1760s did not initially lead to a decline in textile exports from India. British cotton industries had not yet expa

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MANCHESTER COMES TO INDIA

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Chains, Branches and Rings

Chains, Branches and Rings In the earlier section, we mentioned the carbon compounds methane, ethane, and propane, containing respectively 1, 2, and 3 carbon atoms. Such ‘chains’ of car

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THE EARLY ENTREPRENEURS

THE EARLY ENTREPRENEURS The first cotton mill in Bombay came up in 1854 and it went into production two years later. By 1862 four mills were at work with 94,000 spindles and 2,150 looms. Around th

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Will you be my Friend?

Will you be my Friend? Carbon seems to be a very friendly element. So far we have been looking at compounds containing carbon and hydrogen only. But carbon also forms bonds with other elemen

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WHERE DID THE WORKERS COME FROM?

WHERE DID THE WORKERS COME FROM? Factories needed workers. With the expansion of factories, this demand increased. In 1901, there were 584,000 workers in Indian factories. By 1946 the number was o

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EXPORTS AND IMPORTS

EXPORTS AND IMPORTS European Managing Agencies, which dominated industrial production in India, were interested in certain kinds of products. They established tea and coffee plantations, acquiring

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Homologous Series

Homologous Series You have seen that carbon atoms can be linked together to form chains of varying lengths. These chains can be branched also. In addition, a hydrogen atom or other atoms on these c

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SMALL SCALE INDUSTRIES PREDOMINATE

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Class 10 / History / The Age Of Industrialisation / Market for Goods

ROLE OF ADVERTISEMENTS

ROLE OF ADVERTISEMENTS We have seen how British manufacturers attempted to take over the Indian market, and how Indian weavers and craftsmen, traders and industrialists resisted colonial controls,

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Nomenclature of Carbon Compounds

Nomenclature of Carbon Compounds   The names of compounds in a Homologous Series are based on the name of the basic carbon chain modified by a “prefix” “phrase before&rdqu

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CONCLUSION

CONCLUSION Clearly, the age of industries has meant major technological changes, growth of factories, and the making of a new industrial labour force. However, as you have seen, hand technology and

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Combustion

Combustion   Carbon, in all its allotropic forms, burns in oxygen to give carbon dioxide along with the release of heat and light. Most carbon compounds also release a large amount of heat

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Why do substances burn with or without a flame?

Why do substances burn with or without a flame?   Have you ever observed either a coal or a wood fire? If not, the next time you get a chance, take close note of what happens when the wood

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Formation of coal and petroleum

Formation of coal and petroleum   Coal and petroleum have been formed from biomass which has been subjected to various biological and geological processes. Coal is the remains of trees, fer

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Class 10 / History / Print Culture And The Modern World / Introduction

HISTORY OF PRINTING

HISTORY OF PRINTING It is difficult for us to imagine a world without printed matter. We find evidence of print everywhere around us – in books, journals, newspapers, prints of famous paintin

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Class 10 / History / Print Culture And The Modern World / The First Printed Books

HAND PRINTING TO MECHANICAL PRINTING

HAND PRINTING TO MECHANICAL PRINTING The earliest kind of print technology was developed in China, Japan and Korea. This was a system of hand printing. From AD 594 onwards, books in China were prin

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Oxidation

Oxidation You have learnt about oxidation reactions in the first Chapter. Once we shall recall what we have learnt.   If a substance gains oxygen during a reaction, it i

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Addition Reaction

Addition Reaction Unsaturated hydrocarbons add hydrogen in the presence of catalysts such as palladium or nickel to give saturated hydrocarbons. Catalysts are substances that cause a reaction to oc

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Substitution Reaction

Substitution Reaction Saturated hydrocarbons are fairly unreactive and are inert in the presence of most reagents. However, in the presence of sunlight, chlorine is added to hydrocarbons in a very

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PRINT IN JAPAN

PRINT IN JAPAN Buddhist missionaries from China introduced hand-printing technology into Japan around AD 768-770. The oldest Japanese book, printed in AD 868, is the Buddhist Diamond Sutra, contain

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Ethanol and its Properties

Introduction Many carbon compounds are invaluable to us. But here we shall study the properties of two commercially important compounds – ethanol and ethanoic acid.   Properties

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WOODBLOCK PRINTING

WOODBLOCK PRINTING For centuries, silk and spices from China flowed into Europe through the silk route. In the eleventh century, Chinese paper reached Europe via the same route. Paper made possible

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GUTENBERG AND THE PRINTING PRESS

GUTENBERG AND THE PRINTING PRESS Gutenberg was the son of a merchant and grew up on a large agricultural estate. From his childhood he had seen wine and olive presses. Subsequently, he learnt the a

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A NEW READING PUBLIC

A NEW READING PUBLIC What was the print revolution? It was not just a development, a new way of producing books; it transformed the lives of people, changing their relationship to information and k

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RELIGIOUS DEBATES AND THE FEAR OF PRINT

RELIGIOUS DEBATES AND THE FEAR OF PRINT Print created the possibility of wide circulation of ideas, and introduced a new world of debate and discussion. Even those who disagreed with established au

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PRINT AND DISSENT

PRINT AND DISSENT Print and popular religious literature stimulated many distinctive individual interpretations of faith even among little-educated working people. In the sixteenth century, Menocch

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Class 10 / History / Print Culture And The Modern World / The Reading Mania

LITERACY AND LITERATURE

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‘TREMBLE, THEREFORE, TYRANTS OF THE WORLS!’

‘TREMBLE, THEREFORE, TYRANTS OF THE WORLS!’ By the mid-eighteenth century, there was a common conviction that books were a means of spreading progress and enlightenment. Many believed t

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PRINT CULTUR AND FRENCH REVOLUTION

PRINT CULTUR AND FRENCH REVOLUTION Many historians have argued that print culture created the conditions within which French Revolution occurred. Can we make such a connection? Three types of ar

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CHILDREN, WOMEN AND WORKERS

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FURTHER INNOVATIONS

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MANUSCRIPTS BEFORE THE AGE OF PRINT

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PRINT COMES TO INDIA

PRINT COMES TO INDIA The printing press first came to Goa with Portuguese missionaries in the mid-sixteenth century. Jesuit priests learnt Konkani and printed several tracts. By 1674, about 50 book

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Ethanoic Acid

Ethanoic acid   Ethanoic acid is commonly called acetic acid and belongs to a group of acids called carboxylic acids. 5-8% solution of acetic acid in water is called vinegar and is used wid

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INTENSE DEBATES AROUND RELIGIOUS ISSUES

INTENSE DEBATES AROUND RELIGIOUS ISSUES From the early nineteenth century, as you know, there were intense debates around religious issues. Different groups confronted the changes happening within

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WHY NEWSPAPERS?

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PRINT AND VISUAL CULTURE

PRINT AND VISUAL CULTURE Printing created an appetite for new kinds of writing. As more and more people could now read, they wanted to see their own lives, experiences, emotions and relationships r

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Reactions of Ethanoic Acid

Reactions of ethanoic acid:   Esterification reaction:   Activity 4.8   Take 1 mL ethanol (absolute alcohol) and 1 mL glacial acetic acid along with a few drops of con

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Class 10 / Chemistry / Chemistry of Carbon Compounds / Soaps and Detergents

Soap and its Cleaning Action

Soap and its Cleaning Action   Soap: On treating with sodium hydroxide, which is an alkali, the ester is converted back to alcohol and sodium salt of carboxylic acid. This reaction is kn

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Role of Soap and Detergent in Hard Water

Role of Soap and Detergent in Hard Water   Activity 4.11   Take about 10 mL of distilled water (or rainwater) and 10 mL of hard water (from a tubewell or hand-pump) in separate t

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WOMEN AND PRINT

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PRINT AND THE POOR PEOPLE

PRINT AND THE POOR PEOPLE Very cheap small books were brought to markets in nineteenth-century Madras towns and sold at crossroads, allowing poor people travelling to markets to buy them. Public li

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Class 10 / History / Print Culture And The Modern World / Print and Censorship

PRINT AND CENSORSHIP

PRINT AND CENSORSHIP Before 1798, the colonial state under the East India Company was not too concerned with censorship. Strangely, its early measures to control printed matter were directed agains

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Alive or Not Alive

Alive or Not Alive   How do we tell the difference between what is alive and what is not  alive? If we see a dog running, or a cow chewing cud, or a man shouting loudly on the street,

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What are Life Processes

What are Life Processes?   The maintenance functions of living organisms must go on even when they are not doing anything particular. Even when we are just sitting in class, even if we

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How do Living Things Get Their Food

Introduction   When we walk or ride a bicycle, we are using up energy. Even when we are not doing any apparent activity, energy is needed to maintain a state of order in our body. We also n

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How do Organisms Obtain Their Food

How do Organisms Obtain Their Food? Since the food and the way it is obtained differ, the digestive system is different in various organisms. In single-celled organisms, the food may be taken in by

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Introduction of Autotrophic Nutrition

What is Autotrophic Nutrition? The general requirement for energy and materials is common in all organisms, but it is fulfilled in different ways. Some organisms use simple food material obtained f

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Process of Photosynthesis

What is Photosynthesis?   The carbon and energy requirements of the autotrophic organism are fulfilled by photosynthesis. It is the process by which autotrophs take in substances from the

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INTRODUCTION TO CHEMICAL REACTION AND EQUATION

INTRODUCTION TO CHEMICAL REACTION AND EQUATION Consider the following situations of daily life and think what happens when * milk is left at room temperature during summers. * an i

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Bell Jar Experiment

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Heterotrophic Nutrition

Heterotrophic Nutrition   Each organism is adapted to its environment. The form of nutrition differs depending on the type and availability of food material as well as how it is obtained by

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WRITING A CHEMICAL EQUATION

WRITING A CHEMICAL EQUATION Is there any other shorter way for representing chemical equations? Chemical equations can be made more concise and useful if we use chemical formulae instead of words.

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Role of Tongue, Mouth and Oesophagus

Role of Tongue, Mouth, and Oesophagus   The alimentary canal is basically a long tube extending from the mouth to the anus. Figure 6.6 Human alimentary canal   In Fig. 6.

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Class 10 / Biology / Life Processes / Nutrition in Human Beings

Role of Stomach and Intestine in Digestion

Role of Stomach and Intestine in Digestion     The stomach is a large organ that expands when food enters it. The muscular walls of the stomach help in mixing the food

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BALANCING CHEMICAL EQUATIONS

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INTRODUCTION TO TYPES OF CHEMICAL REACTIONS

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COMBINATION REACTION

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Class 10 / Biology / Life Processes / Respiration

Breathing and Respiration

Respiration   Activity 6.4   Take some freshly prepared lime water in a test tube. Blow air through this lime water. Note how long it takes for the lime water to turn milky

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Various Pathways of Respiration

Various Pathways of Respiration   We have discussed nutrition in organisms in the last section. The food material taken in during the process of nutrition is used in cells to provide energy

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ATP - The Energy Currency

Adenosine Tri Phosphate (ATP) The energy released during cellular respiration is immediately used to synthesise a molecule called ATP which is used to fuel all other activities in the cell. In thes

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DECOMPOSITION REACTION

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Aerobic Respiration

Aerobic Respiration some organisms use oxygen to break-down glucose completely into carbon dioxide and water. The first step is the break-down of glucose, a six-carbon molecule, into a three-carbon

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Respiration in Human Beings

Respiration in Human Beings   In human beings (Fig. 6.9)   The air is taken into the body through the nostrils. The air passing through the nostrils is filtered by fine

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DOUBLE DISPLACEMENT REACTION

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OXIDATION AND REDUCTION

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CORROSION

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RANCIDITY

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ENTRY OF OXYGEN TO BLOOD

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Class 10 / Biology / Life Processes / Transportation

THE TUBES – BLOOD VESSELS

THE TUBES – BLOOD VESSELS Arteries are the vessels which carry blood away from the heart to various organs of the body. Since the blood emerges from the heart under high pressure, the arterie

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Class 10 / Biology / Life Processes / Transportation

LYMPH

LYMPH There is another type of fluid also involved in transportation. This is called lymph or tissue fluid. Through the pores present in the walls of capillaries some amount of plasma, proteins and

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Class 10 / Biology / Life Processes / Transportation

TRANSPORTATION IN PLANTS

TRANSPORTATION IN PLANTS We have discussed earlier how plants take in simple compounds such as CO2 and photosynthesise energy stored in their chlorophyll -containing organs, namely leaves. The othe

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Class 10 / Biology / Life Processes / Transportation

TRANSPORT OF WATER

TRANSPORT OF WATER In xylem tissue, vessels and tracheids of the roots, stems, and leaves are interconnected to form a continuous system of water-conducting channels reaching all parts of the plant

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Class 10 / Biology / Life Processes / Transportation

TRANSPORT OF FOOD AND OTHER SUBSTANCES

TRANSPORT OF FOOD AND OTHER SUBSTANCES So far we have discussed the transport of water and minerals in plants. Now let us consider how the products of metabolic processes, particularly photosynthes

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Class 10 / Biology / Life Processes / Excretion

WHAT IS EXCRETION?

WHAT IS EXCRETION? We have already discussed how organisms get rid of gaseous wastes generated during photosynthesis or respiration. Other metabolic activities generate nitrogenous materials which

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Class 10 / Biology / Life Processes / Excretion

EXCRETION IN HUMAN BEINGS

EXCRETION IN HUMAN BEINGS The excretory system of human beings (Fig. 6.13) includes a pair of kidneys, a pair of ureters, a urinary bladder and a urethra. Kidneys are located in the abdomen, one on

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Class 10 / Biology / Life Processes / Excretion

MORE TO KNOW – ARTIFICIAL KIDNEY (HEMODIALYSIS)

MORE TO KNOW – ARTIFICIAL KIDNEY (HEMODIALYSIS) Kidneys are vital organs for survival. Several factors like infections, injury, or restricted blood flow to kidneys reduce the activity of kidn

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Class 10 / Biology / Life Processes / Excretion

EXCRETION IN PLANTS

EXCRETION IN PLANTS Plants use completely different strategies for excretion than those of animals. Oxygen itself can be thought of as a waste product generated during photosynthesis! We have discu

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Class 10 / Biology / Control and Coordination / What does Control and Coordination Mean ?

INTRODUCTION

INTRODUCTION In the previous chapter, we looked at the life processes involved in the maintenance functions in living organisms. There, we had started with a notion we all have, that if we see s

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Class 10 / Biology / Control and Coordination / Nervous System In Animals

WHAT IS NERVOUS TISSUE?

WHAT IS NERVOUS TISSUE? In animals, such control and coordination are provided by nervous and muscular tissues, which we have studied in Class IX. Touching a hot object is an urgent and d

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Class 10 / Biology / Control and Coordination / Nervous System In Animals

HOW NEURONS WORK?

HOW NEURONS WORK? So far, we have been talking about nervous tissue, and how it collects information, sends it around the body, processes information, makes decisions based on information, and con

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Class 10 / Biology / Control and Coordination / Nervous System In Animals

WHAT HAPPENS IN REFLEX ACTIONS?

WHAT HAPPENS IN REFLEX ACTIONS? ‘ Reflex ’ is a word we use very commonly when we talk about some sudden action in response to something in the environment. We say ‘I jumped out

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Class 10 / Biology / Control and Coordination / Nervous System In Animals

HUMAN BRAIN & SPINAL CORD

HUMAN BRAIN & SPINAL CORD Is reflex action the only function of the spinal cord? Obviously not, since we know that we are thinking beings. Spinal cord is made up of nerves which supply informa

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Class 10 / Biology / Control and Coordination / Nervous System In Animals

PROTECTION OF TISSUES

PROTECTION OF TISSUES A delicate organ like the brain, which is so important for a variety of activities, needs to be carefully protected. For this, the body is designed so that the brain sits insi

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Class 10 / Biology / Control and Coordination / Coordination In Plants

PLANTS RESPONSE TO STIMULUS

PLANTS RESPONSE TO STIMULUS Coordination in Plants Animals have a nervous system for controlling and coordinating the activities of the body. But plants have neither a nervous system nor muscles

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Class 10 / Biology / Control and Coordination / Coordination In Plants

MOVEMENT DUE TO GROWTH

MOVEMENT DUE TO GROWTH Some plants like the pea plant climb up other plants or fences by means of tendrils. These tendrils are sensitive to touch. When they come in contact with any support, the pa

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Class 10 / Biology / Control and Coordination / Animal Hormones

WHAT ARE HORMONES?

WHAT ARE HORMONES? How are such chemical, or hormonal, means of information transmission used in animals? What do some animals, for instance, squirrels, experience when they are in a scary sit

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Class 10 / Biology / Control and Coordination / Animal Hormones

ADRENALINE

ADRENALINE Adrenaline is secreted directly into the blood and carried to different parts of the body. The target organs or the specific tissues on which it acts include the heart. As a result, the

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Class 10 / Biology / Control and Coordination / Animal Hormones

THYROXIN

THYROXIN Let us examine some examples to understand how hormones help in coordinated growth. We have all seen salt packets which say ‘iodised salt’ or ‘enriched with iodine’

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Class 10 / Biology / Control and Coordination / Animal Hormones

GROWTH HORMONE

GROWTH HORMONE Sometimes we come across people who are either very short (dwarfs) or extremely tall (giants). Have you ever wondered how this happens? Growth hormone is one of the hormones secreted

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Class 10 / Biology / Control and Coordination / Animal Hormones

TESTOSTERONE AND OESTROGEN

TESTOSTERONE AND OESTROGEN You must have noticed many dramatic changes in your appearance as well as that of your friends as you approached 10–12 years of age. These changes associated with p

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Class 10 / Biology / Control and Coordination / Animal Hormones

INSULIN

INSULIN Do you know anyone in your family or friends who has been advised by the doctor to take less sugar in their diet because they are suffering from diabetes? As a treatment, they might be taki

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Class 10 / Biology / How do Organisms Reproduce ? / Modes of Reproduction

FISSION

FISSION Activity 8.1: *  Dissolve about 10 gm of sugar in 100 mL of water. *  Take 20 mL of this solution in a test tube and add a pinch of yeast granules to it. * 

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Class 10 / Biology / How do Organisms Reproduce ? / Modes of Reproduction

FRAGMENTATION

FRAGMENTATION Activity 8.4: *  Collect water from a lake or pond that appears dark green and contains filamentous structures. *  Put one or two filaments on a slide. *&

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Class 10 / Biology / How do Organisms Reproduce ? / Modes of Reproduction

REGENERATION

REGENERATION Many fully differentiated organisms have the ability to give rise to new individual organisms from their body parts. That is, if the individual is somehow cut or broken up into many pi

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Class 10 / Biology / How do Organisms Reproduce ? / Modes of Reproduction

BUDDING

BUDDING Organisms such as Hydra use regenerative cells for reproduction in the process of budding. In Hydra, a bud develops as an outgrowth due to repeated cell division at one specific site (

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Class 10 / Biology / How do Organisms Reproduce ? / Modes of Reproduction

VEGETATIVE PROPAGATION

VEGETATIVE PROPAGATION There are many plants in which parts like the root, stem and leaves develop into new plants under appropriate conditions. Unlike in most animals, plants can indeed use such a

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Class 10 / Biology / How do Organisms Reproduce ? / Modes of Reproduction

SPORE FORMATION

SPORE FORMATION Even in many simple multi-cellular organisms, specific reproductive parts can be identified. The thread-like structures that developed on the bread in Activity 8.2 above are the hyp

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Class 10 / Biology / How do Organisms Reproduce ? / Sexual Reproduction

WHY THE SEXUAL MODE OF REPRODUCTION?

WHY THE SEXUAL MODE OF REPRODUCTION? We are also familiar with modes of reproduction that depend on the involvement of two individuals before a new generation can be created. Bulls alone cannot pro

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Class 10 / Biology / How do Organisms Reproduce ? / Sexual Reproduction in Flowering Plants

REPRODUCTIVE PARTS OF A FLOWER

REPRODUCTIVE PARTS OF A FLOWER The reproductive parts of angiosperms are located in the flower. You have already studied the different parts of a flower – sepals, petals stamens and pist

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Class 10 / Biology / How do Organisms Reproduce ? / Sexual Reproduction in Flowering Plants

PROCESS OF FERTILIZATION

PROCESS OF FERTILIZATION The ovary contains ovules and each ovule has an egg cell. The male germ-cell produced by pollen grain fuses with the female gamete present in the ovule. This fusion of

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Class 10 / Biology / How do Organisms Reproduce ? / Reproduction in Human Beings

INTRODUCTION

INTRODUCTION So far, we have been discussing the variety of modes that different species use for reproduction. Let us now look at the species that we are most interested in, namely, humans. Humans

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Class 10 / Biology / How do Organisms Reproduce ? / Reproduction in Human Beings

MALE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM

MALE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM The male reproductive system (Fig. 8.10) consists of portions which produce the germ-cells and other portions that deliver the germ-cells to the site of fertilisation. &

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Class 10 / Biology / How do Organisms Reproduce ? / Reproduction in Human Beings

FEMALE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM

FEMALE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM The female germ-cells or eggs are made in the ovaries. They are also responsible for the production of some hormones. Look at Fig. 8.11 and identify the various organs in

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Class 10 / Biology / How do Organisms Reproduce ? / Reproduction in Human Beings

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE EGG IS NOT FERTILIZED?

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE EGG IS NOT FERTILIZED? If the egg is not fertilised, it lives for about one day. Since the ovary releases one egg every month, the uterus also prepares itself every month to r

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Class 10 / Biology / How do Organisms Reproduce ? / Reproduction in Human Beings

REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH

REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH As we have seen, the process of sexual maturation is gradual and takes place while general body growth is still going on. Therefore, some degree of sexual maturation does n

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Class 10 / Biology / How do Organisms Reproduce ? / Why Do Organisms Reproduce?

INTRODUCTION

INTRODUCTION Before we discuss the mechanisms by which organisms reproduce, let us ask a more basic question – why do organisms reproduce? After all, reproduction is not necessary to maintain

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Class 10 / Biology / How do Organisms Reproduce ? / Do Organisms Create Exact Copy Of Themselves?

ORGANISMS LOOK SIMILAR?

ORGANISMS LOOK SIMILAR? Organisms look similar because their body designs are similar. If body designs are to be similar, the blueprints for these designs should be similar. Thus, reproduction at i

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Class 10 / Biology / How do Organisms Reproduce ? / The Importance Of Variation

THE STABILITY OF POPULATIONS OF SPECIES

THE STABILITY OF POPULATIONS OF SPECIES Populations of organisms fill well-defined places, or niches, in the ecosystem, using their ability to reproduce. The consistency of DNA copying during repro

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Class 10 / Biology / Heredity and Evolution / Variation During Reproduction

INTRODUCTION

INTRODUCTION We have seen that reproductive processes give rise to new individuals that are similar, but subtly different. We have discussed how some amount of variation is produced even durin

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Class 10 / Biology / Heredity and Evolution / Heredity

INHERITED TRAITS

INHERITED TRAITS What exactly do we mean by similarities and differences? We know that a child bears all the basic features of a human being. However, it does not look exactly like its parents, and

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Class 10 / Biology / Heredity and Evolution / Heredity

MENDEL’S CONTRIBUTIONS

MENDEL’S CONTRIBUTIONS The rules for inheritance of such traits in human beings are related to the fact that both the father and the mother contribute practically equal amounts of genetic mat

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Class 10 / Biology / Heredity and Evolution / Heredity

EXPRESSION OF TRAITS

EXPRESSION OF TRAITS How does the mechanism of heredity work? Cellular DNA is the information source for making proteins in the cell. A section of DNA that provides information for one protein is c

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Class 10 / Biology / Heredity and Evolution / Heredity

SEX DETERMINATION

SEX DETERMINATION We have discussed the idea that the two sexes participating in sexual reproduction must be somewhat different from each other for a number of reasons. How is the sex of a newborn

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Class 10 / Biology / Heredity and Evolution / Evolution

AN ILLUSTRATION

AN ILLUSTRATION We have noted that there is an inbuilt tendency to variation during reproduction, both because of errors in DNA copying, and as a result of sexual reproduction. Let us now look at s

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Class 10 / Biology / Heredity and Evolution / Evolution

ACQUIRED AND INHERITED TRAITS

ACQUIRED AND INHERITED TRAITS We discussed the idea that the germ cells of sexually reproducing populations are made in specialised reproductive tissue. If the weight of the beetle is reduced becau

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Class 10 / Biology / Heredity and Evolution / Speciation

SPECIATION

SPECIATION What we have seen so far is micro-evolution. That means that the changes are small, even though they are significant. Also, they simply change the common characteristics of a particular

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Class 10 / Biology / Heredity and Evolution / Evolution and Classification

IDENTIFYING HIERARCHIES

IDENTIFYING HIERARCHIES Based on these principles, we can work out the evolutionary relationships of the species we see around us. It is a sort of going backwards in time. We can do this by identif

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Class 10 / Biology / Heredity and Evolution / Evolution and Classification

TRACING EVOLUTIONARY RELATIONSHIPS

TRACING EVOLUTIONARY RELATIONSHIPS When we try to follow evolutionary relationships, how do we identify characteristics as common? These characteristics in different organisms would be similar beca

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Class 10 / Biology / Heredity and Evolution / Evolution and Classification

FOSSILS

FOSSILS Such studies of organ structure can be done not only on current species, but also on species that are no longer alive. How do we know that these extinct species ever existed? We know this f

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Class 10 / Biology / Heredity and Evolution / Evolution and Classification

EVOLUTION BY STAGES

EVOLUTION BY STAGES A question that arises here is – if complicated organs, such as the eye, are selected for the advantage they provide, how can they be generated by a single DNA change? Sur

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Class 10 / Biology / Heredity and Evolution / Evolution Vs Progress

EVOLUTION NOT EQUATED WITH PROGRESS

EVOLUTION NOT EQUATED WITH PROGRESS In an exercise of tracing the family trees of species, we need to remember certain things. Firstly, there are multiple branches possible at each and every

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Class 10 / Biology / Heredity and Evolution / Evolution Vs Progress

THE HUMAN EVOLUTION

THE HUMAN EVOLUTION   The same tools for tracing evolutionary relationships – excavating, time-dating, and studying fossils, as well as determining DNA sequences – have bee

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Class 10 / Biology / Our Environment / Ecosystem

ECOSYSTEM AND ITS COMPONENTS

ECOSYSTEM AND ITS COMPONENTS We have heard the word ‘environment’ often being used on the television, in newspapers and by people around us. Our elders tell us that the &lsquo

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Class 10 / Biology / Our Environment / Ecosystem

FOOD CHAINS AND WEBS

FOOD CHAINS AND WEBS In Figure 15.4 we have formed a series of organisms feeding on one another. This series or organisms taking part at various biotic levels form a food chain (Fig. 15.1).

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Class 10 / Biology / Our Environment / Our Activities Vs Environment

OZONE LAYER AND HOW IT IS GETTING DEPLETED?

FOOD CHAINS AND WEBS We are an integral part of the environment. Changes in the environment affect us and our activities change the environment around us. We have already seen in Class IX how

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Class 10 / Biology / Our Environment / Our Activities Vs Environment

MANAGING THE GARBAGE WE PRODUCE

MANAGING THE GARBAGE WE PRODUCE In our daily activities, we generate a lot of material that are thrown away. What are some of these waste materials? What happens after we throw them away? Let

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Class 10 / Biology / Sustainable Management of Natural Resources / Living in Harmony with Nature

INTRODUCTION

INTRODUCTION ‘Living in harmony with nature’ is not new to us. Sustainable living has always been an integral part of India’s tradition and culture. It has been integrated with ou

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Class 10 / Biology / Sustainable Management of Natural Resources / Living in Harmony with Nature

R 5 PRINCIPLE

R 5 PRINCIPLE We need not feel powerless or overwhelmed by the scale of the problems because there are many things we can do to make a difference. You must have come across the five R’s to sa

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Class 10 / Biology / Sustainable Management of Natural Resources / Need For Managing Resources

WHY TO MANAGE RESOURCES?

WHY TO MANAGE RESOURCES? Not just roads and buildings, but all the things we use or consume – food, clothes, books, toys, furniture, tools and vehicles – are obtained from resources on

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Class 10 / Biology / Sustainable Management of Natural Resources / Forests and Wild Life

STAKEHOLDERS

STAKEHOLDERS Activity 16.6: *  Make a list of forest produce that you use. *  What do you think a person living near a forest would use? *  What do you think

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Class 10 / Biology / Sustainable Management of Natural Resources / Forests and Wild Life

MANAGEMENT OF FOREST

MANAGEMENT OF FOREST We need to consider if the goals of all the above stakeholders with regard to the management of the forests are the same. Forest resources are often made available for industri

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Class 10 / Biology / Sustainable Management of Natural Resources / Water for All

WATER – A BASIC NECESSITY

WATER – A BASIC NECESSITY Activity 16.9: *  Villages suffering from chronic water shortage surround a water theme park in Maharashtra. Debate whether this is the optimum use of

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Class 10 / Biology / Sustainable Management of Natural Resources / Water for All

DAMS

DAMS Why do we seek to build dams? Large dams can ensure the storage of adequate water not just for irrigation, but also for generating electricity, as discussed in the previous chapter. Canal system

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Class 10 / Biology / Sustainable Management of Natural Resources / Water for All

WATER HARVESTING

WATER HARVESTING Watershed management emphasises scientific soil and water conservation in order to increase the biomass production. The aim is to develop primary resources of land and water, to prod

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Class 10 / Biology / Sustainable Management of Natural Resources / Coal and Petroleum

COAL AND PETROLEUM

COAL AND PETROLEUM We have seen some of the issues involved in the conservation and sustainable use of resources like forests, wildlife and water. These can meet our needs perpetually if we were to u

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Class 10 / Biology / Sustainable Management of Natural Resources / Overview of Natural Resource Management

OUR RESPONSIBILITY

OUR RESPONSIBILITY Sustainable management of natural resources is a difficult task. In addressing this issue, we need to keep an open mind with regard to the interests of various stakeholders. We n

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Class 10 / Geography / Resources and Development / Introduction

INTRODUCTION AND CLASSIFICATION OF RESOURCES

INTRODUCTION AND CLASSIFICATION OF RESOURCES Everything available in our environment which can be used to satisfy our needs, provided, it is technologically accessible, economically feasible and cu

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Class 10 / Geography / Resources and Development / Types of Resources

ON BASIS OF ORIGIN AND EXHAUSTIBILITY

ON BASIS OF ORIGIN AND EXHAUSTIBILITY Renewable Resources: The resources which can be renewed or reproduced by physical, chemical or mechanical processes are known as renewable or replenishable

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Class 10 / Geography / Resources and Development / Types of Resources

ON BASIS OF OWNERSHIP

ON BASIS OF OWNERSHIP Individual Resources: These are also owned privately by individuals. Many farmers own land which is allotted to them by the government against the payment of revenue. In v

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Class 10 / Geography / Resources and Development / Types of Resources

ON THE BASIS OF THE STATUS OF DEVELOPMENT

ON THE BASIS OF THE STATUS OF DEVELOPMENT Potential Resources: Resources which are found in a region, but have not been utilised. For example, the western parts of India particularly Rajasthan

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Class 10 / Geography / Resources and Development / Development of Resources

SUSTAINABLE RESOURCES

SUSTAINABLE RESOURCES Sustainable development: Sustainable economic development means ‘development should take place without damaging the environment, and development in the present shoul

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Class 10 / Geography / Resources and Development / Development of Resources

RESOURCES PLANNING

RESOURCES PLANNING Planning is the widely accepted strategy for judicious use of resources. It has importance in a country like India, which has enormous diversity in the availability of resources.

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Class 10 / Geography / Resources and Development / Development of Resources

RESOURCES PLANNING IN INDIA

RESOURCES PLANNING IN INDIA Resource planning is a complex process which involves : (i) identification and inventory of resources across the regions of the country. This involves surveying, mapp

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Class 10 / Geography / Resources and Development / Land Resources and Utilization

LAND RESOURCES

LAND RESOURCES We live on land, we perform our economic activities on land and we use it in different ways. Thus, land is a natural resource of the utmost importance. It supports natural veget

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Class 10 / Geography / Resources and Development / Land Resources and Utilization

LAND UTILIZATION

LAND UTILIZATION Land resources are used for the following purposes: 1. Forests 2. Land not available for cultivation       (a) Barren and wasteland      

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Class 10 / Geography / Resources and Development / Land Resources and Utilization

LAND USE PATTERN IN INDIA

LAND USE PATTERN IN INDIA The use of land is determined both by physical factors such as topography, climate, soil types as well as human factors such as population density, technological capabilit

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Class 10 / Geography / Resources and Development / Land Resources and Utilization

LAND DEGRADATION AND CONSERVATION MEASURES

LAND DEGRADATION AND CONSERVATION MEASURES We have shared our land with the past generations and will have to do so with the future generations too. Ninety-five percent of our basic needs for

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Class 10 / Physics / Light - Reflection and Refraction / Introduction

What makes things visible?

We see a variety of objects in the world around us. However, we are unable to see anything in a dark room. On lighting up the room, things become visible. What makes things visible? During the day, su

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Class 10 / Physics / Light - Reflection and Refraction / Reflection of Light

Laws of Reflection

Reflection of Light A highly polished surface, such as a mirror, reflects most of the light falling on it. You are already familiar with the laws of reflection of light Let us recall these laws

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Class 10 / Physics / Light - Reflection and Refraction / Spherical Mirrors

Concave and Convex Mirror

Concave and Convex Mirror Concave and Convex Mirror The reflecting surface of a spherical mirror may be curved inwards or outwards. A spherical mirror, whose reflecting surface is curved inwards, t

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Class 10 / Physics / Light - Reflection and Refraction / Spherical Mirrors

Image Formation by Spherical Mirrors

Image Formation by Spherical Mirrors You have studied the image formation by plane mirrors. You also know the nature, position, and relative size of the images formed by them. How about the images

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Class 10 / Physics / Light - Reflection and Refraction / Representation of Images by Ray Diagrams

Drawing Ray Diagrams

Representation of Images Formed by Spherical  Mirrors Using Ray Diagrams   We can also study the formation of images by spherical mirrors by drawing ray diagrams. Consider an extended

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Class 10 / Physics / Light - Reflection and Refraction / Representation of Images by Ray Diagrams

Image formation by Concave Mirror

Image formation by Concave Mirror Figure 10.7 illustrates the ray diagrams for the formation of the image by a concave mirror for various positions of the object. Figure 10.7 Ray diagrams fo

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Class 10 / Physics / Light - Reflection and Refraction / Representation of Images by Ray Diagrams

Image formation by Convex Mirror

Image formation by Convex Mirror We studied the image formation by a concave mirror. Now we shall study the formation of image by a convex mirror. Activity 10.5 Take a convex mirror. Hold it

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Class 10 / Geography / Resources and Development / Soil and its Classification

SOIL AS A RESOURCES

SOIL AS A RESOURCES Soil is the most important renewable natural resource. It is the medium of plant growth and supports different types of living organisms on the earth. The soil is a living syste

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Class 10 / Geography / Resources and Development / Soil and its Classification

ALLUVIAL, BLACK, RED AND YELLOW SOILS

ALLUVIAL, BLACK, RED AND YELLOW SOILS Alluvial Soils This is the most widely spread and important soil. In fact, the entire northern plains are made of alluvial soil. These have been deposited b

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Class 10 / Geography / Resources and Development / Soil and its Classification

LATERITE, ARID AND FOREST SOILS

LATERITE, ARID AND FOREST SOILS Laterite Soils Laterite has been derived from the Latin word ‘later’ which means brick. The laterite soil develops under tropical and subtropical

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Class 10 / Geography / Resources and Development / Soil Erosion and Conservation

SOIL EROSION AND CONSERVATION

SOIL EROSION AND CONSERVATION The denudation of the soil cover and subsequent washing down is described as soil erosion. The processes of soil formation and erosion, go on simultaneously and genera

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Class 10 / Geography / Forest and Wildlife Resources / Biodiversity

INTRODUCTION

INTRODUCTION * Lepcha folk song from the northern part of West Bengal Narak! My Lord, you are the creator of music in the world of Lepchas. Oh Narak! My Lord, let me dedicate myself to y

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Class 10 / Geography / Forest and Wildlife Resources / Flora and Fauna

FLORA AND FAUNA IN INDIA

FLORA AND FAUNA IN INDIA If you look around, you will be able to find that there are some animals and plants which are unique in your area. In fact, India is one of the world’s richest countr

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Class 10 / Geography / Forest and Wildlife Resources / Flora and Fauna

SPECIES CLASSIFICATION ON LEVEL OF SURVIVAL

SPECIES CLASSIFICATION ON LEVEL OF SURVIVAL Let us now understand the different categories of existing plants and animal species. Based on the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Nat

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Class 10 / Geography / Forest and Wildlife Resources / Depletion of the Flora and Fauna

DEFORESTATION AND MINING

DEFORESTATION AND MINING Vanishing Forest The dimensions of deforestation in India are staggering. The forest and tree cover in the country is estimated at 79.42 million hectare, which is 24.16

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Class 10 / Geography / Forest and Wildlife Resources / Depletion of the Flora and Fauna

OTHER ENVIRONMENTAL DESTRUCTION

OTHER ENVIRONMENTAL DESTRUCTION Other important causes of environmental destruction are unequal access, inequitable consumption of resources and differential sharing of responsibility for environme

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Class 10 / Physics / Light - Reflection and Refraction / Sign Convention, Lens Formula, Magnification of Spherical Lens

Sign Convention, Lens Formula and Magnification

Sign Convention for Spherical Lenses   For lenses, we follow sign convention, similar to the one used for spherical mirrors. We apply the rules for signs of distances, except that all measu

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Class 10 / Geography / Forest and Wildlife Resources / Depletion of the Flora and Fauna

LOSS OF CULTURAL DIVERSITY

LOSS OF CULTURAL DIVERSITY The destruction of forests and wildlife is not just a biological issue. The biological loss is strongly correlated with the loss of cultural diversity. Such losses have i

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Class 10 / Physics / Light - Reflection and Refraction / Power of a Lens

Power of Lens

Power of a Lens You have already learnt that the ability of a lens to converge or diverge light rays depends on its focal length. For example, a convex lens of short focal length bends the light ra

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Class 10 / Geography / Forest and Wildlife Resources / Conservation of Forest and Wildlife in India

TYPES AND DISTRIBUTION OF FOREST AND WILDLIFE RESOURCES

TYPES AND DISTRIBUTION OF FOREST AND WILDLIFE RESOURCES Even if we want to conserve our vast forest and wildlife resources, it is rather difficult to manage, control and regulate them. In India, mu

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Class 10 / Geography / Forest and Wildlife Resources / Conservation of Forest and Wildlife in India

CONSERVE OUR FOREST AND WILDLIFE

CONSERVE OUR FOREST AND WILDLIFE Conservation in the background of the rapid decline in wildlife population and forestry has become essential. But why do we need to conserve our forests and wi

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Class 10 / Geography / Forest and Wildlife Resources / Conservation of Forest and Wildlife in India

COMMUNITY AND CONSERVATION

COMMUNITY AND CONSERVATION Conservation in the background of the rapid decline in wildlife population and forestry has become essential. But why do we need to conserve our forests and wildlife

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Class 10 / Physics / Human Eye and Colourful World / Human Eye

Human Eye

Introduction You have studied in the previous chapter about refraction of light by lenses. You also studied the nature, position and relative size of images formed by lenses. How can these ideas he

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Class 10 / Physics / Human Eye and Colourful World / Human Eye

Power of Accommodation

Power of Accommodation The eye lens is composed of fibrous, jelly-like material. Its curvature can be modified to some extent by the ciliary muscles. The change in the curvature of the eye lens can

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Class 10 / Geography / Water Resources / Water Conservation - An Important Need

WATER SCARCITY

WATER SCARCITY Introduction You already know that three-fourths of the earth’s surface is covered with water, but only a small proportion of it accounts for freshwater that can be put

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Class 10 / Physics / Human Eye and Colourful World / Defects Of Vision And Their Correction

Defects Of Vision And Their Correction

Common refractive defects of vision Sometimes, the eye may gradually lose its power of accommodation. In such conditions, the person cannot see the objects distinctly and comfortably. The vision be

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Class 10 / Geography / Water Resources / Multi-purpose River Projects

HOW DO WE CONSERVE AND MANAGE WATER?

HOW DO WE CONSERVE AND MANAGE WATER? But, how do we conserve and manage water? Archaeological and historical records show that from ancient times we have been constructing sophisticated hydraulic s

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Class 10 / Physics / Human Eye and Colourful World / Refraction Of Light Through A Prism

Refraction Of Light Through A Prism

Refraction Of Light Through A Prism You have learnt how the light gets refracted through a rectangular glass slab. For parallel refracting surfaces, as in a glass slab, the emergent ray is parallel

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Class 10 / Geography / Water Resources / Multi-purpose River Projects

DAMS - TEMPLES OF MODERN INDIA

DAMS - TEMPLES OF MODERN INDIA What are dams and how do they help us in conserving and managing water?   A dam is a barrier across flowing water that obstructs, directs, or retards the

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Class 10 / Geography / Water Resources / Multi-purpose River Projects

SCRUTINY AND OPPOSITION

SCRUTINY AND OPPOSITION In recent years, multi-purpose projects and large dams have come under great scrutiny and opposition for a variety of reasons. Regulating and damming of rivers affect their

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Class 10 / Geography / Water Resources / Multi-purpose River Projects

ROLE OF IRRIGATION

ROLE OF IRRIGATION Irrigation has also changed the cropping pattern of many regions with farmers shifting to water-intensive and commercial crops. This has great ecological consequences like salini

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Class 10 / Physics / Human Eye and Colourful World / Dispersion Of White Light By A Glass Prism

Dispersion Of White Light By A Glass Prism

Dispersion of White Light By A Glass Prism You must have seen and appreciated the spectacular colours in a rainbow. How could the white light of the Sun give us various colours of the rainbow? Befo

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Class 10 / Geography / Water Resources / Rain Water Harvesting

WATER HARVESTING SYSTEM - AVAILABLE ALTERNATIVE

WATER HARVESTING SYSTEM -  AVAILABLE ALTERNATIVE Many thought that given the disadvantages and rising resistance against the multi-purpose projects, a water harvesting system w

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Class 10 / Geography / Water Resources / Rain Water Harvesting

TANKAS

TANKAS In the semi-arid and arid regions of Rajasthan, particularly in Bikaner, Phalodi and Barmer, almost all the houses traditionally had underground tanks or tankas for storing drinking water.

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Class 10 / Physics / Human Eye and Colourful World / Atmospheric Refraction

Stars, Sunrise and Sunset

Atmospheric Refraction You might have observed the apparent random wavering or flickering of objects seen through a turbulent stream of hot air rising above a fire or a radiator. The air

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Class 10 / Physics / Human Eye and Colourful World / Scattering Of Light

Scattering Of Light - Tyndall Effect

Scattering Of Light The interplay of light with objects around us gives rise to several spectacular phenomena in nature. The blue colour of the sky, colour of water in the deep sea, the reddening o

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Class 10 / Physics / Human Eye and Colourful World / Scattering Of Light

Why is the colour of the clear Sky Blue?

Why is the colour of the clear Sky Blue? The molecules of air and other fine particles in the atmosphere have a size smaller than the wavelength of visible light. These are more effective

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Class 10 / Geography / Water Resources / Rain Water Harvesting

BAMBOO DRIP IRRIGATION SYSTEM

BAMBOO DRIP IRRIGATION SYSTEM In Meghalaya, a 200-year-old system of tapping stream and spring water by using bamboo pipes, is prevalent. About 18-20 litres of water enters the bamboo pipe system,

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Class 10 / Physics / Human Eye and Colourful World / Scattering Of Light

Colour of the Sun at Sunrise and Sunset

Colour of the Sun at Sunrise and Sunset   Have you seen the sky and the Sun at sunset or sunrise? Have you wondered as to why the Sun and the surrounding sky appear red? Let us do an activi

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Class 10 / Geography / Agriculture / Farming and its types

PRIMITIVE SUBSISTENCE FARMING

PRIMITIVE SUBSISTENCE FARMING Introduction India is an agriculturally important country. Two-thirds of its population is engaged in agricultural activities. Agriculture is a primary activity, wh

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Class 10 / Geography / Agriculture / Farming and its types

INTENSIVE SUBSISTENCE FARMING

INTENSIVE SUBSISTENCE FARMING This type of farming is practised in areas of high population pressure on land. It is labour- intensive farming, where high doses of biochemical inputs and irrigation

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Class 10 / Geography / Agriculture / Farming and its types

COMMERCIAL FARMING

COMMERCIAL FARMING The main characteristic of this type of farming is the use of higher doses of modern inputs, e.g. high yielding variety (HYV) seeds, chemical fertilisers, insecticides and p

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Class 10 / Geography / Agriculture / Cropping Pattern

RABI, KHARIF AND ZAID

RABI, KHARIF AND ZAID You have studied the physical diversities and plurality of cultures in India. These are also reflected in agricultural practices and cropping patterns in the country. Various

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Class 10 / Geography / Agriculture / Major Crops

RICE, WHEAT AND PULSES

RICE, WHEAT AND PULSES A variety of food and non-food crops are grown in different parts of the country depending upon the variations in soil, climate and cultivation practices. Major crops grown i

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Class 10 / Geography / Agriculture / Major Crops

MILLETS AND MAIZE

MILLETS AND MAIZE Millets Jowar, bajra and ragi are the important millets grown in India. Though these are known as coarse grains, they have very high nutritional value. For example, ragi is ver

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Class 10 / Geography / Agriculture / Food Crops other than Grains

SUGARCANE

SUGARCANE It is a tropical as well as a subtropical crop. It grows well in a hot and humid climate with a temperature of 21°C to 27°C and annual rainfall between 75cm. and 100cm. Irrigation

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Class 10 / Geography / Agriculture / Food Crops other than Grains

OIL SEEDS

OILSEEDS In 2016 India was the second-largest producer of groundnut in the world after China. In rapeseed production, India was the third-largest producer in the world after Canada and China in 201

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Class 10 / Geography / Agriculture / Food Crops other than Grains

TEA AND COFFEE

TEA AND COFFEE Tea Tea cultivation is an example of plantation agriculture. It is also an important beverage crop introduced in India initially by the British. Today, most of the tea plantations

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Class 10 / Geography / Agriculture / Food Crops other than Grains

HORTICULTURE CROPS

HORTICULTURE CROPS In 2016, India was the second largest producer of fruits and vegetables in the world after China. India is a producer of tropical as well as temperate fruits. Mangoes of Maharash

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Class 10 / Geography / Agriculture / Non-Food Crops

RUBBER

RUBBER It is an equatorial crop, but under special conditions, it is also grown in tropical and sub-tropical areas. It requires moist and humid climate with rainfall of more than 200 cm. and temper

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Class 10 / Geography / Agriculture / Non-Food Crops

FIBRE CROPS - COTTON AND JUTE

FIBRE CROPS - COTTON AND JUTE   Fibre crops Cotton, jute, hemp and natural silk are the four major fibre crops grown in India. The first three are derived from the crops grown in the so

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Class 10 / Geography / Agriculture / Technological and Institutional Reforms

TECHNO – INSTITUTIONAL CHANGES

TECHNO – INSTITUTIONAL CHANGES   It was mentioned in the previous pages that agriculture has been practised in India for thousands of years. Sustained uses of land without compatible

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Class 10 / Geography / Agriculture / Technological and Institutional Reforms

BHOODAN-GRAMDAN

BHOODAN-GRAMDAN   Mahatma Gandhi declared Vinoba Bhave as his spiritual heir. He also participated in Satyagraha as one of the foremost satyagrahis. He was one of the votaries of Gandh

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Class 10 / Geography / Agriculture / Agriculture - The Backbone of Indian Economy

AGRICULTURAL SHARE IN THE GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT(GDP)

AGRICULTURAL SHARE IN THE GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT(GDP) Agriculture has been the backbone of the Indian economy through its share in the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has registered a declin

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Class 10 / Geography / Agriculture / Impact of Globalisation on Agriculture

EFFECT OF GLOBALISATION OF FARMERS

EFFECT OF GLOBALISATION OF FARMERS Globalisation is not a new phenomenon. It was there at the time of colonisation. In the nineteenth century when European traders came to India, at that time too,

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Class 10 / Geography / Agriculture / Impact of Globalisation on Agriculture

ORGANIC FARMING

ORGANIC FARMING In fact, organic farming is much in vogue today because it is practised without factory-made chemicals such as fertilizers and pesticides. Hence, it does not affect the environment

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Class 10 / Geography / Minerals and Energy Resources / Minerals

WHERE DO THESE METALS COME FROM?

WHERE DO THESE METALS COME FROM? Introduction Haban comes to Guwahati with his father from a remote village. He sees people getting into a strange house like objects which move along t

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Class 10 / Geography / Minerals and Energy Resources / Minerals

WHAT IS A MINERAL?

WHAT IS A MINERAL? Geologists define a mineral as a “homogenous, naturally occurring substance with a definable internal structure.” Minerals are found in varied forms in nature, rangin

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Class 10 / Geography / Minerals and Energy Resources / Occurrence of Minerals

WHERE ARE THESE MINERALS FOUND?

WHERE ARE THESE MINERALS FOUND? Minerals are usually found in “ores”. The term ore is used to describe an accumulation of any mineral mixed with other elements. The mineral content of t

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Class 10 / Geography / Minerals and Energy Resources / Types of Minerals

FERROUS MINERALS – IRON ORE, MANGANESE

FERROUS MINERALS – IRON ORE, MANGANESE Ferrous minerals account for about three-fourths of the total value of the production of metallic minerals. They provide a strong base for the deve

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Class 10 / Geography / Minerals and Energy Resources / Types of Minerals

NON-FERROUS MINERALS – COPPER, BAUXITE

NON-FERROUS MINERALS – COPPER, BAUXITE Indias’  reserves and production of non- ferrous minerals are not very satisfactory. However, these minerals, which include copper, baux

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Class 10 / Geography / Minerals and Energy Resources / Types of Minerals

NONMETALLIC MINERALS – MICA

NONMETALLIC MINERALS – MICA Mica Mica is a mineral made up of a series of plates or leaves. It splits easily into thin sheets. These sheets can be so thin that a thousand can be layered in

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Class 10 / Geography / Minerals and Energy Resources / Types of Minerals

ROCK MINERALS – LIMESTONE

ROCK MINERALS – LIMESTONE Limestone Limestone is found in association with rocks composed of calcium carbonates or calcium and magnesium carbonates. It is found in sedimentary rocks of mos

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Class 10 / Geography / Minerals and Energy Resources / Hazards and Conservation of Minerals

HAZARDS OF MINING

HAZARDS OF MINING Have you ever wondered about the efforts the miners make in making life comfortable for you? What are the impacts of mining on the health of the miners and the environment? T

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Class 10 / Geography / Minerals and Energy Resources / Hazards and Conservation of Minerals

CONSERVATION OF MINERALS

CONSERVATION OF MINERALS We all appreciate the strong dependence of industry and agriculture upon mineral deposits and the substances manufactured from them. The total volume of workable mineral de

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Class 10 / Geography / Minerals and Energy Resources / Hazards and Conservation of Minerals

ENERGY RESOURCES

ENERGY RESOURCES Energy is required for all activities. It is needed to cook, to provide light and heat, to propel vehicles and to drive machinery in industries. Energy can be generated from fuel m

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Class 10 / Geography / Minerals and Energy Resources / Conventional Sources of Energy

COAL

COAL In India, coal is the most abundantly available fossil fuel. It provides a substantial part of the nation’s energy needs. It is used for power generation, to supply energy to the in

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Class 10 / Geography / Minerals and Energy Resources / Conventional Sources of Energy

PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS

PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS Petroleum Petroleum or mineral oil is the next major energy source in India after coal. It provides fuel for heat and lighting, lubricants for machinery, and raw materi

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Class 10 / Geography / Minerals and Energy Resources / Conventional Sources of Energy

ELECTRICITY

ELECTRICITY Electricity has such a wide range of applications in today's world that, its per capita consumption is considered as an index of development. Electricity is gene

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Class 10 / Geography / Minerals and Energy Resources / Non-Conventional Sources of Energy

NUCLEAR OR ATOMIC ENERGY, SOLAR ENERGY

NUCLEAR OR ATOMIC ENERGY, SOLAR ENERGY Non-Conventional Sources of Energy The growing consumption of energy has resulted in the country becoming increasingly dependent on fossil fuels such as co

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Class 10 / Geography / Minerals and Energy Resources / Non-Conventional Sources of Energy

WIND POWER, BIO GAS

WINDPOWER, BIOGAS Windpower   India has great potential of wind power. The largest wind farm cluster is located in Tamil Nadu from Nagarcoil to Madurai. Apart from these, Andhra Pradesh,

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Class 10 / Geography / Minerals and Energy Resources / Non-Conventional Sources of Energy

TIDAL ENERGY, GEOTHERMAL ENERGY

TIDAL ENERGY, GEOTHERMAL ENERGY Tidal energy   Oceanic tides can be used to generate electricity. Floodgate dams are built across inlets. During high tide, water flows into the inlet and

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Class 10 / Geography / Minerals and Energy Resources / Conservation of Energy Resources

ENERGY SAVED IS ENERGY PRODUCED

ENERGY SAVED IS ENERGY PRODUCED Energy is a basic requirement for economic development. Every sector of the national economy – agriculture, industry, transport, commercial, and domestic &ndas

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Class 10 / Geography / Manufacturing Industries / Introduction to Manufacturing Industries

SOME IDEAS ABOUT INDUSTRIES

SOME IDEAS ABOUT INDUSTRIES On the occassion of Diwali, Harish went to a market with his parents. They purchased shoes and clothes for him. His mother purchased utensils, sugar, tea and diyas (eart

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Class 10 / Geography / Manufacturing Industries / Importance of Manufacturing

BACKBONE OF DEVELOPMENT

BACKBONE OF DEVELOPMENT Manufacturing sector is considered the backbone of development in general and economic development in particular mainly because - *   Manufacturing industries n

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Class 10 / Geography / Manufacturing Industries / Importance of Manufacturing

CONTRIBUTION TO NATIONAL ECONOMY

CONTRIBUTION TO NATIONAL ECONOMY Over the last two decades, the share of the manufacturing sector has stagnated at 17 percent of GDP – out of a total of 27 percent for the industry

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Class 10 / Geography / Manufacturing Industries / Importance of Manufacturing

INDUSTRIAL LOCATION

INDUSTRIAL LOCATION Industrial locations are complex in nature. These are influenced by the availability of raw material, labour, capital, power and market, etc. It is rarely possible to find

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Class 10 / Geography / Manufacturing Industries / Classification of Industries

ON THE BASIS OF SOURCE OF RAW MATERIALS

ON THE BASIS OF SOURCE OF RAW MATERIALS Classification of Industries List the various manufactured products you use in your daily life such as – transistors, electric bulbs, vegetable oil,

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Class 10 / Geography / Manufacturing Industries / Classification of Industries

ON THE BASIS OF OWNERSHIP

ON THE BASIS OF OWNERSHIP *   Public sector, owned and operated by government agencies – BHEL, SAIL etc. *   Private sector industries owned and operated by individuals

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Class 10 / Geography / Manufacturing Industries / Classification of Industries

BASED ON BULK AND WEIGHT

BASED ON BULK AND WEIGHT Based on the bulk and weight of raw material and finished goods: *   Heavy industries such as iron and steel *   Light industries that use light r

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Class 10 / Geography / Manufacturing Industries / Agro-based Industries

TEXTILES INDUSTRY – COTTON TEXTILES

TEXTILES INDUSTRY – COTTON TEXTILES Agro-based Industries Cotton, jute, silk, woollen textiles, sugar and edible oil, etc. industries are based on agricultural raw materials.  

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Class 10 / Geography / Manufacturing Industries / Agro-based Industries

JUTE TEXTILES

JUTE TEXTILES   India is the largest producer of raw jute and jute goods and stands at second place as an exporter after Bangladesh. Most of the mills are located in West Bengal, mainly alo

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Class 10 / Geography / Manufacturing Industries / Agro-based Industries

SUGAR INDUSTRY

SUGAR INDUSTRY India stands second as a world producer of sugar but occupies first place in the production of gur and khandsari. The raw material used in this industry is bulky, and in haulage its

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Class 10 / Geography / Manufacturing Industries / Mineral-based Industries

IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY

IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY Mineral-based Industries Industries that use minerals and metals as raw materials are called mineral-based industries. Can you name some industries that would fall in thi

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Class 10 / Geography / Manufacturing Industries / Mineral-based Industries

ALUMINIUM SMELTING

ALUMINIUM SMELTING Aluminium smelting is the second most important metallurgical industry in India. It is light, resistant to corrosion, a good conductor of heat, malleable and becomes strong when

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Class 10 / Geography / Manufacturing Industries / Chemical Industries

FAST GROWING AND DIVERSIFYING

FAST GROWING AND DIVERSIFYING The Chemical industry in India is fast growing and diversifying. It comprises both large and small scale manufacturing units. Rapid growth has been recorded in both in

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Class 10 / Geography / Manufacturing Industries / Chemical Industries

FERTILIZER AND CEMENT INDUSTRY

FERTILIZER AND CEMENT INDUSTRY Fertilizer Industry The fertilizer industry is centred around the production of nitrogenous fertilizers (mainly urea), phosphatic fertilizers and ammonium phosphat

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Class 10 / Geography / Manufacturing Industries / Automobile, IT and Electronic Industry

AUTOMOBILE, IT AND ELECTRONIC INDUSTRY

FERTILIZER AND CEMENT INDUSTRY Automobile Industry Automobiles provide vehicle for quick transport of good services and passengers. Trucks, buses, cars, motor cycles, scooters, three-wheelers an

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Class 10 / Geography / Manufacturing Industries / Industrial Pollution and Environmental Degradation

AIR AND WATER POLLUTION

AIR AND WATER POLLUTION Industrial Pollution and Environmental Degradation Although industries contribute significantly to India’s economic growth and development, the increase in pollutio

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Class 10 / Geography / Manufacturing Industries / Industrial Pollution and Environmental Degradation

THERMAL AND NOISE POLLUTION

THERMAL AND NOISE POLLUTION Thermal pollution Thermal pollution of water occurs when hot water from factories and thermal plants is drained into rivers and ponds before cooling. What would be th

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Class 10 / Geography / Manufacturing Industries / Control of Environmental Degradation

CONTROL OF INDUSTRIAL POLLUTION

CONTROL OF INDUSTRIAL POLLUTION Every litre of waste water discharged by our industry pollutes eight times the quantity of freshwater. How can the industrial pollution of fresh water be reduce

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Class 10 / Chemistry / Chemical Reactions and Equations / Types Of Chemical Reactions

DISPLACEMENT REACTION

DISPLACEMENT REACTION   Activity 1.9 ( Iron displacing copper from copper sulphate solution ): Figure 1.8(a): Iron nails dipped in copper sulphate solution   * &

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Class 10 / English / A Letter to God / A Letter to God

A LETTER TO GOD

Before you read They say faith can move mountains. But what should we put our faith in? This is the question this story delicately poses.   Lencho is a farmer who writes a letter to God

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Class 10 / English / Dust of Snow / Dust of Snow

DUST OF SNOW

DUST OF SNOW - ROBERT FROST (Poet) Poem The way a crow Shook down on me The dust of snow From a hemlock tree   Has given my heart A change of mood And saved some p

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Class 10 / English / Fire and Ice / Fire and Ice

FIRE AND ICE

FIRE AND ICE - ROBERT FROST (Poet) Poem Some say the world will end in fire Some say in ice. From what I’ve tasted of desire I hold with those who favour fire   But i

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Class 10 / English / A Long Walk to Freedom / Nelson Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom

LONG WALK TO FREEDOM

Before you read *    ‘Apartheid’ is a political system that separates people according to their race. Can you say which of the three countries named below had such a poli

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Class 10 / English / The Tiger in the Zoo / A Tiger in the Zoo

A TIGER IN THE ZOO

A TIGER IN THE ZOO - LESLIE NORRIS (Poet) Poem He stalks in his vivid stripes The few steps of his cage, On pads of velvet quiet, In his quiet rage.   He should be lurking i

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Class 10 / English / His First Flight / His First Flight

HIS FIRST FLIGHT

Before you read Since the earliest times, humans have dreamt of conquering the skies. Here are two stories about flying.  I.  A young seagull is afraid to fly. How does he conquer his

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Class 10 / English / Black Aeroplane / Black Aeroplane

BLACK AEROPLANE

STORY – BLACK AEROPLANE – FREDERICK FORSYTH (Author) The moon was coming up in the east, behind me, and stars were shining in the clear sky above me. There wasn’t a cloud in the s

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Class 10 / English / How to Tell Wild Animals / How to Tell Wild Animals

How to Tell Wild Animals

How to Tell Wild Animals - CAROLYN WELLS (Poet) Poem If ever you should go by chance To jungles in the east; And if there should to you advance A large and tawny beast, If he roars

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Class 10 / English / The Ball Poem / The Ball Poem

The Ball Poem

THE BALL POEM - JOHN BERRYMAN (Poet) Before you read A boy loses a ball. He is very upset. A ball doesn’t cost much, nor is it difficult to buy another ball. Why then is the boy so upset?

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Class 10 / English / From the Diary of Anne Frank / From the Diary of Anne Frank

FROM THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK

Before you read Anneliese Marie ‘Anne’ Frank (12 June 1929 – February/March 1945) was a German-born Jewish girl who wrote while in hiding with her family and four friends i

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Class 10 / English / Amanda / Amanda

Amanda!

Amanda! - ROBIN KLEIN (Poet) Poem Don’t bite your nails, Amanda! Don’t hunch your shoulders, Amanda! Stop that slouching and sit up straight, Amanda!   (There is a

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Class 10 / English / Hundred Dresses Part - 1 / The Hundred Dresses–I

THE HUNDRED DRESSES - I

Before you read *   How do we judge the people around us — by their money, wealth and possessions? Or is there something of more enduring value to look for in a person? *  &

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Class 10 / English / The Hundred Dresses–II / The Hundred Dresses–II

THE HUNDRED DRESSES - II

STORY – THE HUNDRED DRESSES - II – ELEANOR ESTES (Author) While the class was circling the room, the monitor from the principal’s office brought Miss Mason a note. Miss Mason read

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Class 10 / English / Animals / Animals

ANIMALS

ANIMALS - WALT WHITMAN (Poet) Before you read The poet tells us that he feels more at home with animals than humans, whom he finds complicated and false. The poem is taken from ‘So

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Class 10 / English / A Baker from Goa / A Baker from Goa

A BAKER FROM GOA

Before you read Activity: Discuss in class 1.  What images — of people and of places — come to your mind, when you think of our country? 2.  What parts of India have

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Class 10 / English / Coorg / Coorg

COORG

STORY – COORG – LOKESH ABROL (Author) Coorg is a coffee country, famous for its rainforests and spices.   Midway between Mysore and the coastal town of Mangalore sits a piece

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Class 10 / English / Tea from Assam / Tea from Assam

TEA FROM ASSAM

STORY – TEA FROM ASSAM – ARUP KUMAR DATTA (Author) Pranjol, a youngster from Assam, is Rajvir’s classmate at school in Delhi. Pranjol’s father is the manager of a tea-garden

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Class 10 / English / The Trees / The Trees

THE TREES

THE TREES - ADRIENNE RICH (Poet) Before you read Can there be a forest without trees? Where are the trees in this poem, and where do they go?   Poet Adrienne Rich was born in Balti

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Class 10 / English / Mijbil the Otter / Mijbil the Otter

MIJBIL THE OTTER

  Before you read Gavin Maxwell lives in a cottage in Camusfearna, in the West Highlands in Scotland. When his dog Jonnie died, Maxwell was too sad to think of keeping a dog again. But life

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Class 10 / English / Fog / Fog

FOG

  FOG - CARL SANDBURG (Poet) Poem The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over harbour and city on silent haunches and then moves on.     &

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Class 10 / English / Madam Rides the Bus / Madam Rides the Bus

MADAM RIDES THE BUS

Before you read In this sensitive story, an eight-year-old girl’s first bus journey into the world outside her village is also her induction into the mystery of life and death. She sees the g

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Class 10 / English / The Tale of Custard the Dragon / The Tale of Custard the Dragon

THE TALE OF CUSTARD THE DRAGON

THE TALE OF CUSTARD THE DRAGON – OGDEN NASH (Poet) Before you read This poem is written in the style of a ballad — a song or poem that tells a story. You must be familiar with bal

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Class 10 / English / The Sermon at Benares / The Sermon at Benares

THE SERMON AT BENARES

Before you read [Source: Betty Renshaw Values and Voices: A College Reader (1975)]   Activity: Use a dictionary or ask for your teacher’s help as you discuss the following qu

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Class 10 / English / For Anne Gregory / For Anne Gregory

FOR ANNE GREGORY

FOR ANNE GREGORY - WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS (Poet) Before you read This poem is a conversation between a young man and a young woman. What are they arguing about?   Poet William Butler

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Class 10 / English / The Proposal / The Proposal

THE PROPOSAL

Before you read   ‘The Proposal’ (originally titled ‘A Marriage Proposal’) is a one-act play, a farce, by the Russian short-story writer and dramatist Anto

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Class 10 / Geography / Lifelines of National Economy / Introduction

TRANSPORT AND COMMUNICATION

TRANSPORT AND COMMUNICATION We use different materials and services in our daily life. Some of these are available in our immediate surroundings, while other requirements are met by bringing things

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Class 10 / Geography / Lifelines of National Economy / Modes of Transport

ROADWAYS

ROADWAYS India has one of the largest road networks in the world, aggregating to about 56 lakh km. In India, roadways have preceded railways. They still have an edge over railways in view of the ea

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Class 10 / Geography / Lifelines of National Economy / Modes of Transport

RAILWAYS

RAILWAYS Railways are the principal mode of transportation for freight and passengers in India. Railways also make it possible for people to conduct multifarious activities like business, sightseei

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Class 10 / Geography / Lifelines of National Economy / Modes of Transport

PIPELINES

PIPELINES Pipeline transport network is a new arrival on the transportation map of India. In the past, these were used to transport water to cities and industries. Now, these are used for transport

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Class 10 / Geography / Lifelines of National Economy / Modes of Transport

WATERWAYS

WATERWAYS Since the ancient period, India was one of the seafaring countries. Its seamen sailed far and near, thus, carrying and spreading Indian commerce and culture. Waterways are the cheapest me

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Class 10 / Geography / Lifelines of National Economy / Modes of Transport

AIRWAYS

AIRWAYS Air travel, today, is the fastest, most comfortable and prestigious mode of transport. It can cover very difficult terrains like high mountains, dreary deserts, dense forests and also

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Class 10 / Geography / Lifelines of National Economy / Communication

DIFFERENT COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS

DIFFERENT COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS Ever since humans appeared on the earth, they have used different means of communication. But, the pace of change, has been rapid in modern times. Long-distance comm

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Class 10 / Geography / Lifelines of National Economy / Trade

INTERNATIONAL TRADE

INTERNATIONAL TRADE The exchange of goods among people, states, and countries is referred to as trade. The market is the place where such exchanges take place. Trade between the two countries is ca

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Class 10 / Geography / Lifelines of National Economy / Trade

TOURISM AS A TRADE

TOURISM AS A TRADE Tourism in India has grown substantially over the last three decades. More than 15 million people are directly engaged in the tourism industry. Tourism also promotes national

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Class 10 / Economics / Development / Understanding Economic Development

WHAT IS DEVELOPMENT?

WHAT IS DEVELOPMENT? The idea of development or progress has always been with us. We have aspirations or desires about what we would like to do and how we would like to live. Similarly, we have ide

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Class 10 / Economics / Development / Development Promises

DIFFERENT PEOPLE AND DIFFERENT GOALS

DIFFERENT PEOPLE AND DIFFERENT GOALS Let us try to imagine what development or progress is likely to mean to different persons listed in Table 1.1. What are their aspirations? You will find th

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Class 10 / Economics / Development / Development Promises

INCOME AND OTHER GOALS

INCOME AND OTHER GOALS Category of Person Developmental Goals/ Aspirations Landless rural labourers More days of work and better wages; local school is able to provi

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Class 10 / Economics / Development / Development Promises

NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT If, as we have seen above, individuals seek different goals, then their notion of national development is also likely to be different. Discuss among yourselves on what India sh

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Class 10 / Economics / Development / Development Comparisons

HOW TO COMPARE DIFFERENT COUNTRIES AND STATES?

HOW TO COMPARE DIFFERENT COUNTRIES AND STATES? You might ask if development can mean different things, how come some countries are generally called developed and others underdeveloped? Before we co

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Class 10 / Economics / Development / Development Comparisons

AVERAGE INCOME

AVERAGE INCOME While ‘averages’ are useful for comparison, they also hide disparities. For example, let us consider two countries, A and B. For the sake of simplicity, we have a

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Class 10 / Economics / Development / Development Comparisons

INCOME AND OTHER CRITERIA

INCOME AND OTHER CRITERIA When we looked at individual aspirations and goals, we found that people not only think of better income but also have goals such as security, respect for others, equal tr

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Class 10 / Economics / Development / Development Comparisons

PUBLIC FACILITIES

PUBLIC FACILITIES How is it that the average person in Haryana has more income than the average person in Kerala but lags behind in these crucial areas? The reason is — money in your pocket c

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Class 10 / Economics / Development / Development Comparisons

HUMAN DEVELOPMENT REPORT

HUMAN DEVELOPMENT REPORT Once it is realised that even though the level of income is important, yet it is an inadequate measure of the level of development, we begin to think of other criteria. The

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Class 10 / Economics / Development / Sustainability of Development

GROUND WATER AND EXHAUSTION OF NATURAL RESOURCES

GROUNDWATER AND EXHAUSTION OF NATURAL RESOURCES Sustainability of development Suppose for the present that a particular country is quite developed. We would certainly like this level of developm

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Class 10 / Economics / Sectors Of The Indian Economy / Introduction to Sectors of the Indian Economy

UNDERSTANDING SECTORS OF INDIAN ECONOMY

UNDERSTANDING SECTORS OF INDIAN ECONOMY An economy is best understood when we study its components or sectors. Sectoral classification can be done on the basis of several criteria. In this chapter,

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Class 10 / Economics / Sectors Of The Indian Economy / Sectors of Economic activities

PRIMARY SECTORS

PRIMARY SECTORS Sectors Let us look at these pictures. You will find that people are engaged in various economic activities. Some of these are activities for producing goods. Some others are pro

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Class 10 / Economics / Sectors Of The Indian Economy / Sectors of Economic activities

SECONDARY SECTOR

SECONDARY SECTOR The secondary sector covers activities in which natural products are changed into other forms through ways of manufacturing that we associate with industrial activity. It is the ne

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Class 10 / Economics / Sectors Of The Indian Economy / Sectors of Economic activities

TERTIARY SECTOR

TERTIARY SECTOR After primary and secondary, there is a third category of activities that falls under tertiary sector and is different from the above two. These are activities that help in the deve

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Class 10 / Economics / Sectors Of The Indian Economy / Sectors of Economic activities

COMPARING THREE SECTORS

COMPARING THREE SECTORS The various production activities in the primary, secondary and tertiary sectors produce a very large number of goods and services. Also, the three sectors have a large numb

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Class 10 / Economics / Sectors Of The Indian Economy / Sectors of Economic activities

HISTORICAL CHANGE IN SECTORS

HISTORICAL CHANGE IN SECTORS Generally, it has been noted from the histories of many, now developed, countries that at initial stages of development, the primary sector was the most important secto

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Class 10 / Economics / Sectors Of The Indian Economy / Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Sectors in India

RISING IMPORTANCE OF TERTIARY SECTOR IN PRODUCTION

RISING IMPORTANCE OF TERTIARY SECTOR IN PRODUCTION Primary, secondary and tertiary sectors in India Graph 1 shows the production of goods and services in the three sectors. This is shown for two

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Class 10 / Economics / Sectors Of The Indian Economy / Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Sectors in India

WHERE ARE MOST OF THE PEOPLE EMPLOYED?

WHERE ARE MOST OF THE PEOPLE EMPLOYED? Graph 2 presents percentage share of the three sectors in GDP. Now you can directly see the changing importance of the sectors over the forty years. &nbs

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Class 10 / Economics / Sectors Of The Indian Economy / Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Sectors in India

HOW TO CREATE MORE EMPLOYMENT?

HOW TO CREATE MORE EMPLOYMENT? From the previous discussion, we can see that there continues to be considerable underemployment in agriculture. There are also people who are not employed

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Class 10 / Economics / Sectors Of The Indian Economy / Division of Sectors

ORGANISED AND UNORGANISED SECTORS

ORGANISED AND UNORGANISED SECTORS Let us examine another way of classifying activities in the economy. This looks at the way people are employed. What are their conditions of work? Are there any ru

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Class 10 / Economics / Sectors Of The Indian Economy / Division of Sectors

HOW TO PROTECT WORKERS IN THE UNORGANISED SECTORS?

HOW TO PROTECT WORKERS IN THE UNORGANISED SECTORS? The organised sector offers jobs that are the most sought-after. But the employment opportunities in the organised sector have been expanding very

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Class 10 / Economics / Sectors Of The Indian Economy / Sectors in terms of Ownership

PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SECTORS

PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SECTORS Another way of classifying economic activities into sectors could be on the basis of who owns assets and is responsible for the delivery of services. In the public se

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Class 10 / Economics / Money And Credit / Introduction to Money and Credit

MONEY – APART OF LIFE

MONEY – APART OF LIFE Money is a fascinating subject and full of curiosities. It is important to capture this element for the students. The history of money and how various forms were used at

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Class 10 / Economics / Money And Credit / Money as a Medium of Exchange

DOUBLE COINCIDENCE OF WANTS

DOUBLE COINCIDENCE OF WANTS The use of money spans a very large part of our everyday life. Look around you and you would easily be able to identify several transactions involving money in any singl

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Class 10 / Economics / Money And Credit / Modern Forms of Money

CURRENCY

CURRENCY We have seen that money is something that can act as a medium of exchange in transactions. Before the introduction of coins, a variety of objects was used as money. For example, since the

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Class 10 / Economics / Money And Credit / Modern Forms of Money

DEPOSITS WITH BANKS

DEPOSITS WITH BANKS The other form in which people hold money is as deposits with banks. At a point of time, people need only some currency for their day-to-day needs. For instance, workers who rec

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Class 10 / Economics / Money And Credit / Loan Activities of Banks

DEPOSITORS AND BORROWERS

DEPOSITORS AND BORROWERS Let us take the story of banks further. What do the banks do with the deposits which they accept from the public? There is an interesting mechanism at work here. Banks keep

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Class 10 / Economics / Money And Credit / Two Different Credit Situations

FESTIVAL SEASON

FESTIVAL SEASON Two Different Credit Situations A large number of transactions in our day-to-day activities involve credit in some form or the other. Credit (loan) refers to an agreement in whic

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Class 10 / Economics / Money And Credit / Two Different Credit Situations

SWAPNA’S PROBLEM

SWAPNA’S PROBLEM Swapna, a small farmer, grows groundnut on her three acres of land. She takes a loan from the moneylender to meet the expenses of cultivation, hoping that her harvest would h

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Class 10 / Economics / Money And Credit / Terms of Credit

A HOUSE LOAN

A HOUSE LOAN Terms of Credit Every loan agreement specifies an interest rate which the borrower must pay to the lender along with the repayment of the principal. In addition, lenders may de

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Class 10 / Economics / Money And Credit / Terms of Credit

VARIETY OF CREDIT ARRANGEMENTS

VARIETY OF CREDIT ARRANGEMENTS Example of a Village Rohit and Ranjan had finished reading about the terms of credit in the class. They were eager to know the various credit arrangements that exi

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Class 10 / Economics / Money And Credit / Terms of Credit

LOANS FROM COOPERATIVES

LOANS FROM COOPERATIVES Besides banks, the other major source of cheap credit in rural areas are the cooperative societies (or cooperatives). Members of a cooperative pool their resources for

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Class 10 / Economics / Money And Credit / Formal Sector Credit in India

FORMAL AND INFORMAL SECTOR LOANS

FORMAL AND INFORMAL SECTOR LOANS We have seen in the above examples that people obtain loans from various sources. The various types of loans can be conveniently grouped as formal sector loans and

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Class 10 / Economics / Money And Credit / Formal Sector Credit in India

FORMAL AND INFORMAL CREDIT: WHO GETS WHAT?

FORMAL AND INFORMAL CREDIT: WHO GETS WHAT? Graph 2 shows the importance of formal and informal sources of credit for people in urban areas. The people are divided into four groups, from poor to ric

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Class 10 / Economics / Money And Credit / Self-Help groups For the Poor

SHGs

SHGs In the previous section, we have seen that poor households are still dependent on informal sources of credit. Why is it so? Banks are not present everywhere in rural India. Even when they are

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Class 10 / Economics / Money And Credit / Self-Help groups For the Poor

GRAMEEN BANK OF BANGLADESH

GRAMEEN BANK OF BANGLADESH Grameen Bank of Bangladesh is one of the biggest success stories in reaching the poor to meet their credit needs at reasonable rates. Started in the 1970s as a small proj

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Class 10 / Economics / Globalisation And The Indian Economy / Globalisation

INTRODUCTION

INTRODUCTION Most regions of the world are getting increasingly interconnected. While this interconnectedness across countries has many dimensions — cultural, political, social and economic &

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Class 10 / Economics / Globalisation And The Indian Economy / Production Across Countries

MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS

MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS Until the middle of the twentieth century, production was largely organised within countries. What crossed the boundaries of these countries were raw material, foods

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Class 10 / Economics / Globalisation And The Indian Economy / Interlinking Production Across Countries

PRODUCTION BY MNCs

PRODUCTION BY MNCs In general, MNCs set up production where it is close to the markets; where there is skilled and unskilled labour available at low costs; and where the availability of other facto

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Class 10 / Economics / Globalisation And The Indian Economy / Foreign Trade and Integration of Markets

FOREIGN TRADE - THE MAIN CHANNEL

FOREIGN TRADE -  THE MAIN CHANNEL For a long time, foreign trade has been the main channel connecting countries. In history, you would have read about the trade routes connecting India an

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Class 10 / Economics / Globalisation And The Indian Economy / What is Globalisation?

WHAT IS GLOBALISATION

WHAT IS GLOBALISATION? In the past two to three decades, more and more MNCs have been looking for locations around the world which would be cheap for their production. Foreign investment by MNCs in

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Class 10 / Economics / Globalisation And The Indian Economy / Factors that have Enabled Globalisation

TECHNOLOGY

TECHNOLOGY Rapid improvement in technology has been one major factor that has stimulated the globalisation process. For instance, the past fifty years have seen several improvements in transportati

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Class 10 / Economics / Globalisation And The Indian Economy / Factors that have Enabled Globalisation

LIBERALISATION OF POLICIES

LIBERALISATION OF POLICIES Let us return to the example of imports of Chinese toys in India. Suppose the Indian government puts a tax on the import of toys. What would happen? Those who wish t

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Class 10 / Economics / Globalisation And The Indian Economy / World Trade Organisation

WTO – CONNECTIVITY OF TRADE

WTO – CONNECTIVITY OF TRADE We have seen that the liberalisation of foreign trade and investment in India was supported by some very powerful international organisations. These organisations

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Class 10 / Economics / Globalisation And The Indian Economy / Impact of Globalisation on India

IMPACT OF MNCS AND TOP INDIAN COMPANIES

IMPACT OF MNCS AND TOP INDIAN COMPANIES In the last twenty years, globalisation of the Indian economy has come a long way. What has been its effect on the lives of people? Let us look at some of th

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Class 10 / Economics / Globalisation And The Indian Economy / Impact of Globalisation on India

SMALL PRODUCERS – COMPETE OR PERISH

SMALL PRODUCERS – COMPETE OR PERISH For a large number of small producers and workers, globalisation has posed major challenges.   Batteries, capacitors, plastics, toys, tyres, dai

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Class 10 / Economics / Globalisation And The Indian Economy / The struggle for a Fair Globalisation

HOW TO MAKE GLOBALISATION MORE ‘FAIR’?

HOW TO MAKE GLOBALISATION MORE ‘FAIR’? The above evidence indicates that not everyone has benefited from globalisation. People with education, skill, and wealth have made the best use o

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Class 10 / Economics / Consumer Rights / Introduction to Consumer Rights

WHAT IS CONSUMER RIGHT?

WHAT IS CONSUMER RIGHT? This chapter proposes to discuss the issue of consumer rights within the context of the ways markets operate in our country. There are many aspects of unequal situations in

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Class 10 / Economics / Consumer Rights / Consumer in the Market Place

RULES TO PROTECT CONSUMERS

RULES TO PROTECT CONSUMERS We participate in the market both as producers and consumers. As producers of goods and services we could be working in any of the sectors discussed earlier such as agric

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Class 10 / Economics / Consumer Rights / Consumer Movement

THE CONSUMER MOVEMENT – A ‘SOCIAL FORCE’

THE CONSUMER MOVEMENT – A ‘SOCIAL FORCE’ The consumer movement arose out of dissatisfaction of the consumers as many unfair practices were being indulged in by the sellers. There

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Class 10 / Economics / Consumer Rights / Consumer Rights

SAFETY IS EVERYONE’S RIGHT

SAFETY IS EVERYONE’S RIGHT Reij's suffering Reji Mathew, a healthy boy studying in Class IX, was admitted in a private clinic in Kerala for the removal of tonsils. An ENT surgeon perfo

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Class 10 / Economics / Consumer Rights / Consumer Rights

INFORMATION ABOUT GOODS AND SERVICES

INFORMATION ABOUT GOODS AND SERVICES When you buy any commodity, you will find certain details given on the packing. These details are about ingredients used, price, batch number, date of manufactu

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Class 10 / Economics / Consumer Rights / Consumer Rights

WHEN CHOICE IS DENIED

WHEN CHOICE IS DENIED Refund Abirami, a student of Ansari Nagar, joined a two year course at a local coaching institute for professional courses in New Delhi. At the time of joining the course,

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Class 10 / Economics / Consumer Rights / Consumer Rights

WHERE SHOULD CONSUMERS GO TO GET JUSTICE?

WHERE SHOULD CONSUMERS GO TO GET JUSTICE? Read again the cases of Reji Mathew and Abirami given earlier in the chapter.   1. Reji Mathew, a healthy boy studying in Class IX, was admitted

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Class 10 / Economics / Consumer Rights / Consumer Rights

LEARNING TO BECOME WELL-INFORMED CONSUMERS

LEARNING TO BECOME WELL-INFORMED CONSUMERS     When we as consumers become conscious of our rights, while purchasing various goods and services, we will be able to discriminate

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Class 10 / Economics / Consumer Rights / Consumer Rights

ISI AND AGMARK

ISI AND AGMERK     While buying many commodities, on the cover, you might have seen a logo with the letters ISI, Agmark or Hallmark. These logos and certification help consumers get

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Class 10 / Economics / Consumer Rights / Taking the Consumer Movement Forward

COPRA

COPRA India has been observing 24 December as the National Consumers’ Day. It was on this day that the Indian Parliament enacted the Consumer Protection Act in 1986. India is one of the

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Class 10 / Political science / Power-sharing / Belgium and Srilanka

COMMUNITIES AND REGIONS

COMMUNITIES AND REGIONS Belgium is a small country in Europe, smaller in area than the state of Haryana. It has borders with France, the Netherlands, Germany, and Luxembourg. It has a population of

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Class 10 / Political science / Power-sharing / Belgium and Srilanka

MAJORITARIANISM IN SRI LANKA

MAJORITARIANISM IN SRI LANKA Sri Lanka emerged as an independent country in 1948. The leaders of the Sinhala community sought to secure dominance over the government by virtue of their majority. As

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Class 10 / Political science / Power-sharing / Belgium and Srilanka

ACCOMMODATION IN BELGIUM

ACCOMMODATION IN BELGIUM The Belgian leaders took a different path. They recognised the existence of regional differences and cultural diversities. Between 1970 and 1993, they amended their constit

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Class 10 / Political science / Power-sharing / Power Sharing

WHY POWER SHARING IS DESIRABLE?

WHY POWER SHARING IS DESIRABLE? Thus, two different sets of reasons can be given in favour of power-sharing.   1. Power-sharing is good because it helps to reduce the possibility of co

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Class 10 / Political science / Power-sharing / Power Sharing

KHALIL’S DILEMMA

KHALIL’S DILEMMA As usual, Vikram was driving the motorbike under a vow of silence and Vetal was the pillion rider. As usual, Vetal started telling Vikram a story to keep him awake while driv

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Class 10 / Political science / Power-sharing / Forms of Power-Sharing

IDEA OF POWER SHARING

IDEA OF POWER SHARING The idea of power-sharing has emerged in opposition to the notions of undivided political power. For a long time, it was believed that all power of a government must resi

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Class 10 / Political science / Power-sharing / Forms of Power-Sharing

POWER SHARING AMONG ORGANS OF GOVERNMENT

POWER SHARING AMONG ORGANS OF GOVERNMENT Power is shared among different organs of government, such as the legislature, executive, and judiciary. Let us call this horizontal distribution of power b

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Class 10 / Political science / Power-sharing / Forms of Power-Sharing

POWER SHARING AT DIFFERENT LEVELS OF GOVERNMENT

POWER SHARING AT DIFFERENT LEVELS OF GOVERNMENT Power can be shared among governments at different levels – a general government for the entire country and governments at the provincial or

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Class 10 / Political science / Power-sharing / Forms of Power-Sharing

POWER SHARING AMONG SOCIAL GROUPS

POWER SHARING AMONG SOCIAL GROUPS Power may also be shared among different social groups such as the religious and linguistic groups. ‘Community government’ in Belgium is a good examp

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Class 10 / Political science / Power-sharing / Forms of Power-Sharing

OTHER POWER SHARING ARRANGEMENTS

OTHER POWER SHARING ARRANGEMENTS Power-sharing arrangements can also be seen in the way political parties, pressure groups, and movements control or influence those in power. In a democracy, the

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Class 10 / Political science / Federalism / Introduction to Federalism

WHAT IS FEDERALISM?

WHAT IS FEDERALISM? Let us get back to the contrast between Belgium and Sri Lanka that we saw in the last chapter. You would recall that one of the key changes made in the Constitution of Belgium w

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Class 10 / Political science / Federalism / What makes India a Federal Country?

PRINCIPLES OF FEDERALISM

PRINCIPLES OF FEDERALISM We have earlier seen how small countries like Belgium and Sri Lanka face so many problems of managing diversity. What about a vast country like India, with so many language

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Class 10 / Political science / Federalism / How is Federalism Practised?

LINGUISTIC STATES

LINGUISTIC STATES Constitutional provisions are necessary for the success of federalism but these are not sufficient. If the federal experiment has succeeded in India, it is not merely because of t

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Class 10 / Political science / Federalism / How is Federalism Practised?

LANGUAGE POLICY

LANGUAGE POLICY A second test for Indian federation is the language policy. Our Constitution did not give the status of national language to any one language. Hindi was identified as the official l

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Class 10 / Political science / Federalism / How is Federalism Practised?

CENTRE- STATE RELATIONS

CENTRE- STATE RELATIONS Restructuring the Centre-State relations is one more way in which federalism has been strengthened in practice. How the constitutional arrangements for sharing power work, i

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Class 10 / Political science / Federalism / How is Federalism Practised?

LINGUISTIC DIVERSITY OF INDIA

LINGUISTIC DIVERSITY OF INDIA How many languages do we have in India? The answer depends on how one counts it. The latest information that we have is from the Census of India held in 2011. Thi

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Class 10 / Political science / Federalism / Decentralisation in India

DECENTRALISATION – A MAJOR STEP

DECENTRALISATION – A MAJOR STEP We noted above that the federal government have two or more tiers of governments. We have so far discussed the two-tiers of government in our country. But a va

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Class 10 / Political science / Federalism / Decentralisation in India

AN EXPERIMENT IN BRAZIL

AN EXPERIMENT IN BRAZIL A city called Porto Alegre in Brazil has carried out an extraordinary experiment in combining decentralisation with participative democracy. The city has set up a parallel o

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Class 10 / Political science / Democracy and Diversity / Introduction to Democracy and Diversity

A STORY FROM MEXICO OLYMPICS

A STORY FROM MEXICO OLYMPICS The pictures on this page depict an important landmark in the history of the CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT IN THE UNITED  STATES.  (Civil Rights Movement in the US

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Class 10 / Political science / Democracy and Diversity / Differences, similarities, divisions

ORIGIN OF SOCIAL DIFFERENCES

ORIGIN OF SOCIAL DIFFERENCES The athletes in the example above were responding to social divisions and social inequalities. But does that happen only in societies which have racial divisions? In th

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Class 10 / Political science / Democracy and Diversity / Differences, similarities, divisions

OVERLAPPING AND CROSS-CUTTING DIFFERENCES

OVERLAPPING AND CROSS-CUTTING DIFFERENCES Social division takes place when some social difference overlaps with other differences. The difference between Blacks and Whites becomes a social div

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Class 10 / Political science / Democracy and Diversity / Politics of Social Divisions

RANGE OF OUTCOMES

RANGE OF OUTCOMES How do these social divisions affect politics? What does politics do to these social divisions? At first sight, it would appear that the combination of politics and social divisio

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Class 10 / Political science / Democracy and Diversity / Politics of Social Divisions

BULGARIA, ROMANIA OR INDIA?

BULGARIA, ROMANIA OR INDIA? Ganesh had come back from his trip and was talking to Mahashweta about the Roma people who live in many countries of Eastern Europe. He met Yordanka who works as

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Class 10 / Political science / Democracy and Diversity / Politics of Social Divisions

THREE DETERMINANTS

THREE DETERMINANTS Three factors are crucial in deciding the outcome of politics of social divisions.   1. The outcome depends on how people perceive their identities. If people see t

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Class 10 / Political science / Gender, Religion and Caste / Gender and politics

PUBLIC /PRIVATE DIVISION

PUBLIC /PRIVATE DIVISION Let us begin with gender division. This is a form of hierarchical social division seen everywhere but is rarely recognised in the study of politics. The gender divisio

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Class 10 / Political science / Gender, Religion and Caste / Gender and politics

DISCRIMINATION AND OPPRESSION OF WOMEN

DISCRIMINATION AND OPPRESSION OF WOMEN Political expression of gender division and political mobilisation on this question helped to improve women’s role in public life. We now find wome

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Class 10 / Political science / Gender, Religion and Caste / Women’s political representation

WOMEN AS ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES

WOMEN AS ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES All this is well known. Yet issues related to women’s well-being or otherwise are not given adequate attention. This has led many feminists and women’s

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Class 10 / Political science / Gender, Religion and Caste / Religion, Communalism and Politics

DIVISION BASED ON RELIGIOUS DIFFERENCES

DIVISION BASED ON RELIGIOUS DIFFERENCES Let us now turn to a very different kind of social division, the division based on religious differences. This division is not as universal as gender, bu

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Class 10 / Political science / Gender, Religion and Caste / Religion, Communalism and Politics

COMMUNALISM

COMMUNALISM The problem begins when religion is seen as the basis of the nation. The example of Northern Ireland in Chapter 3 shows the dangers of such an approach to nationalism. The problem becom

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Class 10 / Political science / Gender, Religion and Caste / Religion, Communalism and Politics

SECULAR STATE

SECULAR STATE Communalism was and continues to be one of the major challenges to democracy in our country. The makers of our Constitution were aware of this challenge. That is why they chose the mo

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Class 10 / Political science / Gender, Religion and Caste / Caste and Politics

CASTE INEQUALITIES

CASTE INEQUALITIES We have seen two instances of the expression of social divisions in the arena of politics, one largely positive and the other largely negative. Let us turn to our final case, tha

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Class 10 / Political science / Gender, Religion and Caste / Caste and Politics

SOCIAL AND RELIGIOUS DIVERSITY OF INDIA

SOCIAL AND RELIGIOUS DIVERSITY OF INDIA   The Census of India records the religion of each and every Indian after every ten years. The person who fills the Census form visits every househol

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Class 10 / Political science / Gender, Religion and Caste / Caste and Politics

CASTE IN POLITICS

CASTE IN POLITICS As in the case of communalism, casteism is rooted in the belief that caste is the sole basis of the social community. According to this way of thinking, people belonging to the sa

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Class 10 / Political science / Gender, Religion and Caste / Caste and Politics

CASTE INEQUALITY TODAY

CASTE INEQUALITY TODAY Caste is an important source of economic inequality because it regulates access to resources of various kinds. For example, in the past, the so-called ‘untouchable&rsqu

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Class 10 / Political science / Gender, Religion and Caste / Caste and Politics

POLITICS IN CASTE

POLITICS IN CASTE We have so far looked at what caste does to politics. But it does not mean that there is only a one-way relation between caste and politics. Politics too influences the caste syst

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Class 10 / Political science / Popular Struggles and Movements / Popular struggles in Nepal and Bolivia

MOVEMENT FOR DEMOCRACY IN NEPAL

MOVEMENT FOR DEMOCRACY IN NEPAL Do you remember the story of the triumph of democracy in Poland? We studied it last year in the first chapter of class IX. The story reminded us about the role playe

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Class 10 / Political science / Popular Struggles and Movements / Popular struggles in Nepal and Bolivia

BOLIVIA’S WATER WAR

BOLIVIA’S WATER WAR The story of Poland and that of Nepal apply to the struggle for establishing or restoring democracy. But the role of popular struggles does not come to an end with the est

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Class 10 / Political science / Popular Struggles and Movements / Popular struggles in Nepal and Bolivia

DEMOCRACY AND POPULAR STRUGGLES

DEMOCRACY AND POPULAR STRUGGLES These two stories are from very different contexts. The movement in Nepal was to establish democracy, while the struggle in Bolivia involved claims on an elected, de

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Class 10 / Political science / Popular Struggles and Movements / Mobilisation and Organisations

ROLE OF POLITICAL PARTIES AND ORGANISATIONS

ROLE OF POLITICAL PARTIES AND ORGANISATIONS Let us go back to our two examples and look at the organisations that made these struggles successful. We noted that the call for indefinite strike was g

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Class 10 / Political science / Popular Struggles and Movements / Pressure Groups and Movements

SECTIONAL INTEREST GROUPS AND PUBLIC INTEREST GROUPS

SECTIONAL INTEREST GROUPS AND PUBLIC INTEREST GROUPS Pressure groups are organisations that attempt to influence government policies. But unlike political parties, pressure groups do not aim to dir

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Class 10 / Political science / Popular Struggles and Movements / Pressure Groups and Movements

MOVEMENT GROUPS

MOVEMENT GROUPS As in the case of interest groups, the groups involved with movements also include a very wide variety. The various examples mentioned above already indicate a simple distinction. M

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Class 10 / Political science / Popular Struggles and Movements / Pressure Groups and Movements

HOW DO THEY INFLUENCE POLITICS?

HOW DO THEY INFLUENCE POLITICS? Pressure groups and movements exert influence on politics in a variety of ways:   *  They try to gain public support and sympathy for their goal

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Class 10 / Political science / Popular Struggles and Movements / Pressure Groups and Movements

IS THEIR INFLUENCE HEALTHY?

IS THEIR INFLUENCE  HEALTHY? It may initially appear that it is not healthy for groups that promote interest of one section to have influence in democracy. A democracy must look after the inte

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Class 10 / Physics / Electricity / Electric Current and Circuit

ELECTRIC CURRENT AND CIRCUIT

ELECTRIC CURRENT AND CIRCUIT Electricity has an important place in modern society. It is a controllable and convenient form of energy for a variety of uses in homes, schools, hospitals, industries

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Class 10 / Physics / Electricity / Electric Potential and Potential Difference

WHAT IS ELECTRIC POTENTIAL AND POTENTIAL DIFFERENCE?

WHAT IS ELECTRIC POTENTIAL AND POTENTIAL DIFFERENCE? Potential Difference What makes the electric charge to flow? Let us consider the analogy of the flow of water. Charges do not flow in a

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Class 10 / Physics / Electricity / Circuit Diagram

CIRCUIT DIAGRAM – A REPRESENTATION OF ELECTRIC CIRCUIT

CIRCUIT DIAGRAM – A REPRESENTATION OF ELECTRIC CIRCUIT We know that an electric circuit, as shown in Fig. 12.1, comprises a cell (or a battery), a plug key, electrical component(s), and conne

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Class 9 / English / The Road Not Taken / The Road Not Taken

THE ROAD NOT TAKEN

THE ROAD NOT TAKEN - ROBERT FROST (Poet) Poet This well-known poem is about making choices, and the choices that shape us. Robert Frost is an American poet who writes simply, but insightfully, a

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Class 9 / English / Wind / Wind

WIND

WIND - SUBRAMANIA BHARATI (Poet) Before you read The Poet of this poem is SUBRAMANIA  BHARATI. Poem translated from Tamil by A.K. Ramanujan.   Poet Subramania Bha

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Class 9 / English / Rain On The Roof / Rain on the Roof

RAIN ON THE ROOF

RAIN ON THE ROOF - COATES KINNEY (Poet) Before you read When the sky is covered with dark clouds and it starts raining, have you ever listened to the patter of soft rain on the roof? What though

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Class 9 / English / The Lake Isle of Innisfree / The Lake Isle of Innisfree

THE LAKE ISLE OF INNISFREE

THE LAKE ISLE OF INNISFREE - WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS (Poet) Before you read This well-known poem explores the poet’s longing for the peace and tranquillity of Innisfree, a place where he spen

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Class 9 / English / A Legend of the Northland / A Legend of the Northland

A LEGEND OF THE NORTHLAND

A LEGEND OF THE NORTHLAND - PHOEBE CARY (Poet) Before you read A ballad is a song narrating a story in short stanzas. Ballads are a part of the folk culture or popular culture and are passed on

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Class 9 / English / No Men Are Foreign / No Men Are Foreign

NO MEN ARE FOREIGN

NO MEN ARE FOREIGN - JAMES KIRKUP (Poet) Before you read Have you ever thought of some people as strange, or other countries as ‘foreign’? We have many ways of thinking of other peop

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Class 9 / English / The Duck and the Kangaroo / The Duck and the Kangaroo

THE DUCK AND THE KANGAROO

THE DUCK AND THE KANGAROO - EDWARD LEAR (Poet) Before you read This is a humorous poem of a kind known as ‘Nonsense Verse’, by Edward Lear. Read it and enjoy.    

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Class 9 / English / On Killing a Tree / On Killing a Tree

ON KILLING A TREE

ON KILLING A TREE - GIEVE PATEL (Poet) Before you read You must have observed people cutting down trees. But can they kill a tree? Is it easy to do so? Let’s read the poem and find out wha

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Class 9 / English / The Snake Trying / The Snake Trying

THE SNAKE TRYING

THE SNAKE TRYING - W. W. E. ROSS (Poet) Before you read Most of us think of snakes as fearsome symbols of death. But the snake in this poem is itself a victim. Poem The snake trying to

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Class 9 / English / A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal / A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal

A SLUMBER DID MY SPIRIT SEAL

A SLUMBER DID MY SPIRIT SEAL - WILLIAM WORDSWORTH (Poet) Before you read This poem is about the death of a loved one. How does the poet feel when he thinks about her death? How does he imagine h

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Class 9 / English / If I Were You / If I Were You

IF I WERE YOU

Before you read SCENE: A small cottage interior. There is an entrance back right (which may be curtained). Another door to the left must be a practical door. The furniture is simple, consisting of

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Class 10 / Physics / Electricity / Ohm's Law

WHAT IS OHM’S LAW?

WHAT IS OHM’S LAW? Is there a relationship between the potential difference across a conductor and the current through it? Let us explore with an Activity.   Activity 12.1: *&nb

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Class 10 / Physics / Electricity / Resistance of a Conductor

DEPENDING FACTORS OF RESISTANCE OF A CONDUCTOR

DEPENDING FACTORS OF RESISTANCE OF A CONDUCTOR Activity 12.3: *  Complete an electric circuit consisting of a cell, an ammeter, a nichrome wire of length l [say, marked (1)], and

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Class 10 / Physics / Electricity / Resistance of a System of Resistors

COMBINATION OF RESISTORS

COMBINATION OF RESISTORS In preceding sections, we learnt about some simple electric circuits. We have noticed how the current through a conductor depends upon its resistance and the potential diff

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Class 10 / Physics / Electricity / Resistance of a System of Resistors

RESISTORS IN SERIES

RESISTORS IN SERIES What happens to the value of current when a number of resistors are connected in series in a circuit? What would be their equivalent resistance? Let us try to understand these w

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Class 10 / Physics / Electricity / Resistance of a System of Resistors

RESISTORS IN PARALLEL

RESISTORS IN PARALLEL Now, let us consider the arrangement of three resistors joined in parallel with a combination of cells (or a battery), as shown in Fig.12.7 Figure 12.7: Resistors

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Class 10 / Physics / Electricity / Heating Effect of Electric Current

HOW HEATING EFFECT PRODUCED BY ELECTRIC CURRENT?

HOW HEATING EFFECT PRODUCED BY ELECTRIC CURRENT? We know that a battery or a cell is a source of electrical energy. The chemical reaction within the cell generates the potential difference between

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Class 10 / Physics / Electricity / Heating Effect of Electric Current

PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS

PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS The generation of heat in a conductor is an inevitable consequence of electric current. In many cases, it is undesirable as it converts useful electrical energy into heat. In

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Class 10 / Physics / Electricity / Electric Power

WHAT IS ELECTRIC POWER?

WHAT IS ELECTRIC POWER? You have studied in your earlier Class that the rate of doing work is power. This is also the rate of consumption of energy. H = I2 Rt      

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Class 10 / Political science / Political Parties / Introduction to Political Parties

WHY DO WE NEED POLITICAL PARTIES?

WHY DO WE NEED POLITICAL PARTIES? Political parties are easily one of the most visible institutions in a democracy. For most ordinary citizens, democracy is equal to political parties. If you trave

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Class 10 / Political science / Political Parties / What are Political Parties?

MEANING OF POLITICAL PARTY

MEANING OF POLITICAL PARTY A political party is a group of people who come together to contest elections and hold power in the government. They agree on some policies and programmes for the society

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Class 10 / Political science / Political Parties / What are Political Parties?

WHAT DOES A POLITICAL PARTY DO?

WHAT DOES A POLITICAL PARTY DO? What does a political party do? Basically, political parties fill political offices and exercise political power. Parties do so by performing a series of functions:

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Class 10 / Political science / Political Parties / What are Political Parties?

NECESSITY OF POLITICAL PARTY

NECESSITY OF POLITICAL PARTY This list of functions in a sense answers the question asked above: we need political parties because they perform all these functions. But we still need to ask why mod

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Class 10 / Political science / Political Parties / How many parties should we have?

POLITICAL PARTIES REGISTERED IN INDIA

POLITICAL PARTIES REGISTERED IN INDIA In a democracy, any group of citizens is free to form a political party. In this formal sense, there are a large number of political parties in each country. M

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Class 10 / Political science / Political Parties / How many parties should we have?

A MORAL FORCE IN POLITICS

A MORAL FORCE IN POLITICS The inspiration behind the following imaginary narrative is Shri Kishen Patnaik (1930–2004), also known as Kishenji. He was elected as a Member of Parliament from Sa

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Class 10 / Political science / Political Parties / How many parties should we have?

POPULAR PARTICIPATION IN POLITICAL PARTIES

POPULAR PARTICIPATION IN POLITICAL PARTIES It is often said that political parties are facing a crisis because they are very unpopular and the citizens are indifferent to political parties.

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Class 10 / Political science / Political Parties / National parties

WHAT ARE NATIONAL PARTIES?

WHAT ARE NATIONAL PARTIES? Democracies that follow a federal system all over the world tend to have two kinds of political parties: parties that are present in only one of the federal units and p

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Class 10 / Political science / Political Parties / National parties

DIFFERENT NATIONAL PARTIES

DIFFERENT NATIONAL PARTIES According to this classification, there were seven recognised national parties in the country in 2018. Let us learn something about each of these parties. For more det

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Class 10 / Political science / Political Parties / State Parties

WHAT ARE STATE PARTIES?

WHAT ARE STATE PARTIES? Other than these seven parties, most of the major parties of the country are classified by the Election Commission as ‘State parties’. These are commonly referre

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Class 10 / Political science / Political Parties / Challenges to political parties

LACK OF INTERNAL DEMOCRACY, DYNASTIC SUCCESSION

LACK OF INTERNAL DEMOCRACY, DYNASTIC SUCCESSION Challenge to political parties We have seen how crucial political parties are for the working of democracy. Since parties are the most visible fac

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Class 10 / Political science / Political Parties / Challenges to political parties

MONEY AND MUSCLE POWER, MEANINGFUL CHOICE

MONEY AND MUSCLE POWER, MEANINGFUL CHOICE Money and muscle power in parties The third challenge is about the growing role of money and muscle power in parties, especially during elections. Since

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Class 10 / Political science / Political Parties / How Can Parties be Reformed?

FACING CHALLENGES BY REFORMING

FACING CHALLENGES BY REFORMING In order to face these challenges, political parties need to be reformed. The question is: Are political parties willing to reform? If they are willing, what has prev

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Class 10 / Political science / Outcomes of Democracy / Introduction to Outcomes of Democracy

HOW DO WE ASSESS DEMOCRACY’S OUTCOMES?

HOW DO WE ASSESS DEMOCRACY’S OUTCOMES? It emerged from that conversation that democracy is a better form of government when compared with dictatorship or any other alternative. We felt that d

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Class 10 / Political science / Outcomes of Democracy / Accountable, Responsive and Legitimate Government

DEMOCRATIC VS NON-DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENTS

DEMOCRATIC VS NON-DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENTS There are some things that democracy must provide. In a democracy, we are most concerned with ensuring that people will have the right to choose their ruler

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Class 10 / Political science / Outcomes of Democracy / Economic Growth and Development

RATE OF ECONOMIC GROWTH

RATE OF ECONOMIC GROWTH If democracies are expected to produce good governments, then is it not fair to expect that they would also produce development? Evidence shows that in practice many democra

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Class 10 / Political science / Outcomes of Democracy / Economic Growth and Development

ECONOMIC OUTCOMES OF DEMOCRACY

ECONOMIC OUTCOMES OF DEMOCRACY Arguments about democracy tend to be very passionate. This is how it should be, for democracy appeals to some of our deep values. These debates cannot be resolved in

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Class 10 / Political science / Outcomes of Democracy / Reduction of Inequality and Poverty

EQUALITIES AND INEQUALITIES

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Class 10 / Political science / Outcomes of Democracy / Accommodation of Social Diversity

ROLE OF DEMOCRACY IN SOCIAL DIVERSITY

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Class 10 / Political science / Outcomes of Democracy / Dignity and Freedom of The Citizens

PROMOTING DIGNITY AND FREEDOM

PROMOTING DIGNITY AND FREEDOM Democracy stands much superior to any other form of government in promoting dignity and freedom of the individual. Every individual wants to receive respect from fello

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Class 10 / Physics / Magnetic Effects of Electric Current / Introduction to Magnetic Effects of Electric Current

INTRODUCTION

INTRODUCTION In the previous Chapter on Electricity , we learnt about the heating effects of electric current. What could be the other effects of electric current? We know that an electri

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Class 10 / Physics / Magnetic Effects of Electric Current / Magnetic Field and Field Lines

FINDING MAGNETIC FIELD AND FIELD LINES

FINDING MAGNETIC FIELD AND FIELD LINES We are familiar with the fact that a compass needle gets deflected when brought near a bar magnet. A compass needle is, in fact, a small bar magnet. The ends

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Class 10 / Physics / Magnetic Effects of Electric Current / Magnetic Field Due to a Current Carrying Conductor

HOW MAGNETIC FIELD IS CREATED?

HOW MAGNETIC FIELD IS CREATED? Activity 13.1: *  Take a straight thick copper wire and place it between the points X and Y in an electric circuit, as shown in Fig. 13.1. The wire XY is

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Class 10 / Physics / Magnetic Effects of Electric Current / Magnetic Field Due to a Current Carrying Conductor

MAGNETIC FIELD DUE TO A CURRENT THROUGH STRAIGHT CONDUCTOR

MAGNETIC FIELD DUE TO A CURRENT THROUGH STRAIGHT CONDUCTOR What determines the pattern of the magnetic field generated by a current through a conductor? Does the pattern depend on the shape of the

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Class 10 / Physics / Magnetic Effects of Electric Current / Magnetic Field Due to a Current Carrying Conductor

RIGHT HAND THUMB RULE

RIGHT-HAND THUMB RULE A convenient way of finding the direction of the magnetic field associated with a current-carrying conductor is given in Fig. 13.7. Figure 13.7: Right-hand thumb r

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Class 10 / Physics / Magnetic Effects of Electric Current / Magnetic Field Due to a Current Carrying Conductor

MAGNETIC FIELD DUE TO A CURRENT THROUGH A CIRCULAR LOOP

MAGNETIC FIELD DUE TO A CURRENT THROUGH A CIRCULAR LOOP We have so far observed the pattern of the magnetic field lines produced around a current carrying straight wire. Suppose this straight wire

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Class 10 / Physics / Magnetic Effects of Electric Current / Magnetic Field Due to a Current Carrying Conductor

MAGNETIC FIELD DUE TO A CURRENT IN SOLENOID

MAGNETIC FIELD DUE TO A CURRENT IN SOLENOID A coil of many circular turns of insulated copper wire wrapped closely in the shape of a cylinder is called a solenoid. The pattern of the magnetic fie

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Class 10 / Physics / Magnetic Effects of Electric Current / Force On a Current-Carrying Conductor In a Magnetic Field

IMPACT OF FORCE IN MAGNETIC FIELD

IMPACT OF FORCE IN MAGNETIC FIELD We have learnt that an electric current flowing through a conductor produces a magnetic field. The field so produced exerts a force on a magnet placed in the vicin

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Class 10 / Physics / Magnetic Effects of Electric Current / Electric Motor

ELECTRIC MOTOR

ELECTRIC MOTOR An electric motor is a rotating device that converts electrical energy to mechanical energy. Electric motor is used as an important component in electric fans, refrigerators, mixers,

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Class 10 / Physics / Magnetic Effects of Electric Current / Electromagnetic Induction

ELECTROMAGNETIC INDUCTION

ELECTROMAGNETIC INDUCTION We have studied that when a current-carrying conductor is placed in a magnetic field such that the direction of current is perpendicular to the magnetic field, it experien

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Class 10 / Physics / Magnetic Effects of Electric Current / Electric Generator

ELECTRIC GENERATOR

ELECTRIC GENERATOR Based on the phenomenon of electromagnetic induction, the experiments studied above generate induced current, which is usually very small. This principle is also employed to prod

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Class 10 / Physics / Magnetic Effects of Electric Current / Domestic Electric Circuits

HOW DOMESTIC ELECTRIC CIRCUITS WORK?

HOW DOMESTIC ELECTRIC CIRCUITS WORK? In our homes, we receive a supply of electric power through the main supply (also called mains), either supported through overhead electric poles or b

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Class 10 / Physics / Sources of Energy / Introduction to Sources of Energy

INTRODUCTION

INTRODUCTION In Class IX, we learnt that the total energy during a physical or chemical process is conserved. Why, then, do we hear so much about the energy crisis? If energy can neither

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Class 10 / Physics / Sources of Energy / What is a Good Source of Energy?

DIFFERENT SOURCES OF ENERGY

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Class 10 / Physics / Sources of Energy / Conventional Sources of Energy

FOSSIL FUELS

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Class 10 / Physics / Sources of Energy / Conventional Sources of Energy

THERMAL POWER AND HYDRO POWER PLANTS

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Class 10 / Physics / Sources of Energy / Improvements in the Technology for using Conventional Sources of Energy

BIOMASS

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Class 10 / Physics / Sources of Energy / Improvements in the Technology for using Conventional Sources of Energy

WIND ENERGY

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Class 10 / Physics / Sources of Energy / Non-Conventional Sources of Energy

SOLAR ENERGY

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Class 10 / Physics / Sources of Energy / Non-Conventional Sources of Energy

ENERGY FROM THE SEA – TIDAL ENERGY, WAVE ENERGY, OCEAN THERMAL ENERGY

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Class 10 / Physics / Sources of Energy / Non-Conventional Sources of Energy

GEOTHERMAL ENERGY

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Class 10 / Physics / Sources of Energy / Non-Conventional Sources of Energy

NUCLEAR ENERGY

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Class 10 / Physics / Sources of Energy / Environmental Consequences

EXPLOITING SOURCES OF ENERGY

EXPLOITING SOURCES OF ENERGY We have studied various sources of energy in the previous sections. Exploiting any source of energy disturbs the environment in some way or the other. In any given situ

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Class 10 / Physics / Sources of Energy / How Long Will An Energy Source Last Us?

DEPLETION OF SOURCES OF ENERGY

DEPLETION OF SOURCES OF ENERGY We saw earlier that we cannot depend on fossil fuels for much longer. Such sources that will get depleted someday are said to be exhaustible sources or non-ren

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Class 10 / Political science / Challenges to Democracy / Thinking about Challenges

SERIOUS PROBLEMS FACED BY DEMOCRACY

SERIOUS PROBLEMS FACED BY DEMOCRACY Do you remember the chapters of your Political Science textbook of Class IX? There we tracked the expansion of democracy all over the world. Our reading thereaft

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Class 10 / Political science / Challenges to Democracy / Different Contexts, Different Challenges

CHALLENGES FOR DEMOCRACY IN DIFFERENT SITUATIONS

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Class 10 / Political science / Challenges to Democracy / Different Types of Challenges

TYPES OF CHALLENGES

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Class 10 / Political science / Challenges to Democracy / Thinking About Political Reforms

REFORMS TO OVERCOME CHALLENGES

REFORMS TO OVERCOME CHALLENGES Each of these challenges is linked to the possibility of reforms. As mentioned above, we discuss challenges only because we think these can be overcome. Generally all

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DOCTOR’S ABSENTEEISM VS POLITICAL FUNDING

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Class 10 / Political science / Challenges to Democracy / Thinking About Political Reforms

REFORMING POLITICS

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Class 10 / Political science / Challenges to Democracy / Redefining Democracy

REDEFINING DEMOCRACY

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Class 9 / Geography / Physical Features of India / Introduction to Physical Features of India

INTRODUCTION

INTRODUCTION You have already learned earlier that India is a vast country with varied landforms. What kind of terrain do you live in? If you live in the plains, you are familiar with the

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Class 9 / Geography / Drainage / Drainage Systems In India

INTRODUCTION AND MAJOR GROUPS OF DRAINAGE SYSTEM

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Class 9 / Geography / Drainage / The Himalayan Rivers

THE INDUS RIVER SYSTEM

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Class 9 / Geography / Drainage / The Himalayan Rivers

THE GANGA RIVER SYSTEM

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Class 9 / Geography / Drainage / The Himalayan Rivers

THE BRAHMAPUTRA RIVER SYSTEM

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Class 9 / Geography / Drainage / The Peninsular Rivers

THE NARMADA AND TAPI BASIN

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THE GODAVARI AND MAHANADI BASIN

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THE KRISHNA AND KAVERI BASIN

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Class 9 / Geography / Drainage / Lakes

LAKES – TYPES, SIZE AND CHARACTERISTICS

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Class 9 / Geography / Drainage / Rivers - Economy and Pollution

ROLE OF RIVERS IN ECONOMY AND RIVER POLLUTION

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Class 8 / English / Geography Lesson / Geography Lesson

GEOGRAPHY LESSON

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Class 9 / Geography / Climate / Introduction to Climate

CLIMATE AND WEATHER

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Class 9 / Geography / Climate / Climatic Controls

MAJOR CONTROLS OF CLIMATE

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FACTORS AFFECTING INDIA’S CLIMATE

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Class 9 / Geography / Climate / The Indian Monsoon

UNDERSTANDING MECHANISM OF MONSOON

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Class 9 / Geography / Climate / The Onset of the Monsoon and Withdrawal

MONSOON- PULSATING IN NATURE

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Class 9 / Geography / Climate / The Seasons

THE COLD WEATHER SEASON(WINTER)

THE COLD WEATHER SEASON (WINTER) The monsoon type of climate is characterised by a distinct seasonal pattern. The weather conditions greatly change from one season to the other. These changes are p

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Class 9 / Geography / Climate / The Seasons

THE HOT WEATHER SEASON (SUMMER)

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Class 9 / Geography / Climate / The Seasons

ADVANCING MONSOON (THE RAINY SEASON)

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RETREATING /POST MONSOON (THE TRANSITION SEASON)

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Class 9 / Geography / Climate / The Seasons

DISTRIBUTION OF RAINFALL

DISTRIBUTION OF RAINFALL Parts of the western coast and northeastern India receive over about 400 cm of rainfall annually. However, it is less than 60 cm in western Rajasthan and adjoining parts of

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MONSOON AS AN UNIFYING BOND

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Class 9 / Geography / Natural Vegetation and Wildlife / virgin vegetation, Flora and Fauna

WHAT IS VIRGIN VEGETATION AND FLORA AND FAUNA?

WHAT IS VIRGIN VEGETATION AND FLORA AND FAUNA? Have you observed the type of trees, bushes, grasses and birds in the fields and parks in and around your school?   Are they similar o

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Class 9 / Geography / Natural Vegetation and Wildlife / Relief

LAND AND SOIL

LAND AND SOIL Land Land affects the natural vegetation directly and indirectly. Do you expect the same type of vegetation in mountainous, plateau and plain areas or in dry and wet regions? The n

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TEMPERATURE, PHOTOPERIOD(SUNLIGHT) AND PRECIPITATION

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Class 9 / Geography / Natural Vegetation and Wildlife / Types of Vegetation

TROPICAL EVERGREEN FORESTS

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Class 9 / Geography / Natural Vegetation and Wildlife / Types of Vegetation

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Class 9 / Geography / Natural Vegetation and Wildlife / Types of Vegetation

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Class 9 / Geography / Natural Vegetation and Wildlife / Types of Vegetation

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Class 9 / Geography / Natural Vegetation and Wildlife / Types of Vegetation

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Class 9 / Geography / Natural Vegetation and Wildlife / Wildlife

WILDLIFE IN INDIA

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Class 9 / Geography / Population / Population - The Pivotal Element

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SIZE, DISTRIBUTION BY NUMBERS AND BY DENSITY

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Class 9 / Geography / Population / Population Growth and Process of Population Change

LITERACY RATES AND OCCUPATIONAL STRUCTURE

LITERACY RATES AND OCCUPATIONAL STRUCTURE   Literacy Rates Literacy is a very important quality of a population. Obviously, only an informed and educated citizen can make intelligent cho

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Class 9 / Geography / Population / Population Growth and Process of Population Change

HEALTH

HEALTH Health is an important component of population composition, which affects the process of development. Sustained efforts of government programmes have registered significant improvements in t

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Class 9 / Geography / Population / Population Growth and Process of Population Change

ADOLESCENT POPULATION AND NATIONAL POPULATION POLICY

ADOLESCENT POPULATION AND NATIONAL POPULATION POLICY   Adolescent Population The most significant feature of the Indian population is the size of its adolescent population. It constitute

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Class 9 / Political Science / What Is Democracy? Why Democracy? / What is Democracy?

WHY DEFINE DEMOCRACY?

WHY DEFINE DEMOCRACY?   You have already read about different forms of government. On the basis of your understanding of democracy so far, mentioning a few examples write down some common f

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Class 9 / Political Science / What Is Democracy? Why Democracy? / What is Democracy?

A SIMPLE DEFINITION

A SIMPLE DEFINITION Let us get back to our discussion on similarities and differences among governments that are called democracies. One simple factor common to all democracies is: the governm

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Class 9 / Political Science / What Is Democracy? Why Democracy? / Features of Democracy

QUESTIONS RAISED

QUESTIONS RAISED We have started with a simple definition that democracy is a form of government in which the rulers are elected by the people. This raises many questions:     *&

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Class 9 / Political Science / What Is Democracy? Why Democracy? / Features of Democracy

MAJOR DECISIONS BY ELECTED LEADERS

MAJOR DECISIONS BY ELECTED LEADERS   In Pakistan, General Pervez Musharraf led a military coup in October 1999. He overthrew a democratically elected government and declared himself the &ls

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Class 9 / Political Science / What Is Democracy? Why Democracy? / Features of Democracy

FREE AND FAIR ELECTORAL COMPETITION

FREE AND FAIR ELECTORAL COMPETITION In China, elections are regularly held after every five years for electing the country’s parliament, called Quanguo Renmin Daibiao Dahui (National People&r

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Class 9 / Political Science / What Is Democracy? Why Democracy? / Features of Democracy

ONE PERSON, ONE VOTE, ONE VALUE

ONE PERSON, ONE VOTE, ONE VALUE Earlier, we read about how the struggle for democracy was linked to the demand for a universal adult franchise. This principle has now come to be accepted almos

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Class 9 / Political Science / What Is Democracy? Why Democracy? / Features of Democracy

RULE OF LAW AND RESPECT FOR RIGHTS

RULE OF LAW AND RESPECT FOR RIGHTS   Zimbabwe attained independence from White minority rule in 1980. Since then the country has been ruled by ZANU-PF, the party that led the freedom strugg

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Class 9 / Political Science / What Is Democracy? Why Democracy? / Why Democracy?

DEBATING MERITS OF DEMOCRACY

DEBATING MERITS OF DEMOCRACY   An argument broke out in Madam Lyngdoh’s class. She had finished teaching the previous section on what is democracy and asked the students if they thoug

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Class 9 / Political Science / What Is Democracy? Why Democracy? / Why Democracy?

ARGUMENTS AGAINST DEMOCRACY

ARGUMENTS AGAINST DEMOCRACY   This conversation has most of the arguments that we routinely hear against democracy. Let us go over some of these arguments: *    Leaders ke

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Class 9 / Political Science / What Is Democracy? Why Democracy? / Why Democracy?

ARGUMENTS FOR DEMOCRACY

ARGUMENTS FOR DEMOCRACY   China’s famine of 1958-1961 was the worst recorded famine in world history. Nearly three crore people died in this famine. During those days, India’s e

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Class 9 / Political Science / What Is Democracy? Why Democracy? / Broader Meanings of Democracy

BROADER MEANING OF DEMOCRACY

BROADER MEANING OF DEMOCRACY   In this chapter, we have considered the meaning of democracy in a limited and descriptive sense. We have understood democracy as a form of government. Th

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Class 9 / Political Science / Constitutional Design / Introduction to Constitutional Design

OVERVIEW

  OVERVIEW We noted in the previous chapter that in a democracy the rulers are not free to do what they like. There are certain basic rules that the citizens and the government have to foll

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Class 9 / Political Science / Constitutional Design / Democratic Constitution in South Africa

STRUGGLES AGAINST APARTHEID

  STRUGGLES AGAINST APARTHEID “I have fought against white domination and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which

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Class 9 / Political Science / Constitutional Design / Democratic Constitution in South Africa

TOWARDS A NEW CONSTITUTION

  TOWARDS A NEW CONSTITUTION As protests and struggles against apartheid had increased, the government realised that they could no longer keep the blacks under their rule through repression

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Class 9 / Political Science / Constitutional Design / Why do We Need Constitution?

NEED OF CONSTITUTION

  NEED OF CONSTITUTION The South African example is a good way to understand why we need a constitution and what do constitutions do. The oppressor and the oppressed in this new democracy w

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Class 9 / Political Science / Constitutional Design / Making of the Indian Constitution

THE PATH TO CONSTITUTION

  THE PATH TO CONSTITUTION Like South Africa, India’s Constitution was also drawn up under very difficult circumstances. The making of the constitution for a huge and diverse country

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Class 9 / Political Science / Constitutional Design / Making of the Indian Constitution

THE CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY

THE CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY Who, then, were the makers of the Indian Constitution? You will find here a very brief sketch of some of the leaders who played an important role in making the Constit

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Class 9 / Political Science / Constitutional Design / Guiding Values of The Indian Constitution

THE DREAM AND THE PROMISE

THE DREAM AND THE PROMISE In this book, we shall study the exact provisions of the Constitution on different subjects. At this stage let us begin by understanding the overall philosophy of wha

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Class 9 / Political Science / Constitutional Design / Guiding Values of The Indian Constitution

PHILOSOPHY OF THE CONSTITUTION

PHILOSOPHY OF THE CONSTITUTION Values that inspired and guided the freedom struggle and were in turn nurtured by it, formed the foundation for India’s democracy. These values are embedded in

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Class 9 / Political Science / Constitutional Design / Guiding Values of The Indian Constitution

INSTITUTIONAL DESIGN

INSTITUTIONAL DESIGN A constitution is not merely a statement of values and philosophy. As we noted above, a constitution is mainly about embodying these values into institutional arrangements. Muc

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Class 9 / Political Science / Electoral Politics / Introduction to Electoral Politics

OVERVIEW

OVERVIEW In Chapter 1 we have seen that in a democracy it is neither possible nor necessary for people to govern directly. The most common form of democracy in our times is for the people to govern

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Class 9 / Political Science / Electoral Politics / Why Elections?

ASSEMBLY ELECTION IN HARYANA

ASSEMBLY ELECTION IN HARYANA   This newspaper report is about the state assembly election in Haryana in 1987. The State had been ruled by a Congress party-led government since 1982

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Class 9 / Political Science / Electoral Politics / Why Elections?

WHY DO WE NEED ELECTIONS?

WHY DO WE NEED ELECTIONS?   Elections take place regularly in any democracy. There are more than one hundred countries in the world in which elections take place to choose people’s re

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Class 9 / Political Science / Electoral Politics / Why Elections?

WHAT MAKES AN ELECTION DEMOCRATIC?

WHAT MAKES AN ELECTION DEMOCRATIC? Elections can be held in many ways. All democratic countries hold elections. But most non-democratic countries also hold some kind of elections. How do we disting

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Class 9 / Political Science / Electoral Politics / Why Elections?

IS IT GOOD TO HAVE POLITICAL COMPETITION?

IS IT GOOD TO HAVE POLITICAL COMPETITION? Elections are thus all about political competition. This competition takes various forms. The most obvious form is competition among political parties

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Class 9 / Political Science / Electoral Politics / What is Our System of Elections?

ELECTORAL CONSTITUENCIES

ELECTORAL CONSTITUENCIES Can we say that Indian elections are democratic? To answer this question, let us take a look at how elections are held in India. Lok Sabha and Vidhan Sabha (Assembly) elect

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Class 9 / Political Science / Electoral Politics / What is Our System of Elections?

RESERVED CONSTITUENCIES

RESERVED CONSTITUENCIES Our Constitution entitles every citizen to elect her/his representative and to be elected as a representative. The Constitution makers, however, were worried that in an

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Class 9 / Political Science / Electoral Politics / What is Our System of Elections?

VOTER’S LIST

VOTER’S LIST Once the constituencies are decided,the next step is to decide who can and who cannot vote. This decision cannot be left to anyone till the last day. In a democratic election, th

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Class 9 / Political Science / Electoral Politics / What is Our System of Elections?

NOMINATION OF CANDIDATES

NOMINATION OF CANDIDATES We noted above that in a democratic election people should have a real choice. This happens only when there are almost no restrictions on anyone to contest an election

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Class 9 / Political Science / Electoral Politics / What is Our System of Elections?

ELECTION CAMPAIGN

ELECTION CAMPAIGN The main purpose of election is to give people a chance to choose the representatives, the government and the policies they prefer. Therefore it is necessary to have a free and op

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Class 9 / Political Science / Electoral Politics / What is Our System of Elections?

POLLING AND COUNTING OF VOTES

POLLING AND COUNTING OF VOTES The final stage of an election is the day when the voters cast or ‘poll’ their vote. That day is usually called the election day. Every person whose name i

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Class 9 / Political Science / Electoral Politics / What Makes Elections in India Democratic?

INDEPENDENT ELECTION COMMISSION

INDEPENDENT ELECTION COMMISSION We get to read a lot about unfair practices in elections. Newspapers and television reports often refer to such allegations. Most of these reports are about the foll

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Class 9 / Political Science / Electoral Politics / What Makes Elections in India Democratic?

POPULAR PARTICIPATION

POPULAR PARTICIPATION Another way to check the quality of the election process is to see whether people participate in it with enthusiasm. If the election process is not free or fair, people w

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Class 9 / Political Science / Electoral Politics / What Makes Elections in India Democratic?

ACCEPTANCES OF ELECTION OUTCOME

ACCEPTANCES OF ELECTION OUTCOME One final test of the free and fairness of election has in the outcome itself. If elections are not free or fair, the outcome always favours the powerful.

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Class 9 / Political Science / Electoral Politics / What Makes Elections in India Democratic?

CHALLENGE TO FREE AND FAIR ELECTIONS

CHALLENGE TO FREE AND FAIR ELECTIONS All this leads to a simple conclusion: elections in India are basically free and fair. The party that wins an elec- tion and forms government does so because pe

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Class 9 / Chemistry / Matter in our Surroundings / Introduction to Matter

INTRODUCTION

INTRODUCTION As we look at our surroundings, we see a large variety of things with different shapes, sizes and textures. Everything in this universe is made up of material that scientists have name

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Class 9 / Chemistry / Matter in our Surroundings / Physical Nature of Matter

MATTER IS MADE UP OF PARTICLES

MATTER IS MADE UP OF PARTICLES For a long time, two schools of thought prevailed regarding the nature of matter. One school believed matter to be continuous like a block of wood, whereas, the other

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Class 9 / Chemistry / Matter in our Surroundings / Physical Nature of Matter

HOW SMALL ARE THESE PARTICLES OF MATTER?

HOW SMALL ARE THESE PARTICLES OF MATTER? Activity 1.2: ( Particles of matter are small ) *  Take 2-3 crystals of potassium permanganate and dissolve them in 100 mL of water. * 

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Class 9 / Chemistry / Matter in our Surroundings / Characteristics Of Particles Of Matter

SPACE BETWEEN PARTICLES OF MATTER

SPACE BETWEEN PARTICLES OF MATTER   Activity 1.1: ( Space between particles of Matter ) *  Take a 100 mL beaker. *  Fill half the beaker with water and mark t

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Class 9 / Chemistry / Matter in our Surroundings / Characteristics Of Particles Of Matter

MOTION OF PARTICLES OF MATTER

MOTION OF PARTICLES OF MATTER   Activity 1.3: ( Experiment with incense stick ) *  Put an unlit incense stick in a corner of your class. How close do you have to go near it so

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Class 9 / Chemistry / Matter in our Surroundings / Characteristics Of Particles Of Matter

ATTRACTION BETWEEN PARTICLES OF MATTER

ATTRACTION BETWEEN PARTICLES OF MATTER Activity 1.6: *  Play this game in the field— make four groups and form human chains as suggested: *  The first group should h

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Class 9 / Chemistry / Matter in our Surroundings / States Of Matter

INTRODUCTION OF STATES OF MATTER

INTRODUCTION OF STATES OF MATTER Observe different types of matter around you. What are its different states? We can see that matter around us exists in five different states– i.  &n

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Class 9 / Chemistry / Matter in our Surroundings / States Of Matter

THE SOLID STATE

THE SOLID STATE Activity 1.9: *   Collect the following articles— a pen, a book, a needle and a piece of wooden stick. *   Sketch the shape of the above articles in

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Class 9 / Chemistry / Matter in our Surroundings / States Of Matter

THE LIQUID STATE

THE LIQUID STATE   Activity 1.10: *   Collect the following:          a. water, cooking oil, milk, juice, a cold drink.       &nbs

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Class 9 / Chemistry / Matter in our Surroundings / States Of Matter

THE GASEOUS STATE

THE GASEOUS STATE Have you ever observed a balloon seller filling a large number of balloons from a single cylinder of gas? Enquire from him how many balloons is he able to fill from one cylinder.

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Class 9 / Chemistry / Matter in our Surroundings / States Of Matter

PLASMA

PLASMA The state consists of super energetic and super excited particles. These particles are in the form of ionised gases. The fluorescent tube and neon sign bulbs consist of plasma. Inside a neon

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Class 9 / Chemistry / Matter in our Surroundings / States Of Matter

BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATE

BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATE In 1920, Indian physicist Satyendra Nath Bose had done some calculations for the fifth state of matter. Building on his calculations, Albert Einstein predicted a new s

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Class 9 / Chemistry / Matter in our Surroundings / Can Matter Change its State?

EFFECT OF CHANGE OF TEMPERATURE

EFFECT OF CHANGE OF TEMPERATURE We all know from our observation that water can exist in three states of matter–​​​​​​ *  solid, as ice, *  liquid, as th

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Class 9 / Chemistry / Matter in our Surroundings / Can Matter Change its State?

EFFECT OF CHANGE OF PRESSURE

EFFECT OF CHANGE OF PRESSURE We have already learnt that the difference in various states of matter is due to the difference in the distances between the constituent particles. What will happen whe

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Class 9 / Chemistry / Matter in our Surroundings / Evaporation

WHAT IS EVAPORATION

WHAT IS EVAPORATION Do we always need to heat or change pressure for changing the state of matter? Can you quote some examples from everyday life where change of state from liquid to vapour takes p

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Class 9 / Chemistry / Matter in our Surroundings / Evaporation

FACTORS AFFECTING EVAPORATION

FACTORS AFFECTING EVAPORATION Let us understand this with an activity.   Activity 1.14: ( Activity showing factors affecting evaporation ) *   Take 5 mL of water in a test t

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Class 9 / Chemistry / Matter in our Surroundings / Evaporation

HOW DOES EVAPORATION CAUSE COOLING?

HOW DOES EVAPORATION CAUSE COOLING? In an open vessel, the liquid keeps on evaporating. The particles of liquid absorb energy from the surrounding to regain the energy lost during evaporation. This

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Class 9 / Chemistry / Is Matter Around Us Pure ? / Is Matter Pure ?

INTRODUCTION

INTRODUCTION TO PURE SUBSTANCE   How do we judge whether milk, ghee, butter, salt, spices, mineral water or juice that we buy from the market are pure? Figure 2.1: Some consumab

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Class 9 / Chemistry / Is Matter Around Us Pure ? / Is Matter Pure ?

WHAT IS MIXTURE

WHAT IS MIXTURE   Mixtures are constituted by more than one kind of pure form of matter. We know that dissolved sodium chloride can be separated from water by the physical process of e

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Class 9 / Chemistry / Is Matter Around Us Pure ? / Is Matter Pure ?

TYPES OF MIXTURE

TYPES OF MIXTURE   Depending upon the nature of the components that form a mixture, we can have different types of mixtures.   Activity 2.1: ( Homogeneous mixtures and Heterogene

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Class 9 / Chemistry / Is Matter Around Us Pure ? / Solution

WHAT IS SOLUTION?

WHAT IS SOLUTION?   A solution is a homogeneous mixture of two or more substances. You come across various types of solutions in your daily life. Lemonade, soda water etc. are all examples

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Class 9 / Chemistry / Is Matter Around Us Pure ? / Solution

PROPERTIES OF SOLUTION

PROPERTIES OF SOLUTION *   A solution is a homogeneous mixture. *   The particles of a solution are smaller than 1 nm (10-9 metre) in diameter. So, they cannot be seen by nak

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Class 9 / Chemistry / Is Matter Around Us Pure ? / Solution

WHAT IS A SUSPENSION?

WHAT IS A SUSPENSION? Activity 2.2: *   Let us again divide the class into four groups – A, B, C and D. *   Distribute the following samples to each group:  

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Class 9 / Chemistry / Is Matter Around Us Pure ? / Solution

WHAT IS A COLLOIDAL SOLUTION?

WHAT IS A COLLOIDAL SOLUTION? The mixture obtained by group D in the activity is called a colloid or a colloidal solution. The particles of a colloid are uniformly spread throughout the s

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Class 9 / Chemistry / Is Matter Around Us Pure ? / Solution

PROPERTIES OF COLLOIDAL SOLUTION

PROPERTIES OF COLLOIDAL SOLUTION *   A colloid is a heterogeneous mixture. *   The size of particles of a colloid is too small to be individually seen by naked eyes. *&nbs

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Class 9 / Chemistry / Is Matter Around Us Pure ? / Concentration Of Solution

UNSATURATED AND SATURATED SOLUTION

UNSATURATED AND SATURATED SOLUTION     Saturated solution Activity 2.2: *   Let us again divide the class into four groups – A, B, C, and D. *   D

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Class 9 / Chemistry / Is Matter Around Us Pure ? / Concentration Of Solution

SOLUBILITY

SOLUBILITY   The amount of the solute present in the saturated solution at this temperature is called its solubility. We can infer from the above activity that different substances in

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Class 9 / Chemistry / Is Matter Around Us Pure ? / Methods Expressing Concentration of Solution

MASS BY MASS PERCENTAGE

MASS BY MASS PERCENTAGE Mass by mass percentage of a solution = \(\frac{mass \,\,of\,\, solute}{mass \,\,of \,\,solution}\,\,\times\,\,100\) Note: A solution is a homogeneous mixture of

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Class 9 / Chemistry / Is Matter Around Us Pure ? / Methods Expressing Concentration of Solution

VOLUME BY VOLUME PERCENTAGE

VOLUME BY VOLUME PERCENTAGE Volume by volume percentage of a solution = \(\frac{volume \,\,of\,\, solute}{volume \,\,of \,\,solution}\,\,\times\,\,100\) Note: A solution is a homogeneous

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Class 9 / Chemistry / Is Matter Around Us Pure ? / Methods Expressing Concentration of Solution

MASS BY VOLUME PERCENTAGE

MASS BY VOLUME PERCENTAGE Mass by volume percentage of a solution = \(\frac{mass \,\,of\,\, solute}{volume \,\,of \,\,solution}\,\,\times\,\,100\) Note: A solution is a homogeneous

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Class 9 / Chemistry / Is Matter Around Us Pure ? / Separating the Components of a Mixture

SEPARATION OF HETEROGENEOUS MIXTURES

SEPARATION OF HETEROGENEOUS MIXTURES We have learnt that most of the natural substances are not chemically pure. Different methods of separation are used to get individual components from a mixture

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Class 9 / Chemistry / Is Matter Around Us Pure ? / Separating the Components of a Mixture

SEPARATION OF COLOURED COMPONENTS IN A DYE

SEPARATION OF COLOURED COMPONENTS IN A DYE Activity 2.4: (Separation by evaporation) *  Fill half a beaker with water. *  Put a watch glass on the mouth of the beaker (Fig

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Class 9 / Chemistry / Is Matter Around Us Pure ? / Separating the Components of a Mixture

SEPARATION OF CREAM FROM MILK

SEPARATION OF CREAM FROM MILK Now-a-days, we get full-cream, toned and double-toned varieties of milk packed in poly- packs or tetra packs in the market. These varieties of milk contain different a

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Class 9 / Chemistry / Is Matter Around Us Pure ? / Separating the Components of a Mixture

SEPARATION OF MIXTURES OF TWO IMMISCIBLE LIQUIDS

SEPARATION OF MIXTURES OF TWO IMMISCIBLE LIQUIDS Now-a-days, we get full-cream, toned, and double-toned varieties of milk packed in poly- packs or tetra packs in the market. These varieties of

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Class 9 / Chemistry / Is Matter Around Us Pure ? / Separating the Components of a Mixture

SEPARATION OF MIXTURES OF SALT AND CAMPHOR

SEPARATION OF MIXTURES OF SALT AND CAMPHOR We have learned in chapter 1 that camphor changes directly from solid to gaseous state on heating. So, to separate such mixtures that contain a sublimable

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Class 9 / Chemistry / Is Matter Around Us Pure ? / Separating the Components of a Mixture

SEPARATION OF DYES USING CHROMATOGRAPHY

SEPARATION OF DYES USING CHROMATOGRAPHY *   Take a thin strip of filter paper. *   Draw a line on it using a pencil, approximately 3 cm above the lower edge [Fig. 2.8 (a)].

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Class 9 / Chemistry / Is Matter Around Us Pure ? / Separating the Components of a Mixture

SEPARATION OF MIXTURES OF TWO MISCIBLE LIQUIDS

SEPARATION OF MIXTURES OF TWO MISCIBLE LIQUIDS   Activity: (Separating Miscible liquid mixtures) *   Let us try to separate acetone and water from their mixture. *   

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Class 9 / Chemistry / Is Matter Around Us Pure ? / Separating the Components of a Mixture

SEPARATION OF DIFFERENT GASES FROM AIR

SEPARATION OF DIFFERENT GASES FROM AIR Separation of components of air Air is a homogeneous mixture and can be separated into its components by fractional distillation. The flow diagram (Fig. 2.

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Class 9 / Chemistry / Is Matter Around Us Pure ? / Separating the Components of a Mixture

SEPARATION OF PURE COPPER SULPHATE FROM IMPURE SAMPLE – CRYSTALLISATION

SEPARATION OF PURE COPPER SULPHATE FROM IMPURE SAMPLE – CRYSTALLISATION Activity 2.9: (Crystallisation) *  Take some (approximately 5 g) impure sample of copper sulphate in a chi

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Class 9 / Chemistry / Is Matter Around Us Pure ? / Separating the Components of a Mixture

WATER PURIFICATION SYSTEM

WATER PURIFICATION SYSTEM In cities, drinking water is supplied from water works. A flow diagram of a typical water works is shown in Fig. 2.13. From this figure write down the processes involved t

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Class 9 / Chemistry / Is Matter Around Us Pure ? / Physical and Chemical Changes

WHAT IS PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL CHANGE?

WHAT IS PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL CHANGE? In the previous chapter, we have learnt about a few physical properties of matter. The properties that can be observed and specified like colour, hardness, rig

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Class 9 / Chemistry / Is Matter Around Us Pure ? / Types Of Pure Substances

ELEMENTS

ELEMENTS On the basis of their chemical composition, substances can be classified either as elements or compounds. Robert Boyle was the first scientist to use the term element in 1661. Antoine L

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Class 9 / Chemistry / Is Matter Around Us Pure ? / Types Of Pure Substances

COMPOUNDS

COMPOUNDS A compound is a substance composed of two or more elements, chemically combined with one another in a fixed proportion. What do we get when two or more elements are combined? Activi

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Class 9 / Chemistry / Is Matter Around Us Pure ? / Types Of Pure Substances

DIFFERENCE BETWEEN COMPOUNDS AND MIXTURES

DIFFERENCE BETWEEN COMPOUNDS AND MIXTURES   Thus, we can summarise the physical and chemical nature of matter in the following graphical organiser :       S

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Class 9 / Chemistry / Atoms and Molecules / Early Approach to Atoms and Molecules

HISTORY OF ATOMS AND MOLECULES

HISTORY OF ATOMS AND MOLECULES Ancient Indian and Greek philosophers have always wondered about the unknown and unseen form of matter. The idea of divisibility of matter was considered long back in

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Class 9 / Chemistry / Atoms and Molecules / Laws of Chemical Combination

LAW OF CONSERVATION OF MASS

LAW OF CONSERVATION OF MASS The following two laws of the chemical combination were established after much experimentations by Lavoisier and Joseph L. Proust. Is there a change in mass when

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Class 9 / Chemistry / Atoms and Molecules / Laws of Chemical Combination

LAW OF CONSTANT PROPORTIONS

LAW OF CONSTANT PROPORTIONS Lavoisier , along with other scientists, noted that many compounds were composed of two or more elements and each such compound had the same elements in the same pr

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Class 9 / Chemistry / Atoms and Molecules / Laws of Chemical Combination

DALTON’S ATOMIC THEORY

DALTON’S ATOMIC THEORY According to Dalton’s atomic theory, all matter, whether an element, a compound, or a mixture is composed of small particles called atoms. The postulates of this

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Class 9 / Chemistry / Atoms and Molecules / Atom

WHAT IS AN ATOM?

WHAT IS AN ATOM? Have you ever observed a mason building walls, from these walls a room and then a collection of rooms to form a building? What is the building block of the huge building? What abou

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Class 9 / Chemistry / Atoms and Molecules / Atom

SYMBOLS OF ATOMS

SYMBOLS OF ATOMS Dalton was the first scientist to use symbols for elements in a very specific sense. When he used a symbol for an element he also meant a definite quantity of that element, th

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Class 9 / Chemistry / Atoms and Molecules / Atomic Mass

WHAT IS ATOMIC MASS?

WHAT IS ATOMIC MASS? The most remarkable concept that Dalton’s atomic theory proposed was that of atomic mass. According to him, each element had a characteristic atomic mass. The theory

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Class 9 / Chemistry / Atoms and Molecules / Molecules

WHAT IS A MOLECULE

HOW DO ATOMS EXIST? Atoms of most elements are not able to exist independently. Atoms form molecules and ions. These molecules or ions aggregate in large numbers to form the matter that we can see,

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Class 9 / Chemistry / Atoms and Molecules / Molecules

MOLECULES OF ELEMENTS AND ATOMICITY

MOLECULES OF ELEMENTS AND ATOMICITY The molecules of an element are constituted by the same type of atoms. Molecules of many elements, such as argon (Ar), helium (He), etc. are made up of only one

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Class 9 / Chemistry / Atoms and Molecules / Molecules

MOLECULES OF COMPOUNDS

MOLECULES OF COMPOUNDS Atoms of different elements join together in definite proportions to form molecules of compounds. Few examples are given in Table. *  Refer to Table 

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Class 9 / Chemistry / Atoms and Molecules / Ion

WHAT IS AN ION?

WHAT IS AN ION? Compounds composed of metals and non-metals contain charged species. The charged species are known as ions. Ions may consist of a single charged atom or a group of atoms that have a

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Class 9 / Chemistry / Atoms and Molecules / Ion

POLYATOMIC ION

POLYATOMIC ION A group of atoms carrying a charge is known as a polyatomic ion (Table). We shall learn more about the formation of ions in Chapter 4.        

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Class 9 / Chemistry / Atoms and Molecules / Chemical Formulae

CONCEPT OF VALENCY

CONCEPT OF VALENCY The chemical formula of a compound is a symbolic representation of its composition. The chemical formulae of different compounds can be written easily. For this exercise, we need

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Class 9 / Chemistry / Atoms and Molecules / Chemical Formulae

RULES FOR WRITING CHEMICAL FORMULA

RULES FOR WRITING CHEMICAL FORMULA The rules that you have to follow while writing a chemical formula are as follows: *  the valencies or charges on the ion must balance. *&nbs

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Class 9 / Chemistry / Atoms and Molecules / Chemical Formulae

FORMULAE OF SIMPLE COMPOUNDS

FORMULAE OF SIMPLE COMPOUNDS The simplest compounds, which are made up of two different elements are called binary compounds. Valencies of some ions are given in Table 3.6. You can use these to wri

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Class 9 / Chemistry / Atoms and Molecules / Molecular Mass

WHAT IS MOLECULAR MASS?

WHAT IS MOLECULAR MASS? The atomic mass (ma or m) is the mass of an atom. Although the SI unit of mass is the kilogram (symbol: kg), the atomic mass is often expr

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Class 9 / Chemistry / Atoms and Molecules / Molecular Mass

WHAT IS FORMULA UNIT MASS?

WHAT IS FORMULA UNIT MASS? The Formula unit mass of a substance is a sum of the atomic masses of all atoms in a formula unit of a compound. Formula unit mass is calculated in the same manner as we

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Class 9 / Chemistry / Atoms and Molecules / Mole Concept

WHAT IS MOLE?

WHAT IS A MOLE? Take an example of the reaction of hydrogen and oxygen to form water:                              2H2

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Class 9 / Chemistry / Atoms and Molecules / Mole Concept

RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MOLE, AVOGADRO NUMBER AND ATOMIC NUMBER AND ATOMIC MASS

RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MOLE, AVOGADRO NUMBER AND ATOMIC NUMBER AND ATOMIC MASS Mole One mole contains exactly 6.02214076\(\times\)1023 elementary entities. This number is the fixed numerical

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Class 9 / Chemistry / Structure Of The Atom / Introduction To Structure Of Atom

CHALLENGE BEFORE THE SCIENTISTS

CHALLENGE BEFORE THE SCIENTISTS In Chapter 3, we have learnt that atoms and molecules are the fundamental building blocks of matter. The existence of different kinds of matter is due to different a

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Class 9 / Chemistry / Structure Of The Atom / Charged Particles in Matter

ELECTRON

ELECTRON For understanding the nature of charged particles in matter, let us carry out the following activities:   Activity 4.1: A.  Comb dry hair. Does the comb then attract sma

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Class 9 / Chemistry / Structure Of The Atom / Charged Particles in Matter

PROTON

PROTON E. Goldstein in 1886 discovered the presence of new radiations in a gas discharge and called them canal rays. These rays were positively charged radiations which ultimately led to the discov

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Class 9 / Chemistry / Structure Of The Atom / Charged Particles in Matter

NEUTRON

NEUTRON A neutron is a sub-atomic particle with no net electrostatic charge, with a very similar mass to a proton. Neutrons are thought to comprise of one up quark&nbs

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Class 9 / Chemistry / Structure Of The Atom / The Structure Of An Atom

DALTON’S ATOMIC THEORY

DALTON’S ATOMIC THEORY It seemed that an atom was composed of protons and electrons, mutually balancing their charges. It also appeared that the protons were in the interior of the atom, for

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Class 9 / Chemistry / Structure Of The Atom / The Structure Of An Atom

THOMSON’S MODEL OF AN ATOM

THOMSON ATOMIC MODEL Thomson proposed the model of an atom to be similar to that of a Christmas pudding. The electrons, in a sphere of positive charge, were like currants (dry fruits) in a spherica

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Class 9 / Chemistry / Structure Of The Atom / The Structure Of An Atom

DRAWBACKS OF THOMSON’S MODEL OF AN ATOM

DRAWBACKS OF THOMSON’S MODEL OF AN ATOM Although Thomson's model explained that atoms are electrically neutral, the results of experiments carried out by other scientists could not b

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Class 9 / Chemistry / Structure Of The Atom / Rutherford's Model Of An Atom

EXPERIMENT

EXPERIMENT Ernest Rutherford was interested in knowing how the electrons are arranged within an atom. Rutherford designed an experiment for this. In this experiment, fast-moving alpha(\(\alpha\))-p

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Class 9 / Chemistry / Structure Of The Atom / Rutherford's Model Of An Atom

OBSERVATIONS

OBSERVATIONS But, the  \(\alpha\)-particle scattering experiment gave totally unexpected results (Fig. 4.2). The following observations were made: *   Most of the fast-moving &nbs

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Class 9 / Chemistry / Structure Of The Atom / Rutherford's Model Of An Atom

CONCLUSIONS

CONCLUSIONS Following similar reasoning, Rutherford concluded from the \(\alpha\)-particle scattering experiment that– i.    Most of the space inside the atom is empty becau

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Class 9 / Chemistry / Structure Of The Atom / Rutherford's Model Of An Atom

DRAWBACKS

DRAWBACKS The revolution of the electron in a circular orbit is not expected to be stable. Any particle in a circular orbit would undergo acceleration. During acceleration, charged particles would

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Class 9 / Chemistry / Structure Of The Atom / Bohr's Model Of An Atom

POSTULATES OF BOHR’S MODEL

POSTULATES OF BOHR’S MODEL In order to overcome the objections raised against Rutherford model of the atom, Neils Bohr put forward the following postulates about the model of an atom: i.&n

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Class 9 / Chemistry / Structure Of The Atom / Bohr's Model Of An Atom

DRAWBACKS OF BOHR’S MODEL

DRAWBACKS OF BOHR’S MODEL It doesn't explain about the energy of an atom and it's stability. *   Heisenberg principle - Position and momentum of a particle cannot be dete

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Class 9 / Chemistry / Structure Of The Atom / Distribution Of Electrons

DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTRONS IN DIFFERENT ORBITS(SHELLS)

DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTRONS IN DIFFERENT ORBITS(SHELLS) The distribution of electrons into different orbits of an atom was suggested by Bohr and Bury.   The following rules are followed fo

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Class 9 / Chemistry / Structure Of The Atom / Valency

VALENCE ELECTRONS

VALENCE ELECTRONS A valence electron is a negatively charged particle, located in the outermost shell of an  atom that can be transferred to or shared with another atom. valence(o

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Class 9 / Chemistry / Structure Of The Atom / Valency

CONCEPT OF VALENCY

CONCEPT OF VALENCY The number of electrons gained, lost or shared so as to make the octet of electrons in the outermost shell, gives us directly the combining capacity of the element, that is,

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Class 9 / Chemistry / Structure Of The Atom / Valency

BOHR-BURY SCHEME

BOHR-BURY SCHEME From the Bohr-Bury scheme, we also know that the outermost shell of an atom can accommodate a maximum of 8 electrons. It was observed that the atoms of elements, completely fi

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Class 9 / Chemistry / Structure Of The Atom / Atomic Number and Mass Number

ATOMIC NUMBER

ATOMIC NUMBER We know that protons are present in the nucleus of an atom. It is the number of protons of an atom, which determines its atomic number. It is denoted by ‘Z’. All atoms of

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Class 9 / Chemistry / Structure Of The Atom / Atomic Number and Mass Number

MASS NUMBER

MASS NUMBER After studying the properties of the sub- atomic particles of an atom, we can conclude that mass of an atom is practically due to protons and neutrons alone. These are present in the nu

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Class 9 / Chemistry / Structure Of The Atom / Isotopes and Isobars

ISOTOPES

ISOTOPES In nature, a number of atoms of some elements have been identified, which have the same atomic number but different mass numbers. For example, take the case of hydrogen atom, it has three

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Class 9 / Chemistry / Structure Of The Atom / Isotopes and Isobars

ISOBARS

ISOBARS Let us consider two elements — calcium,atomic number 20, and argon, atomic number 18. The number of protons in these atoms is different, but the mass number of both the

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Class 8 / Chemistry / Synthetic fibres and Plastics / Introduction To Synthetic Fibres and Plastics

NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FIBRES

NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FIBRES The clothes which we wear are made of fabrics.  Fabrics are made from fibres obtained from natural or artificial sources. Can you name some natural fibres? F

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Class 8 / Chemistry / Synthetic fibres and Plastics / Synthetic Fibres

WHAT ARE SYNTHETIC FIBRES

WHAT ARE SYNTHETIC FIBRES Try to recall the uniform pattern found in a necklace of beads joined with the help of a thread [Fig. 3.1(a)]. Or, try to join a number of paper clips together to make a l

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Class 8 / Chemistry / Synthetic fibres and Plastics / Types Of Synthetic Fibres

RAYON

RAYON You have read in Class VII that silk fibre obtained from silkworm was discovered in China and was kept as a closely guarded secret for a long time. Fabric obtained from silk fibre was very co

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Class 8 / Chemistry / Synthetic fibres and Plastics / Types Of Synthetic Fibres

NYLON

NYLON Nylon is another man-made fibre. In 1931, it was made without using any natural raw material (from plants or animals). It was prepared from coal, water and air. It was the first fully synthet

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Class 8 / Chemistry / Synthetic fibres and Plastics / Types Of Synthetic Fibres

POLYESTER AND ACRYLIC

POLYESTER AND ACRYLIC Polyester is another synthetic fibre. Fabric made from this fibre does not get wrinkled easily. It remains crisp and is easy to wash. So, it is quite suitable for making dress

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Class 8 / Chemistry / Synthetic fibres and Plastics / Characteristics of Synthetic Fibres

SYNTHETIC FIBRES IN EVERYDAY LIFE

SYNTHETIC FIBRES IN EVERYDAY LIFE Imagine that it is a rainy day. What kind of umbrella would you use and why? Synthetic fibres possess unique characteristics which make them popular dress mat

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Class 8 / Chemistry / Synthetic fibres and Plastics / Plastics

ROLE OF PLASTICS IN EVERYDAY LIFE

ROLE OF PLASTICS IN EVERYDAY LIFE You must be familiar with many plastic articles used everyday. Make a list of such items and their uses.   Figure 3.6: (a) Linear (b) Cross-lin

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Class 8 / Chemistry / Synthetic fibres and Plastics / Plastics

THERMOPLASTICS AND THERMOSETTING PLASTICS

THERMOPLASTICS AND THERMOSETTING PLASTICS Thermoplastics Plastic which gets deformed easily on heating and can be bent easily are known as thermoplastics. Polythene and PVC are some of the examp

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Class 8 / Chemistry / Synthetic fibres and Plastics / Why Plastics Are Materials Of Choice ?

PLASTIC IS NON-REACTIVE

Plastics as materials of choice   PLASTIC IS NON-REACTIVE Today if we think of storing a food item, water, milk, pickles, dry food, etc., plastic containers seem most convenient. This is

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Class 8 / Chemistry / Synthetic fibres and Plastics / Why Plastics Are Materials Of Choice ?

PLASTIC IS LIGHT, STRONG AND DURABLE

Plastic is light, strong and durable   Talk to your parents or grandparents about the types of buckets that were used in the past. What is the material of the buckets or mugs you are using

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Class 8 / Chemistry / Synthetic fibres and Plastics / Why Plastics Are Materials Of Choice ?

PLASTICS ARE POOR CONDUCTORS

PLASTICS ARE POOR CONDUCTORS   You have learned above that plastics are poor conductors of heat and electricity. That is why electrical wires have plastic covering, and the handles of screw

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Class 8 / Chemistry / Synthetic fibres and Plastics / Plastics and the Environment

BIODEGRADABLE PLASTICS

BIODEGRADABLE PLASTICS   When we go to the market, we usually get things wrapped in plastic or packed in polythene bags. That is one reason why plastic waste keeps getting accumulated in ou

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Class 8 / Chemistry / Synthetic fibres and Plastics / Plastics and the Environment

NON-BIODEGRADABLE PLASTICS

NON-BIODEGRADABLE PLASTICS A material which is not easily decomposed by natural processes is termed non-biodegradable.   Since plastic takes several years to decompose, it is not environ

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Class 8 / Chemistry / Synthetic fibres and Plastics / Plastics and the Environment

5R PRINCIPLE

5R PRINCIPLE As a responsible citizen remember the 5 R principle. Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Recover and Refuse. Develop habits which are environment friendly.   More to know * &nbs

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Class 8 / Chemistry / Metals and Non-Metals / Materials

WHAT ARE MATERIALS?

WHAT ARE MATERIALS? You are familiar with a number of materials like iron, aluminium, copper, etc. Some materials have been given in Table 4.1. Table 4.1: Appearance and Hardness o

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Class 8 / Chemistry / Metals and Non-Metals / Physical Properties of Metals and Non-metals

PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF METALS

PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF METALS Have you ever seen a blacksmith beating an iron piece or an article made up of iron, like a spade, a shovel, an axe? Do you find a change in the shape of these article

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Class 8 / Chemistry / Metals and Non-Metals / Physical Properties of Metals and Non-metals

PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF NON METALS

PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF NON METALS In contrast, materials like coal and sulphur are soft and dull in appearance. They break down into a powdery mass on tapping with a hammer. They are not sonorous a

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Class 8 / Chemistry / Metals and Non-Metals / Chemical Properties of Metals and Non-metals

REACTION WITH OXYGEN

REACTION WITH OXYGEN You are familiar with the phenomenon of rusting of iron. Recall the reaction by which rust is formed. You had also performed in Class VII activity of burning a magnes

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Class 8 / Chemistry / Metals and Non-Metals / Chemical Properties of Metals and Non-metals

REACTION WITH WATER

REACTION WITH WATER Let us see how metals and non-metals react with water. Sodium metal is very reactive. It reacts vigorously with oxygen and water. A lot of heat is generated in the reaction.

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Class 8 / Chemistry / Metals and Non-Metals / Chemical Properties of Metals and Non-metals

REACTION WITH ACIDS

REACTION WITH ACIDS Let us see how metals and non-metals behave with acids.   Activity 4.6: (Warning : Keep the mouth of the test tube away from your face. Use test tube holder to hol

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Class 8 / Chemistry / Metals and Non-Metals / Chemical Properties of Metals and Non-metals

REACTION WITH BASES

REACTION WITH BASES Activity 4.7: (To be demonstrated by the teacher. During the preparation of sodium hydroxide solution, care should be taken that pellets of sodium hydroxide are handled with

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Class 8 / Chemistry / Metals and Non-Metals / Chemical Properties of Metals and Non-metals

DISPLACEMENT REACTIONS

DISPLACEMENT REACTIONS Activity 4.8: *   Recall the activity of the reaction between copper sulphate and iron that you performed in Class VII. *   Let us observe som

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Class 8 / Chemistry / Metals and Non-Metals / Uses of Metals and Non-metals

USES OF METALS AND NON-METALS IN DAILY LIFE

USES OF METALS AND NON-METALS IN DAILY LIFE You should be able to guess why metals are used in making machinery, automobiles, aeroplanes, trains, satellites, industrial gadgets, cooking utensils, w

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Class 8 / Chemistry / Coal and Petroleum / Natural Resources

WHAT ARE NATURAL RESOURCES?

WHAT ARE NATURAL RESOURCES? We use various materials for our basic needs. Some of them are found in nature and some have been made by human efforts.   Activity 5.1: Make a list o

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Class 8 / Chemistry / Coal and Petroleum / Natural Resources

INEXHAUSTIBLE NATURAL RESOURCES

INEXHAUSTIBLE NATURAL RESOURCES These resources are present in unlimited quantity in nature and are not likely to be exhausted by human activities. Examples are: sunlight, air.    

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Class 8 / Chemistry / Coal and Petroleum / Natural Resources

EXHAUSTIBLE NATURAL RESOURCES

EXHAUSTIBLE NATURAL RESOURCES The amount of these resources in nature is limited. They can be exhausted by human activities. Examples of these resources are forests, wildlife, minerals, coal, petro

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Class 8 / Chemistry / Coal and Petroleum / Coal

STORY OF COAL

STORY OF COAL You may have seen coal or heard about it (Fig. 5.1). It is as hard as stone and is black in colour. Figure 5.1: Coal   Coal is one of the fuels used to cook foo

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Class 8 / Chemistry / Coal and Petroleum / Coal

COKE

COKE It is a tough, porous and black substance. It is an almost pure form of carbon. Coke is used in the manufacture of steel and in the extraction of many metals.      

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Class 8 / Chemistry / Coal and Petroleum / Coal

Coal Tar

COAL TAR It is a black, thick liquid (Fig. 5.3) with an unpleasant smell. It is a mixture of about 200 substances. Products obtained from coal tar are used as starting materials for manufactur

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Class 8 / Chemistry / Coal and Petroleum / Coal

COAL GAS

COAL GAS Coal gas is obtained during the processing of coal to get coke. It is used as a fuel in many industries situated near the coal processing plants. Coal gas was used for street lig

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Class 8 / Chemistry / Coal and Petroleum / Petroleum

FORMATION OF PETROLEUM

FORMATION OF PETROLEUM You know that petrol is used as a fuel in light automobiles such as motor cycles/ scooters and cars. Heavy motor vehicles like trucks and tractors run on diesel. Petrol and d

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Class 8 / Chemistry / Coal and Petroleum / Petroleum

REFINING OF PETROLEUM

REFINING OF PETROLEUM Petroleum is a dark oily liquid. It has an unpleasant odour. It is a mixture of various constituents such as petroleum gas, petrol, diesel, lubricating oil, paraffin wax, etc.

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Class 8 / Chemistry / Coal and Petroleum / Natural Gas

NATURAL GAS(CNG)

NATURAL GAS(CNG) Natural gas is a very important fossil fuel because it is easy to transport through pipes. Natural gas is stored under high pressure as compressed natural gas (CNG). CNG is used fo

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Class 8 / Chemistry / Coal and Petroleum / Some Natural Resources are Limited

WHY SOME NATURAL RESOURCES ARE LIMITED?

WHY SOME NATURAL RESOURCES ARE LIMITED? You have studied in the beginning of the chapter that some natural resources are exhaustible like fossil fuels, forests, minerals etc.   You know

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Class 8 / Chemistry / Combustion and flame / Introduction to Combustion and Flame

USE OF FUEL IN DAILY LIFE

USE OF FUEL IN DAILY LIFE We use different kinds of fuel for various purposes at home, in industry and for running automobiles. Can you name a few fuels used in our homes? Name a few fuels used in

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Class 8 / Chemistry / Combustion and flame / Combustion

WHAT IS COMBUSTION

WHAT IS COMBUSTION Recall the activity of burning of magnesium ribbon performed in Class VII. We learnt that magnesium burns to form magnesium oxide and produces heat and light (Fig. 6.1). We

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Class 8 / Chemistry / Combustion and flame / Combustion

COMBUSTIBLE AND NONCOMBUSTIBLE SUBSTANCES

COMBUSTIBLE AND NONCOMBUSTIBLE SUBSTANCES In the reactions mentioned above magnesium and charcoal are combustible substances.   Activity 6.1: Collect some materials like straw, m

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Class 8 / Chemistry / Combustion and flame / Combustion

IGNITION TEMPERATURE

IGNITION TEMPERATURE *  Now recall some of your experiences. Does a matchstick burn by itself? How does it burn? *  You must have had an experience of burning a piece of paper. Do

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Class 8 / Chemistry / Combustion and flame / Combustion

HISTORY OF MATCHSTICK

HISTORY OF MATCHSTICK The history of the matchstick is very old. More than five thousand years ago small pieces of pinewood dipped in sulphur were used as matches in ancient Egypt. The modern safet

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Class 8 / Chemistry / Combustion and flame / How Do We Control Fire ?

METHODS TO CONTROL FIRE

METHODS TO CONTROL FIRE You must have seen or heard of fire breaking out in homes, shops and factories. If you have seen such an accident, write a short description in your note book. Also, share t

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Class 8 / Chemistry / Combustion and flame / Types of Combustion

RAPID, SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION AND EXPLOSION

RAPID, SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION AND EXPLOSION Bring a burning matchstick or a gas lighter near a gas stove in the kitchen. Turn on the knob of the gas stove. What do you observe? CAUTION : Do not

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Class 8 / Chemistry / Combustion and flame / Flame

WHAT IS FLAME?

WHAT IS FLAME? Observe an LPG flame. Can you tell the colour of the flame. What is the colour of a candle flame? Recall your experience of burning a magnesium ribbon in Class VII. If you do not

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Class 8 / Chemistry / Combustion and flame / Flame

STRUCTURE OF A FLAME

STRUCTURE OF A FLAME Activity 6.5: *   Light a candle (Caution : Be careful). *   Hold a 4-5 cm long thin glass tube with a pair of tongs and introduce its one end in the

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Class 8 / Chemistry / Combustion and flame / Fuels

WHAT IS A FUEL?

WHAT IS A FUEL? Recall that the sources of heat energy for domestic and industrial purposes are mainly wood, charcoal, petrol, kerosene etc. These substances are called fuels. A good fuel

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Class 8 / Chemistry / Combustion and flame / Fuels

FUEL EFFICIENCY

FUEL EFFICIENCY Suppose you were asked to boil a given quantity of water using cow dung, coal and LPG as fuel. Which fuel would you prefer? Give your reason. You may take the help of your parents.

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Class 8 / Chemistry / Combustion and flame / Fuels

TYPES OF FUELS

TYPES OF FUELS   Primary (natural) Secondary (artificial) Solid  fuels wood, coal, peat, dung, etc.

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Class 8 / Chemistry / Combustion and flame / Burning of Fuels Leads to Harmful Products

RELEASE OF POLLUTANTS AND POISONOUS GASES

RELEASE OF POLLUTANTS AND POISONOUS GASES The increasing fuel consumption has harmful effects on the environment. 1.  Carbon fuels like wood, coal, petroleum release unburnt carbon par

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Class 8 / Chemistry / Combustion and flame / Burning of Fuels Leads to Harmful Products

GLOBAL WARMING

GLOBAL WARMING Combustion of most fuels releases carbon dioxide in the environment. Increased concentration of carbon dioxide in the air is believed to cause global warming.   Global war

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Class 8 / Chemistry / Combustion and flame / Burning of Fuels Leads to Harmful Products

ACID RAINS

ACID RAINS Burning of coal and diesel releases sulphur dioxide gas. It is an extremely suffocating and corrosive gas. Moreover, petrol engines give off gaseous oxides of nitrogen. Oxides of sulphur

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Class 9 / Biology / Diversity in Living Organisms / Introduction to Diversity in Living Organisms

INTRODUCTION

INTRODUCTION TO CLASSIFICATION   Have you ever thought of the multitude of life-forms that surround us? Each organism is different from the other to a lesser or greater extent. For instance

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Class 9 / Biology / Diversity in Living Organisms / What is the Basis of Classification?

BASIS OF CLASSIFICATION

BASIS OF CLASSIFICATION Attempts at classifying living things into groups have been made since time immemorial. Greek thinker Aristotle classified animals according to whether they lived on 

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Class 9 / Biology / Diversity in Living Organisms / Classification and Evolution

CLASSIFICATION VS EVOLUTION

CLASSIFICATION VS EVOLUTION All living things are identified and categorised on the basis of their body design in form and function. Some characteristics are likely to make more wide-ranging chan

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Class 9 / Biology / Diversity in Living Organisms / The Hierarchy of Classification Groups

WHITTAKER CLASSIFICATION

WHITTAKER CLASSIFICATION Biologists, such as Ernst Haeckel (1894), Robert Whittaker (1969), and Carl Woese (1977) have tried to classify all living organisms into broad categories, called ki

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Class 9 / Biology / Diversity in Living Organisms / The Hierarchy of Classification Groups

MONERA

MONERA These organisms do not have a defined nucleus or organelles, nor do any of them show multi-cellular body designs. On the other hand, they show diversity based on many other characteristics

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Class 9 / Biology / Diversity in Living Organisms / The Hierarchy of Classification Groups

PROTISTA

PROTISTA This group includes many kinds of unicellular eukaryotic organisms. Some of these organisms use appendages, such as hair-like cilia or whip-like flagella for moving around. Their mode

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Class 9 / Biology / Diversity in Living Organisms / The Hierarchy of Classification Groups

FUNGI

FUNGI These are heterotrophic eukaryotic organisms. Some of them use decaying organic material as food and are therefore called saprotrophs. Others require a living protoplasm of a host or

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Class 9 / Biology / Diversity in Living Organisms / The Hierarchy of Classification Groups

PLANTAE

PLANTAE These are multicellular eukaryotes with cell walls. They are autotrophs and use chlorophyll for photosynthesis. Thus, all plants are included in this group. Since plants and animals are the

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Class 9 / Biology / Diversity in Living Organisms / The Hierarchy of Classification Groups

ANIMALIA

ANIMALIA These include all organisms which are multicellular eukaryotes without cell walls. They are heterotrophs. Again, we will look at their subgroups given below.   1. Porifera 2.

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Class 9 / Biology / Diversity in Living Organisms / Plantae

THALLOPHYTA, BRYOPHYTA AND PTERIDOPHYTA

THALLOPHYTA, BRYOPHYTA AND PTERIDOPHYTA The first level of classification among plants depends on whether the plant body has well-differentiated, distinct parts. The next level of classificati

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Class 9 / Biology / Diversity in Living Organisms / Plantae

GYMNOSPERMS AND ANGIOSPERMS

GYMNOSPERMS AND ANGIOSPERMS Gymnosperms This term is derived from two Greek words: gymno– means naked and sperma– means seed. The plants of this group bear naked seeds and are usuall

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Class 9 / Biology / Diversity in Living Organisms / Animalia

PORIFERA

PORIFERA These are organisms which are eukaryotic, multicellular, and heterotrophic. Their cells do not have cell walls. Most animals are mobile. They are further classified based on the exten

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Class 9 / Biology / Diversity in Living Organisms / Animalia

COELENTERATA

COELENTERATA These are animals living in the water. They show more body design differentiation. There is a cavity in the body. The body is made of two layers of cells: one makes up cells

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Class 9 / Biology / Diversity in Living Organisms / Animalia

PLATYHELMINTHES

PLATYHELMINTHES The body of animals in this group is far more complexly designed than in the two other groups we have considered so far. The body is bilaterally symmetrical, meaning that the left a

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Class 9 / Biology / Diversity in Living Organisms / Animalia

NEMATODA

NEMATODA The nematode body is also bilaterally symmetrical and triploblastic. However, the body is cylindrical rather than flattened. There are tissues, but no real organs, although a sort of body

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Class 9 / Biology / Diversity in Living Organisms / Animalia

ANNELIDA

ANNELIDA Annelid animals are also bilaterally symmetrical and triploblastic, but in addition, they have a true body cavity. This allows true organs to be packaged in the body structure. T

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Class 9 / Biology / Diversity in Living Organisms / Animalia

ARTHROPODA

ARTHROPODA This is probably the largest group of animals. These animals are bilaterally symmetrical and segmented. There is an open circulatory system, and so the blood does not flow in well- defin

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Class 9 / Biology / Diversity in Living Organisms / Animalia

MOLLUSCA

MOLLUSCA In the animals of this group, there is bilateral symmetry. The coelomic cavity is reduced. There is little segmentation. They have an open circulatory system and kidney-like organs for exc

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Class 9 / Biology / Diversity in Living Organisms / Animalia

ECHINODERMATA

ECHINODERMATA In Greek, echinos means hedgehog (spiny mammal), and derma means skin. Thus, these are spiny skinned organisms. These are exclusively free-living marine animals. They are triploblasti

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Class 9 / Biology / Diversity in Living Organisms / Animalia

PROTOCHORDATA

PROTOCHORDATA These animals are bilaterally symmetrical, triploblastic and have a coelom. In addition, they show a new feature of body design, namely a notochord, at least at some stages during the

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Class 9 / Biology / Diversity in Living Organisms / Animalia

VERTEBRATA – CYCLOSTOMATA

VERTEBRATA – CYCLOSTOMATA These animals have a true vertebral column and internal skeleton, allowing a completely different distribution of muscle attachment points to be used for movement.

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Class 9 / Biology / Diversity in Living Organisms / Animalia

VERTEBRATA - PISCES

VERTEBRATA - PISCES These are fish. They are exclusively aquatic animals. Their skin is covered with scales/ plates. They obtain oxygen dissolved in water by using gills. The body is streamlined, a

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Class 9 / Biology / Diversity in Living Organisms / Animalia

VERTEBRATA - AMPHIBIA

VERTEBRATA - AMPHIBIA These animals differ from the fish in the lack of scales, in having mucus glands in the skin, and a three-chambered heart. Respiration is through either gills or lungs. They l

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Class 9 / Biology / Diversity in Living Organisms / Animalia

VERTEBRATA - REPTILIA

VERTEBRATA - REPTILIA These animals are cold-blooded, have scales and breathe through lungs. While most of them have a three-chambered heart, crocodiles have four heart chambers. They lay eggs with

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Class 9 / Biology / Diversity in Living Organisms / Animalia

VERTEBRATA - AVES

VERTEBRATA - AVES These are warm-blooded animals and have a four-chambered heart. They lay eggs. There is an outside covering of feathers, and two forelimbs are modified for flight. They breathe th

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Class 9 / Biology / Diversity in Living Organisms / Animalia

VERTEBRATA -MAMMALIA

VERTEBRATA -MAMMALIA Mammals are warm-blooded animals with four-chambered hearts. They have mammary glands for the production of milk to nourish their young. Their skin has hairs as well as sweat a

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Class 9 / Biology / Diversity in Living Organisms / Nomenclature

NOMENCLATURE

NOMENCLATURE Why is there a need for the systematic naming of living organisms?   Activity 7.3: Find out the names of the following animals and plants in as many languages as you can:

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Class 9 / Biology / Tissues / Introduction to Tissues

ARE PLANTS AND ANIMALS MADE OF SAME TYPES OF TISSUES?

ARE PLANTS AND ANIMALS MADE OF SAME TYPES OF TISSUES? From the last chapter, we recall that all living organisms are made of cells. In unicellular organisms, a single cell performs all basic functi

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Class 9 / Biology / Tissues / Plant Tissues

MERISTEMATIC TISSUE

MERISTEMATIC TISSUE Activity 6.1: *   Take two glass jars and fill them with water. *   Now, take two onion bulbs and place one on each jar,  as shown in Fig. 6.1.

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Class 9 / Biology / Tissues / Plant Tissues

PERMANENT TISSUE – SIMPLE PERMANENT TISSUE

PERMANENT TISSUE – SIMPLE PERMANENT TISSUE What happens to the cells formed by meristematic tissue? They take up a specific role and lose the ability to divide. As a result, they form a perma

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Class 9 / Biology / Tissues / Plant Tissues

PERMANENT TISSUE – COMPLEX PERMANENT TISSUE

PERMANENT TISSUE – COMPLEX PERMANENT TISSUE The different types of tissues we have discussed until now are all made of one type of cell, which looks like each other. Such tissues are called s

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Class 9 / Biology / Tissues / Animal Tissues

WHAT ARE ANIMAL TISSUES?

WHAT ARE ANIMAL TISSUES? When we breathe we can actually feel the movement of our chest. How do these body parts move? For this we have specialised cells called muscle cells (Fig. 6.8). The contrac

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Class 9 / Biology / Tissues / Animal Tissues

EPITHELIAL TISSUE

EPITHELIAL TISSUE The covering or protective tissues in the animal body are epithelial tissues. Epithelium covers most organs and cavities within the body. It also forms a barrier to keep different

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Class 9 / Biology / Tissues / Animal Tissues

CONNECTIVE TISSUE

CONNECTIVE TISSUE Blood is a type of connective tissue. Why would it be called ‘connective’ tissue? A clue is provided in the introduction of this chapter! Now, let us look at this type

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Class 9 / Biology / Tissues / Animal Tissues

MUSCULAR TISSUE

MUSCULAR TISSUE Muscular tissue consists of elongated cells, also called muscle fibres. This tissue is responsible for movement in our body. Muscles contain special proteins called contractile

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Class 9 / Biology / Tissues / Animal Tissues

NERVOUS TISSUE

NERVOUS TISSUE All cells possess the ability to respond to stimuli. However, cells of the nervous tissue are highly specialised for being stimulated and then transmitting the stimulus very rap

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Class 9 / Biology / Cell - The Fundamental Unit of Life / What are Living Organisms Made Up of?

CELL AND ITS STRUCTURE

CELL AND ITS STRUCTURE Cell History While examining a thin slice of cork, Robert Hooke saw that the cork resembled the structure of a honeycomb consisting of many little compartments. Cork is a

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Class 9 / Biology / Cell - The Fundamental Unit of Life / What is the Structural Organisation of a Cell?

PLASMA MEMBRANE Or CELL MEMBRANE

PLASMA MEMBRANE OR CELL MEMBRANE We saw above that the cell has special components called organelles. How is a cell organised? If we study a cell under a microscope, we would come across three f

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Class 9 / Biology / Cell - The Fundamental Unit of Life / What is the Structural Organisation of a Cell?

CELL WALL

CELL WALL Plant cells, in addition to the plasma membrane, have another rigid outer covering called the cell wall. The cell wall lies outside the plasma membrane. The plant cell wall is mainly comp

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Class 9 / Biology / Cell - The Fundamental Unit of Life / What is the Structural Organisation of a Cell?

NUCLEUS

NUCLEUS Remember the temporary mount of onion peel we prepared? We had put iodine solution on the peel. Why? What would we see if we tried observing the peel without putting the iodine solution? Tr

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Class 9 / Biology / Cell - The Fundamental Unit of Life / What is the Structural Organisation of a Cell?

CYTOPLASM

CYTOPLASM When we look at the temporary mounts of onion peel as well as human cheek cells, we can see a large region of each cell enclosed by the cell membrane. This region takes up very little sta

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Class 9 / Biology / Cell - The Fundamental Unit of Life / Cell Organelles

WHAT ARE CELL ORGANELLES?

WHAT ARE CELL ORGANELLES? Every cell has a membrane around it to keep its own contents separate from the external environment. Large and complex cells, including cells from multicellular organisms,

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Class 9 / Biology / Cell - The Fundamental Unit of Life / Cell Organelles

ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM

ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) is a large network of membrane-bound tubes and sheets. It looks like long tubules or round or oblong bags (vesicles). The ER membrane is similar

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Class 9 / Biology / Cell - The Fundamental Unit of Life / Cell Organelles

GOLGI APPARATUS

GOLGI APPARATUS The Golgi apparatus, first described by Camillo Golgi, consists of a system of membrane-bound vesicles (flattened sacs) arranged approximately parallel to each other in stacks calle

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Class 9 / Biology / Cell - The Fundamental Unit of Life / Cell Organelles

LYSOSOMES

LYSOSOMES Structurally, lysosomes are membrane-bound sacs filled with digestive enzymes. These enzymes are made by RER. L ysosomes are a kind of waste disposal system of the cell. These help to kee

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Class 9 / Biology / Cell - The Fundamental Unit of Life / Cell Organelles

MITOCHONDRIA

MITOCHONDRIA Mitochondria are known as the powerhouses of the cell. Mitochondria have two membrane coverings. The outer membrane is porous while the inner membrane is deeply folded. These folds inc

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Class 9 / Biology / Cell - The Fundamental Unit of Life / Cell Organelles

PLASTIDS AND VACUOLES

PLASTIDS AND VACUOLES Plastids Plastids are present only in plant cells. There are two types of plastids – chromoplasts (coloured plastids) and leucoplasts (white or colourless plastids).&

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Class 9 / Biology / Cell - The Fundamental Unit of Life / Cell Division

MITOSIS AND MEIOSIS

MITOSIS AND MEIOSIS Each cell thus acquires its structure and ability to function because of the organisation of its membrane and organelles in specific ways. The cell thus has a basic structural o

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Class 9 / Biology / Why do we fall ill ? / Introduction of Why do we fall ill

INTRODUCTION

INTRODUCTION Activity 13.1: *   We have all heard of the earthquakes in Latur, Bhuj, Kashmir etc. or the cyclones that lashed the coastal regions. Think of as many different ways as po

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Class 9 / Biology / Why do we fall ill ? / Health and its Failure

THE SIGNIFICANCE OF ‘HEALTH’

THE SIGNIFICANCE OF HEALTH We have heard the word ‘health’ used quite frequently. We use it ourselves as well, when we say things like ‘my grandmother’s health is not good&r

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Class 9 / Biology / Why do we fall ill ? / Health and its Failure

PERSONAL AND COMMUNITY ISSUES BOTH MATTER FOR HEALTH

PERSONAL AND COMMUNITY ISSUES BOTH MATTER FOR HEALTH If health means a state of physical, mental and social well-being, it cannot be something that each one of us can achieve entirely on our o

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Class 9 / Biology / Why do we fall ill ? / Health and its Failure

DISTINCTION BETWEEN ‘HEALTHY’ AND ‘DISEASE- FREE’

DISTINCTION BETWEEN HEALTHY AND DISEASE FREE If this is what we mean by ‘health’, what do we mean by ‘disease’? The word is actually self-explanatory – we ca

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Class 9 / Biology / Why do we fall ill ? / Disease and Its Causes

WHAT DOES DISEASE LOOK LIKE?

WHAT DOES DISEASE LOOK LIKE? Let us now think a little more about diseases. In the first place, how do we know that there is a disease? In other words, how do we know that there is something wrong

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Class 9 / Biology / Why do we fall ill ? / Disease and Its Causes

ACUTE AND CHRONIC DISEASES

ACUTE AND CHRONIC DISEASES The manifestations of the disease will be different depending on a number of factors. Some diseases last for only very short periods of time, and these are called acute d

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Class 9 / Biology / Why do we fall ill ? / Disease and Its Causes

CHRONIC DISEASES AND POOR HEALTH

CHRONIC DISEASES AND POOR HEALTH Acute and chronic diseases have different effects on our health. Any disease that causes poor functioning of some part of the body will affect our health. This is b

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Class 9 / Biology / Why do we fall ill ? / Disease and Its Causes

CAUSES OF DISEASES

CAUSES OF DISEASES What causes disease? When we think about the causes of diseases, we must remember that there are many levels of such causes. Let us look at an example. If there is a baby sufferi

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Class 9 / Biology / Why do we fall ill ? / Disease and Its Causes

INFECTIOUS AND NON-INFECTIOUS CAUSES

INFECTIOUS AND NON INFECTIOUS CAUSES As we have seen, it is important to keep public health and community health factors in mind when we think about the causes of diseases. We can take that approac

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Class 9 / Biology / Why do we fall ill ? / Infectious Diseases

INFECTIOUS AGENTS

INFECTIOUS AGENTS We have seen that the entire diversity seen in the living world can be classified into a few groups. This classification is based on common characteristics between different organ

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Class 9 / Biology / Why do we fall ill ? / Infectious Diseases

MEANS OF SPREAD

MEANS OF SPREAD How do infectious diseases spread? Many microbial agents can commonly move from an affected person to someone else in a variety of ways. In other words, they can be ‘communica

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Class 9 / Biology / Why do we fall ill ? / Infectious Diseases

ORGAN SPECIFIC AND TISSUE SPECIFIC MANIFESTATIONS

ORGAN AND TISSUE SPECIFIC MANIFESTATIONS The disease-causing microbes enter the body through these different means. Where do they go then? The body is very large when compared to the microbes. So t

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Class 9 / Biology / Why do we fall ill ? / Infectious Diseases

PRINCIPLES OF TREATMENT

PRINCIPLES OF TREATMENT What are the steps taken by your family when you fall sick? Have you ever thought why you sometimes feel better if you sleep for some time? When does the treatment involve m

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Class 9 / Biology / Why do we fall ill ? / Infectious Diseases

PRINCIPLES OF PREVENTION

PRINCIPLES OF PREVENTION All of what we have talked about so far deals with how to get rid of an infection in someone who has the disease. But there are three limitations to this approach to dealin

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Class 9 / Biology / Natural Resources / Introduction to Natural Resources

RESOURCES ON THE EARTH

RESOURCES ON THE EARTH Our planet, Earth is the only one on which life, as we know it, exists. Life on Earth is dependent on many factors. Most life-forms we know need an ambient temperature, water

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Class 9 / Biology / Natural Resources / The Breath of Life: Air

COMPOSITION OF AIR

COMPOSITION OF AIR We have already talked about the composition of air in the first chapter. It is a mixture of many gases like nitrogen, oxygen, carbon dioxide and water vapour. It is interesting

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Class 9 / Biology / Natural Resources / The Breath of Life: Air

THE ROLE OF THE ATMOSPHERE IN CLIMATE CONTROL

THE ROLE OF THE ATMOSPHERE IN CLIMATE CONTROL We have talked of the atmosphere covering the Earth, like a blanket. We know that air is a bad conductor of heat. The atmosphere keeps the average temp

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Class 9 / Biology / Natural Resources / The Breath of Life: Air

THE MOVEMENT OF AIR: WINDS

THE MOVEMENT OF AIR: WINDS We have all felt the relief brought by cool evening breezes after a hot day. And sometimes, we are lucky enough to get rains after some days of really hot weather. What c

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Class 9 / Biology / Natural Resources / The Breath of Life: Air

RAIN

RAIN Let us go back now to the question of how clouds are formed and bring us rain. We could start by doing a simple experiment which demonstrates some of the factors influencing these climatic cha

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Class 9 / Biology / Natural Resources / The Breath of Life: Air

AIR POLLUTION

AIR POLLUTION We keep hearing of the increasing levels of oxides of nitrogen and sulphur in the news. People often bemoan the fact that the quality of air has gone down since their childhood. How i

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Class 9 / Biology / Natural Resources / Water: A Wonder Liquid

EXISTENCE OF WATER AND ITS NECESSITY

EXISTENCE OF WATER AND ITS NECESSITY Water occupies a very large area of the Earth’s surface and is also found underground. Some amount of water exists in the form of water vapour in the atmo

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Class 9 / Biology / Natural Resources / Water: A Wonder Liquid

WATER POLLUTION

WATER POLLUTION Water dissolves the fertilisers and pesticides that we use on our farms. So some percentage of these substances are washed into the water bodies. Sewage from our towns and cities an

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Class 9 / Biology / Natural Resources / Mineral Riches in the Soil

FACTORS AND PROCESSES THAT MAKE SOIL

FACTORS AND PROCESSES THAT MAKE SOIL Soil is an important resource that decides the diversity of life in an area. But what is the soil and how is it formed? The outermost layer of our Earth is call

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Class 9 / Biology / Natural Resources / Biogeochemical Cycles

THE WATER CYCLE

THE WATER CYCLE A constant interaction between the biotic and abiotic components of the biosphere makes it a dynamic, but stable system. These interactions consist of a transfer of matter and energ

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Class 9 / Biology / Natural Resources / Biogeochemical Cycles

THE NITROGEN CYCLE

THE NITROGEN CYCLE Nitrogen gas makes up 78% of our atmosphere and nitrogen is also a part of many molecules essential to life like proteins, nucleic acids (DNA and RNA) and some vitamins. Nitrogen

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Class 9 / Biology / Natural Resources / Biogeochemical Cycles

THE CARBON CYCLE

THE CARBON CYCLE Carbon is found in various forms on the Earth. It occurs in the elemental form as diamonds and graphite. In the combined state, it is found as carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, as

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Class 9 / Biology / Natural Resources / Biogeochemical Cycles

THE GREENHOUSE EFFECT

THE GREENHOUSE EFFECT Recall the reading taken by you under (iii) in Activity 14.1.   Activity 14.1. Measure the temperature of the following : Take (i) a beaker full of water, (i

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Class 9 / Biology / Natural Resources / Biogeochemical Cycles

THE OXYGEN CYCLE

THE OXYGEN CYCLE Oxygen is a very abundant element on our Earth. It is found in the elemental form in the atmosphere to the extent of 21%. It also occurs extensively in the combined form in the Ear

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Class 9 / Biology / Natural Resources / Ozone Layer

OZONE LAYER - FORMATION, USES AND HARMFUL EFFECTS

OZONE LAYER - FORMATION, USES AND HARMFUL EFFECTS Elemental oxygen is normally found in the form of a diatomic molecule. However, in the upper reaches of the atmosphere, a molecule containing three

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Class 8 / English / Macavity : The Mystery Cat / Macavity : The Mystery Cat

MACAVITY: THE MYSTERY CAT

MACAVITY: THE MYSTERY CAT - T.S. ELIOT (Poet) Before you read Do you have a pet cat? Have you ever noticed anything mysterious about it? It is not easy to say whether every cat is a mystery, but

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Class 9 / Biology / Improvement In Food Resources / Introduction to Improvement in Food Resources

INTRODUCTION

INTRODUCTION We know that all living organisms need food. Food supplies proteins, carbohydrates, fats, vitamins and minerals, all of which we require for body development, growth, and health. Both

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Class 9 / Biology / Improvement In Food Resources / Improvement in Crop Yields

TYPES OF CROP YIELDS

TYPES OF CROP YIELDS Cereals such as wheat, rice, maize, millets, and sorghum provide us carbohydrates for energy requirements. Pulses like gram (chana), pea (matar), black gram (urad), green gram

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Class 9 / Biology / Improvement In Food Resources / Improvement in Crop Yields

CROP VARIETY IMPROVEMENT

CROP VARIETY IMPROVEMENT This approach depends on finding a crop variety that can give a good yield. Varieties or strains of crops can be selected by breeding for various useful characteristics suc

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Class 9 / Biology / Improvement In Food Resources / Crop Production Management

NUTRIENT MANAGEMENT

NUTRIENT MANAGEMENT In India, as in many other agriculture-based countries, farming ranges from small to very large farms. Different farmers thus have more or less land, money, and access to inform

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Class 9 / Biology / Improvement In Food Resources / Crop Production Management

MANURE

MANURE Manure contains large quantities of organic matter and also supplies small quantities of nutrients to the soil. Manure is prepared by the decomposition of animal excreta and plant waste. Man

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Class 9 / Biology / Improvement In Food Resources / Crop Production Management

FERTILIZERS

FERTILIZERS Fertilizers are commercially produced plant nutrients. Fertilizers supply nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium. They are used to ensure good vegetative growth (leaves, branches, and flow

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Class 9 / Biology / Improvement In Food Resources / Crop Production Management

IRRIGATION

IRRIGATION Most agriculture in India is rain-fed, that is, the success of crops in most areas is dependent on timely monsoons and sufficient rainfall spread through most of the growing season. Henc

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Class 9 / Biology / Improvement In Food Resources / Crop Production Management

CROPPING PATTERNS

CROPPING PATTERNS Different ways of growing crops can be used to give maximum benefit. Mixed cropping is growing two or more crops simultaneously on the same piece of land, for example, wheat +

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Class 9 / Biology / Improvement In Food Resources / Crop Protection Management

STORAGE OF GRAINS

STORAGE OF GRAINS Field crops are infested by a large number of weeds, insect pests and diseases. If weeds and pests are not controlled at the appropriate time then they can damage the crops so muc

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Class 9 / Biology / Improvement In Food Resources / Animal Husbandry

CATTLE FARMING

CATTLE FARMING Animal husbandry is the scientific management of animal livestock. It includes various aspects such as feeding, breeding and disease control. Animal-based farming includes cattle, go

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Class 9 / Biology / Improvement In Food Resources / Animal Husbandry

POULTRY FARMING

POULTRY FARMING Poultry farming is undertaken to raise domestic fowl for egg production and chicken meat. Therefore, improved poultry breeds are developed and farmed to produce layers for eggs

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Class 9 / Biology / Improvement In Food Resources / Animal Husbandry

EGG AND BROILER PRODUCTION

EGG AND BROILER PRODUCTION Broiler chickens are fed with vitamin-rich supplementary feed for good growth rate and better feed efficiency. Care is taken to avoid mortality and to maintain feathering

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Class 9 / Biology / Improvement In Food Resources / Animal Husbandry

FISH PRODUCTION - MARINE FISHERIES

FISH PRODUCTION -  MARINE FISHERIES Fish is a cheap source of animal protein for our food. Fish production includes the finned true fish as well as shellfish such as prawns and molluscs. There

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Class 9 / Biology / Improvement In Food Resources / Animal Husbandry

FISH PRODUCTION - INLAND FISHERIES

FISH PRODUCTION -  INLAND FISHERIES Fresh water resources include canals, ponds, reservoirs and rivers. Brackish water resources, where seawater and fresh water mix together, such as estu

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Class 9 / Biology / Improvement In Food Resources / Animal Husbandry

BEE-KEEPING

BEE-KEEPING Honey is widely used and therefore bee- keeping for making honey has become an agricultural enterprise. Since bee-keeping needs low investments, farmers use it as an additional income g

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Class 9 / Physics / Motion / Introduction to Motion

REST AND MOTION

REST AND MOTION In everyday life, we see some objects at rest and others in motion. Birds fly, fish swim, blood flows through veins and arteries, and cars move. Atoms, molecules, planets, stars,&nb

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Class 9 / Physics / Motion / Describing Motion

MOTION ALONG A STRAIGHT LINE

MOTION ALONG A STRAIGHT LINE We describe the location of an object by specifying a reference point. Let us understand this by an example. Let us assume that a school in a village is 2 km north of t

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Class 9 / Physics / Motion / Describing Motion

UNIFORM MOTION AND NON-UNIFORM MOTION

UNIFORM MOTION AND NON-UNIFORM MOTION Consider an object moving along a straight line. Let it travel 5 m in the first second,5 m more in the next second, 5 m in the third second, and 5 m in the fou

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Class 9 / Physics / Motion / Measuring the Rate of Motion

SPEED WITH DIRECTION

SPEED WITH DIRECTION Figure 8.2(a): Figure 8.2(b): Look at the situations given in Fig. 8.2. If the bowling speed is 143 kmh–1 in Fig. 8.2(a) what does it mean? What do you unde

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Class 9 / Physics / Motion / Rate of Change of Velocity

ACCELERATION

ACCELERATION During the uniform motion of an object along a straight line, the velocity remains constant with time. In this case, the change in velocity of the object for any time interval is zero.

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Class 9 / Physics / Motion / Graphical Representation of Motion

DISTANCE-TIME GRAPHS

DISTANCE-TIME GRAPHS Graphs provide a convenient method to present basic information about a variety of events. For example, in the telecast of a one-day cricket match, vertical bar graphs show the

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Class 9 / Physics / Motion / Graphical Representation of Motion

VELOCITY-TIME GRAPHS

VELOCITY-TIME GRAPHS Velocity-Time graph for object moving with uniform velocity The variation in velocity with time for an object moving in a straight line can be represented by a velocity-time

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Class 9 / Physics / Motion / Equations of Motion by Graphical Method

EQUATION FOR VELOCITY- TIME RELATION

INTRODUCTION TO EQUATIONS OF MOTION When an object moves along a straight line with uniform acceleration, it is possible to relate its velocity, acceleration during motion, and the distance covered

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Class 9 / Physics / Motion / Equations of Motion by Graphical Method

EQUATION FOR POSITION- TIME RELATION

EQUATION FOR POSITION-TIME RELATION Let us consider that the object has travelled a distance s in time t under uniform acceleration a. In Fig. 8.8, the distance travelled by the object is obtained

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Class 9 / Physics / Motion / Equations of Motion by Graphical Method

EQUATION FOR POSITION-VELOCITY RELATION

EQUATION FOR POSITION-VELOCITY RELATION From the velocity-time graph shown in Fig. 8.8, the distance s travelled by the object in time t, moving under uniform acceleration a is given by the area en

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Class 9 / Physics / Motion / Uniform Circular Motion

UNIFORM CIRCULAR MOTION

UNIFORM CIRCULAR MOTION When the velocity of an object changes, we say that the object is accelerating. The change in the velocity could be due to change in its magnitude or the direction of the mo

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Class 9 / Physics / Force and Laws of Motion / Introduction to Force

WHAT IS FORCE?

WHAT IS FORCE? In the previous chapter, we described the motion of an object along a straight line in terms of its position, velocity, and acceleration. We saw that such a motion can be uniform or

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Class 9 / Physics / Force and Laws of Motion / Introduction to Force

BALANCED AND UNBALANCED FORCES

BALANCED AND UNBALANCED FORCES Fig. 9.3 shows a wooden block on a horizontal table. Two strings X and Y are tied to the two opposite faces of the block as shown. If we apply a force by pulling the

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Class 9 / Physics / Force and Laws of Motion / First Law of Motion

GALILEO AND NEWTON RESEARCH

GALILEO AND NEWTON RESEARCH By observing the motion of objects on an inclined plane Galileo deduced that objects move with a constant speed when no force acts on them. He observed that when a marbl

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Class 9 / Physics / Force and Laws of Motion / First Law of Motion

LAW OF INERTIA

LAW OF INERTIA The first law of motion is stated as: An object remains in a state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line unless compelled to change that state by an applied force. &n

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Class 9 / Physics / Force and Laws of Motion / First Law of Motion

INERTIA AND MASS

INERTIA AND MASS All the examples and activities are given so far illustrate that there is a resistance offered by an object to change its state of motion. If it is at rest it tends to remain at re

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Class 9 / Physics / Force and Laws of Motion / Second Law Of Motion

EXPLANATION OF SECOND LAW OF MOTION

SECOND LAW OF MOTION The first law of motion indicates that when an unbalanced external force acts on an object, its velocity changes, that is, the object gets an acceleration. We would now li

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Class 9 / Physics / Force and Laws of Motion / Second Law Of Motion

MATHEMATICAL FORMULATION OF SECOND LAW OF MOTION

MATHEMATICAL FORMULATION OF SECOND LAW   Suppose an object of mass, m is moving along a straight line with an initial velocity, u. It is uniformly accelerated to velocity, v in time, t by t

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Class 9 / Physics / Force and Laws of Motion / Third Law Of Motion

EXPLANATION OF THIRD LAW OF MOTION

EXPLANATION OF THIRD LAW OF MOTION   The first two laws of motion tell us how an applied force changes the motion and provide us with a method of determining the force. The third law of mot

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Class 9 / Physics / Force and Laws of Motion / Conservation of Momentum

EXPLANATION OF CONSERVATION OF MOMENTUM

EXPLANATION OF CONSERVATION OF MOMENTUM Suppose two objects (two balls A and B, say) of masses mA and mB are travelling in the same direction along a straight line at different velocities

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Class 8 / English / The Last Bargain / The Last Bargain

THE LAST BARGAIN

THE LAST BARGAIN - RABINDRANATH TAGORE (Poet) Before you read A bargain is an agreement in which both parties promise to do something for each other. Someone is looking for work, waiting to be h

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Class 8 / English / The School Boy / The School Boy

THE SCHOOL BOY

THE SCHOOL BOY - WILLIAM BLAKE (Poet) Before you read The schoolboy in the poem is not a happy child. What mak him unhappy? Why does he compare himself to a bird that liv in a cage, or a plant t

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Class 8 / English / When I set out for Lyonnesse / When I set out for Lyonnesse

WHEN I SET OUT FOR LYONNESSE

WHEN I SET OUT FOR LYONNESSE - THOMAS HARDY (Poet) Before you read As a young apprentice architect, British poet and novelist Thomas Hardy once visited a parish to supervise the restoration of a

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Class 8 / English / On the Grasshopper and Cricket / On the Grasshopper and Cricket

ON THE GRASSHOPPER AND CRICKET

ON THE GRASSHOPPER AND CRICKET - JOHN KEATS (Poet) Before you read Unlike The Ant and the Cricket, which tells a story, this is a nature poem. In it, the grasshopper and cricket do not appear as

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Class 9 / Physics / Gravitation / Introduction to Gravitation

INTRODUCTION

INTRODUCTION In Chapters 8 and 9, we have learnt about the motion of objects and force as the cause of motion. We have learnt that a force is needed to change the speed or the direction of motion o

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Class 9 / Physics / Gravitation / Gravitation

WHAT IS GRAVITATION?

WHAT IS GRAVITATION? We know that the moon goes around the earth. An object when thrown upwards, reaches a certain height and then falls downwards. It is said that when Newton was sitting under a t

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Class 9 / Physics / Gravitation / Gravitation

UNIVERSAL LAW OF GRAVITATION

UNIVERSAL LAW OF GRAVITATION Every object in the universe attracts every other object with a force which is proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of t

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Class 9 / Physics / Gravitation / Gravitation

IMPORTANCE OF UNIVERSAL LAW OF GRAVITATION

IMPORTANCE OF UNIVERSAL LAW OF GRAVITATION The universal law of gravitation successfully explained several phenomena which were believed to be unconnected: i.   the force that binds us

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Class 9 / Physics / Gravitation / Free Fall

ACCELERATION DUE TO GRAVITY(G)

Acceleration due to Gravity (G) Let us try to understand the meaning of free fall by performing this activity.   Activity 10.2: ( throwing a stone upward ) *   Take a s

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Class 9 / Physics / Gravitation / Free Fall

CALCULATING VALUE OF “G”

CALCULATING VALUE OF “G” To calculate the value of g, we should put the values of G, M, and R in Eq. (10.9), namely, universal gravitational constant, G = 6.7\(\times\) 10&nda

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Class 9 / Physics / Gravitation / Free Fall

MOTION OF OBJECTS UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF GRAVITATIONAL FORCE OF THE EARTH

MOTION OF OBJECTS UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF GRAVITATIONAL FORCE OF THE EARTH Let us do an activity to understand whether all objects hollow or solid, big or small, will fall from a height at the

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Class 9 / Physics / Gravitation / Mass and Weight

MASS AND WEIGHT

MASS AND WEIGHT Mass We have learnt in the previous chapter that the mass of an object is the measure of its inertia (section 9.3). We have also learnt that greater the mass, the greater is the

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Class 9 / Physics / Gravitation / Mass and Weight

WEIGHT OF AN OBJECT ON THE MOON

WEIGHT OF AN OBJECT ON THE MOON We have learnt that the weight of an object on the earth is the force with which the earth attracts the object. In the same way, the weight of an object on

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Class 9 / Physics / Gravitation / Thrust and Pressure

EXPLANATION OF THRUST AND PRESSURE

EXPLANATION OF THRUST AND PRESSURE Have you ever wondered why a camel can run in a desert easily? Why an army tank weighing more than a thousand tonne rests upon a continuous chain? Why a truck or

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Class 9 / Physics / Gravitation / Thrust and Pressure

PRESSURE IN FLUIDS

PRESSURE IN FLUIDS All liquids and gases are fluids. A solid exerts pressure on a surface due to its weight. Similarly, fluids have weight, and they also exert pressure on the base and walls o

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Class 9 / Physics / Gravitation / Thrust and Pressure

BUOYANCY

BUOYANCY Have you ever had a swim in a pool and felt lighter? Have you ever drawn water from a well and felt that the bucket of water is heavier when it is out of the water? Have you ever wondered

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Class 9 / Physics / Gravitation / Thrust and Pressure

WHY OBJECTS FLOAT OR SINK WHEN PLACED ON THE SURFACE OF WATER?

WHY OBJECTS FLOAT OR SINK WHEN PLACED ON THE SURFACE OF WATER? Let us do the following activities to arrive at an answer for the above question.   Activity 10.5: *  Take a b

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Class 9 / Physics / Gravitation / Archimedes’ Principle

EXPLANATION OF ARCHIMEDES' PRINCIPLE

EXPLANATION OF ARCHIMEDES’ PRINCIPLE Activity 10.7: *   Take a piece of stone and tie it to one end of a rubber string or a spring balance. *   Suspend the stone by

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Class 9 / Physics / Gravitation / Relative Density

EXPLANATION OF RELATIVE DENSITY

EXPLANATION OF RELATIVE DENSITY As you know, the density of a substance is defined as the mass of a unit volume. The unit of density is kilogram per meter cube (kgm–3). The density of a given

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Class 9 / Physics / Work and Energy / Introduction to Work and Energy

INTRODUCTION

INTRODUCTION In the previous few chapters, we have talked about ways of describing the motion of objects, the cause of motion, and gravitation. Another concept that helps us understand and int

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Class 9 / Physics / Work and Energy / Work

NOT MUCH ‘WORK’ IN SPITE OF WORKING HARD!

NOT MUCH ‘WORK’ IN SPITE OF WORKING HARD! What is work? There is a difference in the way we use the term ‘work’ in day-to-day life and the way we use it in science. To make

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Class 9 / Physics / Work and Energy / Work

SCIENTIFIC CONCEPTION OF WORK

SCIENTIFIC CONCEPTION OF WORK To understand the way we view work and define work from the point of view of science, let us consider some situations: Push a pebble lying on a surface. The pebble

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Class 9 / Physics / Work and Energy / Work

WORK DONE BY A CONSTANT FORCE

WORK DONE BY A CONSTANT FORCE How is work defined in science? To understand this, we shall first consider the case when the force is acting in the direction of displacement.   Let a cons

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Class 9 / Physics / Work and Energy / Energy

WHAT IS ENERGY?

WHAT IS ENERGY? Life is impossible without energy. The demand for energy is ever-increasing. Where do we get energy from? The Sun is the biggest natural source of energy to us. Many of our energy s

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Class 9 / Physics / Work and Energy / Energy

FORMS OF ENERGY – KINETIC ENERGY

FORMS OF ENERGY – KINETIC ENERGY Luckily the world we live in provides energy in many different forms. The various forms include mechanical energy (potential energy + kinetic energy), he

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Class 9 / Physics / Work and Energy / Energy

FORMS OF ENERGY – POTENTIAL ENERGY

FORMS OF ENERGY – POTENTIAL ENERGY Activity 11.8: *  Take a rubber band. *  Hold it at one end and pull from the other. The band stretches. *  Release t

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Class 9 / Physics / Work and Energy / Energy

POTENTIAL ENERGY OF AN OBJECT AT A HEIGHT

POTENTIAL ENERGY OF AN OBJECT AT A HEIGHT An object increases its energy when raised through a height. This is because work is done on it against gravity while it is being raised. The energy presen

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Class 9 / Physics / Work and Energy / Energy

ARE VARIOUS ENERGY FORMS INTERCONVERTIBLE?

ARE VARIOUS ENERGY FORMS INTERCONVERTIBLE? Can we convert energy from one form to another? We find in nature a number of instances of conversion of energy from one form to another   Acti

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Class 9 / Physics / Work and Energy / Energy

LAW OF CONSERVATION OF ENERGY

LAW OF CONSERVATION OF ENERGY Activity 11.13: *  Sit in small groups. *  Discuss the various ways of energy conversion in nature. *  Discuss following questio

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Class 9 / Physics / Work and Energy / Rate of Doing Work

WHAT IS MEANT BY RATE OF DOING WORK?

WHAT IS MEANT BY RATE OF DOING WORK? Do all of us work at the same rate? Do machines consume or transfer energy at the same rate? Agents that transfer energy do work at different rates. Let us unde

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Class 9 / Physics / Work and Energy / Rate of Doing Work

COMMERCIAL UNIT OF ENERGY

COMMERCIAL UNIT OF ENERGY The unit joule is too small and hence is inconvenient to express large quantities of energy. We use a bigger unit of energy called kilowatt hour (kW h).   What

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Class 9 / Physics / Sound / Introduction of Sound

INTRODUCTION

INTRODUCTION Everyday we hear sounds from various sources like humans, birds, bells, machines, vehicles, televisions, radios etc. Sound is a form of energy which produces a sensation of hearing in

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Class 9 / Physics / Sound / Production of Sound

HOW IS SOUND PRODUCED?

HOW IS SOUND PRODUCED? Activity 12.1: ( vibration of tuning fork ) *   Take a tuning fork and set it vibrating by striking its prong on a rubber pad. Bring it near your ear. *  

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Class 9 / Physics / Sound / Propagation of Sound

HOW SOUND IS PROPAGATED

HOW SOUND IS PROPAGATED? Sound is produced by vibrating objects. The matter or substance through which sound is transmitted is called a medium. It can be solid, liquid or gas. Sound moves through a

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Class 9 / Physics / Sound / Propagation of Sound

SOUND NEEDS A MEDIUM TO TRAVEL

SOUND NEEDS A MEDIUM TO TRAVEL Sound is a mechanical wave and needs a material medium like air, water, steel etc. for its propagation. It cannot travel through vacuum, which can be demonstrated by

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Class 9 / Physics / Sound / Propagation of Sound

SOUND WAVES ARE LONGITUDINAL WAVES

SOUNDWAVES ARE LONGITUDINAL WAVES Activity 12.4: *  Take a slinky. Ask your friend to hold one end. You hold the other end. *  Now stretch the slinky as shown in Fig. 12.7 (a). Then

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Class 9 / Physics / Sound / Propagation of Sound

CHARACTERISTICS OF A SOUND WAVE

CHARACTERISTICS OF A SOUND WAVE We can describe a sound wave by its *   Density/pressure *   Wavelength and *   speed   Characteristics of sou

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Class 9 / Physics / Sound / Propagation of Sound

SPEED OF SOUND IN DIFFERENT MEDIA

SPEED OF SOUND IN DIFFERENT MEDIA Sound propagates through a medium at a finite speed. The sound of a thunder is heard a little later than the flash of light is seen.   So, we can make o

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Class 9 / Physics / Sound / Reflection of Sound

ECHO

ECHO Sound bounces off a solid or a liquid like a rubber ball bounces off a wall. Like light, sound gets reflected at the surface of a solid or liquid and follows the same laws of reflection as you

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Class 9 / Physics / Sound / Reflection of Sound

REVERBERATION

REVERBERATION A sound created in a big hall will persist by repeated reflection from the walls until it is reduced to a value where it is no longer audible. The repeated reflection that results in

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Class 9 / Physics / Sound / Reflection of Sound

USES OF MULTIPLE REFLECTION OF SOUND

USES OF MULTIPLE REFLECTION OF SOUND 1.  Megaphones or loudhailers, horns, musical instruments such as trumpets and shehanais, are all designed to send sound in a particular direction without

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Class 9 / Physics / Sound / Range of Hearing

AUDIBLE RANGE OF SOUND

AUDIBLE RANGE OF SOUND The audible range of sound for human beings extends from about 20 Hz to 20000 Hz (one Hz = one cycle/s). Children under the age of five and some animals, such as dogs ca

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Class 9 / Physics / Sound / Applications of Ultrasound

DIFFERENT APPLICATIONS OF ULTRASOUND

DIFFERENT APPLICATIONS OF ULTRASOUND Ultrasounds are high-frequency waves. Ultrasounds are able to travel along well-defined paths even in the presence of obstacles. Ultrasounds are used extensivel

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Class 9 / Physics / Sound / Applications of Ultrasound

SONAR

SONAR The acronym SONAR stands for SOund Navigation And Ranging. Sonar is a device that uses ultrasonic waves to measure the distance, direction, and speed of underwater objects. How does the sonar

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Class 9 / Physics / Sound / Structure of Human Ear

HUMAN EAR AND ITS STRUCTURE

HUMAN EAR AND ITS STRUCTURE How do we hear? We are able to hear with the help of an extremely sensitive device called the ear. It allows us to convert pressure variations in the air with audible f

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Class 7 / English / The Squirrel / The Squirrel

THE SQUIRREL

THE SQUIRREL - MILDRED BOWERS ARMSTRONG (Poet) Before you read You may have seen a squirrel sitting on the ground eating a nut. What did it look like? Here is a poet’s description of just

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Class 8 / Physics / Force and Pressure / Introduction of Force

WHAT IS FORCE?

WHAT IS FORCE? In Class VII, you have learned how objects move. Do you recall how we can decide whether an object is moving faster than the other? What does the distance move by an object in unit t

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Class 8 / Physics / Force and Pressure / Force – A Push or a Pull

FORCE – A PUSH OR A PULL

FORCE – A PUSH OR A PULL Actions like picking, opening, shutting, kicking, hitting, lifting, flicking, pushing, pulling are often used to describe certain tasks. Each of these actions usually

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Class 8 / Physics / Force and Pressure / Forces are due to an Interaction

HOW FORCES ACT DUE TO AN INTERACTION?

HOW FORCES ACT DUE TO AN INTERACTION? Suppose a man is standing behind a stationary car [Fig.11.2(a)]. Will the car move due to his presence? Suppose the man now begins to push the car [Fig.11.2(b)

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Class 8 / Physics / Force and Pressure / Exploring Forces

MORE ABOUT FORCES

MORE ABOUT FORCES Let us try to learn more about forces.   Activity 11.2: ( Pushing a box or table ) *   Choose a heavy object like a table or a box, which you can move only

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Class 8 / Physics / Force and Pressure / A Force can Change the State of Motion

EFFECT OF FORCE ON STATE OF MOTION

EFFECT OF FORCE ON STATE OF MOTION Let us now find out what happens when a force acts on an object.   Effect of force on an object Force moves the object at rest It increases or

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Class 8 / Physics / Force and Pressure / Force can Change the Shape of an Object

EFFECT OF FORCE ON SHAPE OF AN OBJECT

EFFECT OF FORCE ON SHAPE OF AN OBJECT   Activity 11.5: *  Some situations have been given in Column 1 of Table 11.2 in which objects are not free to move. Column 2 of the Table sugg

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Class 8 / Physics / Force and Pressure / Contact Forces

MUSCULAR FORCE

MUSCULAR FORCE Can you push or lift a book lying on a table without touching it? Can you lift a bucket of water without holding it? Generally, to apply a force on an object, your body has to be in

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Class 8 / Physics / Force and Pressure / Contact Forces

FRICTION

FRICTION Recall some of your experiences. A ball rolling along the ground gradually slows down and finally comes to rest. When we stop pedalling a bicycle, it gradually slows down and finally comes

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Class 8 / Physics / Force and Pressure / Non-contact Forces

MAGNETIC FORCE

MAGNETIC FORCE Activity 11.6: ( Observing magnetic force ) *   Take a pair of bar magnets. *   Place the longer side of one of the magnets over three round shaped pe

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Class 8 / Physics / Force and Pressure / Non-contact Forces

ELECTROSTATIC FORCE

ELECTROSTATIC FORCE Activity 11.7: ( observing electrostatic force ) *   Take a plastic straw and cut it into nearly two equal pieces. *   Suspend one of the pieces from

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Class 8 / Physics / Force and Pressure / Non-contact Forces

GRAVITATIONAL FORCE

GRAVITATIONAL FORCE You know that a coin or a pen falls to the ground when it slips off your hand. Leaves and fruits also fall to the ground when they get detached from the plant. Have you ever won

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Class 8 / Physics / Force and Pressure / Pressure

WHAT IS PRESSURE?

WHAT IS PRESSURE? You have learned in Class VII that strong winds during a storm or a cyclone can blow away even the roof-tops. You also learned that winds and cyclones are caused by differences in

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Class 8 / Physics / Force and Pressure / Pressure Exerted by Liquids and Gases

HOW PRESSURE IS EXERTED BY LIQUID AND GASES?

HOW PRESSURE IS EXERTED BY LIQUID AND GASES? Activity 11.8: ( pressure depends height of water ) *   Take a transparent glass tube or a plastic pipe. The length of the pipe/ tube shoul

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Class 8 / Physics / Force and Pressure / Atmospheric Pressure

WHAT IS ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE?

WHAT IS ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE? You know that there is air all around us. This envelop of air is known as the atmosphere. The atmospheric air extends up to many kilometers above the surface of t

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Class 8 / Physics / Friction / Introduction to Friction

REAL LIFE EXAMPLES OF FRICTION

WHAT IS FRICTION?   REAL-LIFE EXAMPLES OF FRICTION You might have seen a driver of a car or a truck slowing down the vehicle at a traffic signal. You, too slow down your bicycl

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Class 8 / Physics / Friction / Introduction to Friction

FORCE OF FRICTION

FORCE OF FRICTION Activity 12.1: *   Gently push a book on a table [Fig. 12.2(a)]. *   You observe that it stops after moving for some distance. *   Repeat

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Class 8 / Physics / Friction / Introduction to Friction

FACTORS AFFECTING FRICTION

FACTORS AFFECTING FRICTION Activity 12.2: *   Tie a string around a brick. Pull the brick by a spring balance (Fig. 12.3). *   You need to apply some force. Note down the

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Class 8 / Physics / Friction / Friction: A Necessary Evil

WHY FRICTION IS NECESSARY?

WHY FRICTION IS NECESSARY? Recall now some of your experiences. Is it easier to hold a kulhar (earthen pot) or a glass tumbler? Suppose the outer surface of the tumbler is greasy or has a thin laye

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Class 8 / Physics / Friction / Increasing and Reducing Friction

HOW FRICTION IS INCREASED OR DECREASED?

HOW FRICTION IS INCREASED OR DECREASED? As you have seen in the previous section, friction is desirable in some situations. Have you ever thought why the sole of your shoe is grooved [Fig. 12.11

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Class 8 / Physics / Friction / Increasing and Reducing Friction

WHEELS REDUCE FRICTION

WHEELS REDUCE FRICTION You must have seen attaches and other pieces of luggage fitted with rollers. Even a child can pull such pieces of luggage (Fig. 12.14). Why is it so? Let us find out. &nbs

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Class 8 / Physics / Friction / Fluid Friction

WHAT IS FLUID FRICTION?

FLUID FRICTION You know that air is very light and thin. Yet it exerts a frictional force on objects moving through it. Similarly, water and other liquids exert a force of friction when objects mov

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Class 7 / English / Gopal And The Hilsa Fish / Gopal And The Hilsa Fish

GOPAL AND THE HILSA FISH

Before you read Have you ever read a comic book? A comic book contains stories told mainly through pictures. STORY – GOPAL AND THE HILSA FISH

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Class 7 / English / The Ashes That Made Trees Bloom / The Ashes That Made Trees Bloom

THE ASHES THAT MADE TREES BLOOM

Before you read This is a story about an honest and hardworking old couple and their pet dog. The neighbours are troublesome, and the dog dies a sad death. The spirit of the dog gives solace and su

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Class 7 / English / Quality / Quality

QUALITY

Before you read Can a shoemaker be called an artist? Yes, if he has the same skill and pride in his trade as any other artist and the same respect for it too. Mr. Gessler, a German shoemaker settle

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Class 7 / English / Expert Detectives / Expert Detectives

EXPERT DETECTIVES

Before you read Nishad, a boy of seven (also called Seven because his name means the seventh note on the musical scale) and his ten-year-old sister Maya are very curious about one Mr Nath. Then one

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Class 7 / English / The Invention of Vita-Wonk / The Invention of Vita-Wonk

THE INVENTION OF VITA-WONK

Before you read This story is taken from Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator. Mr. Willy Wonka begins by inventing Wonka- Vite, which makes people younger. But Wonka- Vite is too stron

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Class 7 / English / Fire: Friend and Foe / Fire: Friend and Foe

FIRE: FRIEND AND FOE

Before you read Fire is both useful and dangerous. What is fire? How did we discover it? How do we control it? STORY – FIRE: FRIEND AND FOE Part I Early man didn’t know what fi

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Class 7 / English / A Bicycle in Good Repair / A Bicycle in Good Repair

A BICYCLE IN GOOD REPAIR

Before you read If you wish to go on a long bicycle ride, the bicycle should be in good condition. If possible, an expert mechanic should overhaul it. But what happens if the machine has a will of

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Class 7 / English / The Story of Cricket / The Story of Cricket

THE STORY OF CRICKET

Before you read Sport is an integral part of a healthy life. It is one way in which we amuse ourselves, compete with each other and stay fit. Among the various sports such as hockey, football and t

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Class 7 / English / The Rebel / The Rebel

THE REBEL

THE REBEL - D. J. ENRIGHT (Poet) Before you read Do you know anyone who always disagrees with you or your friends, or likes to do the opposite of what everyone thinks they should do? Think of a

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Class 7 / English / The Shed / The Shed

THE SHED

THE SHED - FRANK FLYNN (Poet) Before you read Do you know what a shed is? A cowshed, a tool shed a woodshed, for example. It’s a small room, away from the main house, for storing or k

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Class 7 / English / Chivvy / Chivvy

CHIVVY

CHIVVY - MICHAEL ROSEN (Poet) Before you read Ask yourself as well as your partner: Do you like to be always told what to do or not to do?  Do grown-ups do this, in your experienc

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Class 7 / English / Trees / Trees

TREES

TREES - SHIRLEY BAUER (Poet) Before you read Take a few minutes to tell one another the names of trees that you know or have heard of. Mention the things trees give us. Then read this poem about

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Class 7 / English / Mystery of the Talking Fan / Mystery of the Talking Fan

MYSTERY OF THE TALKING FAN

MYSTERY OF THE TALKING FAN - MAUDE RUBIN (Poet) Before you read Is there a ceiling fan in the room where you are sitting now? Is the fan quiet or noisy? If it is noisy, you may be sure it is a d

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Class 7 / English / Dad and the Cat and the Tree / Dad and the Cat and the Tree

DAD AND THE CAT AND THE TREE

DAD AND THE CAT AND THE TREE - KIT WRIGHT (Poet) ( Story Video ) Before you read Have you ever seen a cat climbing a tree? Sometimes a cat may climb too high and get stuck in the tree. The po

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Class 7 / English / Meadow Surprises / Meadow Surprises

MEADOW SURPRISES

MEADOW SURPRISES - LOIS BRANDT PHILLIPS (Poet) Before you read Walk across a green field, a park, or even under a clump of trees, and you will notice many wonderful things. What are some of the

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Class 7 / English / Garden Snake / Garden Snake

GARDEN SNAKE

GARDEN SNAKE - MURIEL L. SONNE (Poet) Before you read Have you ever seen a snake fighting a mongoose, or getting into a hole, or swimming in the river? Everyone, almost everyone, believes that s

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Class 6 / English / Who did Patrick’s Homework / Who Did Patrick’s Homework?

WHO DID PATRICK’S HOMEWORK?

Before you read Activity: Do you like homework? Do you do it yourself, or do you get help? What homework do you usually have? STORY – WHO DID PATRICK’S HOMEWORK? – CAROL MOO

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Class 6 / English / How The Dog Found Himself A New Master / How The Dog Found Himself A New Master!

HOW THE DOG FOUND HIMSELF A NEW MASTER!

Before you read You may know that the dog and the wolf are closely related. You may also know something about how over the centuries, human beings have domesticated and tamed wild animals. Here is

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Class 8 / Biology / Conservation of Plants and Animals / Deforestation and Its Causes

DEFORESTATION AND ITS CAUSES

DEFORESTATION AND ITS CAUSES We saw in Class VII that Paheli and Boojho had visited the forest along with Professor Ahmad and Tibu. They were eager to share their experiences with their classm

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Class 8 / Biology / Conservation of Plants and Animals / Deforestation and Its Causes

CONSEQUENCES OF DEFORESTATION

CONSEQUENCES OF DEFORESTATION   Paheli and Boojho recalled the consequences of deforestation. They remembered that deforestation increases the temperature and pollution level on the earth.

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Class 8 / Biology / Conservation of Plants and Animals / Conservation of Forest and Wildlife

HOW CAN WE CONSERVE FOREST AND WILDLIFE?

HOW CAN WE CONSERVE FORESTS AND WILDLIFE? Having become aware of the effects of deforestation, Paheli and Boojho are worried. They go to Professor Ahmad and ask him how forests and wildlife can be

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Class 8 / Biology / Conservation of Plants and Animals / Conservation of Forest and Wildlife

BIOSPHERE RESERVE

BIOSPHERE RESERVE Children along with Professor Ahmad and Madhavji enter the biosphere reserve area. Madhavji explains that biosphere reserves are the areas meant for the conservation of biodiversi

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Class 8 / Biology / Conservation of Plants and Animals / Flora and Fauna

WHAT IS FLORA AND FAUNA

WHAT IS FLORA AND FAUNA? As the children walk around the biosphere reserve they appreciate the green wealth of the forest. They are very happy to see tall teak trees and animals inside the for

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Class 8 / Biology / Conservation of Plants and Animals / Endemic Species

WHAT ARE ENDEMIC SPECIES?

WHAT ARE ENDEMIC SPECIES? Soon the group quietly enters the deep forest. Children are surprised to see a very big squirrel. This squirrel has a big fluffy tail. They are very curious to know about

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Class 8 / Biology / Conservation of Plants and Animals / Sanctuary and Parks

WILDLIFE SANCTUARY

WILDLIFE SANCTUARY Soon Paheli sees a board with " Pachmarhi Wildlife Sanctuary " written on it.   Professor Ahmad explains that killing (poaching) or capturing animals, i

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Class 8 / Biology / Conservation of Plants and Animals / Sanctuary and Parks

NATIONAL PARK

NATIONAL PARKS On the roadside, there was another board on which was written " Satpura National Park ".   Children are now eager to go there. Madhavji tells them that thes

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Class 8 / Biology / Conservation of Plants and Animals / Sanctuary and Parks

RED DATA BOOK

RED DATA BOOK   Professor Ahmad explains about Red Data Book to the children. He tells them that Red Data Book is the sourcebook that keeps a record of all the endangered animals and plants

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Class 8 / Biology / Conservation of Plants and Animals / Sanctuary and Parks

MIGRATION

MIGRATION The excursion party then enters deeper into the forest under the guidance of Madhavji. They sit near the Tawa.    Reservoir to relax for some time. Paheli observes some of

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Class 8 / Biology / Conservation of Plants and Animals / Recycling of Paper

SAVE PAPER – SAVE TREES

SAVE PAPER – SAVE TREES Professor Ahmad draws the attention of the children to another cause of deforestation. He tells them that it takes 17 full-grown trees to make one tonne of paper. Ther

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Class 8 / Biology / Conservation of Plants and Animals / Reforestation

REFORESTATION – WAY TO LIFE

REFORESTATION – WAY TO LIFE Professor Ahmad suggests that the answer to deforestation is reforestation. Reforestation is the restocking of the destroyed forests by planting new trees. The pla

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Class 8 / Biology / Cell- Structure and Function / Introduction of The Cell

INTRODUCTION AND DISCOVERY OF THE CELL

INTRODUCTION AND DISCOVERY OF CELL You have already learned that things around us are either living or non-living. Further, you may recall that all living organisms carry out certain basic fun

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Class 8 / Biology / Cell- Structure and Function / The Cell

THE CELL- BASIC STRUCTURAL UNIT

THE CELL - BASIC STRUCTURAL UNIT Both, bricks in a building and cells in the living organisms, are basic structural units [Fig. 8.2(a), (b)]. The buildings, though built of similar bricks, have dif

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Class 8 / Biology / Cell- Structure and Function / Cell Number, Shape and Size

NUMBER OF CELLS

NUMBER OF CELLS How do scientists observe and study living cells? They use microscopes that magnify objects. Stains (dyes) are used to color parts of the cell to study the detailed structure.

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Class 8 / Biology / Cell- Structure and Function / Cell Number, Shape and Size

SHAPE OF CELLS

SHAPE OF CELLS Refer to Fig. 8.3 (a). How do you define the shape of the amoeba in the figure? You may say that the shape appears irregular. In fact, the amoeba has no definite shape, unlike other

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Class 8 / Biology / Cell- Structure and Function / Cell Number, Shape and Size

SIZE OF CELLS

SIZE OF CELLS The size of cells in living organisms may be as small as a millionth of a metre (micrometre or micron) or maybe as large as a few centimetres. However, most of the cells are

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Class 8 / Biology / Cell- Structure and Function / Cell Structure and Function

STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION OF CELL

STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION OF CELL You have learned that each living organism has many organs. You have studied in Class VII about the digestive organs which together constitute the digestive system. E

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Class 8 / Biology / Cell- Structure and Function / Parts of the Cell

CELL MEMBRANE

CELL MEMBRANE The basic components of a cell are (Fig. 8.7).  1. Cell membrane, 2. Cytoplasm and 3. Nucleus   Figure 8.7:    The cytoplasm and n

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Class 8 / Biology / Cell- Structure and Function / Parts of the Cell

CYTOPLASM AND NUCLEUS

CYTOPLASM AND NUCLEUS Cytoplasm It is the jelly-like substance present between the cell membrane and the nucleus. Various other components, or organelles, of cells are present in the cytoplasm.&

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Class 8 / Biology / Cell- Structure and Function / Comparison of Plant and Animal Cells

PLANTS CELL VS ANIMAL CELL

plant cell vs animal cell  If you recall Activities 8.3 and 8.4, Activity 8.3:  (Observing onion peel under microscope) *   In order to observe the basic components of th

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Class 8 / Biology / Reproduction In Animals / Introduction to Reproduction

REPRODUCTION AND ITS MODES

REPRODUCTION AND ITS MODES Do you recall the processes of digestion, circulation, and respiration which you have studied in your previous classes? These processes are essential for the survival of

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Class 8 / Biology / Reproduction In Animals / Reproductive Organs and Process of Reproduction

WHAT IS SEXUAL REPRODUCTION

WHAT IS SEXUAL REPRODUCTION Try to recall reproduction in plants which you studied in Class VII. You will remember that plants that reproduce sexually have male and female reproductive parts.

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Class 8 / Biology / Reproduction In Animals / Reproductive Organs and Process of Reproduction

MALE REPRODUCTIVE ORGANS

MALE REPRODUCTIVE ORGANS The male reproductive organs include a pair of testes (singular, testis), two sperm ducts, and a penis (Fig. 9.1). The testes produce the male gametes called sperms. Millio

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Class 8 / Biology / Reproduction In Animals / Reproductive Organs and Process of Reproduction

FEMALE REPRODUCTIVE ORGANS

FEMALE REPRODUCTIVE ORGANS The female reproductive organs are a pair of ovaries, oviducts (fallopian tubes), and the uterus (Fig. 9.3). The ovary produces female gametes called ova (eggs)

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Class 8 / Biology / Reproduction In Animals / Reproductive Organs and Process of Reproduction

FERTILISATION

FERTILISATION The first step in the process of reproduction is the fusion of a sperm and an ovum. When sperms come in contact with an egg, one of the sperms may fuse with the egg. Such fusion of th

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Class 8 / Biology / Reproduction In Animals / Reproductive Organs and Process of Reproduction

DEVELOPMENT OF EMBRYO

DEVELOPMENT OF EMBRYO Fertilisation results in the formation of zygote which begins to develop into an embryo [Fig.9.8(a)]. The zygote divides repeatedly to give rise to a ball of cells [Fig.9.8(b)

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Class 8 / Biology / Reproduction In Animals / Viviparous and Oviparous Animals

WHAT ARE VIVIPAROUS AND OVIPAROUS ANIMALS?

WHAT ARE VIVIPAROUS AND OVIPAROUS ANIMALS? We have learnt that some animals give birth to young ones while some animals lay eggs which later develop into young ones. The animals which give birth to

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Class 8 / Biology / Reproduction In Animals / Young Ones to Adults

METAMORPHOSIS

METAMORPHOSIS The new individuals which are born or hatched from the eggs continue to grow till they become adults. In some animals, the young ones may look very different from the adults. Recall t

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Class 8 / Biology / Reproduction In Animals / Asexual Reproduction

BUDDING IN HYDRA

BUDDING IN HYDRA So far, we have learnt about reproduction in some familiar animals. But what about very small animals like hydra and microscopic organisms like amoeba? Do you know how they reprodu

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Class 8 / Biology / Reproduction In Animals / Asexual Reproduction

BINARY FISSION IN AMOEBA

BINARY FISSION IN AMOEBA Another method of asexual reproduction is observed in the microscopic organism, amoeba. Let us see how this happens.   You have already learnt about the structur

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Class 8 / Biology / Reaching The Age Of Adolescence / Adolescence and Puberty

WHAT IS MEANT BY ADOLESCENCE AND PUBERTY?

WHAT IS MEANT BY ADOLESCENCE AND PUBERTY? In the previous chapter, you have learnt how animals reproduce. It is only after ‘growing up’ to a certain age that human beings and

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Class 8 / Biology / Reaching The Age Of Adolescence / Changes at Puberty

INCREASE IN HEIGHT

INCREASE IN HEIGHT The most conspicuous change during puberty is the sudden increase in height. At this time the long bones, that is, the bones of the arms and the legs elongate and make a person t

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Class 8 / Biology / Reaching The Age Of Adolescence / Changes at Puberty

CHANGE IN BODY SHAPE AND VOICE

CHANGE IN BODY SHAPE AND VOICE Change in body shape Have you noticed that boys in your class have broader shoulders and wider chests than boys in junior classes? This is because they have enter

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Class 8 / Biology / Reaching The Age Of Adolescence / Changes at Puberty

INCREASED ACTIVITY OF SWEAT AND SEBACEOUS GLANDS

INCREASED ACTIVITY OF SWEAT AND SEBACEOUS GLANDS During puberty the secretion of sweat glands and sebaceous glands (oil glands) increases. Many young people get acne and pimples on the face at

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Class 8 / Biology / Reaching The Age Of Adolescence / Changes at Puberty

DEVELOPMENT OF SEX ORGANS

DEVELOPMENT OF SEX ORGANS Look up Fig. 9.1 and 9.3 which show sex organs of humans. At puberty, male sex organs like the testes and penis develop completely. The testes also begin to produce s

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Class 8 / Biology / Reaching The Age Of Adolescence / Changes at Puberty

REACHING MENTAL, INTELLECTUAL AND EMOTIONAL MATURITY

REACHING MENTAL, INTELLECTUAL AND EMOTIONAL MATURITY Adolescence is also a period of change in a person’s way of thinking. Adolescents are more independent than before and are also self-consc

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Class 8 / Biology / Reaching The Age Of Adolescence / Secondary Sexual Characters

EXPLANATION OF SECONDARY SEXUAL CHARACTERS

EXPLANATION OF SECONDARY SEXUAL CHARACTERS You have learnt in Chapter 9, that testes and ovaries are the reproductive organs. They produce the gametes, that is, sperms and ova. In girls, breasts be

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Class 11 / Physics / Physical World / Introduction to Physical World

SCOPE AND EXCITEMENT OF PHYSICS

SCOPE AND EXCITEMENT OF PHYSICS   We can get some idea of the scope of physics by looking at its various sub-disciplines. Basically,there are two domains of interest : macroscopic and

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Class 11 / Physics / Physical World / Introduction to Physical World

PHYSICS, TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY

PHYSICS,TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY The connection between physics, technology and society can be seen in many examples.The discipline of thermodynamics arose from the need to understand and improve the

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Class 11 / Physics / Physical World / Fundamental Forces

FUNDAMENTAL FORCES IN NATURE

FUNDAMENTAL FORCES IN NATURE We all have an intuitive notion of force. In our experience, force is needed to push, carry or throw objects, deform or break them. We also experience the impact of for

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Class 11 / Physics / Physical World / Fundamental Forces

Gravitational Force

Gravitational Force The gravitational force is the force of mutual attraction between any two objects by virtue of their masses.It is a universal force. Every object experiences this force due to e

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Class 11 / Physics / Physical World / Fundamental Forces

Electromagnetic Force

Electromagnetic Force Electromagnetic force is the force between charged particles. In the simpler case when charges are at rest, the force is given by Coulomb’s law : attractive for unlike c

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Class 11 / Physics / Physical World / Fundamental Forces

Strong Nuclear Force and Weak Nuclear Force

Strong Nuclear Force The strong nuclear force binds protons and neutrons in a nucleus. It is evident that without some attractive force,a nucleus will be unstable due to the electric repulsion betw

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Class 11 / Physics / Physical World / Fundamental Forces

Towards Unification of Forces

Towards Unification of Forces We remarked in section 1.1 that unification is a basic quest in physics.Great advances in physics often amount to unification of different theories and domains.Ne

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Class 11 / Physics / Physical World / Physical Laws

NATURE OF PHYSICAL LAWS

NATURE OF PHYSICAL LAWS Physicists explore the universe.Their investigations, based on scientific processes, range from particles that are smaller than atoms in size to stars that are very far away

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Class 11 / Physics / Units and Measurements / Introduction

Introduction of Units and Measurements

Introduction of Units and Measurements Measurement of any physical quantity involves comparison with a certain basic,arbitrarily chosen, internationally accepted reference standard called unit.The

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Class 11 / Physics / Units and Measurements / System of Units

THE INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM OF UNITS

THE INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM OF UNITS In earlier time scientists of different countries were using different systems of units for measurement.Three such systems, the CGS, the FPS (or British) system an

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Class 11 / Physics / Units and Measurements / Measurement of Length

Measurement of Large Distances

MEASUREMENT OF LENGTH You are already familiar with some direct methods for the measurement of length.For example, a metre scale is used for lengths from 10–3 m to 102m A verni

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Class 11 / Physics / Units and Measurements / Measurement of Length

Estimation of Very Small Distances: Size of a Molecule

Estimation of Very Small Distances: Size of a Molecule To measure a very small size,like that of a molecule (10–8 m to 10–10 m), we have to adopt special methods. We cannot use a screw

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Class 11 / Physics / Units and Measurements / Measurement of Length

Ranges of Lenghts

Range of Lengths The sizes of the objects we come across in the universe vary over a very wide range.These may vary from the size of the order of 10–14 m of the tiny nucleus of an atom to the

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Class 11 / Physics / Units and Measurements / Measurement of Mass

MEASUREMENT OF MASS

MEASUREMENT OF MASS Mass is a basic property of matter. It does not depend on the temperature, pressure or location of the object in space.The SI unit of mass is kilogram (kg). It is defined by tak

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Class 11 / Physics / Units and Measurements / Measurement of Mass

Ranges of Masses

Ranges of Masses The masses of the objects,we come across in the universe, vary over a very wide range.These may vary from tiny mass of the order of 10-30 kg of an electron to the huge mass of abou

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Class 11 / Physics / Units and Measurements / Measurement of Time

Measurement of Time

Measurement of Time To measure any time interval we need a clock.We now use an atomic standard of time, which is based on the periodic vibrations produced in a cesium atom. This is the basis of the

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Class 11 / Physics / Units and Measurements / Accuracy, Precision and Errors

ACCURACY, PRECISION OF INSTRUMENTS AND ERRORS IN MEASUREMENT

ACCURACY, PRECISION OF INSTRUMENTS AND ERRORS IN MEASUREMENT   Measurement is the foundation of all experimental science and technology.The result of every measurement by any measuring inst

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Class 11 / Physics / Units and Measurements / Accuracy, Precision and Errors

Systematic errors

Systematic Errors   The systematic errors are those errors that tend to be in one direction, either positive or negative.Some of the sources of systematic errors are :   (a).Inst

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Class 11 / Physics / Units and Measurements / Accuracy, Precision and Errors

Random Errors

Random Errors The random errors are those errors, which occur irregularly and hence are random with respect to sign and size.These can arise due to random and unpredictable fluctuations in exp

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Class 11 / Physics / Units and Measurements / Accuracy, Precision and Errors

Least Count Error

Least Count Error The smallest value that can be measured by the measuring instrument is called its least count.All the readings or measured values are good only up to this value.   The

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Class 11 / Physics / Units and Measurements / Accuracy, Precision and Errors

Absolute Error, Relative Error and Percentage Error

Absolute Error, Relative Error and Percentage Error (a)Suppose the values obtained in several measurements are a1,a2, a3 ...., a .The arithmetic mean of these values is taken as the best possi

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Class 11 / Physics / Units and Measurements / Accuracy, Precision and Errors

Combination of Errors

Combination of Errors If we do an experiment involving several measurements, we must know how the errors in all the measurements combine. For example,mass density is obtained by deviding mass by th

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Class 11 / Physics / Units and Measurements / Significant Figures

SIGNIFICANT FIGURES

SIGNIFICANT FIGURES As discussed above, every measurement involves errors. Thus, the result of measurement should be reported in a way that indicates the precision of measurement. Normally, the rep

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Class 11 / Physics / Units and Measurements / Significant Figures

Rules for Arithmetic Operations with Significant Figures

Rules for Arithmetic Operations with Significant Figures The result of a calculation involving approximate measured values of quantities (i.e. values with limited number of significant figures) mus

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Class 11 / Physics / Units and Measurements / Significant Figures

Rounding off the Uncertain Digits

Rounding off the Uncertain Digits The result of computation with approximate numbers, which contain more than one uncertain digit, should be rounded off. The rules for rounding off numbers to the

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Class 11 / Physics / Units and Measurements / Significant Figures

Rules for Determining the Uncertainty in the Results of Arithmatic Calculations

Rules for Determining the Uncertainty in the Results of Arithmatic Calculations The rules for determining the uncertainty or error in the number/measured quantity in arithmetic operations can be un

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Class 11 / Physics / Units and Measurements / Dimensions of Physical Quantities

DIMENSIONS OF PHYSICAL QUANTITIES

DIMENSIONS OF PHYSICAL QUANTITIES   The nature of a physical quantity is described by its dimensions. All the physical quantities represented by derived units can be expressed in terms of s

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Class 11 / Physics / Units and Measurements / Dimensions of Physical Quantities

DIMENSIONAL FORMULAE AND DIMENSIONAL EQUATIONS

DIMENSIONAL FORMULAE AND EQUATIONS   The expression which shows how and which of the base quantities represent the dimensions of a physical quantity is called the dimensional form

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Class 11 / Physics / Units and Measurements / Dimensional Analysis and Its Applications

What is Dimensional Analysis?

What is Dimensional Analysis? The recognition of concepts of dimensions, which guide the description of physical behaviour is of basic importance as only those physical quantities can be added

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Class 11 / Physics / Units and Measurements / Dimensional Analysis and Its Applications

Checking the Dimensional Consistency of Equations

Checking the Dimensional Consistency of Equations The magnitudes of physical quantities may be added together or subtracted from one another only if they have the same dimensions. In other wor

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Class 11 / Physics / Units and Measurements / Dimensional Analysis and Its Applications

Deducing Relation among the Physical Quantities

Deducing Relation among the Physical Quantities The method of dimensions can sometimes be used to deduce relation among the physical quantities. For this we should know the dependence of the physic

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Class 11 / Physics / Motion in a Straight Line / Introduction to Motion

INTRODUCTION

INTRODUCTION Motion is common to everything in the universe. We walk, run and ride a bicycle. Even when we are sleeping, air moves into and out of our lungs, and blood flows in arteries and ve

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Class 11 / Physics / Motion in a Straight Line / Position, Path Length and Displacement

Position

Position Earlier you learnt that motion is a change in the position of an object with time. In order to specify the position, we need to use a reference point and a set of axes. It is convenient to

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Class 11 / Physics / Motion in a Straight Line / Position, Path Length and Displacement

Path Length

Path Length Consider the motion of a car along a straight line. We choose the x-axis such that it coincides with the path of the car’s motion and origin of the axis as the point from whe

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Class 11 / Physics / Motion in a Straight Line / Position, Path Length and Displacement

Displacement

Displacement It is useful to define another quantity displacement as the change in position. Let x1 and x2 be the positions of an object t at time and t .Then its displacement,denote

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Class 11 / Physics / Motion in a Straight Line / Average Velocity and Average Speed

Average Velocity and Average Speed

Average Velocity and Average Speed When an object is in motion, its position changes with time. But how fast is the position changing with time and in what direction? To describe this, we define th

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Class 11 / Physics / Motion in a Straight Line / Instantaneous Velocity and Speed

INSTANTANEOUS VELOCITY AND INSTANTANEOUS SPEED

INSTANTANEOUS VELOCITY AND INSTANTANEOUS SPEED The average velocity tells us how fast an object has been moving over a given time interval but does not tell us how fast it moves at different instan

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Class 11 / Physics / Motion in a Straight Line / Acceleration

ACCELERATION

ACCELERATION The velocity of an object, in general, changes during its course of motion. How to describe this change? Should it be described as the rate of change in velocity with distance or

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Class 11 / Physics / Motion in a Straight Line / Acceleration

ACCELERATION

ACCELERATION The velocity of an object, in general, changes during its course of motion. How to describe this change? Should it be described as the rate of change in velocity with distance or

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Class 11 / Physics / Motion in a Straight Line / Kinematic Equations for Uniformly Accelerated Motion

KINEMATIC EQUATIONS FOR UNIFORMLY ACCELERATED MOTION

KINEMATIC EQUATIONS FOR UNIFORMLY ACCELERATED MOTION For uniformly accelerated motion, we can derive some simple equations that relate displacement (x), time taken (t), initial velocity ( 

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Class 11 / Physics / Motion in a Straight Line / Relative Velocity

RELATIVE VELOCITY

RELATIVE VELOCITY You must be familiar with the experience of travelling in a train and being overtaken by another train moving in the same direction as you are. While that train must be travelling

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Class 11 / Physics / Motion in a Plane / Introduction

INTRODUCTION TO MOTION IN A PLANE

INTRODUCTION TO MOTION IN A PLANE In the last chapter we developed the concepts of position, displacement, velocity and acceleration that are needed to describe the motion of an object along a stra

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Class 11 / Physics / Motion in a Plane / Scalars and Vectors

WHAT ARE SCALARS AND VECTORS

WHAT ARE SCALARS AND VECTORS In physics, we can classify quantities as scalars or vectors.Basically, the difference is that a direction is associated with a vector but not with a scalar. A scalar q

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Class 11 / Physics / Motion in a Plane / Scalars and Vectors

POSITION AND DISPLACEMENT VECTORS

POSITION AND DISPLACEMENT VECTORS To describe the position of an object moving in a plane, we need to choose a convenient point, say O as origin. Let P and \(% MathType!MTEF!2!1!+- % feaagKart1ev2

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Class 11 / Physics / Motion in a Plane / Scalars and Vectors

EQUALITY OF VECTORS

EQUALITY OF VECTORS Two vectors A and B are said to be equal if, and only if, they have the same magnitude and the same direction.**   Figure 4.2(a) shows two equal vectors A and B.

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Class 11 / Physics / Motion in a Plane / Multiplication, Addition and Subtraction of Vectors

MULTIPLICATION OF VECTORS BY REAL NUMBERS

MULTIPLICATION OF VECTORS BY REAL NUMBERS Multiplying a vector A with a positive number \(\lambda\) gives a vector whose magnitude is changed by the factor \(\lambda\) but the direction is the

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Class 11 / Physics / Motion in a Plane / Multiplication, Addition and Subtraction of Vectors

ADDITION AND SUBTRACTION OF VECTORS-GRAPHICAL METHOD

ADDITION AND SUBTRACTION OF VECTORS-GRAPHICAL METHOD As mentioned in section 4.2, vectors, by definition, obey the triangle law or equivalently, the parallelogram law of addition. We shall now desc

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Class 11 / Physics / Motion in a Plane / Resolution of Vectors

RESOLUTION OF VECTORS

RESOLUTION OF VECTORS Let a and b be any two non-zero vectors in a plane with different directions and let A be another vector in the same plane(Fig. 4.8). A can be expressed as a sum of two vector

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Class 11 / Physics / Motion in a Plane / Vector Addition – Analytical Method

VECTOR ADDITION

VECTOR ADDITION Although the graphical method of adding vectors helps us in visualising the vectors and the resultant vector, it is sometimes tedious and has limited accuracy. It is

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Class 11 / Physics / Motion in a Plane / Motion in a Plane

Position Vector and Displacement

Position Vector and Displacement  In this section we shall see how to describe motion in two dimensions using vectors.   The position vector r of a particle P located in a plane wit

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Class 11 / Physics / Motion in a Plane / Motion in a Plane

Velocity

Velocity The average velocity \(% MathType!MTEF!2!1!+- % feaagKart1ev2aaatCvAUfeBSjuyZL2yd9gzLbvyNv2CaerbuLwBLn % hiov2DGi1BTfMBaeXatLxBI9gBaerbd9wDYLwzYbItLDharqqtubsr % 4rNCHbGeaGqiVu0Je9sqq

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Class 11 / Physics / Motion in a Plane / Motion in a Plane

Velocity

Velocity The average velocity \(% MathType!MTEF!2!1!+- % feaagKart1ev2aaatCvAUfeBSjuyZL2yd9gzLbvyNv2CaerbuLwBLn % hiov2DGi1BTfMBaeXatLxBI9gBaerbd9wDYLwzYbItLDharqqtubsr % 4rNCHbGeaGqiVu0Je9sqq

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Class 11 / Physics / Motion in a Plane / Motion in a Plane

Acceleration

Acceleration The average acceleration a of an object for a time interval \(\Delta\)t moving in x-y plane is the change in velocity divided by the time interval : \(% MathType!MTEF!2!1!+- % feaa

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Class 11 / Physics / Motion in a Plane / Motion in a Plane

Motion in a Plane with Constant Acceleration

Motion in a Plane with Constant Acceleration Suppose that an object is moving in x-y plane and its acceleration a is constant. Over an interval of time, the average acceleration will equal this con

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Class 11 / Physics / Motion in a Plane / Motion in a Plane

Relative Velocity in Two Dimensions

Relative Velocity in Two Dimensions The concept of relative velocity, introduced in section 3.7 for motion along a straight line, can be easily extended to include motion in a plane or in three

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Class 11 / Physics / Motion in a Plane / Projectile Motion

Explanation of Projectile Motion

Explanation of Projectile Motion As an application of the ideas developed in the previous sections, we consider the motion of a  projectile. An object that is in flight after being thr

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Class 11 / Physics / Motion in a Plane / Projectile Motion

Equation of path of a projectile

Equation of path of a projectile What is the shape of the path followed by the projectile? This can be seen by eliminating the time between the expressions for x and y as given in Eq. (4.38). We ob

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Class 11 / Physics / Motion in a Plane / Projectile Motion

Time of maximum height

Time of maximum height How much time does the projectile take to reach the maximum height ? Let this time be denoted by tm. Since at this point, vy= 0, we have from Eq. (4.39): \(% MathType!MTEF

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Class 11 / Physics / Motion in a Plane / Projectile Motion

Time of maximum height

Time of maximum height   The maximum height hm reached by the projectile can be calculated by substituting t = tm in Eq. (4.38) : \(% MathType!MTEF!2!1!+- % feaagKart1ev2aaatCvAUfe

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Class 11 / Physics / Motion in a Plane / Projectile Motion

Horizontal range of a projectile

Horizontal range of a projectile The horizontal distance travelled by a projectile from its initial position (x = y = 0) to the position where it passes y = 0 during its fall is called the horizont

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Class 11 / Physics / Motion in a Plane / Uniform Circular Motion

Explanation of Uniform Circular Motion

Explanation of Uniform Circular Motion When an object follows a circular path at a constant speed, the motion of the object is called uniform circular motion.The word “uniform” refers

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Class 11 / Physics / Laws of Motion / Force and Inertia , Types of Forces

INTRODUCTION

INTRODUCTION In the preceding Chapter, our concern was to describe the motion of a particle in space quantitatively. We saw that uniform motion needs the concept of velocity alone whereas non-unifo

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Class 11 / Physics / Laws of Motion / Force and Inertia , Types of Forces

Aristotle's Fallacy

Aristotle's Fallacy The question posed above appears to be simple.However, it took ages to answer it.Indeed, the correct answer to this question given by Galileo in the seventeenth century was

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Class 11 / Physics / Laws of Motion / Force and Inertia , Types of Forces

The Law of Inertia

The Law of Inertia Galileo studied motion of objects on an inclined plane. Objects (i) moving down an inclined plane accelerate, while those (ii) moving up retard. (iii) Motion on a horizontal plan

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Class 11 / Physics / Laws of Motion / Newton's First Law

Explanation of Newton's First Law

Explanation of Newton's First Law Galileo’s simple,but revolutionary ideas dethroned Aristotelian mechanics.A new mechanics had to be developed.Thistask was accomplished almost singl

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Class 11 / Physics / Laws of Motion / Newton's Second Law

Newton's Second Law-Momentum

Newton's Second Law-Momentum The law refers to the simple case when the net external force on a body is zero.The second law of motion refers to the general situation when there i

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Class 11 / Physics / Laws of Motion / Newton's Second Law

Newton's Second Law-Impulse

Newton's Second Law-Impulse We sometimes encounter examples where a large force acts for a very short duration producing a finite change in momentum of the body. For example, when a ball hits a

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Class 11 / Physics / Laws of Motion / Newton's Third Law

Explanation of Newton's Third Law of Motion

Explanation of Newton's Third Law of Motion The second law relates the external force on a body to its acceleration. What is the origin of the external force on the body ? What agency provides

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Class 11 / Physics / Laws of Motion / Equilibrium of concurrent forces

Conservation of Momentum

Conservation of Momentum The second and third laws of motion lead to an important consequence: the law of conservation of momentum.Take a familiar example. A bullet is fired from a gun. If the forc

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Class 11 / Physics / Laws of Motion / Equilibrium of concurrent forces

Equilibrium of a Particle

Equilibrium of a Particle Equilibrium of a particle in mechanics refers to the situation when the net external force on the particle is zero*.According to the first law, thismeans that, the pa

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Class 11 / Physics / Laws of Motion / Common Forces In Mechanics

Explanation of Common forces In Mechanics

Explanation of Common forces In Mechanics In mechanics, we encounter several kinds of forces.The gravitational force is, of course, pervasive. Every object on the earth experiences the force of gra

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Class 11 / Physics / Laws of Motion / Common Forces In Mechanics

Friction

Friction Let us return to the example of a body of mass m at rest on a horizontal table. The force of gravity (mg) is cancelled by the normal reaction force (N) of the table. Now suppose

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Class 11 / Physics / Laws of Motion / Common Forces In Mechanics

Friction

Friction   A body like a ring or a sphere rolling without slipping over a horizontal plane will suffer no friction, in principle. At every instant, there is just one point of contact betwee

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Class 11 / Physics / Laws of Motion / Circular Motion

Explanation of Circular Motion

Explanation of Circular Motion We have seen in Chapter 4 that acceleration of a body moving in a circle of radius R with uniform speed \(v\) is \(v\) 2/R directed towards the centre.According to th

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Class 11 / Physics / Laws of Motion / Solving Problems in Mechanics

How can problem be solved in Mechanics

How can problem be solved in Mechanics   The three laws of motion that you have learnt in this chapter are the foundation of mechanics. You should now be able to handle a large variety of p

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Class 11 / Physics / Work, Energy and Power / Introduction to Work, Energy and Power

INTRODUCTION

INTRODUCTION The terms ‘work’, ‘energy’ and ‘power’ are frequently used in everyday language. A farmer ploughing the field, a construction worker carrying bricks

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Class 11 / Physics / Work, Energy and Power / The Work-Energy Theorem

Notions of Work and Kinetic Energy : The Work Energy Theorem

Notions of Work and Kinetic Energy : The Work Energy Theorem   The following relation for rectilinear motion under constant acceleration a has been encountered in Chapter 3, \(v\)2 - u2

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Class 11 / Physics / Work, Energy and Power / Work

Explanation of Work

Explanation of Work As seen earlier, work is related to force and the displacement over which it acts.Consider a constant force F acting on an object of mass m. The object undergoes a displacement

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Class 11 / Physics / Work, Energy and Power / Kinetic Energy

Explanation of Kinetic Energy

Explanation of Kinetic Energy As noted earlier, if an object of mass m has velocity v, its kinetic energy K is \(% MathType!MTEF!2!1!+- % feaagKart1ev2aaatCvAUfeBSjuyZL2yd9gzLbvyNv2CaerbuLwBLn %

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Class 11 / Physics / Work, Energy and Power / Work Done by a Variable Force

Explanation of Work Done by A Variable Force

Explanation of Work Done by A Variable Force A constant force is rare. It is the variable force, which is more commonly encountered. Fig. 6.3 is a plot of a varying force in one dimension. If th

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Class 11 / Physics / Work, Energy and Power / Work Done by a Variable Force

The Work-Energy Theorem for Variable Force

The Work-Energy Theorem for Variable Force   We are now familiar with the concepts of work and kinetic energy to prove the work-energy theorem for a variable force. We confine ourselves to

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Class 11 / Physics / Work, Energy and Power / The Concept of Potential Energy

Explanation of Potential Energy

Explanation of Potential Energy The word potential suggests possibility or capacity for action. The term potential energy brings to one’s mind ‘stored’ energy. A stretched bow-str

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Class 11 / Physics / Work, Energy and Power / The Conservation of Mechanical Energy

The Conservation of Mechanical Energy

The Conservation of Mechanical Energy For simplicity we demonstrate this important principle for one-dimensional motion. Suppose that a body undergoes displacement \(\Delta\)x under the action of a

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Class 11 / Physics / Work, Energy and Power / Various Forms of Energy: The Law of Conservation of Energy

Various Forms of Energy: Heat, Chemical Energy and Electrical Energy

Various Forms of Energy: Heat, Chemical Energy and Electrical Energy In the previous section we have discussed mechanical energy. We have seen that it can be classified into two distinct categories

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Class 11 / Physics / Work, Energy and Power / Various Forms of Energy: The Law of Conservation of Energy

Various Forms of Energy: Heat, Chemical Energy and Electrical Energy

Various Forms of Energy: Heat, Chemical Energy and Electrical Energy We have seen that the frictional force is not a conservative force. However, work is associated with the force of friction, Exam

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Class 11 / Physics / Work, Energy and Power / Various Forms of Energy: The Law of Conservation of Energy

Various Forms of Energy: Heat, Chemical Energy and Electrical Energy

Various Forms of Energy: Heat, Chemical Energy and Electrical Energy One of the greatest technical achievements of humankind occurred when we discovered how to ignite and control fire. We learnt to

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Class 11 / Physics / Work, Energy and Power / Various Forms of Energy: The Law of Conservation of Energy

Various Forms of Energy: Heat, Chemical Energy and Electrical Energy

Various Forms of Energy: Heat, Chemical Energy and Electrical Energy The flow of electrical current causes bulbs to glow, fans to rotate and bells to ring.There are laws governing the attraction an

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Class 11 / Physics / Work, Energy and Power / Various Forms of Energy: The Law of Conservation of Energy

The Equivalence of Mass and Energy

The Equivalence of Mass and Energy  Till the end of the nineteenth century, physicists believed that in every physical and chemical process, the mass of an isolated system is conserved. Matter

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Class 11 / Physics / Work, Energy and Power / The Potential Energy of a Spring

The Potential Energy of a Spring

The Potential Energy of a Spring The spring force is an example of a variable force which is conservative. Fig. 6.7 shows a block attached to a spring and resting on a smooth horizontal surface.The

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Class 11 / Physics / Work, Energy and Power / Various Forms of Energy: The Law of Conservation of Energy

Nuclear Energy

Nuclear Energy The most destructive weapons made by man, the fission and fusion bombs are manifestations of                    Table 6.3.&n

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Class 11 / Physics / Work, Energy and Power / Various Forms of Energy: The Law of Conservation of Energy

The Principle of Conservation of Energy

The Principle of Conservation of Energy We have seen that the total mechanical energy of the system is conserved if the forces doing work on it are conservative.If some of the forces involved are n

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Class 11 / Physics / Work, Energy and Power / Power

Power

Power Often it is interesting to know not only the work done on an object, but also the rate at which this work is done. We say a person is physically fit if he not only climbs four floors of a bui

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Class 11 / Physics / Work, Energy and Power / Collisions

INTRODUCTION

Introduction In physics we study motion (change in position).At the same time, we try to discover physical quantities, which do not change in a physical process. The laws of momentum and energy con

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Class 11 / Physics / Work, Energy and Power / Collisions

Elastic and Inelastic Collisions

Elastic and Inelastic Collisions   In all collisions the total linear momentum is conserved; the initial momentum of the system is equal to the final momentum of the system.One can arg

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Class 11 / Physics / Work, Energy and Power / Collisions

Collisions in One Dimension

Collisions in One Dimension   Consider first a completely inelastic collision in one dimension. Then, in Fig. 6.10,   \(% MathType!MTEF!2!1!+- % feaagKart1ev2aaatCvAUfeBSju

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Class 11 / Physics / Work, Energy and Power / Collisions

Collisions in Two Dimension

Collisions in Two Dimension   Fig. 6.10 also depicts the collision of a moving mass m1 with the stationary mass m2.Linear momentum is conserved in such a collision. Since momen

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Class 11 / Chemistry / Classification of Elements and Periodicity in Properties / Why Do We Need To Classify Elements ?

Need of Classifying Elements

Need of Classifying Elements We know by now that the elements are the basic units of all types of matter. In 1800, only 31 elements were known.By 1865, the number of identified elements had mo

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Class 11 / Chemistry / Classification of Elements and Periodicity in Properties / Genesis Of Periodic Classification

Dobereiner's, Newlands',and Mendeleev’s Predictions

Dobereiner's, Newlands',and Mendeleev’s Predictions  Classification of elements into groups and development of Periodic Law and Periodic Table are the consequences of systematisi

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Class 11 / Chemistry / Classification of Elements and Periodicity in Properties / Modern Periodic Table

Explanation of Modern Periodic Law

Explanation of Modern Periodic Law   We must bear in mind that when Mendeleev developed his Periodic Table, chemists knew nothing about the internal structure of atom. However, the beginnin

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Class 11 / Chemistry / Classification of Elements and Periodicity in Properties / Modern Periodic Table

NOMENCLATURE OF ELEMENTS WITH ATOMIC NUMBERS > 100

NOMENCLATURE OF ELEMENTS WITH ATOMIC NUMBERS > 100 The naming of the new elements had been traditionally the privilege of the discoverer (or discoverers) and the suggested name was ratified

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Class 11 / Chemistry / Classification of Elements and Periodicity in Properties / Electronic Configurations Of Elements And The Periodic Table

Electronic Configurations in Periods

Electronic Configurations in Periods In the preceding unit we have learnt that an electron in an atom is characterised by a set of four quantum numbers, and the principal quantum number (n ) define

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Class 11 / Chemistry / Classification of Elements and Periodicity in Properties / Electronic Configurations Of Elements And The Periodic Table

Group wise Electronic Configurations

Group wise Electonic Configurations Elements in the same vertical column or group have similar valence shell electronic configurations, the same number of electrons in the outer orbitals, an

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Class 11 / Chemistry / Classification of Elements and Periodicity in Properties / Electronic configurations and types of elements: s-, p-, d-, f- blocks

Introduction to s-p-d-f-block Elements

Introduction to s-p-d-f-block Elements The aufbau (build up) principle and the electronic configuration of atoms provide a the Periodic Table. More about these elements will be discussed later

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Class 11 / Chemistry / Classification of Elements and Periodicity in Properties / Electronic configurations and types of elements: s-, p-, d-, f- blocks

The s-Block Elements

The s-Block Elements The elements of Group 1 (alkali metals) and Group 2 (alkaline earth metals) which have ns1 and ns2 outermost electronic configuration belong to the s-Block Elements.

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Class 11 / Chemistry / Classification of Elements and Periodicity in Properties / Electronic configurations and types of elements: s-, p-, d-, f- blocks

The p-Block Elements

The p-Block Elements The p-Block Elements comprise those belonging to Group 13 to 18 and these together with the s-block elements are called the Representative Elements or Main Group Elements.

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Class 11 / Chemistry / Classification of Elements and Periodicity in Properties / Electronic configurations and types of elements: s-, p-, d-, f- blocks

The d-Block Elements(Transition Elements)

The d-Block Elements (Transition Elements) These are the elements of Group 3 to 12 in the centre of the Periodic Table.These are characterised by the filling of inner d orbitals by electrons and ar

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The f-Block Elements (Inner-Transition Elements)

The f-Block Elements(Inner-Transition Elements)   The two rows of elements at the bottom of the Periodic Table, called the Lanthanoids, Ce(Z = 58) – Lu(Z = 71) and Actinoids, Th(Z = 9

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Metals, Non-metals and Metalloids

Metals, Non-metals and Metalloids In addition to displaying the classification of elements into s-, p-, d-, and f-blocks, Fig. 3.3 shows another broad classification of elements based on their prop

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Class 11 / Chemistry / Classification of Elements and Periodicity in Properties / Periodic Trends In Properties Of Elements

Introduction to Trends in Physical Properties

Introduction to Trends in Physical Properties There are many observable patterns in the physical and chemical properties of elements as we descend in a group or move across a period in the Periodic

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Atomic Radius

(a) Atomic Radius   You can very well imagine that finding the size of an atom is a lot more complicated than measuring the radius of a ball. Do you know why? Firstly, because the size of a

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Ionic Radius

(b) Ionic Radius The removal of an electron from an atom results in the formation of a cation, whereas gain of an electron leads to an anion. The ionic radii can be estimated by measuring the dista

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Ionization Enthalpy

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Electron Gain Enthalpy

(d) Electron Gain Enthalpy When an electron is added to a neutral gaseous atom (X) to convert it into a negative ion, the enthalpy change accompanying the process is defined as the Electron Gain En

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Electronegativity

Electronegativity A qualitative measure of the ability of an atom in a chemical compound to attract shared electrons to itself is called electronegativity. Unlike ionization enthalpy and electron

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Periodicity of Valence or Oxidation States

Periodicity Of Valence or Oxidation States Most of the trends in chemical properties of elements, such as diagonal relationships, inert pair effect, effects of lanthanoid contraction etc. will be d

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Class 11 / Chemistry / Classification of Elements and Periodicity in Properties / Periodic Trends in Chemical Properties

Anomalous Properties of Second Period Elements

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Periodic Trends and Chemical Reactivity

Periodic Trends and Chemical Reactivity We have observed the periodic trends in certain fundamental properties such as atomic and ionic radii, ionization enthalpy, electron gain enthalpy and valenc

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Class 11 / Chemistry / Chemical Bonding and Molecular Structure / Kossel – Lewis approach to chemical bonding

INTRODUCTION

Introduction Matter is made up of one or different type of elements. Under normal conditions no other element exists as an independent atom in nature, except noble gases. However, a g

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Class 11 / Chemistry / Chemical Bonding and Molecular Structure / Kossel – Lewis approach to chemical bonding

Kossel-Lewis Approach to Chemical Bonding

Kossel-Lewis Approach to Chemical Bonding In order to explain the formation of chemical bond in terms of electrons, a number of attempts were made, but it was only in 1916 when Kössel and Lewi

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Class 11 / Chemistry / Chemical Bonding and Molecular Structure / Kossel – Lewis approach to chemical bonding

Octet Rule and Covalent Bond

Octet Rule and Covalent Bond Octet   Kössel and Lewis in 1916 developed an important theory of chemical combination between atoms known as electronic theory of chemical bonding. Acc

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Class 11 / Chemistry / Chemical Bonding and Molecular Structure / Kossel – Lewis approach to chemical bonding

Lewis Representation of Simple Molecules (The Lewis Structures)

Lewis Representation of Simple Molecules (The Lewis Stuctures)   The Lewis dot structures provide a picture of bonding in molecules and ions in terms of the shared pairs of electrons and th

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Class 11 / Chemistry / Chemical Bonding and Molecular Structure / Kossel – Lewis approach to chemical bonding

Formal Charge

Formal Charge Lewis dot structures, in general, do not represent the actual shapes of the molecules. In case of polyatomic ions, the net charge is possessed by the ion as a whole and not by a parti

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Class 11 / Chemistry / Chemical Bonding and Molecular Structure / Kossel – Lewis approach to chemical bonding

Limitations of the Octet Rule

Limitations of the Octet Rule The octet rule, though useful, is not universal. It is quite useful for understanding the structures of most of the organic compounds and it applies mainly to the seco

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Class 11 / Chemistry / Chemical Bonding and Molecular Structure / Ionic or electrovalent bond - Favourable Factors and Properties of Ionic Compounds

Explanation of Ionic or Electrovalent Bond

Explanation of Ionic or Electrovalent Bond From the Kössel and Lewis treatment of the formation of an ionic bond, it follows that the formation of ionic compounds would primarily depend upon:

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Lattice Enthalpy

Lattice Enthalpy The Lattice Enthalpy of an ionic solid is defined as the energy required to completely separate one mole of a solid ionic compound into gaseous constituent ions. For example, the l

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Class 11 / Chemistry / Chemical Bonding and Molecular Structure / Bond Parameters – Bond length, Bond angle, bond Enthalpy, Bond order, Resonance, Dipole moment

Bond Length, Bond Angle

Bond Length,Bond Angle Bond length is defined as the equilibrium distance between the nuclei of two bonded atoms in a molecule. Bond lengths are measured by spectroscopic, X-ray diffraction and ele

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Bond Length, Bond Angle

Bond Length, Both Angle It is defined as the angle between the orbitals containing bonding electron pairs around the central atom in a molecule/complex ion. Bond angle is expressed in degree which

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Bond Enthalpy

Bond Enthalpy It is defined as the amount of energy required to break one mole of bonds of a particular type between two atoms in a gaseous state.The unit of bond enthalpy is kJ mol–1. For ex

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Bond Order

Bond Order In the Lewis description of covalent bond, the Bond Order is given by the number of bonds between the two atoms in a molecule.The bond order, for example in H2 (with a single shared

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Resonance Structures

Resonance Structures It is often observed that a single Lewis structure is inadequate for the representation of a molecule in conformity with its experimentally determined parameters. For example,

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Polarity of Bonds

Polarity of Bonds   The existence of a hundred percent ionic or covalent bond represents an ideal situation. In reality no bond or a compound is either completely covalent or ionic. Even in

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Class 11 / Chemistry / Chemical Bonding and Molecular Structure / Valence Bond Theory

Explanation of Valence Bond Theory

Expalnation of Valence Bond Theory As already explained, Lewis concept is unable to explain the shapes of molecules. This theory provides a simple procedure to predict the shapes of covalent molecu

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Orbital Overlap Concept

Orbital Overlap Concept In the formation of hydrogen molecule, there is a minimum energy state when two hydrogen atoms are so near that their atomic orbitals undergo partial interpenetration. This

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Directional Properties of Bonds

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Overlapping of Atomic Orbitals

Overlapping of Atomic Orbitals When orbitals of two atoms come close to form bond, their overlap may be positive, negative or zero depending upon the sign (phase) and direction of orientation of am

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Types of Overlapping and Nature of Covalent Bonds and Strength of Bonds

Types of Overlapping and Nature of Covalent Bonds and Strength of  Bonds   The covalent bond may be classified into two types depending upon the types of overlapping: (i)

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Class 11 / Chemistry / Chemical Bonding and Molecular Structure / Hybridisation

Explanation of Hybridisation

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Class 11 / Chemistry / Chemical Bonding and Molecular Structure / Hybridisation

Types of Hybridisation - sp hybridisation

Types of Hybridisation - sp hybridisation There are various types of hybridisation involving s, p and d orbitals.The different types of hybridisation are as under:   1. sp hybridisation:

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Class 11 / Chemistry / Chemical Bonding and Molecular Structure / Hybridisation

Types of Hybridisation - sp2 hybridisation

Types of Hybridisation - sp2 hybridisation sp2 hybridisation : In this hybridisation there is involvement of one s and two p-orbitals in order to form three equivalent sp2 hybridised orbitals. For

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Class 11 / Chemistry / Chemical Bonding and Molecular Structure / Hybridisation

Types of Hybridisation - sp3 hybridisation

Types of Hybridisation - sp3 hybridisation sp3 hybridisation: This type of hybridisation can be explained by taking the example of CH4 molecule in which there is mixing of one s-orbital and th

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Other Examples of sp3,sp2 and sp Hybridisation

Other  Examples of sp3,sp2 and sp Hybridisation sp3 Hybridisation in C2H6 molecule: In ethane molecule both the carbon atoms assume sp3 hybrid state. One of the four sp3 hy

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Hybridisation of Elements involving d Orbitals

Hybridisation Of Elements involving d Oebitals The elements present in the third period contain d orbitals in addition to s and p orbitals.The energy of the 3d orbitals are comparable to the energy

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Class 11 / Chemistry / Chemical Bonding and Molecular Structure / Molecular Orbital Theory

Explanation of Molecular Orbital Theory

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Linear Combination of Atomic Orbitals (LCAO) and Conditions for the Combination

Linear Combination of Atomic Orbitals (LCAO) and Conditions for the Combination    According to wave mechanics, the atomic orbitals can be expressed by wave functions (\(% MathType!MTE

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Types of Molecular Orbitals

Types of Molecular Orbitals   Molecular orbitals of diatomic molecules are designated as \(\sigma\) (sigma), \(\pi\) (pi), \(% MathType!MTEF!2!1!+- % feaagKart1ev2aaatCvAUfeBSjuyZL2yd9gzLb

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Energy Level Diagram for Molecular Orbitals

Energy Level Diagram for Molecular Orbitals   We have seen that 1s atomic orbitals on two atoms form two molecular orbitals designated as \(\sigma\)1s and \(\sigma\)*1s. In the same manner,

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Electronic Configuration and Molecular Behaviour

Electronic Configuration and Molecular Behaviour The distribution of electrons among various molecular orbitals is called the electronic configuration of the molecule.From the electronic configurat

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Class 11 / Chemistry / Chemical Bonding and Molecular Structure / Bonding in Some Homonuclear Diatomic Molecules

Bonding in Some Homonuclear Diatomic Molecules

Bonding in Some Homonuclear Diatomic Molecules Bond Order Bond order (b.o.) is defined as one half the difference between the number of electrons present in the bonding and the antibonding orbit

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Class 11 / Chemistry / Chemical Bonding and Molecular Structure / Hydrogen Bonding

Explanation, Cause of Formation and type of H-bonding

Explanation, Cause of Formation and type of H-bonding HYDROGEN BONDING Nitrogen, oxygen and fluorine are the higly electronegative elements. When they are attached to a hydrogen atom to form cov

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Class 11 / Chemistry / States of Matter / All Topics

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Introduction In previous units we have learnt about the properties related to single particle of matter, such as atomic size, ionization enthalpy, electronic charge density, molecular shape and pol

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Introduction to Chemical Equilibrium

Chemical equilibria are important in numerous biological and environmental processes. For example, equilibria involving O2 molecules and the protein hemoglobin play a crucial role in the transpor

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When you look around, you will observe different animals with different structures and forms. As over a million species of animals have been described till now, the need for classification becomes all

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Are you aware that all organisms, even the largest, start their life from a single cell? You may wonder how a single cell then goes on to form such large organisms. Growth and reproduction are charact

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There is a wide diversity in living organisms in our biosphere. Now a question that arises in our minds is: Are all living organisms made of the same chemicals, i.e., elements and compounds? You have

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All of us breathe to live, but why is breathing so essential to life? What happens when we breathe? Also, do all living organisms, including plants and microbes, breathe? If so, how?   All

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  All animals including human beings depend on plants for their food. Have you ever wondered from where plants get their food? Green plants, in fact, have to make or rather synthesise the food

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  As you have read earlier, oxygen (O2) is utilised by the organisms to indirectly break down simple molecules like glucose, amino acids, fatty  acids, etc., to derive energy to perfor

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Class 12 / Zoology / Digestion and Absorption / All Topics

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Food is one of the basic requirements of all living organisms. The major components of our food are carbohydrates, proteins and fats. Vitamins and minerals are also required in small quantities. Food

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Animals accumulate ammonia, urea, uric acid, carbon dioxide, water and ions like Na+, K+, Cl–, phosphate, sulphate, etc., either by metabolic activities or by other means like excess ingestion.

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Movement is one of the significant features of living beings. Animals and plants exhibit a wide range of movements. Streaming of protoplasm in the unicellular organisms like Amoeba is a simple form of

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You have already learnt that the neural system provides a point-to-point rapid coordination among organs. The neural coordination is fast but short-lived. As the nerve fibres do not innervate all cell

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As you know, the functions of the organs/organ systems in our body must be coordinated to maintain homeostasis. Coordination is the process through which two or more organs interact and complement the

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Class 11 / Botany / Biological Classification / Five Kingdom Classification

Kingdom Monera-Archebacter,Eubacteria

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Class 11 / Botany / Biological Classification / Five Kingdom Classification

Kingdom Protista - Chrysophytes,Dinoflagellates

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Kingdom Protista- Euglenoids, Slime Moulds and Protozoans

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Class 11 / Botany / Biological Classification / Five Kingdom Classification

Kingdom Fungi - Phycomycetes , Ascomycetes

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Class 11 / Botany / Biological Classification / Five Kingdom Classification

Kingdom Fungi - Basidiomycetes , Deuteromycetes

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Class 11 / Botany / Biological Classification / Five Kingdom Classification

Kingdom Plantae

Kingdom Plantae Kingdom Plantae includes all eukaryotic chlorophyll-containing organisms commonly called plants. A few members are partially heterotrophic such as the insectivorous plants or parasi

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Kingdom Animalia

Kingdom Animalia This kingdom is characterised by heterotrophic eukaryotic organisms that are multicellular and their cells lack cell walls. They directly or indirectly depend on plants for food. T

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Viruses , Viroids , Prions And Lichens

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We all have common sense notions of heat and temperature. Temperature is a measure of ‘hotness’ of a body. A kettle with boiling water is hotter than a box containing ice. In physics, we n

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INTRODUCTION

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Class 11 / Physics / Gravitation / Kepler's Laws

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Law of Areas and Law of Periods

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Class 11 / Physics / Gravitation / Universal Law of Gravitation

Explanation of Universal Law Of Gravitation

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Central Forces

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Acceleration Due to Gravity Below and Above the surface of Earth

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INTRODUCTION In Chapter 1, all charges whether free or bound, were considered to be at rest. Charges in motion constitute an electric current. Such currents occur naturally in many situations. Ligh

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Class 12 / Physics / Moving Charges and Magnetism / Introduction to Moving Charges and Magnetism

INTRODUCTION

INTRODUCTION Both Electricity and Magnetism have been known for more than 2000 years. However, it was only about 200 years ago, in 1820, that it was realised that they were intimately related*. Dur

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Class 12 / Physics / Moving Charges and Magnetism / Magnetic Force

Sources and fields

​​​​​​Sources and fields Before we introduce the concept of a magnetic field B, we shall recapitulate what we have learnt in Chapter 1 about the electric field E. We have seen that the

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Class 12 / Physics / Moving Charges and Magnetism / Magnetic Force

Magnetic Field, Lorentz Force

​​​​​​Magnetic Field, Lorentz Force Let us suppose that there is a point charge q (moving with a velocity v and, located at r at a given time t ) in presence of both the electric field

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Class 12 / Physics / Moving Charges and Magnetism / Magnetic Force

Magnetic force on a current-carrying conductor

Magnetic force on a current-carrying conductor   We can extend the analysis for force due to magnetic field on a single moving charge to a straight rod carrying current. Consider a rod of a

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Class 12 / Physics / Moving Charges and Magnetism / Motion in a Magnetic Field

MOTION IN A MAGNETIC FIELD

MOTION IN A MAGNETIC FIELD We will now consider, in greater detail, the motion of a charge moving in a magnetic field. We have learnt in Mechanics (see Class XI book, Chapter 6) that a force on a p

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Class 12 / Physics / Moving Charges and Magnetism / Motion in Combined Electric and Magnetic Fields

VELOCITY SELECTOR

VELOCITY SELECTOR   You know that a charge q moving with velocity v in presence of both electric and magnetic fields experiences a force given by Eq. (4.3), that is,  F = q (E

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Class 12 / Physics / Moving Charges and Magnetism / Motion in Combined Electric and Magnetic Fields

CYCLOTRON

CYCLOTRON The cyclotron is a machine to accelerate charged particles or ions to high energies. It was invented by E.O. Lawrence and M.S. Livingston in 1934 to investigate nuclear structure. The cyc

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VELOCITY SELECTOR

VELOCITY SELECTOR You know that a charge q moving with velocity v in presence of both electric and magnetic fields experiences a force given by Eq. (4.3), that is, \(% MathType!MTEF!2!1!+- % fe

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Class 12 / Physics / Moving Charges and Magnetism / Motion in Combined Electric and Magnetic Fields

VELOCITY SELECTOR

VELOCITY SELECTOR You know that a charge q moving with velocity v in presence of both electric and magnetic fields experiences a force given by Eq. (4.3), that is, \(% MathType!MTEF!2!1!+- % fe

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Class 12 / Physics / Moving Charges and Magnetism / Motion in Combined Electric and Magnetic Fields

CYCLOTRON

CYCLOTRON The cyclotron is a machine to accelerate charged particles or ions to high energies. It was invented by E.O. Lawrence and M.S. Livingston in 1934 to investigate nuclear structure. The cyc

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Class 12 / Physics / Moving Charges and Magnetism / Magnetic Field due to a Current Element, Biot-Savart Law

Explanation

Explanation of Biot-Savart Law All magnetic fields that we know are due to currents (or moving charges) and due to intrinsic magnetic moments of particles. Here, we shall study the relation be

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Class 12 / Physics / Moving Charges and Magnetism / Magnetic Field on the Axis of a Circular Current Loop

Explanation of Magnetic Field of a Circular Current Loop

Explanation of Magnetic Field of a Circular Current Loop In this section, we shall evaluate the magnetic field due to a circular coil along its axis. The evaluation entails summing up the effect of

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Class 12 / Physics / Moving Charges and Magnetism / Ampere’s Circuital Law

Explanation of Ampere's  Circuital Law

Explanation of Ampere's  Circuital Law There is an alternative and appealing way in which the Biot-Savart law may be expressed. Ampere’s circuital law considers an open surface with

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Class 12 / Physics / Moving Charges and Magnetism / The Solenoid and The Toroid

The soleniod

The solenoid and the toroid are two pieces of equipment which generate magnetic fields. The synchrotron uses a combination of both to generate the high magnetic fields required. In both, solenoid and

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Class 12 / Physics / Moving Charges and Magnetism / The Solenoid and The Toroid

The Toroid

The Toroid The toroid is a hollow circular ring on which a large number of turns of a wire are closely wound. It can be viewed as a solenoid which has been bent into a circular shape to close on it

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Class 12 / Physics / Moving Charges and Magnetism / Force Between Two Parallel Currents, The Ampere

Force Between Two Parallel Current , The Ampere

Force Between Two Parallel Current,  The Ampere We have learnt that there exists a magnetic field due to a conductor carrying a current which obeys the Biot-Savart law. Further, we have learnt

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Class 12 / Physics / Moving Charges and Magnetism / Force Between Two Parallel Currents, The Ampere

Roget's Spiral for Attraction Between Parallel Currents

Roget's Spiral for Attraction Between Parallel Currents Magnetic effects are generally smaller than electric effects. As a consequence, the force between currents is rather small, because of th

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Class 12 / Physics / Moving Charges and Magnetism / Torque on Current Loop, Magnetic Dipole

Torque on a Rectangular current loop in uniform magnetic field

Torque on a Rectangular current loop in uniform magnetic field We now show that a rectangular loop carrying a steady current I and placed in a uniform magnetic field experiences a torque. It does n

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Class 12 / Physics / Moving Charges and Magnetism / Torque on Current Loop, Magnetic Dipole

Circular current loop as a magnetic dipole

Circular current loop as a magnetic dipole In this section, we shall consider the elementary magnetic element: the current loop. We shall show that the magnetic field (at large distances) due to cu

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Class 12 / Physics / Moving Charges and Magnetism / Torque on Current Loop, Magnetic Dipole

The magnetic dipole moment of a revolving electron

The magnetic dipole moment of a revolving electron In Chapter 12 we shall read about the Bohr model of the hydrogen atom. You may perhaps have heard of this model which was proposed by the Danish p

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Class 12 / Physics / Moving Charges and Magnetism / The Moving Coil Galvanometer

Explanation of The Moving Coil Galvanometer

Explanation of The Moving Coil Galvanometer Currents and voltages in circuits have been discussed extensively in Chapters 3. But how do we measure them? How do we claim that current in a circuit is

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Class 12 / Physics / Magnetism and Matter / Introduction to Magnetism and Matter

INTRODUCTION

Introduction Magnetic phenomena are universal in nature. Vast, distant galaxies, the tiny invisible atoms, humans and beasts all are permeated through and through with a host of magnetic fields fro

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Class 12 / Physics / Magnetism and Matter / The Bar Magnet

The magnetic field lines

One of the earliest childhood memories of the famous physicist Albert Einstein was that of a magnet gifted to him by a relative. Einstein was fascinated, and played endlessly with it. He wondered how

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Class 12 / Physics / Magnetism and Matter / The Bar Magnet

Bar magnet as an equivalent solenoid

Bar magnet as an equivalent solenoid In the previous chapter, we have explained how a current loop acts as a magnetic dipole (Section 4.10). We mentioned Ampere’s hypothesis that all magnetic

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Class 12 / Physics / Magnetism and Matter / The Bar Magnet

The dipole in a uniform magnetic field

The dipole in a uniform magnetic field   The pattern of iron filings, i.e., the magnetic field lines gives us an approximate idea of the magnetic field B. We may at times be required to det

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Class 12 / Physics / Magnetism and Matter / The Bar Magnet

The electrostatic analog

The electrostatic analog Comparison of Eqs. (5.2), (5.3) and (5.6) with the corresponding equations for electric dipole (Chapter 1), suggests that magnetic field at large distances due to a bar mag

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Class 12 / Physics / Magnetism and Matter / Magnetism and Gauss’s Law

Explanation of Magnetisum and Gauss's Law

Explanation of Magnetisum and Gauss's Law In Chapter 1, we studied Gauss’s law for electrostatics. In Fig 5.3(c), we see that for a closed surface represented by i , the number of lines l

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Class 12 / Physics / Magnetism and Matter / The Earth’s Magnetism

What is The Earth's Magnetism?

What is The Earth's Magnetism? Earlier we have referred to the magnetic field of the earth. The strength of the earth’s magnetic field varies from place to place on the earth’s

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Class 12 / Physics / Magnetism and Matter / The Earth’s Magnetism

Magnetic declination and dip

Magnetic declination and dip Consider a point on the earth’s surface. At such a point, the direction of the longitude circle determines the geographic north-south direction, the line of longi

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Class 12 / Physics / Magnetism and Matter / Magnetisation and Magnetic Intensity

Explanation of Magnetisation Intensity

Explanation of Magnetisation Intensity The earth abounds with a bewildering variety of elements and compounds. In addition, we have been synthesising new alloys, compounds and even elements. One wo

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Class 12 / Physics / Magnetism and Matter / Magnetic Properties of Materials

Diamagnetism

The discussion in the previous section helps us to classify materials as diamagnetic, paramagnetic or ferromagnetic. In terms of the susceptibility \(% MathType!MTEF!2!1!+- % feaagKart1ev2aaatCvAU

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Class 12 / Physics / Magnetism and Matter / Magnetic Properties of Materials

Paramagnetism

Paramagnetism Paramagnetic substances are those which get weakly magnetised when placed in an external magnetic field. They have tendency to move from a region of weak magnetic field to strong magn

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Class 12 / Physics / Magnetism and Matter / Magnetic Properties of Materials

Ferromagnetism

Ferromagnetism Ferromagnetic substances are those which gets strongly magnetised when placed in an external magnetic field. They have strong tendency to move from a region of weak magnetic field to

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Class 12 / Physics / Magnetism and Matter / Permanent Magnets and Electromagnets

Permanent Magnets and Electromagnets

Permanent Magnets and Electromagnets Substances which at room temperature retain their ferromagnetic property for a long period of time are called permanent magnets. Permanent magnets can be m

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Class 12 / Physics / Electromagnetic Induction / Introduction to Electromagnetic Induction

INTRODUCTION

Introduction Electricity and magnetism were considered separate and unrelated phenomena for a long time. In the early decades of the nineteenth century, experiments on electric current by Oersted,

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Class 12 / Physics / Electromagnetic Induction / The Experiments of Faraday and Henry

Explanation of The Faraday and Henry

Explanation of The Faraday and Henry The discovery and understanding of electromagnetic induction are based on a long series of experiments carried out by Faraday and Henry. We shall now describe s

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Class 12 / Physics / Electromagnetic Induction / Magnetic Flux

Explanation of Magnetic Flux

Explanation of Magnetic Flux Faraday’s great insight lay in discovering a simple mathematical relation to explain the series of experiments he carried out on electromagnetic induction. Howeve

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Class 12 / Physics / Electromagnetic Induction / Faraday’s Law of Induction

Explanation of Faraday's Law of Induction

Explanation of Faraday's Law of Induction From the experimental observations, Faraday arrived at a conclusion that an emf is induced in a coil when magnetic flux through the coil changes with t

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Class 12 / Physics / Electromagnetic Induction / Lenz’s Law and Conservation of Energy

Lenz's Law and Conservation of Energy

Lenz's Law and Conservation of Energy In 1834, German physicist Heinrich Friedrich Lenz (1804-1865) deduced a rule, known as Lenz’s law which gives the polarity of the induced emf in a cl

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Class 12 / Physics / Electromagnetic Induction / Motional Electromotive Force

Explanation of Motional Electromotive Force

Explanation of Motional Electromotive Force Let us consider a straight conductor moving in a uniform and time- independent magnetic field. Figure 6.10 shows a rectangular conductor PQRS in which th

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Class 12 / Physics / Electromagnetic Induction / Energy Consideration: A Quantitative Study

Energy Consideration : A Quantitative Study

Energy Consideration : A Quantitative Study In Section 6.5, we discussed qualitatively that Lenz’s law is consistent with the law of conservation of energy. Now we shall explore this aspect f

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Class 12 / Physics / Electromagnetic Induction / Eddy Currents

What are Eddy Currents?

What are Eddy Currents? So far we have studied the electric currents induced in well defined paths in conductors like circular loops. Even when bulk pieces of conductors are subjected to changing m

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Class 12 / Physics / Electromagnetic Induction / Eddy Currents

Electromagnetic Damping

Electromagnetic Damping Take two hollow thin cylindrical pipes of equal internal diameters made of aluminium and PVC, respectively. Fix them vertically with clamps on retort stands. Take a sma

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Class 12 / Physics / Electromagnetic Induction / Inductance

Introduction to Inductance

Introduction to Inductance An electric current can be induced in a coil by flux change produced by another coil in its vicinity or flux change produced by the same coil. These two situations are de

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Class 12 / Physics / Electromagnetic Induction / Inductance

Mutual Inductance

Mutual Inductance Consider Fig. 6.15 which shows two long co-axial solenoids each of length l.     FIGURE 6.15 Two long coaxial solenoids of same length l.  

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Class 12 / Physics / Electromagnetic Induction / Inductance

Self Inductance

Self Inductance In the previous sub-section, we considered the flux in one solenoid due to the current in the other. It is also possible that emf is induced in a single isolated coil due to change

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Class 12 / Physics / Electromagnetic Induction / AC Generator

Explanation of AC Generator

Explanation of AC Generator The phenomenon of electromagnetic induction has been technologically exploited in many ways. An exceptionally important application is the generation of alternating curr

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Class 12 / Physics / Alternating Current / All Topics

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​​​​​​INTRODUCTION   We have so far considered direct current (dc) sources and circuits with dc sources. These currents do not change direction with time. But voltages and curre

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Class 12 / Physics / Electromagnetic Waves / All Topics

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In Chapter 4, we learnt that an electric current produces magnetic field and that two current-carrying wires exert a magnetic force on each other. Further, in Chapter 6, we have seen that a magnetic f

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Class 12 / Physics / Wave Optics / All Topics

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​​​​​​INTRODUCTION In 1637 Descartes gave the corpuscular model of light and derived Snell’s law. It explained the laws of reflection and refraction of light at an interface. The

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Class 12 / Physics / Ray Optics and Optical Instruments / All Topics

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Nature has endowed the human eye (retina) with the sensitivity to detect electromagnetic waves within a small range of the electromagnetic spectrum. Electromagnetic radiation belonging to this region

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Class 12 / Physics / Dual Nature of Matter and Radiation / All Topics

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The Maxwell’s equations of electromagnetism and Hertz experiments on the generation and detection of electromagnetic waves in 1887 strongly established the wave nature of light. Towards the same

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Class 12 / Physics / Atoms / All Topics

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By the nineteenth century, enough evidence had accumulated in favour of atomic hypothesis of matter. In 1897, the experiments on electric discharge through gases carried out by the English physicist J

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Class 12 / Physics / Nuclei / All Topics

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In the previous chapter, we have learnt that in every atom, the positive charge and mass are densely concentrated at the centre of the atom forming its nucleus. The overall dimensions of a nucleus are

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Class 12 / Physics / Semiconductor Electronics - Materials, Devices and Simple Circuits / All Topics

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Devices in which a controlled flow of electrons can be obtained are the basic building blocks of all the electronic circuits. Before the discovery of transistor in 1948, such devices were mostly vacuu

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Class 12 / Chemistry / The Solid State / All Topics

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From our earlier studies, we know that liquids and gases are called fluids because of their ability to flow. The fluidity in both of these states is due to the fact that the molecules are free to move

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Class 12 / Chemistry / Solutions / All Topics

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In normal life we rarely come across pure substances. Most of these are mixtures containing two or more pure substances. Their utility or importance in life depends on their composition. For example,

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Class 12 / Chemistry / Electrochemistry / All Topics

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Electrochemistry is the study of production of electricity from energy released during spontaneous chemical reactions and the use of electrical energy to bring about non-spontaneous chemical transform

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Class 12 / Chemistry / Chemical Kinetics / All Topics

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Chemistry, by its very nature, is concerned with change. Substances with well defined properties are converted by chemical reactions into other substances with different properties. For any chemical r

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Class 12 / Chemistry / Surface Chemistry / All Topics

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Surface chemistry deals with phenomena that occur at the surfaces or interfaces. The interface or surface is represented by separating the bulk phases by a hyphen or a slash. For example, the interfac

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Class 12 / Chemistry / General Principles and Processes of Isolation of Elements / All Topics

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The history of civilisation is linked to the use of metals in antiquity in many ways. Different periods of early human civilisations have been named after metals. The skill of extraction of metals gav

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Class 12 / Chemistry / The P-Block Elements : Group 15 Elements / All Topics

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In Class XI, you have learnt that the p-block elements are placed in groups 13 to 18 of the periodic table. Their valence shell electronic configuration is ns2np1–6 (except He which has 1s2 conf

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Class 12 / Chemistry / The P-Block Elements : Group 16 Elements / All Topics

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Oxygen, sulphur, selenium, tellurium, polonium and livermorium constitute Group 16 of the periodic table. This is sometimes known as group of chalcogens. The name is derived from the Greek word for br

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Class 12 / Chemistry / The P-Block Elements : Group 17 Elements / All Topics

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Group 17   Elements Fluorine, chlorine, bromine, iodine, astatine and tennessine are members of Group 17. These are collectively known as the halogens (Greek halo means salt and gene

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Class 12 / Chemistry / The P-Block Elements : Group 18 Elements / All Topics

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Group 18  Elements Group 18 consists of elements: helium, neon, argon, krypton, xenon, radon and oganesson. All these are gases and chemically unreactive. They form very few compounds, becaus

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Class 12 / Chemistry / The d-and f-Block Elements / All Topics

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The d-block of the periodic table contains the elements of the groups 3-12 in which the d orbitals are progressively filled in each of the four long periods. The f-block consists of elements in which

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Class 12 / Chemistry / Coordination Compounds / All Topics

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In the previous Unit we learnt that the transition metals form a large number of complex compounds in which the metal atoms are bound to a number of anions or neutral molecules by sharing of el

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Class 12 / Chemistry / The Solid State / All Topics

Haloalkanes and Haloarenes . 10

The replacement of hydrogen atom(s) in an aliphatic or aromatic hydrocarbon by halogen atom(s) results in the formation of alkyl halide (haloalkane) and aryl halide (haloarene), respectively. Haloalka

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Alcohols, Phenols and Ethers.11

You have learnt that substitution of one or more hydrogen atom(s) from a hydrocarbon by another atom or a group of atoms result in the formation of an entirely new compound having altogether different

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Aldehydes, Ketones and Carboxylic Acids.12

In the previous Unit, you have studied organic compounds with functional groups containing carbon- oxygen single bond. In this Unit, we will study about the organic compounds containing carbon-oxygen

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Class 12 / Chemistry / The Solid State / All Topics

Amines.13

Amines constitute an important class of organic compounds derived by replacing one or more hydrogen atoms of ammonia molecule by alkyl/aryl group(s). In nature, they occur among proteins, vitamins, al

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Class 12 / Chemistry / The Solid State / All Topics

Biomolecules.14

A living system grows, sustains and reproduces itself. The most amazing thing about a living system is that it is composed of non-living atoms and molecules. The pursuit of knowledge of what goes on

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Class 12 / Chemistry / The Solid State / All Topics

Polymers.15

Do you think that daily life would have been easier and colourful without the discovery and varied applications of polymers? The use of polymers in the manufacture of plastic buckets, cups and saucers

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Chemistry in Everyday life.16

By now, you have learnt the basic principles of chemistry and also realised that it influences every sphere of human life. The principles of chemistry have been used for the benefit of mankind. Think

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Class 11 / Chemistry / Chemical Equilibrium / Equilibrium In Physical Process

Solid-Liquid Equilibrium

EQUILIBRIUM IN PHYSICAL PROCESSES The characteristics of system at equilibrium are better understood if we examine some physical processes. The most familiar examples are phase transforma

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Liquid-Vapour Equilibrium

Liquid-Vapour Equilibrium This equilibrium can be better understood if we consider the example of a transparent box carrying a U-tube with mercury (manometer). Drying agent like anhydrous calcium c

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Solid​​​​–Vapour Equilibrium

Solid​​​​–Vapour Equilibrium Let us now consider the systems where solids sublime to vapour phase. If we place solid iodine in a closed vessel, after sometime the vessel gets filled u

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Solids in Liquids

Solids in liquids   We know from our experience that we can dissolve only a limited amount of salt or sugar in a given amount of water at room temperature. If we make a thick sugar syrup so

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Gases in Liquids

Gases in liquids When a soda water bottle is opened, some of the carbon dioxide gas dissolved in it fizzes out rapidly. The phenomenon arises due to difference in solubility of carbon dioxide at di

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General Characteristics of Equilibria Involving Physical Processes

General Characteristics of Equilibria Involving Physical Processes For the physical processes discussed above, following characteristics are common to the system at equilibrium:   1

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Equilibrium In Chemical Process - Dynamic

EQUILIBRIUM IN CHEMICAL PROCESSES – DYNAMIC EQUILIBRIUM Analogous to the physical systems chemical reactions also attain a state of equilibrium. These reactions can occur both in forward and

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Dynamic Equilibrium – A Student’s Activity

Dynamic Equilibrium – A Student’s Activity   Equilibrium whether in a physical or in a chemical system, is always of dynamic nature. This can be demonstrated by the use of radio

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Class 11 / Chemistry / Chemical Equilibrium / Law of Chemical Equilibrium and Equilibrium Constant

Law of Chemical Equilibrium and Equilibrium Consant

LAW OF CHEMICAL EQUILIBRIUM AND EQUILIBRIUM CONSTANT   A mixture of reactants and products in the equilibrium state is called an equilibrium mixture. In this section we shall address a nu

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Class 11 / Chemistry / Chemical Equilibrium / Law of Chemical Equilibrium and Equilibrium Constant

Experiment Analysis

Six sets of experiments with varying initial conditions were performed, starting with only gaseous H2 and I2 in a sealed reaction vessel in first four experiments (1, 2, 3 and 4) and only HI

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Class 11 / Chemistry / Chemical Equilibrium / Law of Chemical Equilibrium and Equilibrium Constant

Solved Examples

PROBLEM 1 The following concentrations were obtained for the formation of NH3 from N2 and H2 at equilibrium at 500K. \(% MathType!MTEF!2!1!+- % feaagKart1ev2aaatCvAUfeBSjuyZL2yd9gzLbvy

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Class 11 / Chemistry / Chemical Equilibrium / Types of Equilibria

Homogeneous Equilibria

HOMOGENEOUSEQUILIBRIA   In a homogeneous system, all the reactants and products are in the same phase. For example,in the gaseous reaction, \(% MathType!MTEF!2!1!+- % feaa

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Class 11 / Chemistry / Chemical Equilibrium / Types of Equilibria

Heterogeneous Equilibria

HETEROGENEOUS EQUILIBRIA   Equilibrium in a system having more than one phase is called heterogeneous equilibrium.The equilibrium between water vapour and liquid water in a closed cont

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Class 11 / Chemistry / Chemical Equilibrium / Applications of Equilibrium Constants

Important features of Equilibrium

APPLICATIONS OF  EQUILIBRIUM CONSTANTS   Before considering the applications of equilibrium constants, let us summarise the important features of equilibrium constants as follows: &

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Predicting the Extent of a Reaction

Predicting the Extent of a Reaction The numerical value of the equilibrium constant for a reaction indicates the extent of the reaction.But it is important to note that an equilibrium constant

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Class 11 / Chemistry / Chemical Equilibrium / Applications of Equilibrium Constants

Predicting the Direction of the Reaction

Predicting the Direction of the Reaction The equilibrium constant helps in predicting the direction in which a given reaction will proceed at any stage.For this purpose, we calculate the react

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Class 11 / Chemistry / Chemical Equilibrium / Applications of Equilibrium Constants

Calculating Equilibrium Concentrations

Calculating Equilibrium Concentrations In case of a problem in which we know the initial concentrations but do not know any of the equilibrium concentrations, the following three steps shall b

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Class 11 / Chemistry / Chemical Equilibrium / Equilibrium Constant, Reaction Quotient and Gibbs Energy

Relation between Equilibrium Constant, Reaction Quotient and The Gibbs Energy

RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EQUILIBRIUM CONSTANT K, REACTION QUOTIENT Q AND GIBBS ENERGY G   The value of Kc for a reaction does not depend on the rate of the reaction. However, as

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Class 11 / Chemistry / Chemical Equilibrium / Factors Affecting Equilibria

Effect of Concentration Change

FACTORS AFFECTING EQUILIBRIA   One of the principal goals of chemical synthesis is to maximise the conversion of the reactants to products while minimizing the expenditure of ener

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Experiment on Effect of Concentration

Effect of Concentration – An experiment   This can be demonstrated by the following reaction: Fe3+(aq)+ SCN–(aq)[Fe(SCN)]2+(aq)   (7.24) yellow colourless&n

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Class 11 / Chemistry / Chemical Equilibrium / Factors Affecting Equilibria

Effect of Pressure Change and Inert gases

Effect of Pressure Change A pressure change obtained by changing the volume can affect the yield of products in case of a gaseous reaction where the total number of moles of gaseous reactants

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Effect of Temperature Change

Effect of Temperature Change   Whenever an equilibrium is disturbed by a change in the concentration, pressure or volume, the composition of the equilibrium mixture changes because the reac

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Effect of Catalyst

Effectof a Catalyst   A catalyst increases the rate of the chemical reaction by making available a new low energy pathway for the conversion of reactants to products.It increases the rate o

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Class 11 / Chemistry / Ionic Equilibrium / Concept of Acids, Bases and Salts

Ionic Equilibrium in Solution

IONIC EQUILIBRIUM IN SOLUTION   Under the effect of change of concentration on the direction of equilibrium, you have incidently come across with the following equilibrium which involves io

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Class 11 / Chemistry / Ionic Equilibrium / Concept of Acids, Bases and Salts

Introduction to Acids, Bases and Salts

ACIDS,BASES AND SALTS Acids, bases and salts find widespread occurrence in nature.Hydrochloric acid present in the gastric juice is secreted by the lining of our stomach in a significant amount of

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Arrhenius Concept of Acids, Bases and Salts

Arrhenius Concept of Acids and Bases According to Arrhenius theory, acids are substances that dissociates in water to give hydrogen ions H +(aq) and bases are substances that produce hydroxyl

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Class 11 / Chemistry / Ionic Equilibrium / Concept of Acids, Bases and Salts

The Bronsted-Lowry Acids and Bases

The Bronsted-Lowry Acids and Bases The Danish chemist, Johannes Brönsted and the English chemist, Thomas M. Lowry gave a more general definition of acids and bases. According to Brön

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Lewis Acids and Bases

​​​​​​Lewis Acids and Bases G.N. Lewis in 1923 defined an acid as a species which accepts electron pair and base which donates an electron pair. As far as bases are concerned, ther

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Class 11 / Chemistry / Ionic Equilibrium / Ionization and Ionization Constant

Ionization of Acids and Bases

IONIZATIONOF ACIDS AND BASES Arrhenius concept of acids and bases becomes useful in case of ionization of acids and bases as mostly ionizations in chemical and biological systems oc

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Class 11 / Chemistry / Ionic Equilibrium / Ionization and Ionization Constant

The Ionization Constant of Water and its Ionic Product

The Ionization Constant of Water and its Ionic Product   Some substances like water are unique in their ability of acting both as an acid and a base.We have seen this in case of water

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Class 11 / Chemistry / Ionic Equilibrium / Ionization and Ionization Constant

The pH Scale

The pH Scale Hydronium ion concentration in molarity is more conveniently expressed on a logarithmic scale known as the pH scale. The pH of a solution is defined as the negative logarithm to b

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Ionization Constants of Weak Acids

Ionization Constants of Weak Acids Consider a weak acid HX that is partially ionized in the aqueous solution. The equilibrium can be expressed by: HX(aq) + H2O(l) H3O+(aq) + X–(a

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Ionization of Weak Bases

Ionization of Weak Bases   The ionization of base MOH can be represented by equation: MOH(aq)M+(aq) + OH–(aq)   In a weak base there is partial ionization 

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Class 11 / Chemistry / Ionic Equilibrium / Ionization and Ionization Constant

Relation between Ka and Kb

Relation between Ka and Kb   As seen earlier in this chapter, Ka and Kb represent the strength of an acid and a base,respectively. In case of a conjugate acid-base pair, they ar

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Class 11 / Chemistry / Ionic Equilibrium / Ionization and Ionization Constant

Di-and Polybasic Acids and Di-and Polyacidic Bases

Di-and Polybasic Acids and Di-and Polyacidic Bases   Some of the acids like oxalic acid, sulphuric acid and phosphoric acids have more than one ionizable proton per molecule of the acid.

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Class 11 / Chemistry / Ionic Equilibrium / Ionization and Ionization Constant

Factors Affecting Acid Strength

Factors Affecting Acid Strength   Having discussed quantitatively the strengths of acids and bases, we come to a stage where we can calculate the pH of a given acid solution. But, th

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Class 11 / Chemistry / Ionic Equilibrium / Ionization and Ionization Constant

Common Ion Effect in the Ionization of Acids and Bases

Common Ion Effect in the Ionization of Acids and Bases   Consider an example of acetic acid dissociation equilibrium represented as: CH3COOH(aq)H+(aq) + CH3COO&ndas

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Class 11 / Chemistry / Ionic Equilibrium / Salt Hydrolysis

Hydrolysis of Salts and the pH of their Solutions

Hydrolysis of Salts and the pH of their Solutions   Salts formed by the reactions between acids and bases in definite proportions, undergo ionization in water. The cations/anions formed&n

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Class 11 / Chemistry / Ionic Equilibrium / Salt Hydrolysis

Buffer Solutions

BUFFER SOLUTIONS Many body fluids e.g., blood or urine have definite pH and any deviation in their pH indicates malfunctioning of the body. The control of pH is also very important in ma

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Class 11 / Chemistry / Ionic Equilibrium / Solubility of Sparingly Soluble Salts

Solubility Equilibria of Sparingly Soluble Salts

SOLUBILITY EQUILIBRIA OF SPARINGLY SOLUBLE SALTS   We have already known that the solubility of ionic solids in water varies a great deal. Some of these (like calcium chlor

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Class 11 / Chemistry / Ionic Equilibrium / Solubility of Sparingly Soluble Salts

Solubility Product Constant

Solubility Product Constant Let us now have a solid like barium sulphate in contact with its saturated aqueous solution. The equilibrium between the undisolved solid and the ions in a satura

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Class 11 / Chemistry / Ionic Equilibrium / Solubility of Sparingly Soluble Salts

Common Ion Effect on Solubility of Ionic Salts

Common Ion Effect on Solubility of Ionic Salts It is expected from Le Chatelier’s principle that if we increase the concentration of any one of the ions, it should combine with the ion of i

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Class 9 / Biology / Cell - The Fundamental Unit of Life / What are Living Organisms Made Up of?

Structure Of Various Cells

What are these structures? These structures look similar to each other. Together they form a big structure like an onion bulb! We find from this activity that onion bulbs of different sizes have si

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Class 6 / Chemistry / Sorting materials into groups / Objects Around Us

Objects around us

Objects around us We have seen that our food and clothes have so much variety in them. Not just food and clothes, there is such a vast variety of objects everywhere. We see around us, a chair, a

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Class 6 / Chemistry / Sorting materials into groups / Objects Around Us

Activities on sorting materials into groups

Activity 2 (Objects made of different material)   Let us collect as many objects as possible, from around us. Each of us could get some everyday objects from home and we could also col

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Class 6 / Chemistry / Sorting materials into groups / Properties Of Materials

Properties of metals

Properties of Materials   Have you ever wondered why a tumbler is not made with a piece of cloth? Recall our experiments with pieces of cloth in Chapter 3 and also keep in mind that we gene

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Class 6 / Chemistry / Sorting materials into groups / Properties Of Materials

Hardness

Hardness When you press different materials with your hands, some of them may be hard to compress while others can be easily compressed. Take a metal key and try to scratch with it, the surface of

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Class 6 / Chemistry / Sorting materials into groups / Properties Of Materials

Hardness

Soluble or Insoluble? Activity 4 Collect samples of some solid substances such as sugar, salt, chalk powder, sand, and sawdust. Take five glasses or beakers. Fill each one of them about two-thir

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Class 6 / Chemistry / Sorting materials into groups / Properties Of Materials

Hardness

Soluble or Insoluble? Activity 4 Collect samples of some solid substances such as sugar, salt, chalk powder, sand, and sawdust. Take five glasses or beakers. Fill each one of them about two-thir

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Class 6 / Chemistry / Sorting materials into groups / Properties Of Materials

Soluble or Insoluble?

Soluble or Insoluble? Activity 4 Collect samples of some solid substances such as sugar, salt, chalk powder, sand, and sawdust. Take five glasses or beakers. Fill each one of them about two-thir

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Class 6 / Chemistry / Sorting materials into groups / Properties Of Materials

Objects may float or sink in water

Objects may float or sink in water While doing Activity 4, you might have noticed that the insoluble solids separated out from water. You may have also noticed this with some liquids in Activity 5.

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Class 6 / Chemistry / Sorting materials into groups / Properties Of Materials

Transparency

Transparency You might have played the game of hide and seek. Think of some places where you would like to hide so that you are not seen by others. Why did you choose those places? Would you have t

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Class 6 / English / A Taro's Reward, The Quarrel / A Taro's Reward, The Quarrel

Lesson Paragraph 1 to 4

Before you read This is a story about a thoughtful and loving son. He works hard to fulfil his parents’ wishes and gets some unexpected help. Taro’s Reward (Lesson video) 1. A you

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Class 6 / English / A Taro's Reward, The Quarrel / A Taro's Reward, The Quarrel

Lesson Paragraph 5 to 8

5.   Then suddenly Taro stopped chopping. What was that sound he heard? Could it be, could it possibly be rushing water?Taro could not remember ever seeing or hearing a rushing stream in tha

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Class 6 / English / A Taro's Reward, The Quarrel / A Taro's Reward, The Quarrel

Lesson Paragraph 9 to 13

9.  That evening there was a long procession of visitors to the woodcutter’s house. Each man heard the story of the waterfall, and took a sip of the saké. In less than an hour the pi

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Class 6 / Chemistry / Separation of Substances / Why Do We Separate Substances ?

Introduction of Separation of Substances

Introduction of separation of substances In our daily life, there are many instances when we notice a substance being separated from a mixture of materials. Tea leaves are separated from the l

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Class 6 / Chemistry / Separation of Substances / Methods Of Separation

Methods Of Separation

METHODS OF SEPARATION   We will discuss some simple methods of separating substances that are mixed together. You may come across some of these methods being used in day-to-day activities.

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Class 6 / Chemistry / Separation of Substances / Methods Of Separation

Threshing

Threshing You must have seen bundles of wheat or paddy stalks lying in fields after harvesting the crop. Stalks are dried in the sun before the grain is separated from them. Each stalk has many gra

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Class 6 / Chemistry / Separation of Substances / Methods Of Separation

Winnowing

Winnowing   Activity-3 Make a mixture of dry sand with sawdust or powdered dry leaves. Keep this mixture on a plate or a newspaper. Look at this mixture carefully. Can the two differen

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Class 6 / Chemistry / Separation of Substances / Methods Of Separation

Sieving

Sieving Sometimes, we may wish to prepare a dish with flour. We need to remove impurities and bran that may be present in it. What do we do? We use a sieve and pour the flour into it (Fig. 5.6).

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Class 6 / Chemistry / Separation of Substances / Methods Of Separation

Sedimentation, Decantation and Filteration

Sedimentation, Decantation, and Filtration Sedimentation and Decantation Sometimes, it may not be possible to separate components of a mixture by winnowing and handpicking. For example, there ma

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Class 6 / Chemistry / Separation of Substances / Methods Of Separation

Evaporation

Evaporation   Activity 6 Add two spoons of salt to water in another beaker and stir it well. Do you see any change in the colour of water? Can you see any salt in the beaker, after stir

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Class 6 / Chemistry / Separation of Substances / Methods Of Separation

Evaporation

Use of more than one method of separation Evaporation and Condensation We have studied some methods for separation of substances from their mixtures. Often, one method is not sufficient to separ

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Class 6 / Chemistry / Separation of Substances / Can Water Dissolve Any Amount Of A Substance ?

Saturated Solutions

Can water dissolve any amount of a substance? saturated solutions In chapter 4, we found that many substances dissolve in water and form a solution. We say that these substances are soluble in w

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Class 6 / Chemistry / Separation of Substances / Can Water Dissolve Any Amount Of A Substance ?

Does water equal amounts of different soluble substances

Activity 10 ( Dissolution of different substances) Take two glasses and pour half a cup of water in each of them. Add a teaspoon of salt to one glass and stir till the salt dissolves. Go on adding

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Class 9 / English / The Little Girl / The Little Girl

The Little Girl Paragraph 1 to 3

Before you read Do you feel you know your parents better now than when you were much younger? Perhaps you now understand the reasons for some of their actions that used to upset you earlier. Thi

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Class 9 / English / The Little Girl / The Little Girl

The Little Girl Paragraph 4 to 6

4.  On Sunday afternoons Grandmother sent her down to the drawing-room to have a “nice talk with Father and Mother”. But the little girl always found Mother reading and Father stretch

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Class 9 / English / The Little Girl / The Little Girl

The Little Girl Paragraph 7 to 9

7.   Crying too much to explain, she lay in the shadowed room watching the evening light make a sad little pattern on the floor.       Then Father came into the room w

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Class 9 / English / The Little Girl / The Little Girl

Lesson Paragraph 10 to 12

10.    “What’ll I do if I have a nightmare ?” she asked. “I often have nightmares and then Grannie takes me into her bed—I can’t stay in the dark&mda

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Class 8 / English / The Ant & The Cricket / The Ant and The Cricket

The Ant and The Cricket

THE ANT AND THE CRICKET - AESOP (Poet) Before you read A fable is a story, often with animals as characters, that conveys a moral. This poem about an ant and a cricket contains an idea of far-re

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Class 8 / English / The Ant and The Cricket / The Ant and The Cricket

The Ant and The Cricket

THE ANT AND THE CRICKET - AESOP (Poet) Before you read A fable is a story, often with animals as characters, that conveys a moral. This poem about an ant and a cricket contains an idea of far-re

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Class 8 / English / The Best Christmas Present in the World / The Best Christmas Present in the World

Part-I

Before you read Activity: There are some dates or periods of time in the history of the world that are so significant that everyone knows and remembers them. The story you will read mentions one

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Class 8 / English / The Best Christmas Present in the World / The Best Christmas Present in the World

Part-II

PART II Dear Connie,   I write to you in a much happier frame of mind because something wonderful has just happened that I must tell you about at once. We were all standing in

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Class 8 / English / The Best Christmas Present in the World / The Best Christmas Present in the World

Part-III

PART-III I folded the letter again and slipped it carefully back into its envelope. I kept awake all night. By morning I knew what I had to do. I drove into Bridport, just a few mile

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Class 8 / English / The Tsunami / The Tsunami

Before you read Part-I, Part-II, Part-III

Before you read The Tsunami Part I A tsunami is a very large and powerful wave caused by earthquakes under the sea. On 26 December 2004, a tsunami hit Thailand and parts of India such as the

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Class 8 / English / The Tsunami / The Tsunami

Part-I

STORY – THE TSUNAMI Part I ( Lesson Summary ) These stories are all from the Andaman and Nicobar archipelago.   Ignesious was the manager of a cooperative society in Katchall.

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Class 8 / English / The Tsunami / The Tsunami

Part-II

Part II Now here is a story from Thailand.   The Smith family from South-East England were celebrating Christmas at a beach resort in southern Thailand. Tilly Smith was a ten-year-old sc

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Class 8 / English / The Tsunami / The Tsunami

Part-III

Part III Before the giant waves slammed into the coast in India and Sri Lanka, wild and domestic animals seemed to know what was about to happen. They fled to safety. According to eyewitness accoun

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Class 8 / English / Glimpses Of The Past / Glimpses Of The Past

The Martyrs

Before You Read Here are some pictorial glimpses of the history of our country from 1757 to 1857. These pictures and ‘speech bubbles’ will help clarify your understanding of the conditi

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Class 8 / English / Glimpses Of The Past / Glimpses Of The Past

The Company’s conquests (1757 - 1849)

2.  The Company’s conquests (1757-1849)

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British Rule (1765-1836)

3. British Rule

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Ram Mohan Roy (1772 - 1833)

4. Ram Mohan Roy (1772 - 1833)

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Oppression ( 1765 - 1835 )

5. Oppression ( 1765 - 1835 )

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Dissatisfaction ( 1835 - 56 )

6.  Dissatisfaction ( 1835 - 56 )

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The Sparks (1855 - 57)

7. The Sparks (1855 - 57)

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Revolt ( 1857 )

8. Revolt ( 1857 )

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Class 8 / English / Glimpses Of The Past / Glimpses Of The Past

The Fight for Freedom (1857)

9. The Fight For Freedom ( 1857 ) Oral Comprehension Check 1.  Look at picture 1 and recall the opening lines of the original song in Hindi. Who is the singer? Who else do you see i

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Class 8 / English / Bepin Choudhury’s Lapse of Memory / Bepin Choudhury’s Lapse of Memory

Bepin Choudhary's Lapse of Memory (Part - I)

Before you read Do you have a good memory? Has your memory ever played any tricks on you? Forgetfulness often puts you in a tight spot. But forgetting a part of your life completely may drive yo

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Class 8 / English / Bepin Choudhury’s Lapse of Memory / Bepin Choudhury’s Lapse of Memory

Bepin Choudhary's Lapse of Memory (Part - II)

PART-II Bepin Babu’s car was safely parked in Bertram Street by the Lighthouse Cinema. He told the driver as he got into the car, “Just drive by the Ganga, will you, Sitaram.” Dri

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Bepin Choudhary's Lapse of Memory (Part - III)

PART-III After lunch-time, Bepin Babu realised that he couldn’t possibly carry on sitting at his desk and working. This had never happened in the twenty-five years he had been with the firm.

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Class 8 / English / Bepin Choudhury’s Lapse of Memory / Bepin Choudhury’s Lapse of Memory

Bepin Choudhary's Lapse of Memory (Part - IV)

PART-IV Getting off the train at Ranchi the next morning, he realised at once that he had never been there before. He came out of the station, took a taxi, and drove around the town for a while.

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Class 8 / English / The Summit Within / The Summit Within

The Summit Within Part - I

Before you read Major H.P.S. Ahluwalia was a member of the first successful Indian expedition to Mount Everest in 1965. How did he feel when he stood on the highest point in the world? Let us hear

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Class 8 / English / The Summit Within / The Summit Within

The Summit Within Part - II

Consider a typical climb, towards the summit on the last heights. You are sharing a rope with another climber. You firm in. He cuts the steps in the hard ice. Then he belays and you inch your way up.

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Class 8 / English / This is Jody’s Fawn / This is Jody’s Fawn

This is Jody's Fawn Part - I

Before you read Often, instead of rushing to the doctor to treat a small cut or burn, we find quick and effective cures using things available at home. Can you think of some such ‘home remedi

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Class 8 / English / This is Jody’s Fawn / This is Jody’s Fawn

This is Jody's Fawn Part - II

PART-II Jody gave himself over to thoughts of the fawn. They passed the abandoned clearing. He said, “Cut to the north, Mill-wheel. It was up here at Pa got bitten by the snake and killed

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Class 8 / English / This is Jody’s Fawn / This is Jody’s Fawn

This is Jody's Fawn Part - III

PART-III Movement directly in front of him startled him so that he tumbled backward. The fawn lifted its face to his. It turned its head with a wide, wondering motion and shook him through with the

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Class 8 / English / A Visit to Cambridge / A Visit to Cambridge

A Visit to Cambridge Part - I

Before you read This is the story of a meeting between two extraordinary people, both of them ‘disabled’, or ‘differently-abled’ as we now say. Stephen Hawking is one of the

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Class 8 / English / A Visit to Cambridge / A Visit to Cambridge

A Visit to Cambridge Part - II

Before you, like a lantern whose walls are worn so thin you glimpse only the light inside, is the incandescence of a man. The body, almost irrelevant, exists only like a case made of shadows. So that

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Class 8 / English / A Short Monsoon Diary / A Short Monsoon Diary

A Short Monsoon Diary Part - I

Before you read Do you know what a diary is? It is a record of personal experiences written day after day over a long period of time. You can also use a diary to note down things you plan to do imm

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Class 8 / English / A Short Monsoon Diary / A Short Monsoon Diary

A Short Monsoon Diary Part - II

Part II August 2 All night the rain has been drumming on the corrugated tin roof. There has been no storm, no thunder, just the steady swish of a tropical downpour. It helps me to lie awake; at

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Class 8 / English / The Great Stone Face–I / The Great Stone Face–I

The Great Stone Face–I PART - I

Before you read Seen from a distance, hilltops and huge rocks seem to assume various shapes. They may resemble an animal or a human figure. People attribute stories to these shapes. Some stories co

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Class 8 / English / The Great Stone Face–I / The Great Stone Face–I

The Great Stone Face–I PART - II

Part II The years went on, and Ernest grew to be a young man. He attracted little notice from the inhabitants of the valley. They saw nothing remarkable in his way of life, except that, when the la

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Class 8 / English / The Great Stone Face–II / The Great Stone Face–II

The Great Stone Face–II PART - I

Before you read Many years passed. Ernest was now a man of middle age. To his neighbours, who never suspected that he was anything more than an ordinary and familiar face, he was only a humble and

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Class 8 / English / The Great Stone Face–II / The Great Stone Face–II

The Great Stone Face–II PART - II

At the hour of sunset, as had long been his custom, Ernest was to speak to a group of neighbours in the open air. Together he and the poet went to the meeting place, arm in arm. From there could be se

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Class 7 / English / Three Questions / Three Questions

Three Questions Part - I

Before you read A king has three questions and he is seeking answers to them. What are the questions? Does the king get what he wants? STORY – THREE QUESTIONS – LEO TOLSTOY (Aut

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Class 7 / English / Three Questions / Three Questions

Three Questions Part - II

PART - II The king turned round and saw a bearded man running towards them. His hands were pressed against his stomach, from which blood was flowing. When he reached the king he fainted a

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Class 7 / English / A Gift Of Chappals / A Gift Of Chappals

A Gift Of Chappals Part - I

Before you read Mridu is a young girl growing up in Madras (now called Chennai) with Tapi, her grandmother, and Thatha, her grandfather. One afternoon Tapi takes her to her aunt Rukku Manni’s

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Class 7 / English / A Gift Of Chappals / A Gift Of Chappals

A Gift Of Chappals Part - II

Part II Mridu crept up to the window. Lalli was sitting a little distance away, awkwardly holding her violin and bowstring, her elbows jutting out and her eyes glazed with c

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Class 6 / English / A House, A Home / A House, A Home

A House, A Home

A House, A Home - LORRAINE M. HALL Poem What is the difference between a house and a home? Discuss it with your partner. Then read the poem. What is a house? It’s brick and st

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Class 9 / English / A Truly Beautiful Mind / A Truly Beautiful Mind

A Truly Beautiful Mind Paragraph 1 to 5

Before you read We shall now read about a young German civil servant who took the world by storm about a hundred years ago. In the summer of 1905, the 26-year-old published in quick succession four

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Class 9 / English / A Truly Beautiful Mind / A Truly Beautiful Mind

A Truly Beautiful Mind Paragraph 6 to 11

6.   Einstein was highly gifted in mathematics and interested in physics, and after finishing school, he decided to study at a university in Zurich. But science wasn’t the only th

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Class 9 / English / A Truly Beautiful Mind / A Truly Beautiful Mind

A Truly Beautiful Mind Paragraph 12 to 17

12.   Einstein’s new personal chapter coincided with his rise to world fame. In 1915, he had published his General Theory of Relativity, which provided a new interpretation of gra

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Class 9 / English / Evelyn Glennie / Evelyn Glennie

Evelyn Glennie Paragraph 1 to 5

Before you read “God may have taken her hearing but he has given her back something extraordinary. What we hear, she feels — far more deeply than any of us. That is why she expresses mu

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Class 9 / English / Evelyn Glennie / Evelyn Glennie

Evelyn Glennie Paragraph 6 to 10

6.  It is intriguing to watch Evelyn function so effortlessly without hearing. In our two-hour discussion, she never missed a word.“Men with bushy beards give me trouble,” she la

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Class 9 / English / Bismillah Khan / Bismillah Khan

Bismillah Khan Paragraph 1 to 4

Before you read Think of the shehnai and the first thing you’ll probably imagine is a wedding or a similar occasion or function. The next would probably be Ustad Bismillah Khan, the shehnai

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Class 9 / English / Bismillah Khan / Bismillah Khan

Bismillah Khan Paragraph 5 to 9

5.   The young boy took to music early in life. At the age of three when his mother took him to his maternal uncle’s house in Benaras (now Varanasi), Bismillah was fascinated watching

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Class 9 / English / Bismillah Khan / Bismillah Khan

Bismillah Khan Paragraph 10 to 14

10.   National awards like the Padmashri, the Padma Bhushan, and the Padma Vibhushan were conferred on him. 11.   In 2001, Ustad Bismillah Khan was awarded India’s highest

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Class 9 / English / The Fun They Had / The Fun They Had

The Fun They Had Paragraph 1 to 4

Before you read The story we shall read is set in the future when books and schools as we now know them will perhaps not exist. How will children study then? The diagram below may give you some ide

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Class 9 / English / The Fun They Had / The Fun They Had

The Fun They Had Paragraph 5 to 10

5.   The Inspector had smiled after he was finished and patted Margie’s head. He said to her mother, “It’s not the little girl’s fault, Mrs. Jones. I think the g

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Class 6 / English / The Quarrel / The Quarrel

The Quarrel

The Quarrel - ELEANOR FARJEO   The Quarrel It is common for brothers and sisters to quarrel, although sometimes they may not even be able to say why they quarrel. But how long do such quarr

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Class 9 / Chemistry / Atoms and Molecules / Mole Concept

Illustrations

Illustration 3.3: Calculate the number of moles for the following: i.  52 g of He (finding mole from mass) ii. 12.044 \(\times\) 1023 number of He atoms (finding mole from the 

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Class 7 / Physics / Heat / Introduction to Heat

Introduction to Heat

Introduction to Heat In Chapter 3 you learnt that woollen clothes are made from animal fibres. You also know that cotton clothes are made from plant fibres. We wear woollen clothes during wint

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Class 7 / Physics / Heat / Hot and Cold

Hot and Cold

Hot and Cold In our day-to-day life, we come across a number of objects. Some of them are hot and some of them are cold. Tea is hot and ice is cold. List some objects you use commonly in Table 4.1.

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Class 7 / Physics / Heat / Measuring Temperature

Clinical Thermometer

Measuring Temperature   Have you seen a thermometer? Recall that when you or someone else in your family had a fever, the temperature was measured by a thermometer. The thermometer that mea

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Class 7 / Physics / Heat / Measuring Temperature

Reading a Thermometer Activity 4.2

Activity 4.2: Reading a Thermometer Let us learn how to read a thermometer. First, note the temperature difference indicated between the two bigger marks. Also, note down the number of division

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Class 7 / Physics / Heat / Measuring Temperature

Reading a Thermometer Activity 4.3

Activity 4.3:   Measure the body temperature of some of your friends (at least 10) with a clinical thermometer. Record your observations as in Table 4.2.   &nbs

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Class 7 / Physics / Heat / Laboratory Thermometer

About Laboratory Thermometer

Laboratory Thermometer   How do we measure the temperature of other objects? For this purpose, there are other thermometers. One such thermometer is known as the laboratory thermometer. The

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Class 7 / Physics / Heat / Laboratory Thermometer

Activity 4.4 and 4.5

Activity 4.4: Take some tap water in a beaker or a mug. Dip the thermometer in water so that the bulb is immersed in water but does not touch the bottom or the sides of the container. Hold the ther

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Class 7 / Physics / Heat / Transfer of Heat

Transfer of Heat

TRANSFER OF HEAT You might have observed that a frying pan becomes hot when kept on a flame. It is because the heat passes from the flame to the utensil. When the pan is removed from the fire, it s

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Class 7 / Physics / Heat / Transfer of Heat

Conduction - Activity 4.6

Conduction - Activity 4.6: Take a rod or flat strip of metal, say aluminium or iron. Fix a few small wax pieces on the rod. These pieces should be at nearly equal distances (Fig. 4.7).  

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Class 7 / Physics / Heat / Transfer of Heat

Conductors and Insulators Activity 4.7

Conductors and Insulators Activity 4.7: Heat water in a small pan or a beaker. Collect some articles such as a steel spoon, plastic scale, pencil, and divider. Dip one end of each of these article

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Class 7 / Physics / Heat / Transfer of Heat

Convection Activity 4.8 and 4.9

Convection Activity 4.8: ( Convection in water ) Take a round bottom flask (if the flask is not available, a beaker can be used). Fill it two-thirds with water. Place it on a tripod,

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Class 7 / Physics / Heat / Transfer of Heat

Sea Breeze, Land Breeze and Radiation

Sea Breeze, Land Breeze and Radiation The people living in the coastal areas experience an interesting phenomenon. During the day, the land gets heated faster than the water. The air over the land

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Class 7 / Physics / Heat / Kinds of Clothes we wear in Summer and Winter

Light and Dark Colored Clothes

KINDS OF CLOTHES WE WEAR IN SUMMER AND WINTER You know that in summer we prefer light-coloured clothes and in winter we usually wear dark-coloured clothes. Why is it so? Let us find out  

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Class 9 / English / The Snake and the Mirror / The Snake and the Mirror

The Snake and the Mirror Paragraph 1 to 4

Before you read Now read this humorous story about a doctor, a snake, and a mirror.  written by VAIKOM MUHAMMAD BASHEER and translated from Malayalam by V.Abdulla. Activ

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Class 9 / English / The Snake and the Mirror / The Snake and the Mirror

The Snake and the Mirror Paragraph 5 to 8

5.   I took a close look at my face in the mirror. I made an important decision — I would shave daily and grow a thin moustache to look more handsome. I was after all a bachelor a

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Class 9 / English / The Snake and the Mirror / The Snake and the Mirror

The Snake and the Mirror Paragraph 9 to 12

9.   At my slightest movement the snake would strike me! Death lurked four inches away. Suppose it struck, what was the medicine I had to take? There were no medicines in the room. I was but

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Class 9 / English / My Childhood / My Childhood

My Childhood Paragraph 1 to 2

MY CHILDHOOD Before you read A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, whose projects in space, defense, and nuclear technology guided India into the twenty-first century, became our eleventh President in 2002.

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Class 9 / English / My Childhood / My Childhood

My Childhood Paragraph 3 to 5

3.   The Second World War broke out in 1939 when I was eight years old. For reasons I have never been able to understand, a sudden demand for tamarind seeds erupted in the market. I use

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6.   One day when I was in the fifth standard at Rameswaram Elementary School, a new teacher came to our class. I used to wear a cap that marked me as a Muslim, and I always sat in the

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9.   One day, he invited me to his home for a meal. His wife was horrified at the idea of a Muslim boy being invited to dine in her ritually pure kitchen. She refused to serve me in her

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Before you read Read this description of how the author and his friends pack. It is an extract from Three Men in a Boat, written by JEROME  K. JEROME.   Activity: * 

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4.   However, I did not say anything but started packing. It seemed a longer job than I had thought it was going to be, but I got the bag finished at last, and I sat on it and

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7.   When I had finished, George asked if the soap was in. I said I didn’t care a hang whether the soap was in or whether it wasn’t, and I slammed the bag shut and stra

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10.   They upset salt over everything, and as for the butter! I never saw two men do more with one-and-two pence worth of butter in my whole life than they did. After George had go

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13.   He came and sat down on things, just when they were wanted to be packed; and he laboured under the fixed belief that, whenever Harris or George reached out their hand fo

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Before you read REACH FOR THE TOP - SANTOSH YADAV Activity: Think for a while and make a list of three to five persons you idolise, or admire very much for their achievements. Your idols may

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4.  A marriage as early as that was the last thing on her mind. She threatened her parents that she would never marry if she did not get a proper education. She left home and got herself enr

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7.  Thereafter, Santosh went on an expedition every year. Her climbing skills matured rapidly. Also, she developed a remarkable resistance to cold and altitude. Equipped with an iron will, p

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Before you read MARIA SHARAPOVA Activity: 1.  A Russian girl, Maria Sharapova, reached the summit of women’s tennis when she was barely eighteen. As you read about her, see if

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3.  “I used to be so lonely,” Maria Sharapova recalls. “I missed my mother terribly. My father was working as much as he could to keep my tennis training going. So, he

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7.  While her journey from the frozen plains of Siberia to the summit of women’s tennis has touched the hearts of tennis fans, for the youngster herself there appears to be no room for

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Before you read Sloth bears inhabit forested areas, including the tropical rain forests of India and grasslands at lower elevations. Sloth bears have very shaggy hair and long muzzles. Using their

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5.  We put it in one of the gunny bags we had brought and when I got back to Bangalore I duly presented it to my wife. She was delighted! She at once put a coloured ribbon around its ne

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9.  Out came his medical books, and a feverish reference to index began: “What poison did you say, sir?” “Barium carbonate”. “Ah yes—B—Ba—Bari

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13.  Then my son and I advised my wife, and friends advised her too, to give Baba to the zoo at Mysore. He was getting too big to keep at home. After some weeks of such advice, she at last c

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17.  For the next three hours she would not leave that cage. She gave him tea, lemonade, cakes, ice cream, and whatnot. Then ‘closing time’ came and we had to leave. My wife

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21.  Once home, a squad of coolies was engaged for special work in our compound. An island was made for Baba. It was twenty feet long and fifteen feet wide and was surrounded by a dry pit, o

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Before you read KATHMANDU Do you like travelling? The writer, Vikram Seth, enjoys it very much. In his book, Heaven Lake, he describes a long journey from China to India, via Tibet and Nepal.

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3.   At the Baudhanath stupa, the Buddhist shrine of Kathmandu, there is, in contrast, a sense of stillness. Its immense white dome is ringed by a road. Small shops stand on its outer e

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6.   I look at the flute seller standing in a corner of the square near the hotel. In his hand is a pole with an attachment at the top from which fifty or sixty bansuris protrude in all

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There are many kinds of ants. The commonest among them are the black or red ones. We have seen them since we were children, but haven’t paid enough attention to them. Where do they live? In

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The queen is the mother of the entire population of the colony. It lives for about fifteen years. It has a pair of wings, but bites them off after its ‘wedding’ flight. This flight takes p

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The greenfly is the ants’ cow. The ants train it to give honeydew (like milk) with a touch of their antennae. They milk it just as we milk the cow. Have humans learned as much as ants have?

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Lesson Video Presently the Ox came to him, with the yoke on his neck, and said, “Camel, O Camel, come and plough like the rest of us.” “Humph!” said the Camel, and the Ox

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Class 9 / Moments English Supplementary Reader / Weathering the Storm in Ersama / Weathering the Storm in Ersama By Harsh Mander

WEATHERING THE STORM IN ERSAMA

WEATHERING THE STORM IN ERSAMA Then they deputed the children to lie in the sand left by the waters around the shelter with these utensils on their stomachs, to communicate to the passing heli

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Class 9 / Moments English Supplementary Reader / The Last Leaf / The Last Leaf By O Henry

THE LAST LEAF

THE LAST LEAF It is autumn. The wind is blowing hard and it is raining heavily. All the leaves on an ivy creeper have fallen, except one. Why doesn’t the last leaf fall? SUE and Johnsy, tw

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Class 9 / Moments English Supplementary Reader / The Last Leaf / The Last Leaf By O Henry

THE LAST LEAF

THE LAST LEAF “What is it, dear?” Sue asked. “Six,” whispered Johnsy. “They are falling faster now. Three days ago there were almost a hundred leaves. There are onl

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Class 9 / Moments English Supplementary Reader / The Last Leaf / The Last Leaf By O Henry

THE LAST LEAF

THE LAST LEAF   “All right,” said Johnsy. “Finish your painting soon for I want to see the last leaf fall. I’m tired of waiting. I have to die, so let me go away pea

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Class 9 / Moments English Supplementary Reader / The Last Leaf / The Last Leaf By O Henry

THE LAST LEAF

THE LAST LEAF   “Oh!” Sue exclaimed as she looked at the vine creeper. “Look, there is still one leaf on the creeper. It looks quite green and healthy. In spite of th

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Class 9 / Moments English Supplementary Reader / A House Is Not a Home / A House Is Not a Home By Zan Gaudioso

A HOUSE IS NOT A HOME

A HOUSE IS NOT A HOME   This story reflects the challenges of being a teenager, and the problems of growing up. How does the author overcome his problems?   MY first year of high

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Class 9 / Moments English Supplementary Reader / A House Is Not a Home / A House Is Not a Home By Zan Gaudioso

A HOUSE IS NOT A HOME

A HOUSE IS NOT A HOME By the time we made our way outside, the whole roof was engulfed in flames and it was spreading quickly. I ran to the neighbours to call the fire department, while I watched m

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Class 9 / Moments English Supplementary Reader / A House Is Not a Home / A House Is Not a Home By Zan Gaudioso

A HOUSE IS NOT A HOME

A HOUSE IS NOT A HOME He quickly took her over to the truck and put an oxygen mask on her. I ran over and hugged her. All those times I ever argued with her and hated her vanished at the thought of

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Class 9 / Moments English Supplementary Reader / A House Is Not a Home / A House Is Not a Home By Zan Gaudioso

A HOUSE IS NOT A HOME

A HOUSE IS NOT A HOME   When I walked through what used to be my house after school that day, I was shocked to see how much damage there was — whatever hadn’t burned was destroy

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Class 9 / Moments English Supplementary Reader / A House Is Not a Home / A House Is Not a Home By Zan Gaudioso

A HOUSE IS NOT A HOME

A HOUSE IS NOT A HOME   In that instant, I finally breathed a sigh of relief and thought for the first time that things were going to be okay. I made friends that day.   A month

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Class 9 / Moments English Supplementary Reader / The Accidental Tourist / The Accidental Tourist By Bill Bryson

THE ACCIDENTAL TOURIST

THE ACCIDENTAL TOURIST   They say that the world today is a small place because travel has become easy, but not everybody finds it easy to travel. Here, the author reflects humorously his e

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Class 9 / Moments English Supplementary Reader / The Accidental Tourist / The Accidental Tourist By Bill Bryson

THE ACCIDENTAL TOURIST

THE ACCIDENTAL TOURIST   I watched dumbstruck as a hundred carefully sorted documents came raining down in a fluttery cascade, coins bounced to a variety of noisy oblivions and the now-lidl

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Class 9 / Moments English Supplementary Reader / The Accidental Tourist / The Accidental Tourist By Bill Bryson

THE ACCIDENTAL TOURIST

THE ACCIDENTAL TOURIST   On another occasion, I knocked a soft drink onto the lap of a sweet little lady sitting beside me. The flight attendant came and cleaned her up, and brought me a re

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Class 9 / Moments English Supplementary Reader / The Accidental Tourist / The Accidental Tourist By Bill Bryson

THE ACCIDENTAL TOURIST

THE ACCIDENTAL TOURIST I amused her for perhaps 20 minutes with a scattering of urbane bons mots, then retired to the lavatory where I discovered that the pen had leaked and that my mouth, chin, to

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Class 9 / Moments English Supplementary Reader / The Lost Child / The Lost Child By Mulk Raj Anand

THE LOST CHILD

THE LOST CHILD A child goes to a fair with his parents. He is happy and excited and wants the sweets and toys displayed there. But his parents don’t buy them for him. Why then does he refuse

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Class 9 / Moments English Supplementary Reader / The Lost Child / The Lost Child By Mulk Raj Anand

THE LOST CHILD

THE LOST CHILD As they neared the village the child could see many other footpaths full of throngs, converging to the whirlpool of the fair, and felt at once repelled and fascinated by the confusio

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Class 9 / Moments English Supplementary Reader / The Lost Child / The Lost Child By Mulk Raj Anand

THE LOST CHILD

THE LOST CHILD There was no reply. He turned to look at his parents. They were not there, ahead of him. He turned to look on either side. They were not there. He looked behind. There was no sign of

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Class 9 / Moments English Supplementary Reader / The Lost Child / The Lost Child By Mulk Raj Anand

THE LOST CHILD

THE LOST CHILD       The man headed towards the place where the snake-charmer still played on the flute to the swaying cobra. “Listen to that nice music, child!&rd

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Class 9 / Moments English Supplementary Reader / The Adventures of Toto / The Adventures of Toto By Ruskin Bond

THE ADVENTURES OF TOTO

THE ADVENTURES OF TOTO GRANDFATHER bought Toto from a tonga-driver for the sum of five rupees. The tonga-driver used to keep the little red monkey tied to a feeding-trough, and the monkey looked so

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Class 9 / Moments English Supplementary Reader / The Adventures of Toto / The Adventures of Toto By Ruskin Bond

THE ADVENTURES OF TOTO

THE ADVENTURES OF TOTO But Grandfather didn’t worry; he seemed pleased with Toto’s performance. “He’s clever,” said Grandfather. “Given time, I’m sure h

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Class 9 / Moments English Supplementary Reader / The Adventures of Toto / The Adventures of Toto By Ruskin Bond

THE ADVENTURES OF TOTO

THE ADVENTURES OF TOTO When Toto was finally accepted by Grandmother he was given a comfortable home in the stable, where he had for a companion the family donkey, Nana. On Toto’s first n

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Class 9 / Moments English Supplementary Reader / Iswaran the Storyteller / Iswaran the Storyteller R K Laxman

ISWARAN THE STORYTELLER

ISWARAN THE STORYTELLER   One night Mahendra woke up from his sleep and saw “a dark cloudy form”. He broke out into a cold sweat. Was it a ghost?     THE

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Class 9 / Moments English Supplementary Reader / Iswaran the Storyteller / Iswaran the Storyteller R K Laxman

ISWARAN THE STORYTELLER

ISWARAN THE STORYTELLER     He was a bachelor. His needs were simple and he was able to adjust himself to all kinds of odd conditions, whether it was an ill-equipped circuit house o

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Class 9 / Moments English Supplementary Reader / Iswaran the Storyteller / Iswaran the Storyteller R K Laxman

ISWARAN THE STORYTELLER

ISWARAN THE STORYTELLER “The place I come from is famous for timber,” Iswaran would begin. “There is a richly wooded forest all around. The logs are hauled on to the lorries by el

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Class 9 / Moments English Supplementary Reader / Iswaran the Storyteller / Iswaran the Storyteller R K Laxman

ISWARAN THE STORYTELLER

ISWARAN THE STORYTELLER The beast looked stunned for a moment; then it shivered from head to foot — and collapsed.”   At this point Iswaran would leave the story unfinished,

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Class 9 / Moments English Supplementary Reader / Iswaran the Storyteller / Iswaran the Storyteller R K Laxman

ISWARAN THE STORYTELLER

ISWARAN THE STORYTELLER   He went on to narrate how he sometimes saw ghosts at night. “I am not easily frightened by these things, sir. I am a brave fellow. But one horrible ghost

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Class 9 / Moments English Supplementary Reader / Iswaran the Storyteller / Iswaran the Storyteller R K Laxman

ISWARAN THE STORYTELLER

ISWARAN THE STORYTELLER But he could only see a sea of darkness with the twinkling lights of the factory miles away. He had always liked to admire the milk-white landscape on full-moon nights. B

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Class 9 / Moments English Supplementary Reader / The Beggar / The Beggar By Anton Chekhov

THE BEGGAR

THE BAGGAR     What induced the beggar, Lushkoff, to change his ways? Let’s read and find out.   “KIND sir, have pity; turn your attention to a poor, hungry m

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Class 9 / Moments English Supplementary Reader / The Beggar / The Beggar By Anton Chekhov

THE BEGGAR

THE BEGGAR “This is dishonesty, my dear sir!” he cried angrily. “This is swindling — I shall send the police for you, damn you!” “Sir!” he said, laying

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Class 9 / Moments English Supplementary Reader / The Beggar / The Beggar By Anton Chekhov

THE BEGGAR

THE BEGGAR Next he saw the pseudo-teacher seat himself on a log and become lost in thought with his red cheeks resting on his fists. The woman flung down an axe at his feet, spat angrily, and,

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Class 9 / Moments English Supplementary Reader / The Beggar / The Beggar By Anton Chekhov

THE BEGGAR

THE BEGGAR Now he would shovel snow, now put the wood-shed in order, now beat the dust out of rugs and mattresses. Every time he received from twenty to forty copecks, and once, even a pair of old

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Class 9 / Moments English Supplementary Reader / The Beggar / The Beggar By Anton Chekhov

THE BEGGAR

THE BEGGAR   “Thank Heaven! That’s fine! I am delighted for your sake. I am very, very glad, Lushkoff. You see, you are my godson, in a sense. I gave you a push along the righ

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Class 8 / English Supplementary Reader / Children At Work / Children At Work

CHILDREN AT WORK

CHILDREN AT WORK     Before you read   There are many reasons why children have to work. Some help their family make a livelihood. Others, who run away from unhappy homes

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Class 8 / English Supplementary Reader / Children At Work / Children At Work

CHILDREN AT WORK

CHILDREN AT WORK   Velu put his head down on his knees, feeling miserable and exhausted. He had run away from his village two days ago. For two days he had eaten nothing but some peanuts an

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Class 8 / English Supplementary Reader / Children At Work / Children At Work

CHILDREN AT WORK

CHILDREN AT WORK “No need to stare stupidly. What’s your name?” “Velu,” muttered Velu, looking away. “So Mr Velu,” said the girl, looking at his bund

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Class 8 / English Supplementary Reader / Children At Work / Children At Work

CHILDREN AT WORK

CHILDREN AT WOR                                                    

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Class 8 / English Supplementary Reader / Children At Work / Children At Work

CHILDREN AT WORK

CHILDREN AT WORK   Velu looked up at the pictures: banians, car tyres, pens, a woman holding a box. The writing was all in English, so he didn’t know what it meant. The girl turned

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Class 8 / English Supplementary Reader / Children At Work / Children At Work

CHILDREN AT WORK

If you are not careful, you will soon be counting bars there,” the girl said. What is she referring to? CHILDREN AT WORK “Hopes!” said the girl shaking her thu

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Class 8 / English Supplementary Reader / Children At Work / Children At Work

CHILDREN AT WORK

CHILDREN AT WORK Velu stared. This was a canal? Near some puddles of water was a row of the strangest huts he had ever seen. They were built out of all sorts of things — metal sheets, tyres,

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Class 8 / English Supplementary Reader / The Selfish Giant / The Selfish Giant

THE SELFISH GIANT

THE SELFISH GIANT   I   The Giant’s garden was beautiful, and children loved to play in it. The Giant, who was selfish, built a high wall round his lovely garden. Ch

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Class 8 / English Supplementary Reader / The Selfish Giant / The Selfish Giant

THE SELFISH GIANT

THE SELFISH GIANT   Once a beautiful flower put its head out from the grass, but when it saw the notice-board it was so sorry for the children that it slipped back into the ground again, an

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Class 8 / English Supplementary Reader / The Selfish Giant / The Selfish Giant

THE SELFISH GIANT

THE SELFISH GIANT The birds were flying about and twittering with delight, and the flowers were looking up through the green grass and laughing. It was a lovely scene. Only in one corner it was sti

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Class 8 / English Supplementary Reader / The Selfish Giant / The Selfish Giant

THE SELFISH GIANT

THE SELFISH GIANT “It is your garden now, little children,” said the Giant, and he took a great axe and knocked down the wall. And when the people were going to market at twelve o&rsquo

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Class 8 / English Supplementary Reader / The Selfish Giant / The Selfish Giant

THE SELFISH GIANT

THE SELFISH GIANT One winter morning he looked out of his window as he was dressing. He did not hate the winter now, for he knew that it was merely the Spring asleep, and that the flowers were rest

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Class 8 / English Supplementary Reader / The Treasure Within / The Treasure Within

THE TREASURE WITHIN

THE TREASURE WITHIN   Before you read   Every child is a potential achiever and is different from other children in her/his style of learning and area of interest.   R

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Class 8 / English Supplementary Reader / The Treasure Within / The Treasure Within

THE TREASURE WITHIN

THE TREASURE WITHIN   I read a book and I can remember the matter as a photograph but not through my mind. That is how it works.   BR: When you were in school and you were

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Class 8 / English Supplementary Reader / The Treasure Within / The Treasure Within

THE TREASURE WITHIN

THE TREASURE WITHIN     Now, who would give me admission in another college? I had got admission to Jaihind by influence.   So I thought, ‘Okay, I will take French&

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Class 8 / English Supplementary Reader / The Treasure Within / The Treasure Within

THE TREASURE WITHIN

THE TREASURE WITHIN In school, when I was in the second or third standard, one of my teachers, Mrs Gupta, saw my sketches and told me, “See, you are useless in everything else but your sketch

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Class 8 / English Supplementary Reader / The Treasure Within / The Treasure Within

THE TREASURE WITHIN

THE TREASURE WITHIN BR: That is because the personality and skills were there. You were able to find expression in a manner you were comfortable with and you defied every rule so that nobody would

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Class 8 / English Supplementary Reader / Princess September / Princess September

PRINCESS SEPTEMBER

PRINCESS SEPTEMBER Princess September, like each one of her numerous sisters, receives the gift of a parrot in a golden cage on her father’s birthday. The parrot dies, and by chance a sing

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Class 8 / English Supplementary Reader / Princess September / Princess September

PRINCESS SEPTEMBER

PRINCESS SEPTEMBER But one day when Princess September went to say good morning to her parrot she found it lying dead at the bottom of its golden cage. She burst into a flood of tears, and noth

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Class 8 / English Supplementary Reader / Princess September / Princess September

PRINCESS SEPTEMBER

PRINCESS SEPTEMBER The little bird gave her a bow. “Would you care to have me in place of your parrot?” said the little bird. “It’s true that I’m not so pretty to look

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Class 8 / English Supplementary Reader / Princess September / Princess September

PRINCESS SEPTEMBER

PRINCESS SEPTEMBER   The Princesses were vexed at this, and the parrots looked very glum indeed. But Princess September ran through all the rooms of the palace, singing like a lark, whi

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Class 8 / English Supplementary Reader / Princess September / Princess September

PRINCESS SEPTEMBER

PRINCESS SEPTEMBER                                                  

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Class 8 / English Supplementary Reader / Princess September / Princess September

PRINCESS SEPTEMBER

PRINCES SEPTEMBER The bird suspected nothing and he was so surprised when she carried him over to the cage, popped him in, and shut the door on him that for a moment he could think of nothing to sa

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Class 8 / English Supplementary Reader / Princess September / Princess September

PRINCESS SEPTEMBER

PRINCESS SEPTEMBER “Don’t be such an old silly,” said September. “I’ve put you in the cage because I’m so fond of you. I know what’s good for you much bett

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Class 8 / English Supplementary Reader / Princess September / Princess September

PRINCESS SEPTEMBER

PRINCESS SEPTEMBER She opened the door and putting her hand in lifted him out. She gave a sob of relief, for she felt that his little heart was beating still. “Wake up, wake up, little bir

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Class 8 / English Supplementary Reader / Princess September / Princess September

PRINCESS SEPTEMBER

PRINCESS SEPTEMBER   He gave himself another shake. “Good gracious me, how stiff I am,” he exclaimed.Then he opened his wings and flew right away into the blue. But the little P

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Class 8 / English Supplementary Reader / The Fight / The Fight

THE FIGHT

THE FIGHT                                                      

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Class 8 / English Supplementary Reader / The Fight / The Fight

THE FIGHT

THE FIGH The rocks, however, held the water in the pool, and it did not dry up like the pools in the plains.     When Ranji saw the pool, he did not hesitate to get into it. He h

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Class 8 / English Supplementary Reader / The Fight / The Fight

THE FIGHT

THE FIGHT “Now — now do you realise — I am a Warrior?” gasped the stranger. “Do you know I am a Fighter?” said Ranji with difficulty. They gave a momen

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Class 8 / English Supplementary Reader / The Fight / The Fight

THE FIGHT

THE FIGHT Instead, he stood his ground and scowled at his passing adversary. And the warrior said nothing either but scowled back with equal ferocity. The next day was as hot as the previous

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Class 8 / English Supplementary Reader / The Fight / The Fight

THE FIGHT

THE FIGHT He was half hoping that the warrior would have forgotten the challenge, but these hopes were dashed when he saw his opponent sitting, stripped to the waist, on a rock on the other side of

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Class 8 / English Supplementary Reader / The Fight / The Fight

THE FIGHT

THE FIGHT “Are you trying to empty the pool?” he asked, as the warrior came to the surface, spouting water like a small whale. “Wasn’t it good?” asked the boy, evid

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Class 8 / English Supplementary Reader / The Fight / The Fight

THE FIGHT

THE FIGHT We have got our own cow! Be my friend, and I will make you a pahelwan like me! I know — if you teach me to dive and swim underwater, I will make you a pahelwan! That

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Class 8 / English Supplementary Reader / The Open Window / The Open Window

THE OPEN WINDOW

THE OPEN WINDOW                                                  &nbs

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Class 8 / English Supplementary Reader / The Open Window / The Open Window

THE OPEN WINDOW

THE OPEN WINDOW   Framton wondered whether Mrs Sappleton, the lady to whom he was presenting one of the letters of introduction, came into the nice division. “Do you know many of t

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Class 8 / English Supplementary Reader / The Open Window / The Open Window

THE OPEN WINDOW

THE OPEN WINDOW “Poor aunt always thinks that they will come back someday, they and the little brown spaniel that was lost with them, and walk in at that window just as they used to do. T

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Class 8 / English Supplementary Reader / The Open Window / The Open Window

THE OPEN WINDOW

THE OPEN WINDOW                                                    

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Class 8 / English Supplementary Reader / The Open Window / The Open Window

THE OPEN WINDOW

THE OPEN WINDOW He made a desperate but only partially successful effort to turn the talk on to a less ghastly topic; he was conscious that his hostess was giving him only a fragment of her attenti

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Class 8 / English Supplementary Reader / The Open Window / The Open Window

THE OPEN WINDOW

THE OPEN WINDOW   Framton shivered slightly and turned towards the niece with a look intended to convey sympathetic comprehension. The child was staring out through the open window with a d

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Class 8 / English Supplementary Reader / Jalebis / Jalebis

JALEBIS

JALEBIS I An honest boy is on his way to school carrying money in his pocket to pay the school fees. The sight of crisp, syrupy jalebis in the market excites him and the coins in his poc

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Class 8 / English Supplementary Reader / Jalebis / Jalebis

JALEBIS

JALEBIS Money is meant to be spent and only they spend it, who like jalebis.” “Look here, you four rupees, I said to them. I am a good boy. Don’t misguide me or it won’t

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Class 8 / English Supplementary Reader / Jalebis / Jalebis

JALEBIS

JALEBIS   After taking a few steps, I loosened my grip. Immediately, the oldest coin said, “Here we are trying to tell you something for your own good and you try to strangle us inste

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Class 8 / English Supplementary Reader / Jalebis / Jalebis

JALEBIS

JALEBIS   Very quickly, boys from the entire neighbourhood assembled in the gali. By that time I was so pleased with my stomach full of jalebis that I got into the mood for some fun. I

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Class 8 / English Supplementary Reader / Jalebis / Jalebis

JALEBIS

JALEBIS Jalebis I had gobbled up easily enough, but digesting them became another matter. With every breath came a burp, and with every burp, the danger of bringing out a jalebi or two — the

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Class 8 / English Supplementary Reader / Jalebis / Jalebis

JALEBIS

JALEBIS The elders had warned me never to cross the railway tracks. Fine. The elders had also warned me that one must never eat sweets with one’s fees money. How did this instruction esc

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Class 8 / English Supplementary Reader / Jalebis / Jalebis

JALEBIS

JALEBIS Then I felt like laughing when it struck me that the tears I was shedding were not tears but drops of jalebi syrup. From the jalebis my thoughts went to the fees, and from fees to Mast

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Class 8 / English Supplementary Reader / Jalebis / Jalebis

JALEBIS

JALEBIS Forget four rupees, there weren’t even four paise in my bag. Just a few textbooks and notebooks. One pencil. One sharpener. One Id card my Mamu had sent me last Id. I felt like cry

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Class 8 / English Supplementary Reader / Jalebis / Jalebis

JALEBIS

JALEBIS Then, crawling on my hands and knees, I reached the tree. I tried my best not to let my eyes stray towards the rock. But as I picked up my bag and was about to leave, I had to look onc

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Class 8 / English Supplementary Reader / The Comet I / The Comet I

THE COMET 1

THE COMET 1                                                  I

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Class 8 / English Supplementary Reader / The Comet II / The Comet II

THE COMET2

THE COMET2 Did you know that India has been the centre of learning since ancient times? How did we come to know about this? There are inscriptions on stones and copper, palm leaf records and o

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Class 7 / English Supplementary Reader / Bringing up Kari / Bringing up Kari By Dhan Gopal Mukerji

BRINIGING UP KARI

BRINGING UP KARI KARI, the elephant, was five months old when he was given to me to take care of. I was nine years old and I could reach his back if I stood on tiptoe. He seemed to remain that high

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Class 7 / English Supplementary Reader / Bringing up Kari / Bringing up Kari By Dhan Gopal Mukerji

BRINGING UP KARI

BRINGING UP KARI   On coming out his skin would be shining like ebony, and he would squeal with pleasure as I rubbed water down his back. Then I would take him by the ear, because

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Class 7 / English Supplementary Reader / Bringing up Kari / Bringing up Kari By Dhan Gopal Mukerji

BRINGING UP KARI

BRINGING UP KARI I thought somebody was hurting him, so I came down from my tree and ran very fast to the edge of the forest where I had left him, but he was not there. I looked all over, b

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Class 7 / English Supplementary Reader / Bringing up Kari / Bringing up Kari By Dhan Gopal Mukerji

BRINGING UP KARI

BRINGING UP KARI   I found myself going under the water again, but this time I found that the water was not very deep so I sank to the bottom of the river and doubled my feet under me

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Class 7 / English Supplementary Reader / Bringing up Kari / Bringing up Kari By Dhan Gopal Mukerji

BRINGING UP KARI

BRINGING UP KARI   Next day, while I was sitting in the dining-room wondering whether I should take some fruit from the table without my parents’ permission, a long, black thing,

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Class 7 / English Supplementary Reader / Bringing up Kari / Bringing up Kari By Dhan Gopal Mukerji

BRINGING UP KARI

BRINGING UP KARI That instant the trunk looked like a black snake, and I realised that Kari was the thief. I went to him, pulled him out by the ear and joyously showed my parents that it was K

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Class 7 / English Supplementary Reader / Bringing up Kari / Bringing up Kari By Dhan Gopal Mukerji

BRINGING UP KARI

BRINGING UP KARI It is, therefore, better to teach him to sit down by saying ‘Dhat’ so that you can climb upon his back, for who would want to carry a ladder around all the time? 

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Class 7 / English Supplementary Reader / The Desert / The Desert

THE DESERT

THE DESTERT THOSE of us who live in regions covered with forests and surrounded by hills may find it difficult to imagine what a desert is really like. The popular belief is that it is an endless s

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Class 7 / English Supplementary Reader / The Desert / The Desert

THE DESERT

THE DESERT A desert may be hot like the Thar or cold like Ladakh. But, generally speaking, if a place has little or no water and vegetation, people usually call it a desert.    

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Class 7 / English Supplementary Reader / The Desert / The Desert

THE DESERT

THE DESERT   All living things need water in order to survive. The few plants and animals that live in deserts have developed the ability to require less water than most plants and animals.

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Class 7 / English Supplementary Reader / The Desert / The Desert

THE DESERT

THE DESERT       Camels can do without water for days together. The reason is they sweat very little. We sweat because we must keep our body temperature constant. W

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Class 7 / English Supplementary Reader / The Cop and the Anthem / The Cop and the Anthem By O Henry

THE COP AND THE ANTHEM

THE COP AND THE ANTHEM BEFORE YOU READ Have you ever found yourself in a situation in which what happened was the opposite of what you expected? If so, you are familiar with the ‘irony&rsq

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Class 7 / English Supplementary Reader / The Cop and the Anthem / The Cop and the Anthem By O Henry

THE COP AND THE ANTHEM

THE COP AND THE ANTHEM   Soapy’s hopes for the winter were not very high. He was not thinking of sailing away on a ship. He was not thinking of southern skies, or of the Bay of Naples

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Class 7 / English Supplementary Reader / The Cop and the Anthem / The Cop and the Anthem By O Henry

THE COP AND THE ANTHEM

THE COP AND THE ANTHEM He could move from one building to another, and he would be taken care of through the winter. But he liked Blackwell’s Island better.   Soapy’s sp

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Class 7 / English Supplementary Reader / The Cop and the Anthem / The Cop and the Anthem By O Henry

THE COP AND THE ANTHEM

THE COP AND THE ANTHEM The part of him that would be seen above the table would look all right. The waiter would bring him what he asked for. He began thinking of what he would like to

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Class 7 / English Supplementary Reader / The Cop and the Anthem / The Cop and the Anthem By O Henry

THE COP AND THE ANTHEM

THE COP AND THE ANTHEM “Where’s the man that did that?” asked the cop. “Don’t you think that I might have done it?” said Soapy. He was friendly and happy.

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Class 7 / English Supplementary Reader / The Cop and the Anthem / The Cop and the Anthem By O Henry

THE COP AND THE ANTHEM

THE COP AND THE ANTHEM When he had finished, he said that he had no money. “Get busy and call a cop,” said Soapy. “And don’t keep a gentleman waiting.” “No

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Class 7 / English Supplementary Reader / The Cop and the Anthem / The Cop and the Anthem By O Henry

THE COP AND THE ANTHEM

THA COP AND THE ANTHEM Then he came to another cop standing in front of a big theatre. He thought of something else to try. He began to shout as if he had too much to drink. His voice was as lou

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Class 7 / English Supplementary Reader / The Cop and the Anthem / The Cop and the Anthem By O Henry

THE COP AND THE ANTHEM

THE COP AND THE ANTHEM   But he had a feeling that he was going to fail again. The cop looked at the two men. “I—” said the umbrella man “— that is &md

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Class 7 / English Supplementary Reader / The Cop and the Anthem / The Cop and the Anthem By O Henry

THE COP AND THE ANTHEM

THE COP AND THE ANTHEM There was time. He was young enough. He would find his old purpose in life, and follow it. That sweet music had changed him. Tomorrow he would find work. A man had once o

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Class 7 / English Supplementary Reader / Golu Grows a Nose / Golu Grows a Nose By Rudyard Kipling

GOLU GROWS A NOSE

GOLU GROWS A NOSE      LONG, long ago the elephant had no trunk. He had only a bulgy nose, as big as a boot. He could wiggle it from side to side, but couldn’t pick up th

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Class 7 / English Supplementary Reader / Golu Grows a Nose / Golu Grows a Nose By Rudyard Kipling

GOLU GROWS A NOSE

GOLU GROWS A NOSE Golu was full of questions. He asked his tall aunt, the ostrich, “Why don’t you ever fly like other birds?” Then he asked his tall uncle, the giraffe, &ldqu

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Class 7 / English Supplementary Reader / Golu Grows a Nose / Golu Grows a Nose By Rudyard Kipling

GOLU GROWS A NOSE

GOLU GROWS A NOSE   The python uncoiled himself from the branch of a tree but said nothing. Golu politely helped him to coil around the branch again and said goodbye to him. Golu moved o

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Class 7 / English Supplementary Reader / Golu Grows a Nose / Golu Grows a Nose By Rudyard Kipling

GOLU GROWS A NOSE

GOLU GROWS A NOSE   Golu sat back on his little haunches and pulled and pulled. The crocodile slipped into the water making it all creamy with great sweeps of his tail, and he also pulled a

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Class 7 / English Supplementary Reader / I Want Something in a Cage / I Want Something in a Cage L E Greeve

I WANT SOMETHING IN A CAGE

I WANT SOMETHING IN A CAGE   MR PURCELL did not believe in ghosts. Nevertheless, the man who bought the two doves, and his strange act immediately thereafter, left him with a distinct sense

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Class 7 / English Supplementary Reader / I Want Something in a Cage / I Want Something in a Cage L E Greeve

I WANT SOMETHING IN A CAGE

I WANT SOMETHING IN A CAGE   Small feet scampered in frantic circles —frightened, bewildered, blindly seeking. Across the shelves pulsed this endless flicker of life. But the customer

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Class 7 / English Supplementary Reader / I Want Something in a Cage / I Want Something in a Cage L E Greeve

I WANT SOMETHING IN A CAGE

I WANT SOMETHING IN A CAGE   Smoke filmed the wintry city and the air was grey with a thick frost. Having completed his usual tasks, Mr Purcell again mounted the high stool, and unfold

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Class 7 / English Supplementary Reader / I Want Something in a Cage / I Want Something in a Cage L E Greeve

I WANT SOMETHING IN A CAGE

I WANT SOMETHING IN A CAGE   The man’s shiny shoes squeaked forward. His suit was cheap, ill-fitting but obviously new. He had a shuttling glance and close-cropped hair. Ignoring Purc

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Class 7 / English Supplementary Reader / I Want Something in a Cage / I Want Something in a Cage L E Greeve

I WANT SOMETHING IN A CAGE

I WANT SOMETHING IN A CAGE   “A bird’s all right.” The customer pointed suddenly to a suspended cage which contained two snowy birds. “Doves? How much for those?&rdq

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Class 7 / English Supplementary Reader / I Want Something in a Cage / I Want Something in a Cage L E Greeve

I WANT SOMETHING IN A CAGE

I WANT SOMETHING IN A CAGE   “They give you five dollars,” laughed the man, “and a cheap suit, and tell you not to get caught again.” Mr Purcell mopped his sweati

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Class 7 / English Supplementary Reader / Chandni / Chandni By Zakir Husain

CHANDNI

CHANDNI   ONCE upon a time there lived an old man in Almora. He was popularly known as Abbu Khan. He lived all alone except for a few goats which he always kept as pets. He gave his goats f

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Class 7 / English Supplementary Reader / Chandni / Chandni By Zakir Husain

CHANDNI

CHANDNI Are these goats mad, he wondered! Or was it their love for freedom! But freedom meant struggle, hardship, even death. Abbu Khan couldn’t solve the mystery. One day, when all hi

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Class 7 / English Supplementary Reader / Chandni / Chandni By Zakir Husain

CHANDNI

CHANDNI She had a friendly temperament, and would listen to Abbu Khan’s tales with a lot of interest and affection. Abbu Khan called her Chandni, which means ‘moonlight’.

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Class 7 / English Supplementary Reader / Chandni / Chandni By Zakir Husain

CHANDNI

CHANDNI Every morning Chandni watched the hilltops bathed in the sunlight. “How beautiful those hills are!” she thought. “How refreshing the breeze that blows through them! And ho

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Class 7 / English Supplementary Reader / Chandni / Chandni By Zakir Husain

CHANDNI

CHANDNI   “Fight the wolf, indeed! Have you forgotten the story of your sister Kalua who was the size of a big deer. She fought the wolf through the night but was killed in the mornin

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Class 7 / English Supplementary Reader / Chandni / Chandni By Zakir Husain

CHANDNI

CHANDNI Chandni reached the hills. It seemed to her that the old hills were standing in a row to welcome her. She felt like a child meeting her parents after years of separation. Wherever she we

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Class 7 / English Supplementary Reader / Chandni / Chandni By Zakir Husain

CHANDNI

CHANDNI Should she go back to the safety of Abbu Khan’s hut? “No,” she said to herself, “death in an open field is far better than life in a small hut”. The wolf h

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Class 7 / English Supplementary Reader / The Bear Story / The Bear Story By Axel Munthe

THE BEAR STORY

THE BEAR STORY THERE was once a lady who lived in an old manor-house on the border of a big forest. This lady had a pet bear she was very fond of. It had been found in the forest, half dead of hung

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Class 7 / English Supplementary Reader / The Bear Story / The Bear Story By Axel Munthe

THE BEAR STORY

THE BEAR STORY He had never tasted meat; he ate the same food as the dogs and often out of the same plate—bread, porridge, potato, cabbage, turnip. He had a fine appetite, and h

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Class 7 / English Supplementary Reader / The Bear Story / The Bear Story By Axel Munthe

THE BEAR STORY

THE BEAR STORY He was also put on the chain on Sundays when his mistress went to spend the afternoon with her married sister who lived in a solitary house on the other side of the mountain-lak

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Class 7 / English Supplementary Reader / The Bear Story / The Bear Story By Axel Munthe

THE BEAR STORY

THE BEAR STORY The  lady was very angry, she was already late for lunch, there was no time to take him back home, she did not want him to come with her, and, besides, it was very naughty of hi

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Class 7 / English Supplementary Reader / The Bear Story / The Bear Story By Axel Munthe

THE BEAR STORY

THE BEAR STORY When the lady came home in the evening, the bear was sitting in his usual place outside his kennel looking very sorry for himself. The lady was still very angry. She went up to him a

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Class 7 / English Supplementary Reader / A Tiger in the House / A Tiger in the House By Ruskin Bond

A TIGER IN HOUSE

A TIGER IN HOUSE TIMOTHY, the tiger-cub, was discovered by Grandfather in the Terai jungle near Dehra. One day, when Grandfather was strolling down the forest path at some distance from the rest

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Class 7 / English Supplementary Reader / A Tiger in the House / A Tiger in the House By Ruskin Bond

A TIGER IN A HOUSE

A TIGER IN A HOUSE Timothy was provided with two companions —Toto, the monkey, who was bold enough to pull the young tiger by the tail, and then climb up the curtains if Timothy lost his

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Class 7 / English Supplementary Reader / A Tiger in the House / A Tiger in the House By Ruskin Bond

A TIGER IN THE HOUSE

A TIGER IN THE HOUSE   Timothy had clean habits, and would scrub his face with his paws exactly like a cat. He slept at night in the cook’s quarters, and was always delighted at being

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Class 7 / English Supplementary Reader / A Tiger in the House / A Tiger in the House By Ruskin Bond

A TIGER IN THE HOUSE

A TIGER IN THE HOUSE He licked Grandfather’s hands and only sprang away when a leopard in the next cage snarled at him. Grandfather ‘shooed’ the leopard away, and the tiger re

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Class 7 / English Supplementary Reader / A Tiger in the House / A Tiger in the House By Ruskin Bond

A TIGER IN THE HOUSE

A TIGER IN THE HOUSE Grandfather went in search of the Superintendent of the zoo, but found that he had gone home early; and so, after wandering about the zoo for a little while, he returned to Tim

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Class 7 / English Supplementary Reader / An Alien Hand / An Alien Hand By Jayant Narlikar

AN ALIEN HAND

AN ALIEN HAND BEFORE YOU READ Have you heard of the Viking Mission to Mars? The National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) Viking Mission to Mars was composed of two spacecr

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Class 7 / English Supplementary Reader / An Alien Hand / An Alien Hand By Jayant Narlikar

AN ALIEN HAND

AN ALIEN HAND “TILLOO! How often have you been told not to go that way?” “But why does Daddy go there every day?” “Because that’s his job, Tilloo!”

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Class 7 / English Supplementary Reader / An Alien Hand / An Alien Hand By Jayant Narlikar

AN ALIEN HAND

AN ALIEN HAND   Gently but firmly he was escorted by the security staff back home to an anxious and angry mother. While he was being scolded he received help from an unexpected quarter

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Class 7 / English Supplementary Reader / An Alien Hand / An Alien Hand By Jayant Narlikar

AN ALIEN HAND

AN ALIEN HAND   “Daddy, can I join the team when I grow up?” “Of course, if you want to,” said his father. “But for that you must be a good boy and do as

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Class 7 / English Supplementary Reader / An Alien Hand / An Alien Hand By Jayant Narlikar

AN ALIEN HAND

AN ALIEN HAND A spacecraft? Where from? The solar system wasn’t known to have any life anywhere else except on their planet. Tilloo’s father recalled the ancient days recorded in the ar

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Class 7 / English Supplementary Reader / An Alien Hand / An Alien Hand By Jayant Narlikar

AN ALIEN HAND

AN ALIEN HAND If we destroy these spaceships or render them ineffective, we might reveal our existence.” The President looked at Number Three, a social scientist. He rarely agreed with Num

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Class 7 / English Supplementary Reader / An Alien Hand / An Alien Hand By Jayant Narlikar

AN ALIEN HAND

AN ALIEN HAND “What a funny looking thing, Daddy! What does it contain?” Tilloo asked. His father shook his head, “Can’t say for sure. We are only allowed to observe it f

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Class 7 / English Supplementary Reader / An Alien Hand / An Alien Hand By Jayant Narlikar

AN ALIEN HAND

AN ALIEN HAND A mechanical hand was emerging from the spacecraft. It was approaching the surface of the planet. It bent and touched the soil. What was it up to? People crowded towards the

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Class 6 / A Pact With The Sun / A Tale of Two Birds / A Tale of Two Birds

A TALE OF TWO BIRDS

A TALE OF TWO BIRDS   THERE once lived a bird and her two new-born babies in a forest. They had a nest in a tall, shady tree and there the mother bird took care of her little ones day and n

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A TALE OF TWO BIRDS

A TALE OF TWO BIRDS Days passed and the baby birds became big birds. One day, the king of the country came to the forest to hunt. He saw a deer and rode after it. It ran deep into the forest follow

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Class 6 / A Pact With The Sun / A Tale of Two Birds / A Tale of Two Birds

A TALE OF TWO BIRDS

A TALE OF TWO BIRDS “Welcome, Sir,” he said to the king. “Please come inside and make yourself at home. You look tired. Rest for a while. Then you can share my food.” The

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Class 6 / A Pact With The Sun / The Friendly Mongoose / The Friendly Mongoose

THE FRIENDLY MONGOOSE

THE FRIENDLY MONGOOSE   ONCE a farmer and his wife lived in a village with their small son. They loved him very much. “We must have a pet,” the farmer said to his wife one day.

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THE FRIENDLY MONGOOSE

THE FRIENDLY MONGOOSE Both the baby and the mongoose grew. In five or six months the mongoose had grown to its full size — a lovely animal with two shining black eyes and a bushy tail. The fa

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Class 6 / A Pact With The Sun / The Friendly Mongoose / The Friendly Mongoose

THE FRIENDLY MONGOOSE

THE FRIENDLY MONGOOSE The baby was fast asleep. But on the floor lay a black snake torn and bleeding. In a flash she realised what had happened. She ran out looking for the mongoose. “Oh!

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Class 6 / A Pact With The Sun / The Shepherd’s Treasure / The Shepherd’s Treasure

THE SHEPHERD'S TREASURE

THE SHEPHERD’S TREASURE     IN a village in Iran there once lived a shepherd. He was very poor. He did not have even a small cottage of his own. He had never been to school or

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Class 6 / A Pact With The Sun / The Shepherd’s Treasure / The Shepherd’s Treasure

THE SHEPHERD'S TREASURE

THE SHEPHERD'S TREASURE As soon as the shepherd saw the traveller coming towards the cave, he rose to welcome him. He took the tired traveller inside the cave, gave him water to drink and a sha

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Class 6 / A Pact With The Sun / The Shepherd’s Treasure / The Shepherd’s Treasure

THE SHEPHERD'S TREASURE

THE SHEPHERD'S TREASURE After all,they said mockingly, he was an ordinary shepherd and could behave no better. At first the king did not pay attention to these reports, but how long could he

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Class 6 / A Pact With The Sun / The Old Clock Shop / The Old Clock Shop

THE OLD CLOCK SHOP

THE  OLD CLOCK SHOP   CHRISTMAS Eve had arrived. As last-minute shoppers were going home, a thick, white sheet of snow lay over Salt Lake City, USA. Yet the lights were still burning i

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Class 6 / A Pact With The Sun / The Old Clock Shop / The Old Clock Shop

THE OLD CLOCK SHOP

THE OLD CLOCK SHOP He was not a pawnbroker, but at the same time couldn’t say ‘No’ to the needy people who placed their old watches or clocks before him for anything they could ge

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Class 6 / A Pact With The Sun / Tansen / Tansen

TANSEN

TANSEN YOU may have heard the name of Tansen — the greatest musician our country has produced. A singer called Mukandan Misra and his wife lived in Behat near Gwalior. Tansen was their onl

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Class 6 / A Pact With The Sun / Tansen / Tansen

TANSEN

TANSEN A famous singer named Swami Haridas was once travelling through  the  forest  with  his  disciples.  T ired, the group settled down to rest in a shady grove. Ta

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Class 6 / A Pact With The Sun / Tansen / Tansen

TANSEN

TANSEN Tansen had, by this time, become very famous. Sometimes he sang before Emperor Akbar, who was so impressed by him that he insisted Tansen should join his court. Tansen went to Akbar&rsquo

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Class 6 / A Pact With The Sun / Tansen / Tansen

TANSEN

TANSEN Then he had an idea. “If someone sings Raga Megh at the same time, and sings it properly, it will bring rain. Perhaps our daughter, Saraswati, and her friend, Rupvati, could do it

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Class 6 / A Pact With The Sun / The Monkey and the Crocodile / The Monkey and the Crocodile

THE MONKEY AND THE CROCODILE

THE MONKEY AND THE CROCODILE     ONCE, on the bank of a river, a monkey made a home for himself in a tree laden with fruit. He lived in it happily eating to his heart’s conten

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Class 6 / A Pact With The Sun / The Monkey and the Crocodile / The Monkey and the Crocodile

THE MONKEY AND THE CROCODILE

THE MONKEY AND THE CROCODILE   The monkey plucked some from the nearest branch and threw them down. The crocodile found them delicious. “Thanks,” he said. “May I have some

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Class 6 / A Pact With The Sun / The Monkey and the Crocodile / The Monkey and the Crocodile

THE MONKEY AND THE CROCODILE

THE MONKEY AND THE CROCODILE His wife was furious and she dived in to hide herself at the bottom of the river leaving the little ones to pester their father. The crocodile was in a serious dile

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Class 6 / A Pact With The Sun / The Monkey and the Crocodile / The Monkey and the Crocodile

THE MONKEY AND THE CROCODILE

THE MONKEY AND THE CROCODILE   The monkey was scared and distressed. But he was sensible and clever like all monkeys. He kept a cool head. Calmly he said, “I’d do anything for y

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Class 6 / A Pact With The Sun / The Wonder Called Sleep / The Wonder Called Sleep

THE WONDER CALLED SLEEP

THE WONDER CALLED SLEEP WE know enough about what sleep is, though we don’t know what exactly causes sleep. Sleep is a state of rest — an unconscious rest. When we sleep, our body recov

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Class 6 / A Pact With The Sun / The Wonder Called Sleep / The Wonder Called Sleep

THE WONDER CALLED SLEEP

THE WONDER CALLED SLEEP   Several things happen to our body while we are sleeping. As we sink deeper into sleep, our muscles relax more and more. Our heartbeat becomes slower. Our temperatu

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Class 6 / A Pact With The Sun / The Wonder Called Sleep / The Wonder Called Sleep

THE WONDER CALLED SLEEP

THE WONDER CALLED SLEEP Here is one in which the poet is describing the experience of falling asleep. Read it aloud.                      

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Class 6 / A Pact With The Sun / A Pact with the Sun / A Pact with the Sun

A PACT WITH THE SUN

A PACT WITH THE SUN   SAEEDA’S mother had been ailing for a long time — fever, cough, body-ache, painful joints and what not. Treated by a variety of physicians for weeks, she o

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A PACT WITH THE SUN

A PACT WITH THE SUN When she became critical, her relatives and neighbours persuaded her to consult a specialist even though his fee was likely to be high. Life is more precious than money, they sa

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Class 6 / A Pact With The Sun / A Pact with the Sun / A Pact with the Sun

A PACT WITH THE SUN

A PACT WITH THE SUN Saeeda’s mother was dejected. She muttered, “O Lord of mine, why have you ordered the sun to remain hidden? How will I ever be cured?” Saeeda was playi

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Class 6 / A Pact With The Sun / A Pact with the Sun / A Pact with the Sun

A PACT WITH THE SUN

A PACT WITH THE SUN One of them, though, who had made a pact with little Saeeda said, “Sir, I can’t stay back. I’ve given my word to Saeeda whose mother is ill and needs our

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Class 6 / A Pact With The Sun / What Happened to the Reptiles / What Happened to the Reptiles

WHAT HAPPENEND TO THE REPTILES

  WHAT HAPPENED TO THE REPTILES   YOU may not believe this story. But I can tell you it is true, because I have been to Pambupatti, a village on the edge of the jungle. It is on a c

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Class 6 / A Pact With The Sun / What Happened to the Reptiles / What Happened to the Reptiles

WHAT HAPPENED TO THE REPTILES

WHAT HAPPENED TO THE REPTILES   Never mind, everyone seemed to be running. Finally, I found myself in Pambupatti, and I saw some villagers gathered near a well. I ran to them, and befo

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Class 6 / A Pact With The Sun / What Happened to the Reptiles / What Happened to the Reptiles

WHAT HAPPENED TO THE REPTILES

WHAT HAPPENED TO THE REPTILES “Oh, Grandfather,” I said anxiously, “don’t say that. What I have seen in my village makes me burn with shame. I never, never want to go back t

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Class 6 / A Pact With The Sun / What Happened to the Reptiles / What Happened to the Reptiles

WHAT HAPPENED TO THE REPTILES

WHAT HAPPENED TO THE REPTILES Everyone came — the pretty excited snakes, the slow thoughtful tortoises, the clever quick lizards, and the moody crocodiles, grumpy because they were out o

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Class 6 / A Pact With The Sun / What Happened to the Reptiles / What Happened to the Reptiles

WHAT HAPPENED TO THE REPTILES

WHAT HAPPENED TO THE REPTILES   “No BUTS! Now, listen. I have told the tortoises that they will have to move out of Pambupatti. When they go, we will have more of everything. More foo

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WHAT HAPPENED TO THE REPTILES

WHAT HAPPENED TO THE REPTILES You never knew when one of them might lose his temper and spit some venom at you! And it took only a little poison to kill you, after all. A few weeks passed an

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Class 6 / A Pact With The Sun / What Happened to the Reptiles / What Happened to the Reptiles

WHAT HAPPENED TO THE REPTILE

WHAT HAPPENED TO THE REPTILES  He called a meeting of the crocodiles and said, “Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we, the crocodiles, could have the WHOLE jungle for ourselves? No&n

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WHAT HAPPENED TO THE REPTILES

WHAT HAPPENED TO THE REPTILES Then one day, a squeaky little voice piped up at one of their meetings, “We know why the forest has gone crazy, don’t we?” Suddenly everyone was s

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Class 6 / A Pact With The Sun / A Strange Wrestling Match / A Strange Wrestling Match

A STRANGE WRESTLING MATCH

A STRANGE WRESTLING MATCH     THERE was once a wrestler called Vijay Singh. A tall man with massive shoulders and muscular arms, he towered over others like a giant. Vijay Singh, pe

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A STRANGE WRESTLING MATCH

A STRANGE WRESTLING MATCH There were murmurs of applause as well as apprehension among the young men. “If you walk alone at night through the Haunted Desert,” one of them said, “y

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A STRANGE WRESTLING MATCH

A STRANGE WRESTLING MATCH As he walked, the night deepened. The moon was bright and the stars shone clearly in the Rajasthan sky. Still a few miles short of his destination, Vijay Singh remembe

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Class 6 / A Pact With The Sun / A Strange Wrestling Match / A Strange Wrestling Match

A STRANGE WRESTLING MATCH

A STRANGE WRESTLING MATCH   They often fainted. But here was this unfeeling creature claiming he wanted to meet a ghost. It didn’t make sense. “Really, I don’t know why

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Class 10 / Footprints without Feet / A Triumph of Surgery / A Triumph of Surgery By JAMES HERRIOT

A Triumph of Surgery

A Triumph of Surgery I WAS really worried about Tricki this time. I had pulled up my car when I saw him in the street with his mistress and I was shocked at his appearance. He had become hugely fat

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A Triumph of Surgery

A Triumph of Surgery     I tried to sound severe: “Now I really mean this. If you don’t cut his food right down and give him more exercise he is going to be rea

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A Triumph of Surgery

A Triumph of Surgery   The entire staff was roused and maids rushed in and out bringing his day bed, his night bed, favourite cushions, toys and rubber rings, breakfast bowl, lunch bowl, su

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A Triumph of Surgery

A Triumph of Surgery When they had finished, Tricki took a walk round the shining bowls, licking casually inside one or two of them. Next day, an extra bowl was put out for him and I was please

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A Triumph of Surgery

A Triumph of Surgery   We could hardly believe it when the brandy came to put a final edge on Tricki’s constitution. For a few nights the fine spirit was rolled around, inhaled and re

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Class 10 / Footprints without Feet / The Thief’s Story / The Thief’s Story By RUSKIN BOND

The Thief's Story

The Thief’s Story I WAS still a thief when I met Anil. And though only 15, I was an experienced and fairly successful hand. Anil was watching a wrestling match when I approached him. He wa

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The Thief's Story

The Thief's Story I thought that over for a minute. Perhaps I had misjudged my man. I asked, “Can you feed me?” “Can you cook?” “I can cook,” I lied ag

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The Thief's Story

The Thief's Story Anil made money by fits and starts. He would borrow one week, lend the next. He kept worrying about his next cheque, but as soon as it arrived he would go out and celebrate. I

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The Thief's Story

The Thief's Story   When I reached the station I did not stop at the ticket office (I had never bought a ticket in my life) but dashed straight to the platform. The Lucknow Express

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The Thief's Story

The Thief's Story I went back to the bazaar and sat down in the shelter of the clock tower. The clock showed midnight. I felt for the notes. They were damp from the rain. Anil’s money.

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Class 10 / Footprints without Feet / The Midnight Visitor / The Midnight Visitor By ROBERT ARTHUR

The Midnight Visitor

The Midnight Visitor   AUSABLE did not fit any description of a secret agent Fowler had ever read. Following him down the musty corridor of the gloomy French hotel where Ausable had a room,

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The Mid night Visitor

The Mid night Visitor       Some day soon that paper may well affect the course of history. In that thought is drama, is there not?”   As he spoke, Ausa

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The Midnight Visitor

The Midnight Visitor   Ausable moved to an armchair and sat down heavily. “I’m going to raise the devil with the management this time, and you can bet on it,” he said grim

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The Midnight Visitor

The Midnight Visitor Keeping his body twisted so that his gun still covered the fat man and his guest, the man at the window grasped the frame with his free hand to support himself. Then he swu

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Class 10 / Footprints without Feet / A Question of Trust / A Question of Trust By VICTOR CANNING

A Question of Trust

A Question of Trust     EVERYONE thought that Horace Danby was a good, honest citizen. He was about fifty years old and unmarried, and he lived with a housekeeper who worried over h

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A Question of Trust

A Question of Trust He had seen the housekeeper hang the key to the kitchen door on a hook outside. He put on a pair of gloves, took the key, and opened the door. He was always careful not to leave

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A Question of Trust

A Question of Trust   It was a quiet, kindly voice, but one with firmness in it. A woman was standing in the doorway, and Sherry was rubbing against her. She was young, quite pretty, and wa

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A Question of Trust

A Question of Trust   Horace said, “I would, of course, cut the telephone wires first and then...,” he hesitated, a smile on his face, “I would make sure that you could do

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A Question of Trust

A Question of Trust And within an hour Horace had opened the safe, given her the jewels, and gone happily away. For two days he kept his promise to the kind young lady. On the morning of the

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Class 10 / Footprints without Feet / Footprints without Feet / Footprints without Feet By H G WELLS

Footprints without Feet

Footprints without Feet THE two boys started in surprise at the fresh muddy imprints of a pair of bare feet. What was a barefooted man doing on the steps of a house, in the middle of London? And wh

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Class 10 / Footprints without Feet / Footprints without Feet / Footprints without Feet By H G WELLS

Footprints without Feet

Footprints without Feet   He escaped easily enough from the boys who followed his footprints in London. But his adventures were by no means over. He had chosen a bad time of the year to wan

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Class 10 / Footprints without Feet / Footprints without Feet / Footprints without Feet By H G WELLS

Footprints without Feet

Footprints without Feet They naturally gave chase. In the end he was able to escape only by quickly taking off his newly- found clothes. So once more he found himself invisible but naked in the chi

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Class 10 / Footprints without Feet / Footprints without Feet / Footprints without Feet By H G WELLS

Footprints without Feet

Footprints without Feet   Then to his amazement he realised that the room appeared to be empty. He and his wife looked under the desk, and behind the curtains, and even up the chimney. Ther

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Class 10 / Footprints without Feet / Footprints without Feet / Footprints without Feet By H G WELLS

Footprints without Feet

Footprints without Feet The scientist was always quick-tempered; now he became furious. “You don’t understand who or what I am!” he shouted. “Very well — I&rsqu

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Class 10 / Footprints without Feet / The Making of a Scientist / The Making of a Scientist By ROBERT W PETERSON

The Making of a Scientist

The Making of a Scientist   AT the age of twenty-two, a former ‘scout of the year’ excited the scientific world with a new theory on how cells work. Richard H. Ebright and his c

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Class 10 / Footprints without Feet / The Making of a Scientist / The Making of a Scientist By ROBERT W PETERSON

The Making of Scientist

The Making of Scientist From the first he had a driving curiosity along with a bright mind. He also had a mother who encouraged his interest in learning. She took him on trips, bought him telescope

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Class 10 / Footprints without Feet / The Making of a Scientist / The Making of a Scientist By ROBERT W PETERSON

The Making of Scientist

The Making of Scientist   At the end of the book, readers were invited to help study butterfly migrations. They were asked to tag butterflies for research by Dr Frederick A. Urquhart of the

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Class 10 / Footprints without Feet / The Making of a Scientist / The Making of a Scientist By ROBERT W PETERSON

The Making of Scientist

The Making of Scientist   Then in the seventh grade he got a hint of what real science is when he entered a county science fair — and lost. “It was really a sad feeling to sit t

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The Making of Scientist

The Making of Scientist In his second year in high school, Richard Ebright began the research that led to his discovery of an unknown insect hormone. lndirectly, it also led to his new theory on th

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Class 10 / Footprints without Feet / The Making of a Scientist / The Making of a Scientist By ROBERT W PETERSON

The Making of Scientist

The Making of Scientist   Ebright and his college room-mate, James R. Wong, worked all that night drawing pictures and constructing plastic models of molecules to show how it could happen.

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Class 10 / Footprints without Feet / The Necklace / The Necklace By GUY DE MAUPASSANT

The Necklace

The Necklace SHE was one of those pretty, young ladies, born as if through an error of destiny, into a family of clerks. She had no dowry, no hopes, no means of becoming known, loved, and married b

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Class 10 / Footprints without Feet / The Necklace / The Necklace By GUY DE MAUPASSANT

The Necklace

The Necklace   She quickly drew out a printed card on which were inscribed these words   The Minister of Public Instruction and Madame George Ramponneau ask the honour

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Class 10 / Footprints without Feet / The Necklace / The Necklace By GUY DE MAUPASSANT

The Necklace

The Necklace   Finally she said, in a hesitating voice, “I cannot tell exactly, but it seems to me that four hundred francs ought to cover it.” He turned a little pale,

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Class 10 / Footprints without Feet / The Necklace / The Necklace By GUY DE MAUPASSANT

The Necklace

The Necklace   She fell upon the neck of her friend, embraced her with passion, then went away with her treasure. The day of the ball arrived. Mme Loisel was a great success. She was the

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Class 10 / Footprints without Feet / The Necklace / The Necklace By GUY DE MAUPASSANT

The Necklace

The Necklace   “Yes, I felt it as we came out.” “But if you had lost it in the street, we should have heard it fall. It must be in the cab.” “Yes, it i

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Class 10 / Footprints without Feet / The Necklace / The Necklace By GUY DE MAUPASSANT

The Necklace

The Necklace   Mme Forestier did not open the jewel-box as Mme Loisel feared she would. What would she think if she should perceive the substitution? What should she say? Would she take her

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Class 10 / Footprints without Feet / The Necklace / The Necklace By GUY DE MAUPASSANT

The Necklace

The Necklace “Yes, I have had some hard days since I saw you; and some miserable ones — and all because of you ...” “Because of me? How is that?” &ldquo

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Class 10 / Footprints without Feet / The Hack Driver / The Hack Driver By SINCLAIR LEWIS

The Hack Driver

The Hack Driver   AFTER graduating with honours, I became a junior assistant clerk in a magnificent law firm. I was sent, not to prepare legal briefs, but to serve summons, like a cheap pri

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Class 10 / Footprints without Feet / The Hack Driver / The Hack Driver By SINCLAIR LEWIS

The Hack Driver

The Hack Driver   “Lutkins? I saw him around here about an hour ago. Hard fellow to catch though — always up to something or other. He’s probably trying to start up a poke

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Class 10 / Footprints without Feet / The Hack Driver / The Hack Driver By SINCLAIR LEWIS

The Hack Driver

The Hack Driver He’s not really bad, but it’s hard to make him part with his money. If you try to collect from him, in those fancy clothes, he’ll be suspicious and get away from y

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Class 10 / Footprints without Feet / The Hack Driver / The Hack Driver By SINCLAIR LEWIS

The Hack Driver

The Hack Driver “How about something to eat?” I suggested. “Let’s go to a restaurant and I’ll buy you lunch.”     “Well, I ought to go h

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Class 10 / Footprints without Feet / The Hack Driver / The Hack Driver By SINCLAIR LEWIS

The Hack Driver

The Hack Driver “I know Oliver’s mother. She’s a terror,” Bill sighed. “I took a trunk out there for her once, and she almost took my skin off because I didn’t t

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Class 10 / Footprints without Feet / The Hack Driver / The Hack Driver By SINCLAIR LEWIS

The Hack Driver

The Hack Driver That morning my promising legal career almost came to an end before it had begun. The Chief almost murdered me. He hinted that I might do well at digging ditches. I was orde

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Class 10 / Footprints without Feet / Bholi / Bholi By K A ABBAS

Bholi

Bholi   HER name was Sulekha, but since her childhood everyone had been calling her Bholi, the simpleton. She was the fourth daughter of Numberdar Ramlal. When she was ten months old, sh

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Class 10 / Footprints without Feet / Bholi / Bholi By K A ABBAS

Bholi

Bholi Bholi was seven years old when Mangla was married. The same year a primary school for girls was opened in their village. The Tehsildar sahib came to perform its opening ceremony. He said

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Bholi

Bholi She did not know what a school was like. She remembered how a few days ago their old cow, Lakshmi, had been turned out of the house and sold. “N-n-n-n NO, no-no-no,” s

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Class 10 / Footprints without Feet / Bholi / Bholi By K A ABBAS

Bholi

Bholi Bholi did not know what exactly a school was like and what happened there, but she was glad to find so many girls almost of her own age present there. She hoped that one of these girls might

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Class 10 / Footprints without Feet / Bholi / Bholi By K A ABBAS

Bholi

Bholi “Yes, yes, it will be very easy. You just come to school everyday. Will you come?” Bholi nodded.   “No, say it aloud.”     “Ye-Y

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Class 10 / Footprints without Feet / Bholi / Bholi By K A ABBAS

Bholi

Bholi “So what does it matter?” his wife replied. “Forty-five or fifty — it is no great age for a man. We are lucky that he is from another village and does not know about h

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Bholi

Bholi   On Bishamber’s greedy face appeared a triumphant smile. He had gambled and won.   “Give me the garland,” he announced. Once again the veil was slipp

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Bholi

Bholi Ramlal was thunderstruck. The guests began to whisper, “So shameless! So ugly and so shameless!” “Bholi, are you crazy?” shouted Ramlal. “You want to disgrace

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Class 10 / Footprints without Feet / The Book That Saved the Earth / The Book That Saved the Earth By CLAIRE BOIKO

The Book That Saved The Earth

The Book That Saved The Earth                                               &nb

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The Book That Saved The Earth

The Book That Saved The Earth   But the strangest thing a book ever did was to save the Earth. You haven’t heard about the Martian invasion of 2040? Tsk, tsk. What do they teach child

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The Book That Saved The Earth

The Book That Saved The Earth NOODLE              : It shall be done, sir. (He hands Think-Tank a mirror.) THINK-TANK  

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The Book That Saved The Earth

The Book That Saved The Earth NOODLE : (speaking into a microphone) Mars Space Control calling the crew of Probe One. Mars Space Control calling the crew of Probe One.Come in, Captain

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The Book That Saved The Earth

The Book That Saved The Earth THINK-TANK : Elementary, my dear Omega. Hold one of the items up so that I may view it closely. (Omega holds a book on the palm of her hand.) Yes, yes, I

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The Book That Saved The Earth

The Book That Saved The Earth   OMEGA                : Oh, no, no. But poor Lieutenant Iota has not had her breakf

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The Book That Saved The Earth

The Book That Saved The Earth OMEGA                : Listen to them? IOTA AND OOP   : (to each other, puzzled

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The Book That Saved The Earth

The Book That Saved The Earth IOTA                     : There seems to be some sort of code.

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The Book That Saved The Earth

The Book That Saved The Earth   THINK-TANK       : Excellent. Now, decipher that code. ALL           

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The Book That Saved The Earth

The Book That Saved The Earth   THINK-TANK : Cease laughter. Desist. This is more and more alarming. The Earthlings have reached a high level of civilisation. Didn’t you hea

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Class 10 / Maths / Real Numbers / Introduction To Real Numbers

INTRODUCTION

INTRODUCTION In Class IX, you began your exploration of the world of real numbers and encountered irrational numbers. We continue our discussion on real numbers in this chapter. We begin with two v

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Class 10 / Maths / Real Numbers / Euclid’s Division Lemma

Euclid's Division Lemma

Euclid's Division Lemma Consider the following folk puzzle*. A trader was moving along a road selling eggs. An idler who didn’t have much work to do, started to get the trader into a w

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Theorem 1.1(Euclid's Division Lemma)

Theorem 1.1(Euclid's Division Lemma) Given positive integers a and b, there exist unique integers q and r satisfying a = bq + r, 0 \(% MathType!MTEF!2!1!+- % feaagKart1ev2aaatCvAUfeBSjuyZ

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Class 10 / Maths / Real Numbers / Euclid’s Division Lemma

EXAMPLES 1 AND 2(Euclid's Division Lemma)

EXAMPLES 1 AND 2(Euclid's Division Lemma) Example 1 : Use Euclid’s algorithm to find the HCF of 4052 and 12576. Solution : Step 1 : Since 12576 > 4052, we apply the division lemm

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Class 10 / Maths / Real Numbers / Euclid’s Division Lemma

EXAMPLE 3 AND 4 (Euclid's Division Lemma)

EXAMPLE 3 AND 4 (Euclid's Division Lemma)   Example 3 : Show that any positive odd integer is of the form 4q + 1 or 4q + 3, where q is some integer.   Solution : &nbs

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Class 10 / Maths / Real Numbers / The Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic

The Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic

The Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic In your earlier classes, you have seen that any natural number can be written as a product of its prime factors. For instance, 2 = 2, 4 = 2 × 2, 253 = 11

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Class 10 / Maths / Real Numbers / The Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic

Theorem 1.2 (Fundamental Theorem Of Arithmetic)

Theorem 1.2 (Fundamental Theorem Of Arithmetic)   Every composite number can be expressed ( factorised ) as a product of primes, and this factorisation is unique, apart from the order in wh

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Class 10 / Maths / Real Numbers / The Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic

Example 5 and 6 (The Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic)

Example 5 and 6 (The Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic) Example 5 : Consider the numbers 4n, where n is a natural number. Check whether there is any value of n for which 4n ends with the digit zero

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Class 10 / Maths / Real Numbers / The Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic

Example 7 and 8 (The Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic)

Example 7 and 8 (The Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic)   Example 7 : Find the HCF of 96 and 404 by the prime factorisation method. Hence, find their LCM.   Solution :  

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Class 10 / Maths / Real Numbers / Revisiting Irrational Numbers

Explanation of Revisiting Irrational Numbers

Explanation of Revisiting Irrational Numbers In Class IX, you were introduced to irrational numbers and many of their properties. You studied about their existence and how the rationals and the irr

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Class 10 / Maths / Real Numbers / Revisiting Irrational Numbers

Theorem 1.3 and 1.4

Theorem 1.3 and 1.4     Theorem 1.3 : Let p be a prime number. If p divides a2, then p divides a, where a is a positive integer. *Proof : Let the prime factorisation of a be as f

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Class 10 / Maths / Real Numbers / Revisiting Irrational Numbers

Examples 9,10 and 11

Examples 9,10 and 11 Examples 9 :Prove that \(\sqrt2\) is irrational. Solution: Let us assume, to the contrary, that \(\sqrt3\) is rational. That is, we can find integers a

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Class 10 / Maths / Real Numbers / Revisiting Rational Numbers and Their Decimal Expansions

EXPLANATION

EXPLANATION In Class IX, you studied that rational numbers have either a terminating decimal expansion or a non-terminating repeating decimal expansion. In this section, we are going to consid

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EXPLANATION

EXPLANATION In Class IX, you studied that rational numbers have either a terminating decimal expansion or a non-terminating repeating decimal expansion. In this section, we are going to consid

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Class 10 / Maths / Real Numbers / Revisiting Rational Numbers and Their Decimal Expansions

THEOREM 1.5

THEOREM 1.15: Let x be a rational number whose decimal expansion terminates.Then x can be expressed in the form , where p and q are coprime, and the prime factorisation of q is of the f

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Class 10 / Maths / Real Numbers / Revisiting Rational Numbers and Their Decimal Expansions

Theorem 1.6

Theorem 1.6 Let  be a rational number, such that the prime factorisation of q is of the form 2n5m, where n, m are non-negative integers. Then x has adecimal expansion which terminate

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Class 10 / Maths / Real Numbers / Revisiting Rational Numbers and Their Decimal Expansions

Theorem 1.7

Theorem 1.7 Let x = , where p and q are coprimes, be a rational number,such that the prime factorisation of q is not of the form 2n5m, where n, m are non-negative integers. Then, x has a decimal ex

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Class 10 / Maths / Real Numbers / Summary

Revision of Points

Revision of Points In this chapter, you have studied the following points:   1.Euclid’s division lemma : Given positive integers a and b, there exist whole numbers q and r satis

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Class 10 / Maths / Polynomials / Introduction to Polynomials

Introduction

INTRODUCTION   In Class IX, you have studied polynomials in one variable and their degrees. Recall that if p(x) is a polynomial in x, the highest power of x in p(x) is called the degree of

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Class 10 / Maths / Polynomials / Geometrical Meaning of the Zeroes of a Polynomial

Explanation

Explanation You know that a real number k is a zero of the polynomial p(x) if p(k) = 0. But why are the zeroes of a polynomial so important? To answer this, first we will see the geometrical repres

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Class 10 / Maths / Polynomials / Geometrical Meaning of the Zeroes of a Polynomial

Case 1

Case 1 Here, the graph cuts x-axis at two distinct points A and . The x-coordinates of A and  are the two zeroes of the quadratic polynomial ax2 + bx + c in this case (see Fig. 2.3).

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Class 10 / Maths / Polynomials / Geometrical Meaning of the Zeroes of a Polynomial

Case 2

Case 2 Here, the graph cuts the x-axis at exactly one point, i.e., at two coincident points. So, the two points A and  of Case (i) coincide here to become one point A (see Fig. 2.4).  

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Class 10 / Maths / Polynomials / Geometrical Meaning of the Zeroes of a Polynomial

Case 3

Case 3 Here, the graph is either completely above the x-axis or completely below the x-axis. So, it does not cut the x-axis at any point (see Fig. 2.5).     So, the quadratic

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Class 10 / Maths / Polynomials / Geometrical Meaning of the Zeroes of a Polynomial

Examples

Examples Look at the graphs in Fig. 2.9 given below. Each is the graph of y = p(x), where p(x) is a polynomial. For each of the graphs, find the number of zeroes of p(x).   SOLUTION:

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Class 10 / Maths / Polynomials / Relationship between Zeroes and Coefficients of a Polynomial

EXPLANATION

EXPLANATION You have already seen that zero of a linear polynomial ax + b is . We will now try to answer the question raised in Section 2.1 regarding the relationship between zeroes and c

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Class 10 / Maths / Polynomials / Relationship between Zeroes and Coefficients of a Polynomial

Example 2 and 3

Example 2 and 3 EXAMPLE 2 Find the zeroes of the quadratic polynomial x2 + 7x + 10, and verify the relationship between the zeroes and the coefficients. SOLUTION: We have x2 + 7x + 10

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Class 10 / Maths / Polynomials / Relationship between Zeroes and Coefficients of a Polynomial

EXAMPLE 4 and 5

EXAMPLE 4 and 5 Find a quadratic polynomial, the sum and product of whose zeroes are – 3 and 2, respectively.   Solution:   Let the quadratic polynomial be ax2 + bx

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Class 10 / Maths / Polynomials / Division Algorithm for Polynomials

EXPLANATION

EXPLANATION You know that a cubic polynomial has at most three zeroes. However, if you are given only one zero, can you find the other two? For this, let us consider the cubic polynomial x3 –

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Class 10 / Maths / Polynomials / Division Algorithm for Polynomials

Example 6 and 7

Example 6 and 7 EXAMPLE 6 Divide 2x2 + 3x + 1 by x + 2. SOLUTION Note that we stop the division process when either the remainder is zero or its degree is less than the degree of the divis

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Class 10 / Maths / Polynomials / Division Algorithm for Polynomials

Example 8 and 9

Example 8 and 9 Divide 3x2 – x3 – 3x + 5 by x – 1 – x2, and verify the division algorithm. SOLUTION Note that the given polynomials are not in standard form. To carry

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Class 10 / Maths / Polynomials / Summary

SUMMARY

SUMMARY In this chapter, you have studied the following points:   1.Polynomials of degrees 1, 2 and 3 are called linear, quadratic and cubic polynomials respectively.   2.A qu

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Class 5 / Environmental Studies - EVS / From Tasting To Digesting / From Tasting To Digesting

From Tasting to Digesting

Different tastes Jhumpa ran into the kitchen and caught hold of her mother saying, “Ma, I am not going to eat this bitter karela (bittergourd). Give me gur (jaggery) and roti.” Ma

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Class 5 / Environmental Studies - EVS / Seeds and Seeds / Seeds and Seeds

Seeds and Seeds

Gopal was waiting for his mausi’s family to visit them. They will be coming the next day for their holidays. He was thinking about all the fun and nice food that he would have with his cous

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Class 5 / Environmental Studies - EVS / A Snake Charmer's Story / A Snake Charmer's Story

A Snake Charmer’s Story

NAAG GUMPHAN Designs of this kind are used in rangoli, embroidery and as wall decoration in Saurashtra, Gujarat and South India. I am Aryanath I can do something special which I am sure n

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Class 5 / Environmental Studies - EVS / Super Senses / Super Senses

Super Senses

Has this ever happened to you? You were eating in the playground, an eagle flew down and took away your roti.   You dropped something sweet on the ground and

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Class 5 / Environmental Studies - EVS / Mangoes Round The Year / Mangoes Round The Year

Mangoes Round the Year

                                                       

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Class 5 / Environmental Studies - EVS / Every Drop Counts / Every Drop Counts

Every Drop Counts

Long Long Ago This is a picture of Ghadsisar. Sar means a lake. King Ghadsi of Jaisalmer got it made 650 years ago with the help of the people. All around the lake there are ghats with steps leadin

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Class 5 / Environmental Studies - EVS / Experiments With Water / Experiments With Water

Experiments with Water

What floats – what sinks? Ayesha was waiting for dinner. Today Ammi was making her favourite food – puri and spicy potatoes.      Ayesha watched as her mother rolled o

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Class 5 / Environmental Studies - EVS / Up You Go / Up You Go

Up You Go!

2nd February 1984 Mountaineering  Camp Nehru Institute of Mountaineering, Uttarkashi We were at the mountaineering camp and were very excited. Twenty of us were teachers from Ke

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Class 5 / Environmental Studies - EVS / A Treat For Mosquitoes / A Treat For Mosquitoes

A Treat for Mosquitoes

Blood test   Rajat is back at school today. He had been absent for many days. “How are you now ?” asked Aarti. “I’m alright,” Rajat replied softy.  

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Class 5 / Environmental Studies - EVS / Walls Tells Stories / Walls Tells Stories

Walls Tell Stories

Reached Golconda At last we reached Golconda. We were glad that didi was with us. Didi studies history and we enjoy visiting different places with her. Shailja: My goodness! This fort i

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Class 5 / Environmental Studies - EVS / Sunita In Space / Sunita In Space

Sunita in Space

Straight from the heart  What do you think the earth looks like? Make a drawing of the earth in your notebook. On your drawing show where you are. Take a look at your friends’ drawings t

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Class 5 / Environmental Studies - EVS / What If It Finishes? / What If It Finishes?

What if it Finishes...?

A bus journey     Today, we were going on a school trip to the Adalaj stepwell (baoli ), about eighteen kilometres from Ahmedabad. We began counting  the  vehicles&nbs

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Class 5 / Environmental Studies - EVS / A Shelter Is So High / A Shelter Is So High

A Shelter so High!

A traveller’s tale I am Gaurav Jani and this is ‘Loner ’ – my partner – my motorcycle. But, Loner is never lonely. We are together all the time. I and my m

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Class 5 / Environmental Studies - EVS / When The Earth Shook / When The Earth Shook

When the Earth Shook!

A bad dream Help! Help! Save me! Aaahhh! Ooooww… There was screaming and shouting everywhere. The ground was&n

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Class 5 / Environmental Studies - EVS / Blow Hot, Blow Cold / Blow Hot, Blow Cold

Blow Hot, Blow Cold

There was a woodcutter. Everyday in the morning he used to go to the forest to cut wood. In the evening he would sell the wood in the city. One day he went deep into the forest. It was a very cold win

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Class 5 / Environmental Studies - EVS / Who Will Do This Work / Who Will Do This Work

Who will do this Work?

Have you seen such scenes around you?   Have you ever thought of people who do this work? What is our responsibility to keep the place clean? Why do you think people need to do this

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Class 5 / Environmental Studies - EVS / Across The Wall / Across The Wall

Across The Wall

Stars in her eyes (Indian Express, 2007)     Just 13 years old, Afsana Mansuri has already jumped over the wall. The wall between her jhuggi and the local basketball court.The w

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Class 5 / Environmental Studies - EVS / No Place For Us / No Place For Us

No Place For Us?

Jatryabhai was sitting at the door with his daughter Jhimli. They were waiting for Sidya. It was almost night but Sidya had not come home. Two years back Jatrya’s family came to Mumbai from Sind

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Class 5 / Environmental Studies - EVS / A Seed Tells A Farmer's Story / A Seed Tells A Farmer's Story

A Seed Tells a Farmer’s Story

I am a small bajra seed. I have stayed in this beautiful wooden box since 1940. I want to tell you my story. This is a long story but not mine alone. It is also the story of my farmer Damjibhai a

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Class 5 / Environmental Studies - EVS / On the Move Again / On the Move Again

On the Move Again

Dhanu’s village         Today all the relatives have come to Dhanu’s house to celebrate Dussehra. They have come with their luggage in their bullock- carts. Dhanu&rs

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Class 5 / Environmental Studies - EVS / Whose Forests? / Whose Forests?

Whose Forests?

Daughter of the jungle   Look at the picture. Where do you think these children are off to, with little bundles on their sticks? When you find out you too would want to go with them!

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Class 5 / Environmental Studies - EVS / Like Father, Like Daughter / Like Father, Like Daughter

Like Father, Like Daughter

Aaa chhee!   Ashima was sitting near the window and reading. It was windy and there was a lot of dust in the air. Suddenly Ashima sneezed loudly—aaa chhee! Ashima’s parents

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Class 4 / Environmental Studies - EVS / Going To School / Going To School

Going To School

Let us meet some children and see how they reach school.   Ö Collect some bricks. Lay them on the ground in a line as shown in the picture. Try walking on them. Was it eas

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Class 4 / Environmental Studies - EVS / The Story Of Amritha / The Story Of Amritha

The Story Of Amritha

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Class 4 / Environmental Studies - EVS / Anitha and The Honey Bees / Anitha and The Honey Bees

Anita and the Honeybees

My name is Anita Khushwaha. I live in Bochaha village. This is in Muzzafarpur district in Bihar. I stay with my parents and two younger brothers. I study in college. Besides studying, I teach young ch

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Class 4 / Environmental Studies - EVS / Ear To Ear / Ear To Ear

Ear To Ear

Are these animals looking funny ? The artist has drawn wrong ears on the heads of the animals. Give correct ears to the animals in the space given below. Animal E

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Class 4 / Environmental Studies - EVS / A Day With Nandu / A Day With Nandu

A Day With Nandu

Nandu Wakes Up Nandu woke up and opened his eyes. For a few seconds he was not sure where he was. It seemed to him that he was surrounded by a forest of big grey tree trunks. He blinked his eye

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Class 4 / Environmental Studies - EVS / Omana's Journey / Omana's Journey

Omana's Journey

Omana’s Diary 16 May As soon as we had reached the station we checked our names on the reservation chart. Soon the train reached the platform. We saw that the coach was a

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Class 4 / Environmental Studies - EVS / Hu Tu Tu Hu Tu Tu / Hu Tu Tu Hu Tu Tu

Hu Tu Tu Hu Tu Tu

What are these girls doing? They are shouting ‘out’,‘out’,‘out’, it is clear that they are playing a game. What do you call this game? Chedduguddu, H

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Class 4 / Environmental Studies - EVS / Valley Of Flowers / Valley Of Flowers

The Valley Of Flowers

In the hills of Uttarakhand there is a place where there are flowers everywhere. This place is called the ‘Valley of Flowers’. In some places, one sees red flowers blooming on bushes, whil

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Class 4 / Environmental Studies - EVS / Changing Times / Changing Times

Changing Times

My name is Chetandas. Many years ago I used to teach children like you. These days I spend my time by writing about the days when I was young. I would love to share some of these with you. A Big Mo

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Class 4 / Environmental Studies - EVS / A River's Tale / A River's Tale

A Rivers Tale

Look carefully at the picture of the river. Read the words given below. Boat, flowing water, blue, fish, water-plants, river, foul smell, big ship, oil, river banks, factories, washing clothes, an

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Class 4 / Environmental Studies - EVS / From the Window / From the Window

From The Window

17 May                  It is morning now. Last night I went to sleep early. It was too dark to see anything outside. When the train stop

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Class 4 / Environmental Studies - EVS / Reaching Grand Mother's House / Reaching Grand Mother's House

Reaching Grand Mother's House

17 May Night  After our long train journey we reached Kottayam in the night. Valiyamma’s house was not far from the station and we had to take two auto-rickshaws to get there. By then I

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Class 4 / Environmental Studies - EVS / Changing Families / Changing Families

Changing Families

Here are some pictures of families. These are the families of Nimmi, Tsering and Nazli. Let us look at these pictures, talk about what we see and discuss. A New Arrival! There is great excitemen

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Class 4 / Environmental Studies - EVS / Too Much Water Too Little Water / Too Much Water Too Little Water

Too Much Water Too Little Water

What to Drink? Nallamada, Andhra Pradesh           Suguna was reading her book, when she heard someone at the door. She saw that there was a visitor from the city. Ap

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Class 4 / Environmental Studies - EVS / Basva's Farm / Basva's Farm

Basva’s Farm

I am Basva. My father is a farmer. We live in Belvanika village in Karnataka. It is the month of July. Like every year, Appa, my father, is preparing the field to sow the onion crop. There are so

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Class 4 / Environmental Studies - EVS / From Market To Home / From Market To Home

From Market To Home

Day at night! My name is Vaishali. My father is a vegetable-seller. My whole family – Amma, Bhaiya, Chhotu and I, help him with his work. Can you guess at what time we begin our work? At

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Class 4 / Environmental Studies - EVS / A Busy Month / A Busy Month

A Busy Month

Dear Children, It is 3 o’clock in the afternoon. There are no clouds in the sky. The sun is burning hot. The sparrows, doves and sunbirds have started working in pairs as they prepare to m

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Class 4 / Environmental Studies - EVS / Abdul In The Garden / Abdul In The Garden

Abdul In The Garden

Abdul in the Garden It was a holiday. Abdul was helping his Abbu in the garden. Abbu was clearing the dried leaves and grass from the vegetable beds. Abdul started to pull out the grass from one of

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Class 4 / Environmental Studies - EVS / Eating Together / Eating Together

Eating Together

Class Party The school reopened today after the vacations. The children share news about how they spent their holidays.           “When did you put mehendi on

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Class 4 / Environmental Studies - EVS / Food And Fun / Food And Fun

Food And Fun

            Trring…! The doorbell rang. When Manpreet opened the door she saw Divya and Swastik there. She called out excitedly, “Gurnoor! Look who has come.

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Class 4 / Environmental Studies - EVS / Nandita In Mumbai / Nandita In Mumbai

Nandita In Mumbai

I came to Mumbai a month ago. Since we came, mother has been admitted in the hospital. We had to come to Mumbai for her treatment The Big City – Mumbai! I have slowly got used to the c

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Class 4 / Environmental Studies - EVS / Nandita In Mumbai / Nandita In Mumbai

Nandita In Mumbai

I came to Mumbai a month ago. Since we came, mother has been admitted in the hospital. We had to come to Mumbai for her treatment The Big City – Mumbai! I have slowly got used to the c

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Class 4 / Environmental Studies - EVS / The World In My Home / The World In My Home

The World In My Home

Tug of War Once again, everybody in Marietta’s family is quarrelling over watching the TV – just like they do every day! Marietta’s brother wants to watch a cricket match whi

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Class 4 / Environmental Studies - EVS / Defence Officer - Wahida / Defence Officer - Wahida

Defence officer : wahida

Have you ever seen her photograph anywhere? She is Lieutenant Commander Wahida Prism, doctor in the Indian Navy. She is one of the few women who has worked on a naval ship. She is the first woman

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Class 4 / Environmental Studies - EVS / Chuskit Goes To School / Chuskit Goes To School

Chuskit Goes To School

Chuskit’s  Dream Today is a special day for Chuskit. It is so special that last night Chuskit could not even sleep. Do you know why? Chuskit is ten years old, but today she is going to

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Class 4 / Environmental Studies - EVS / Pocham Palli / Pocham Palli

Pocham Palli

         Vani and Prasad live in a village called Mukhtapur. Their home is always filled with bundles of bright-coloured threads. Their mother and father and everyone else in

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Class 4 / Environmental Studies - EVS / Home And Abroad / Home And Abroad

Home And Abroad

         Today, there was a lot of activity at Maalu’s house. Chittappan and his family were coming home after five years. Five years ago Chittappan had got a job in the

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Class 4 / Environmental Studies - EVS / Spicy Riddles / Spicy Riddles

Spicy Riddles

Let us try making a spicy potato chaat ! Ö For this you need – Ö  Boiled potatoes, enough for everybody in the class Ö Salt, red chilly powde

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Class 3 / Environmental Studies - EVS / Poonam's Day out / Poonam's Day out

Poonam's Day out

Ma, please let me go to school today, I have been at home for the past two days. I am getting bored – said Poonam. But you still have fever. Go outside and lie down on the cot – repli

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Class 3 / Environmental Studies - EVS / The Plant Fairy / The Plant Fairy

The Plant Fairy

Last Sunday, we went to a garden in the neighbourhood. We played Hide and Seek (Chhupanchhupai) and Antakshari. We had a lot of fun. After sometime, Didi said – Let us play a new game today. We

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Class 3 / Environmental Studies - EVS / Water O' Water / Water O' Water

Water O' Water

                                                       Ch

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Class 3 / Environmental Studies - EVS / Sharing Our Feelings / Sharing Our Feelings

Sharing Our Feelings

 After returning home from school, there are two people with whom I like to share all my news. They enjoy listening to my tales.   The first person is my nani. She is always anxiou

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Class 3 / Environmental Studies - EVS / Our First School / Our First School

Our First School

We learn so many things when we come to school. But do you know which is our first school? Yes, it is our family. We learn so many things from our family – much before we learn from anywhere els

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Class 3 / Environmental Studies - EVS / The Story of Food / The Story of Food

The Story Of Food

Venu's Family                                        Rani's Family Look at the p

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Class 3 / Environmental Studies - EVS / Making Pots / Making Pots

Making Pots

Once there was a sparrow called Phudgudi and a crow called Bhanate. They were fast friends. One day Bhanate said – O Phudgudi! If you lay eggs first then I will eat them and if I lay eggs first

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Class 3 / Environmental Studies - EVS / Games We Play / Games We Play

Games We Play

All the children were playing stappoo (hop-scotch) in the lane. Avantika and her sister Nandita were also playing. But Nandita was not able to play the game in the right way. Avantika: Listen t

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Class 5 / English / Team work / Team work

TEAM WORK

TEAM WORK     Let’s sing and dance     Teamwork, teamwork, Together we can make our dream work. Then we'll share the joy of what we've do

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Class 5 / English / My Shadow / My Shadow

MY SHADOW

MY SHADOW     Read and Enjoy     I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me. And what can be the use of him is more than I can see. H

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Class 3 / Environmental Studies - EVS / Here Comes a Letter / Here Comes a Letter

Here Comes a Letter

I am a letter. A letter written with a pen and paper by Reena to her friend Ahmed. I was put in a letter box. The postman took me out and put me in a big bag. Taking a ride on the postman’s

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Class 3 / Environmental Studies - EVS / Our Friends-Animal / Our Friends-Animal

Our Friends-Animals

The children in the class were startled on hearing the sound tak. The sound came from the ceiling fan. Kalyani shouted — Look, look a bird is hurt. Peter got up at once and picked up the bird. I

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Class 3 / Environmental Studies - EVS / Drop By Drop / Drop By Drop

Drop By Drop

Madho lives in Bajju — a small village in Rajasthan. It is hardly a village ! All you see is sand all around. One can see some houses when the sand does not blow. Everyone in Madho&rsquo

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Class 5 / English / Crying / Crying

CRYING

CRYING Read and Enjoy   Crying only a little bit is no use. You must cry until your pillow is soaked! Then you can jump in the shower and splash-splash-splash!   &n

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Class 3 / Environmental Studies - EVS / A House Like This! / A House Like This!

A House Like This!

My name is Naseem. I live in Srinagar. Since yesterday there is lot of activity in our school. It will go on for a week. Do you know why ? There is a camp being held in our school. Children have come

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Class 3 / Environmental Studies - EVS / Chhotu's House / Chhotu's House

Chhotu's House

Chhotu came to Mumbai for the first time…                Study the pictures carefully and answer the following : - What did Chhotu th

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Class 3 / Environmental Studies - EVS / Foods We Eat / Foods We Eat

Foods We Eat

                                                    Vipul’s f

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Class 3 / Environmental Studies - EVS / Saying Without Speaking / Saying Without Speaking

Saying Without Speaking

Dumb Charades        Let us play a game. In this game, everyone has to let others know what they want to tell without speaking. Divide yourselves into groups of seven.  

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Class 5 / English / Rip van winkle / Rip van winkle

RIP VAN WINKLE

RIP VAN WINKLE This story is about Rip Van Winkle, a good-natured but lazy man, who goes away falls into the hills and falls asleep. When he awakes twenty years later, Rip finds that quit

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Class 3 / Environmental Studies - EVS / Its Raining / Its Raining

Its Raining

Appu ate bananas        Appu likes bananas very much. He plucks and eats bananas from the trees every day.  

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Class 3 / Environmental Studies - EVS / What is Cooking? / What is Cooking?

What is Cooking?

                                                      -- Look

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Class 5 / English / Class Discussion / Class Discussion

CLASS DISCUSSION

CLASS DISCUSSION     1.What activity was going on in the class? 2.Who was the quiet one in the class? 3.Why was she quiet? (i) she was afraid t

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Class 3 / Environmental Studies - EVS / From Here To There / From Here To There

From Here To There

The Train Come on children, let’s play a game Climb aboard the chugging train! Blow your whistles and take your seats Onto shoulders, if you please!   Forward, backward,

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Class 3 / Environmental Studies - EVS / Work We Do / Work We Do

Works We Do

Like other days, Balbir reached the tea stall after his breakfast. His brother Satvinder who had come from the village was also with him. The worker at the tea stall gave him a cup of tea and said

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Class 3 / Environmental Studies - EVS / Flying High / Flying High

Flying High

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Class 3 / Environmental Studies - EVS / Families Can Be Different / Families Can Be Different

Families Can Be Different

Tell how many? Come, let us play a game together. You must be familiar with this game. All the children stand in a circle. Let one child stand in the centre and play a tune. Everyone must run in

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Class 3 / Environmental Studies - EVS / Left-Right / Left-Right

Left-Right

Given below is the picture of a hand. Place your hand on it so that the palm faces the paper. Your thumb and fingers should be placed on those drawn in the picture. The hand which fits on the h

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Class 3 / Environmental Studies - EVS / A Beautiful Cloth / A Beautiful Cloth

A Beautiful Cloth

Sajida's sister gave her a very beautiful dupatta. The dupatta had beautiful embroidery and small mirrors stuck on it. After finishing dinner, Sajida tried to wear the dupatta in different ways. S

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Class 3 / Environmental Studies - EVS / Web of Life / Web of Life

Web of life

By now, you must have read almost the complete book. You have read about trees, water, houses, animals, vehicles and many other things. You must have thought about them as well. Can you tell, why

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Class 5 / English / Topsy Turvy Land / Topsy Turvy Land

TOPSY TURVY LAND

TOPSY TURVY LAND       Now read about one such upside-down land. The people walk upon their heads, The sea is made of sand, The children go to school

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Class 5 / English / Nobody's Friend / Nobody's Friend

NOBODY'S FRIEND

NOBODY'S FRIEND     Read and Enjoy She had some sweets that she wouldn’t share, She had a book that she wouldn’t lend, She wouldn’t let anyone play with

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Class 10 / Physics / Light - Reflection and Refraction / Introduction

For phonetics

We see a variety of objects in the world around us. However, we are unable to see anything in a dark

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Class 9 / Biology / Why do we fall ill ? / Infectious Diseases

General Ways Of Preventing Infections

GENERAL WAYS OF PREVENTING INFECTIONS How can we prevent diseases? There are two ways, one general and one specific to each disease. The general ways of preventing infections mostly relate to preve

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Class 9 / Biology / Why do we fall ill ? / Infectious Diseases

The Specific Ways Of Preventing Infections

SPECIFIC WAYS OF PREVENTING INFECTIONS What are the specific ways? They relate to a peculiar property of the immune system that usually fights off microbial infections. Let us cite an example to tr

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Class 12 / Communicative English / Phonetics / Phonetic Sounds

PHONETIC SOUNDS

/ᴂ/ Examples: Cat, Rack, Bat, Exactly, Actually, Had

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Class 9 / Communicative English / Speaking Skills / Monophthongs

Short Vowel Sounds

/ᴂ/ Examples: Cat, Rack, Bat, Exactly, Actually, Had /e/ Examples: Met, Set, Get, Let, Pen /ɒ/  Examples: Cot,  Pot,  Shot, Hot, On, Box /ʊ/ Examples: Good, W

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Class 6 / Physics / Fun With Magnets / Fun With Magnets NCERT Corner

Fun with Magnets

Paheli and Boojho went to a place where a lot of waste material was piled into huge heaps.Something exciting was happening! A crane was moving towards the heap of junk. The long hand of the crane

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Class 6 / Physics / Motion and Measurement Of Distances / Motion and Measurement Of Distances NCERT Corner

Motion and Measurement of Distances

There was a general discussion among the children in Paheli and Boojho's class about the places they had visited during the summer vacations. Someone had gone to their native village by a tra

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Class 6 / Physics / Light, Shadows and Reflections / Light, Shadows and Reflections NCERT Corner

Light, Shadows and Reflections

We see so many objects around us. On the way to school we see things like buses,cars,cycles, trees, animals and sometimes flowers. How do you think, we see objects?Think of the same places a

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Class 9 / Communicative English / Speaking Skills / Monophthongs

Long Vowel Sounds

/iː/ Examples: She, He, We, Eat, feel, teen, Sheep, Jeep, Cheap /ɜː/ Examples: Her, Were, Girl, Fur, Bird, Third /ɑː/ Examples: Car, Far, Bar, Ask, Calm /ɔː/ Examples:

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Class 9 / Communicative English / Speaking Skills / Diphthongs

Diphthongs ( Vowel Glides )

/ɪə/ Examples: Beer, near, Hear, Fear, Pier, Here /ʊə/ Examples: Poor, Tour, Hour, Power, Flour /eə/ Examples: Air, Bear, Hair, Fair, There, Where, Liar /eɪ/ Examples: Day, Say, Pay

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Class 6 / Physics / Electricity and Circuits / Electricity and Circuits NCERT Corner

Electricity and Circuits

We use electricity for many purposes to make our tasks easier.For example, we use electricity to operate pumps that lift water from wells or from ground level to the roof top tank. What are other purp

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Class 6 / Chemistry / Water / Water

Water

Suppose for some reason your family gets only one bucket of water everyday for a week. Imagine what would happen? Would you be able to cook, clean utensils, wash clothes or bathe? What

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Class 6 / Chemistry / Air Around Us / Air Around Us

Air Around us

We have learnt in Chapter 9 that all living things require air. But, have you ever seen air?You might not have seen air, but, surely you must have felt its presence in so many ways. You notice it

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Class 6 / Chemistry / Sorting materials into groups / All Topics

Sorting materials into groups

Objects Around Us We have seen that our food and clothes have so much variety in them. Not just food and clothes, there is such a vast variety of objects everywhere. We see around us, a chair,

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Class 12 / Sanskrit / Important Chapter / Important Topic

FOR DICTIONARY

" जिस पुस्तक से यह उद्देश्य सिद्ध नहीं होता, जिससे मनुष्य का अज्ञान, कुसंस्

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Class 6 / Chemistry / Garbage In Garbage Out / Garbage In Garbage Out

Garbage in, Garbage out

We throw out so much rubbishor garbage everyday from our homes,  schools,  shops  and offices. The grains, pulses, biscuits, milk or oil purchased  in  shops,  ar

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Class 12 / Sanskrit / Important Chapter / Important Topic

SUB TOPIC 2

'गद्यं कवीनां निकषं वदन्ति ।' गद्य को कवि की कसौटी कहा गया है क्योंकि अच्छ

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Class 12 / Sanskrit / Important Chapter / Important Topic 2

SUB TOPIC 3

'गद्यं कवीनां निकषं वदन्ति ।' गद्य को कवि की कसौटी कहा गया है क्योंकि अच्छ

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Class 12 / Sanskrit / दो बैलों की कथा / दो बैलों की कथा

Hindi

दो बैलों की कथा, मेरा छोटा सा निजी पुस्तकालय, मेरा छोटा सा निजी पुस्तकालय

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Class 7 / Physics / Winds, Storms And Cyclones / Winds, Storms And Cyclones

Winds, Storms and Cyclones

Orissa was hit by a cyclone with wind speed of 200  km/h on 18 October 1999. The cyclone smashed 45,000 houses making 7,00,000 people homeless. On 29 October the sam

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Class 7 / Biology / Soil / Soil

Soil

Soil is one of the most important natural resources.It provides anchorage to the plants  and supplies water and nutrients. It is the home for many organisms. Soil is essential for

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Class 7 / Biology / Waste Water Story / Waste Water Story

Wastewater Story

All of us use water in our homes and make it dirty. Dirty! Are you surprised? Rich in lather, mixed with oil, black– brown water that goes down the drains from sinks, showers, toilets, lau

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Class 7 / Biology / Forests Our Life Line / Forests Our Life Line

Forests: Our Lifeline

One evening Boojho entered the park with an elderly person. He introduced him to his friends. Prof Ahmad was a scientist working in the university. The children started playing while Prof Ahmad s

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Class 7 / Chemistry / Physical and Chemical Changes / Changes Around Us

Introduction To Physical and chemical Changes

Every day you come across many changes in your surroundings.These changes may involve one or more substances. For example, your mother may ask you to dissolve sugar in water to make a cold drink. Maki

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Class 7 / Chemistry / Physical and Chemical Changes / Physical Change

PHYSICAL CHANGES

PHYSICAL CHANGES Activity 6.1 Cut a  piece  of  paper  in  four  square pieces. Cut each square piece further into four square pieces. Lay these pieces on the f

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Class 7 / Chemistry / Physical and Chemical Changes / Chemical Change

Introduction To Chemical Change

CHEMICAL CHANGE A change with which you are quite familiar is the rusting of iron. If you leave a piece of iron in the open for some time, it acquires a film of brownish substance. This substance i

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Class 7 / Chemistry / Physical and Chemical Changes / Chemical Change

Reaction With Magnesium

Activity 6.6 (To be demonstrated by the teacher) Get a small piece of a thin strip or ribbon of magnesium. Clean its tip with sandpaper.  Bring the tip near a candle flame. It bur

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Class 7 / Chemistry / Physical and Chemical Changes / Chemical Change

Reaction Between Iron And Copper Sulphate

Activity 6.7 (To be demonstrated by the teacher) Dissolve about a teaspoonful of copper sulphate (blue vitriol or neela thotha) in about half a cup of water in a glass tumbler or a beaker. Add a fe

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Class 7 / Chemistry / Physical and Chemical Changes / Chemical Change

Reaction Between Iron And Copper Sulphate

Activity 6.7 (To be demonstrated by the teacher) Dissolve about a teaspoonful of copper sulphate (blue vitriol or neela thotha) in about half a cup of water in a glass tumbler or a beaker. Add a fe

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Class 7 / Chemistry / Physical and Chemical Changes / Chemical Change

Reaction Of Vinegar With Baking Soda

Activity 6.8 Take about a teaspoonful of vinegar in a test tube. Add a pinch of baking soda to it. You would hear a hissing sound and see bubbles of a gas coming out. Pass this gas through freshly

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Class 7 / Chemistry / Physical and Chemical Changes / Chemical Change

Rusting Of Iron

RUSTING OF IRON Let us get back to rusting. This is one change that affects iron articles and slowly destroys them. Since iron is used in making bridges, ships, cars, truck bodies and many othe

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Class 7 / Chemistry / Physical and Chemical Changes / Chemical Change

Chemical Reaction

A change in which one or more new substances are formed is called a chemical change. A chemical change is also called a chemical reaction. Chemical changes are very important in our lives. All new

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Class 7 / Chemistry / Physical and Chemical Changes / Chemical Change

Crystallization

CRYSTALLIZATION In Class VI you have learnt that salt can be obtained by the evaporation of sea water. The salt obtained in this manner is not pure and the shape of its crystals cannot be seen clea

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Class 7 / Chemistry / Water A Precious Resource / Introduction

World Water Day

“Jal  Hai,  To  Kal  Hai” “If you have water, you can think of the future”    You are perhaps aware that 22 March is celebrated as the world

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Class 7 / Chemistry / Water A Precious Resource / Introduction

Clippings From News Papers

Activity 16.1 Collect clippings from newspapers and magazines on the news items, articles and pictures related to water shortage. Paste them in your scrapbook and share it with your friends. List s

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Class 7 / Chemistry / Water A Precious Resource / How Much Water Is Available

How Much Water Is Available

HOW MUCH WATER IS AVAILABLE Look at the picture of the earth taken from space. Why does it appear blue? Surely, you can guess! You are aware that about 71% of the earth’s surface

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Class 7 / Chemistry / Water A Precious Resource / Forms Of Water

Different Forms Of Water

FORMS OF WATER Are you afraid that continuous use will some day exhaust all the water available for use? You know that water on the earth has been maintained for millions of years by various proces

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Class 7 / Chemistry / Water A Precious Resource / Forms Of Water

Water Cycle

Activity 16.3 Fig. 16.5 shows the processes involved in the water cycle. They are labelled by numbers. Match these numbers with the processes given in the jumbled form. Most towns and cities have w

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Class 7 / Chemistry / Water A Precious Resource / Ground Water As An Important Source Of Water

Water Table, Infiltration And Aquifer

GROUND WATER AS AN IMPORTANT SOURCE OF WATER If we dig a hole in the ground near a water body we may find that the soil is moist. The moisture in the soil indicates the presence of water

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Class 7 / Chemistry / Water A Precious Resource / Depletion Of Water Table

Depletion Of Water Table

DEPLETION OF WATER  TABLE Water drawn from under the ground gets restored by seepage of rainwater. The water table does not get affected as long as we draw as much water as is replen

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Class 7 / Chemistry / Water A Precious Resource / Distribution Of Water

Distribution Of Water

DISTRIBUTION OF WATER The distribution of water over the globe is quite uneven due to a number of factors. Some places have good amount of rain and are water-rich. On the other hand, there

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Class 7 / Chemistry / Water A Precious Resource / Water Management

Water Management

WATER MANAGEMENT You have read in Class VI that in many places a regular supply of water is Fig. 16.8 Rain map of India 1.Government of India, Copyright 2007 2.Based upon Survey of Ind

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Class 7 / Chemistry / Water A Precious Resource / Water Role You Can Play

Water Role You Can Play

WHAT ROLE YOU CAN PLAY you ever shown concern if you saw a tap leaking in your house, school or any other place? Leaking taps waste a lot of water. You must make efforts to stop this leakage.

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Class 7 / Chemistry / Water A Precious Resource / Effect Of Water Scarcity On Plants

Effect Of Water Scarcity On Plants

EFFECT OF WATER SCARCITY OF PLANTS You must have seen potted plants wilting and ultimately drying up if they did not get water even for a few days. You have already learnt in Chapter 1 that pl

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Class 7 / Chemistry / Water A Precious Resource / Effect Of Water Scarcity On Plants

Effect Of Water Scarcity On Plants

You might have seen a beam of sunlight when it enters a room through a narrow opening or a hole.You may have also seen beams of light from the headlamps of scooters, cars and engines of trains [Fig. 1

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Class 7 / Physics / Light / Introduction

Introduction To Light

headlamps of scooters, cars and engines of trains [Fig. 15.1 (a)]. Similarly, a beam of light can be seen from a torch. Some of (a)Rail engine              &n

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Class 7 / Physics / Light / Light Travels Along A Straight Line

Light Travels Along A Straight Line

LIGHT TRAVELS ALONG A STRAIGHT LINE Boojho recalls an activity he performed in Class VI. In that activity he looke at a lighted candle first through a straight pipe and then through

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Class 7 / Physics / Light / Reflection Of Light

Reflection Of Light

REFLECTION OF  LIGHT One way to change the direction of light is to let it fall on a shiny surface. For example, a shining stainless steel plate or a shining steel spoon can change

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Class 7 / Physics / Light / Reflection Of Light

Reflection Of Light

REFLECTION OF  LIGHT One way to change the direction of light is to let it fall on a shiny surface. For example, a shining stainless steel plate or a shining steel spoon can change

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Reflection Of Light From A Mirror

Can you recall the activity in which you got the light of a torch reflected from a mirror? Let us perform a similar activity. Activity 15.1 Take a torch. Cover its glass with a chart paper which

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Image Of Candle In A Plane Mirror

Activity 15.2 Place a lighted candle in front of a plane mirror. Try to see the flame of the candle in the mirror. It appears as if a similar candle is placed behind the mirror. The candle, whi

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Locating Image In A Plane Mirror

What about the distance of the image from mirror? Let us perform another activity Activity 15.3 Take a chess board. If a chess board is not available, draw on a chart paper 64 (8×8) square

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Right Or Left

RIGHT OR LEFT! When you see your image in a plane mirror, is it exactly like you? Have you ever noticed that there is one interesting difference between you and your image in a mirror? Let us find

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Right Or Left

RIGHT OR LEFT! When you see your image in a plane mirror, is it exactly like you? Have you ever noticed that there is one interesting difference between you and your image in a mirror? Let us find

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Spherical Mirrors

You might have observed that in the side mirror of a scooter or a car the images of all the objects appear smaller than the objects themselves. Have you ever wondered why is it so? PLAYING WITH SPH

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Introduction to Concave and Convex Mirrors

If the reflecting surface of a spherical mirror is concave, it is called a concave mirror. If the reflecting surface is convex, then it is a convex mirror (Fig. 15.12). Why are concave and conv

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Concave Mirror

We know that the image of an object formed by a plane mirror cannot be obtained on a screen.Let us investigate if it is also true for the image formed by a concave mirror. Take a concave mi

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Convex Mirror

Boojho observed his image in the shiny surface of the bell on his new bicycle.He found that his image was erect and smaller in size.He wondered if the bell is also a kind of spherical mirror. Can

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Images Formed By Lenses

IMAGES FORMED BY LENSES You might have seen a magnifying glass. It is used to read very small print (Fig. 15.21). You might have also used it to observe the body parts of a cockroach or an earthwor

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Sunlight White Or Coloured

SUNLIGHT — WHITE OR COLOURED? Have you ever seen a rainbow in the sky? You might have noticed that it appears usually after the rain when the Sun is low in the sky. The rainbow is

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Class 7 / Physics / Motion And Time / Introduction

Introduction

In Class VI, you learnt about different types of motions. You learnt that a motion could be along a straight line Can you recall these three types of motions? Table 13.1 Some examples

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Introduction

In Class VI, you learnt about different types of motions. You learnt that a motion could be along a straight line Can you recall these three types of motions? Table 13.1 Some examples

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Slow Or Fast

SLOW OR FAST We know that some vehicles move faster than others. Even the same vehicle may move faster or slower at different times. Make a list of ten objects moving along a straight path. Group t

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SPEED You are probably familiar with the word speed. In the examples given above, a higher speed seems to indicate that a given distance has been covered in a shorter time, or a larger distance cov

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Class 7 / Physics / Motion And Time / Measurement Of Time

Introduction To Measurement Of Time

We can determine the speed of a given object once we can measure the time taken by it to cover a certain distance. In Class VI you learnt how to measure distances. But, how do we measure time? Let us

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Simple Pendulum

The working of clocks is rather complex. But all of them make use of some periodic motion. One of the most well-known periodic motions is that of a simple pendulum.   Fig. 13.4 (a) A si

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Units Of Time And Speed

Units Of Time and Speed The basic unit of time is a second. Its symbol is s. Larger units of time are minutes (min) and hours (h). You already know how these units are related to one anot

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Measuring Speed

MEASURING SPEED Having learnt how to measure time and distance, you can calculate the speed of an object. Let us find the speed of a ball moving along the ground. Activity 13.3 Draw a st

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Class 7 / Physics / Motion And Time / Distance Time Graph

Distance Time Graph

DISTANCE TIME GRAPH 13.5 DISTANCE-TIME GRAPH You might have seen that newspapers, magazines, etc., present information in various forms of graphs to make it Table 13.5 Odometer reading at dif

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Class 7 / Physics / Electric Circuits And Its Effects / Introduction

Introduction

You might have tried the game ‘How steady is your hand?’ suggested in Chapter 12 of Class VI. If not, you may try it out now. Paheli and Boojho had also set up the game by connecting

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Class 7 / Physics / Electric Circuits And Its Effects / Heating Effect Of Electric Current

Heating Effect Of Electric Current

HEATING EFFECT OF ELECTRIC CURRENT   Activity 14.2 Take an electric cell, a bulb, a switch and connecting wires. Make an electric circuit as shown in Fig.14.9. This activity has to be done

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Class 7 / Physics / Electric Circuits And Its Effects / Magnetic Effect Of Electric Current

Magnetic Effect Of Electric Current

MAGNTIC EFFECT OF ELECTRIC CURRENT Activity 14.5 Take the cardboard tray from inside a discarded matchbox. Wrap an electric wire a few times around the cardboard tray. Place a small co

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Class 7 / Physics / Electric Circuits And Its Effects / Electromagnet

Electromagnet

ELECTROMAGNET Activity 14.6 Take around 75 cm  long piece of insulated (plastic or cloth covered or enamelled) flexible wire and an iron nail, say about 6–10 cm long. Wind the wire

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Electric Bell

ELECTRIC BELL We are quite familiar with an electric bell. It has an electromagnet in it. Let us see how it works. Fig. 14.20 shows the circuit of an electric bell. It consists of a coil of wire

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Symbols Of Electric Componenets

SYMBOLS OF ELECTRIC COMPONENT Some common electric components can be represented by symbols. In Table 14.1, some electric components and their symbols are shown. You may come across different symbo

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Class 5 / Maths / The Fish Tale / The Fish Tale

The Fish Tale

Deep under the sea See the lovely coloured fish Swimming peacefully This special poem in three lines is called a Haiku .Such poems about nature are popular in Japan. Here is another Haiku-

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Class 5 / Maths / Shapes and Angles / Shapes and Angles

Shapes and Angles

2 Shapes and Angles Rohini and Mohini are twin sisters. They love doing the same things. One day when they were making shapes with matchsticks, Shaila gave them a challenge Rohini made this

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Introduction To Our Body

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Digestive System

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Process Of Digestion

Process Of Digestion As soon as we see our favorite food, our mouth starts to water. Saliva The liquid present inside the mouth is known as saliva. It is secreted by the salivary glands. It helps

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Respiratory System

Respiratory System Take a deep breath, what do you feel? When you breathe in, your chest gets slightly bigger and when you exhale it comes to the normal size. We breathe in air through our nose

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Class 5 / Science / Our Body / Circulatory System

Circulatory System

Circulatory System You must have noticed that when we get hurt, blood starts to come out. Do you know where this blood comes from? It is the heart. The heart, the arteries, the capillaries, and

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Excretory System

Excretory System The excretory system is responsible for removing waste from our body. The kidneys and the bladder help to get rid of the waste product. The waste can be in liquid, solid, or in gas f

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Class 5 / Science / Our Body / Sense Organs

Sense Organs

Sense Organs When you touch a hot object, you say ‘Ouch! It’s hot.’ Have you ever wondered how we get to know that it's hot? Whether the object is hot or cold our brain tells u

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Once upon a time, in a small village nestled in the heart of a vast forest, there lived a young girl named Lily. She was a happy and carefree child who loved nothing more than exploring the woods and

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Curious, Lily began to study the symbols, trying to decipher their meaning. As she did so, she began to feel a strange sensation, as if the tree was speaking to her. Suddenly, a beam of light shot out

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For days, Lily explored this magical world, marveling at its wonders and discovering new and exciting things at every turn. She met talking animals, mystical creatures, and even encountered a group of

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A Magical Realm Adventure Page No 8

Finally, after many long weeks of travel and adventure, Lily arrived at the sorcerer’s castle, ready to face him in a final showdown. With all of her strength and courage, Lily battled the sorce

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Have you ever been to a park, to a riverside or a busy market area? Lots of people come here for fun, for work and for entertainment, and when they go back home, they leave behind a mountain of smelly

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Trash that is left around us attracts germs, flies, mosquitoes and insects. Rotten fruits and decaying food stuffs emit poisonous gases and bad smell which are extremely harmful for our health. But wo

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Class 5 / English And Grammar Course Book 1 / The Tranquility of Night / The Tranquility of Night

The Tranquility of Night

  The sun descending in the west, The evening star does shine “The birds are silent in their nest, And I must seek for mine, “The moon, like a flower, In heaven

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Class 5 / English And Grammar Course Book 1 / Being a Responsible Traveller / Being a Responsible Traveller

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Etiquettes are the appropriate rules of behaviour in a society. These are usually unwritten rules. It is very important to do the right things when you are on the road. Everybody should follow travell

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Stay well away from the edge of the pavement if you are waiting for a van or a bus, or the edge of the station platform if you are going by train. Stay well back until the van, bus or train has stoppe

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Balancing Study Page 46

Have a tidy study area at home where you haven’t got heaps of stuff around to distract you. Studying with someone can be helpful, but only if you stick to the task. Working alone is best. You wi

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Nature's Beauty

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Class 5 / Science / Bones and Muscles / Bones and Muscles

Introduction And Skeletal System

Introduction to Skeletal System Each day we perform different kinds of activities. We eat, run, study etc. Our bones and muscles work together to do all these various types of activities. We are not

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Limbs - Fore Limbs Arms And Hind Limbs Legs

Limbs In the human body there are two pairs of limbs: Fore limbs (arms) Hind limbs (legs) Fore Limbs (Arms) The bones of the shoulder are attached to our spinal cord with the help of sh

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Joints-Immovable Joints And Movable Joints

Joints Joints are a place where two bones meet. Joints help the skeleton to move. All the bones are connected to another bone. The ends of our bones are covered with a thin layer of cartilage which

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Movable Joints-Hinge Joint, Ball and Socket Joint, Pivot Joint, Gliding Joint

There are four types of movable joints: Hinge Joint This type of joint allows movement only in one direction. The elbows, knees, fingers and toes have hinge joints. Ball and Socket Joint T

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Class 5 / Science / Introduction to Kingdoms of Living Things / Introduction to Kingdoms of Living Things

Introduction And Classification of Living Things

Introduction Classification means sorting out things into groups on the basis of similarities and differences among them. Figure shows three groups of objects. In each group, things are put togethe

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Classification and Characteristics of Animals

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Birds

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Amphibians

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Fishes

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Class 5 / Science / Introduction to Kingdoms of Living Things / Introduction to Kingdoms of Living Things

Invertebrates-Insects And Worms

Invertebrates Animals which do not have backbone are called invertebrates. There are different kinds of invertebrates found on the Earth. Insects, snails, starfish and worms are the examples of inv

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Classification and Characteristics of Plants-Flowering Plants and Non-Flowering Plants

Classification and Characteristics of Plants Plants are mainly classified as flowering plants and non-flowering plants. Flowering Plants The plants that bear flowers are called flowering plan

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Monocot Plants and Dicot Plants

There is a young plant in every seed of flowering plants called embryo. Embryo bears one or two seed leaves called cotyledons. Cotyledons often store food which is used by the young embryo. Seeds of g

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Class 5 / Science / The World of Microorganisms / The World of Microorganisms

Introduction And Microorganisms

Introduction We see living things all around us. Animals and plants are the well-known examples of living things. However, there are some groups of living things that we cannot see with our naked e

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Main Groups of Microorganisms - Virus, Bacteria and Fungi

Main Groups of Microorganisms (Virus, Bacteria and Fungi) There are many different kinds of microorganisms. They are classified on the basis of shape, structure, feeding habit, etc. Main groups

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Advantages of Microorganisms

Advantages and Disadvantages of Microorganisms Most of the microorganisms do not cause diseases and are beneficial. Some advantages and disadvantages of microorganisms are mentioned below: Advan

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Disadvantages of Microorganisms

Disadvantages of microorganisms (i) Diseases Many of the microorganisms’ cause diseases in humans, animals and plants. Some viral diseases are common cold, influenza, measles, chicken pox,

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Infection And How do microorganisms enter human body?

Infection The attack of disease-causing microorganisms in the body of an animal or plant is called infection. Infectious diseases quickly spread from one individual to another.  

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Ways to avoid Infection

Ways to avoid Infection Here are some simple ways to prevent infections: Dirty hands are the major source of germs. Wash your hands frequently especially before eating and after using toile

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Class 5 / Science / The Harmful Effects of Pollution / The Harmful Effects of Pollution

Introduction, Pollution and Pollutants

Introduction Things around us make our environment. Living things get food, oxygen, water and other necessities of life from their environment. Environmental pollution is a big challenge to life.

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Class 5 / Science / The Harmful Effects of Pollution / The Harmful Effects of Pollution

Kinds of Pollution

Kinds of Pollution Air, water and land are the parts of environment. Hence, pollution can be divided into following kinds: 1. Air pollution         &

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Effects of Pollution

Effects of Pollution 1. Air pollution causes diseases of throat, skin and eyes. Toxic air pollutants enter the human body with inhaled air and cause breathing difficulties, bronchitis and serious d

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Measures to Reduce Pollution

Measures to Reduce Pollution Following steps can be taken to reduce pollution: 1. Factories and industries should be shifted away from the cities; 2. Industrial wastes should be treated and m

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Biodegradable and Non-Biodegradable Materials

Biodegradable and Non-Biodegradable Materials Waste material or pollutants can be classified as biodegradable and nonbiodegradable. The materials which are naturally decomposed into simpler substan

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Impact and Ways to Reduce the Impact of Non-Biodegradable Materials

Impact of Non-Biodegradable Materials on the Environment Non-biodegradable wastes never decompose and remain as pollutants. Non-biodegradable pesticides and other toxic chemicals may cause diseases

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Class 5 / Science / States of Matter / States of Matter

Introduction And Physical States of Matter

Introduction to Matter Things all around us are made up of matter. Matter has mass and occupies space. Different substances are made up of different kinds of matter. The food we eat, the water we d

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Class 5 / Science / States of Matter / States of Matter

Arrangement of particles in solids, liquids and gases

Arrangement of particles in solids, liquids and gases Every kind of matter is composed of small particles which are in constant random motion. Let us discuss the arrangement of these particles in t

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Processes Involving Change in States of Matter - Melting And Freezing

Effect of Heat on the Arrangement of Particles Properties of matter change with a change in temperature. When heated, the particles gain energy, move faster and move away from each other. That is w

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Boiling, Evaporation And Condensation

Boiling If we heat a liquid continuously, the movement of its particles becomes faster and faster. Spaces between particles are increased and attractive forces between them become weaker. Finally,

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Role of Evaporation and Condensation in the Water Cycle

Role of Evaporation and Condensation in the Water Cycle Sea, river, lake, canal, pond, etc. are called water bodies. The transfer of water from water bodies to the atmosphere and its return back i

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Application of Evaporation and Condensation

Application of Evaporation and Condensation Water is always present in the air in the form of water vapours. When there is smoke and dust in the cold climate, these water vapours appear as fog

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Science, Technology, Society and Environment

Science, Technology, Society and Environment Evaporation produces cooling. This principle is used in the technology of making refrigerators and air conditioners, etc. The compressors in the AC and

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Class 5 / Social Course Book 1 / The Globe / The Globe

Earth Introduction, Main Features, Axis And Poles

Introduction - The Globe Look at the picture of the earth and observe: It is spherical, like a ball. You can see only one-half of it, you cannot see the other half. Now look at the globe i

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Class 5 / Social Course Book 1 / The Globe / The Globe

Latitudes

Latitudes Latitudes are horizontal lines. The longest latitude is called the Equator. It is drawn midway between the North Pole and the South Pole. Thus, this line divides the earth into two parts.

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Class 5 / Social Course Book 1 / The Globe / The Globe

Important Latitudes

Important Latitudes The Equator is the most important latitude and is marked 0°. It divides the globe into two equal halves. Other important latitudes are the following: Tropics: The latitud

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Important Latitudes

Latitudes and Heat Zones You know that the sun is the source of heat and light on the earth. Let us do a practical. Light a candle and place it just in front of the globe. What do you see?

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Longitudes

Longitudes Latitudes are horizontal lines but longitudes are vertical lines. These lines touch the North Pole on one end and the South Pole on the other end. So, they all are semi-circles. They are

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Class 5 / Social Course Book 1 / The Map / The Map

Introduction And Difference Between Globe and Map

The Map Introduction A globe is a model of the earth, while a map is a drawing of the whole or part of the earth. Let us first compare these two: Difference between globe and map:

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Class 5 / Social Course Book 1 / The Map / The Map

Types of Maps

Types of Maps You are going to visit a famous lake with your family, but don’t know the way to it. What will you do? Tick the options: Keep asking people for directions. Carry a tourist

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Class 5 / Social Course Book 1 / The Map / The Map

Directions, Distance and Scale, Colours

Directions, Distance And Scale, Colours Directions The four cardinal directions are : East, West, North and South. The sun rises in the East, sets in the West, it is in the South at noon, which is

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Class 5 / Social Course Book 1 / The Map / The Map

Signs and Symbols

Signs and Symbols A map can include several landmarks, for which special signs and symbols are used.  These landmarks can be rivers, forests, railway lines, roads, cities, towns, dams, temples

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Class 5 / Social Course Book 1 / Weather and Climate / Weather and Climate

Weather and Climate

Weather And Climate Weather The atmosphere changes from time to time. It is cooler in the morning and warmer in the afternoon. You can see the change in the atmosphere almost every hour. The at

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Class 5 / Social Course Book 1 / Weather and Climate / Weather and Climate

Factors Influencing the Climate - Distance from the Equator And Altitude above the Sea-level

Factors Influencing the Climate Following are the factors which influence the climate of a place: 1. Distance from the Equator You have read that the areas around the Equator receive direct s

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Distance from the Sea

3. Distance from the Sea Land heats up and cools down quickly. On the other hand, water takes time to heat and cool. So, the land in coastal areas heats up during the day and cools down at night qu

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Direction of Winds And Location of Mountain Ranges

4. Direction of Winds The temperature of the wind depends on the temperature of the place it blows from; a wind from a cold place cools the surroundings, while a wind from a hot place warms it up.

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Climatic Zones And Weather Forecast

Climatic Zones You have read in this book that there are three heat zones in the world. They are also called the climatic zones, as they determine the climate of the world. 1. Torrid Zone: The v

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Class 5 / Social Course Book 1 / Pollution / Pollution

Introduction

Pollution Introduction The environment provides us such conditions that life can exist on our earth. There is available on the earth air and water in just right quantities, and these are optima

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Air Pollution

Air Pollution The atmosphere is made up of different types of gases, as oxygen, carbon dioxide, nitrogen and others. We inhale oxygen and exhale carbon dioxide. Trees use carbon dioxide and release

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Water Pollution And Noise Pollution

Water Pollution Water is an important ingredient of the environment. Life cannot be possible without it. We need it for different purposes in our homes, fields and industries. When we use water, we

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Soil Pollution

Soil Pollution Soil is an important natural resource. We need it to plant our trees and produce crops. We have polluted soil with our activities. It occurs in many ways. Farmers mix chemical fer

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Reuse, Recycle, Resell

We can deal with Non-biodegradable Waste type of pollution in the following ways. Together these are called a 3-R’s formula : Reuse: Instead of discarding things, there are many items tha

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Necessary Steps

We must take the following steps immediately in our own interest : Plant trees. Make sure no plant dies for want of water. Save water. Never waste water. Dig a pit and put all biodegradable

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Class 5 / Social Course Book 1 / Natural Disasters / Natural Disasters

Introduction

Natural Disasters Introduction Disasters can strike anywhere and anytime, and it’s crucial to stay safe during their occurrence. However, it’s equally important to extend help to the v

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Earthquake And Tsunami

We shall study only natural disasters in this class. Earthquake The occurrence of an earthquake is common in the world. In some areas, they keep occurring off and on, like in Indonesia and Japan

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Volcano And Flood

Volcano It is very hot deep inside the earth. Everything is in a molten state there. If there is a deep crack or hole in the earth’s surface, this molten material can flow out at a high s

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Drought, Landslide And Cyclone

Drought Excessive rainfall leads to floods, while a lack of rainfall causes drought. Droughts are often prolonged periods without rain, resulting in water scarcity. This leads to a lack of crops, f

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Disaster Management And Your Role in a Disaster

Disaster Management Owing to large scale destruction, a disaster a is the cause of massive suffering to the people. It can also lead to death of people and animals; diseases can spread and the land

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Class 5 / Social Course Book 1 / Energy Resources / Energy Resources

Coal

Coal The steam engine, which ran on coal or wood, was the first effective use of energy. However, it produced a lot of smoke and pollution, and required constant manpower to feed the engine with fu

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Class 5 / Social Course Book 1 / Energy Resources / Energy Resources

Mineral oil and Natural gas

Mineral oil and Natural gas Petroleum was first discovered in America in 1857. Gottlieb Daimler saw it burn brightly, and he thought that it could be used as a fuel. He invented an engine in 1885 w

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Electricity

Electricity Once about 300 years ago, a toy popular among children in the Netherlands was Leyden Jar. It was linked with two wires, one inside the glass and the other outside it. When the two w

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Class 5 / Social Course Book 1 / Energy Resources / Energy Resources

Clean Sources of Energy

Clean Sources of Energy Electricity is produced from different sources, like coal or water. We can classify sources of energy into two types conventional sources and non-conventional sources. 1.

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Class 5 / Social Course Book 1 / The land of ice - Greenland / The land of ice - Greenland

Introduction

The land of ice - Greenland Introduction Of the three climatic zones, the Frigid Zone is the coldest on the earth because of the sunlight being very slanting. This zone is located within the two c

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Greenland - Location And Relief Features

Greenland Location Greenland is an autonomous province of Denmark and is the third largest territory in North America. It is situated near the North Pole, only about 650 km away. Its total area

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Climate And Natural Vegetation

Climate And Natural Vegetation Climate Greenland has very low temperatures throughout the year, with an average temperature below freezing point. Winter temperatures can drop as low as -47°C.

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Wildlife

Wildlife Despite lack of natural vegetation, Greenland is gifted with some unique wildlife. Many fur-bearing animals are found here which can withstand extreme cold. The important species of wildli

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Lifestyle

Lifestyle Greenland has a population of around 76.19K, and the original inhabitants are the Eskimos, also known as Inuit. They have adapted to the harsh climate and live in the northwest part of th

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Occupations and Industries, Transport

Occupations and Industries Fishing is the main occupation of Greenlanders. Fish processing is a major source of employment; almost every third Greenlander is employed in it. People catch fish for e

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Development And Important Cities

Development Science and technology have helped to improve the quality of life in Greenland. They now have access to electricity supply. Schools, hospitals and clubs can be seen around. Compulsory e

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Class 5 / Social Course Book 1 / The Arab Desert / The Arab Desert

Introduction

The Arab Desert Introduction to deserts Deserts are areas with very little rainfall, receiving less than 25 cm per year. Vegetation is sparse in deserts due to the dry conditions. Deserts can be h

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Class 5 / Social Course Book 1 / The Arab Desert / The Arab Desert

Location And Physical Features

Location Saudi Arabia, situated in the Arabian Peninsula, is mostly a desert land covering almost 80% of the region. The country is surrounded by the Red Sea on the west and the Persian Gulf on the

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Class 5 / Social Course Book 1 / The Arab Desert / The Arab Desert

Climate And Vegetation

Climate Owing to scanty rainfall, which is less than 10 cm yearly, the climate in Saudi Arabia is hot and dry. The Asir region is the only exception with an average annual rainfall of about 30-51 c

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Class 5 / Social Course Book 1 / The Arab Desert / The Arab Desert

Wildlife

Wildlife Wildlife in Saudi Arabia is limited due to its harsh climate. It includes reptiles, birds, mammals, insects, and spiders. During winter, wolves, foxes, deer, and hyenas can be seen. Howeve

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Class 5 / Social Course Book 1 / The Arab Desert / The Arab Desert

Trade, Industry and Natural Resources

Trade, Industry and Natural Resources Oil is the most important natural resource. There are a number of huge oil fields in its eastern part and the Persian Gulf. Dhahran, Abquaib and Ghawar are the

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Class 5 / Social Course Book 1 / The Arab Desert / The Arab Desert

Transport and Communication, Important Cities

Transport and Communication In spite of the harsh climatic conditions, Saudi Arabia has developed a good network of roads. Now effort is being made to connect villages with good quality roads. Rail

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Class 5 / Social Course Book 1 / Prairies : The Land of Grass / Prairies : The Land of Grass

Introduction

Prairies: The Land of Grass Introduction Moderately rainy areas are fertile and are suitable for grasslands. However, due to the limited growth of grasses in these areas, they have been converted

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The Prairies - Location And Climate

The Prairies Location In the continent of North America, grasslands found in America, Canada and Mexico are called prairies. The word ‘prairie’ is a French word which means ‘me

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Vegetation And Wildlife

Vegetation The prairies are classified into three regions - tallgrass, mixed, and shortgrass. The tallgrass prairie has a moderate climate that supports tall grasses covering hundreds of kilometers

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Lifestyle And Means of Transport

Lifestyle The original inhabitants of the prairies were Red Indians who led a nomadic life with their cattle. With time, a large number of Europeans have settled here. They have turned the vast pra

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Class 5 / Social Course Book 1 / Developing Intelligence / Developing Intelligence

Introduction

Developing Intelligence Introduction Man is lucky to have been endowed with exceptional gifts from nature, namely the ability to use his brain and hands. Along with his capacity to speak and remem

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Class 5 / Social Course Book 1 / Developing Intelligence / Developing Intelligence

The Evolution of Writing

The Evolution of Writing Writing is akin to a record, where numerous writers come together to create a wealth of knowledge. This art has proven to be an excellent tool for accumulating knowledge. I

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Class 5 / Social Course Book 1 / Developing Intelligence / Developing Intelligence

The Numbers’ Tale

The Numbers’ Tale Numbers are very important in your life. You need them when you want to divide the candies with your friend, or when you want to compare your marks with those of your friend

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The Story of Paper

The Story of Paper In the beginning, Early Man recorded his signs and symbols on the ground, tree stems or cave walls. But when he travelled, he could not carry them with him. He did not know ho

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The Art of Printing

The Art of Printing Before the invention of paper, people wrote on tree leaves, tree bark, and animal skins. Writing on these uneven surfaces was challenging, and binding the leaflets together was

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Class 5 / Social Course Book 1 / Developing Intelligence / Developing Intelligence

Script for the blind

Script for the blind The books came into being, but unfortunately, the blind could not enjoy this advancement. Louis Braille, a blind French boy, wanted to read books. He thought how he could read.

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Class 5 / English And Grammar Course Book 2 / The Story of the Happy Prince / The Story of the Happy Prince

The Story of the Happy Prince Page No 5

  There stood a bronze statue of a Happy a Prince in the heart of the city. The figure was inlaid with gold. The eyes were made of sapphires. A large ruby was studded in the sword. One nig

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Class 5 / English And Grammar Course Book 2 / The Story of the Happy Prince / The Story of the Happy Prince

The Story of the Happy Prince Page No 6

Next night the Happy Prince told the swallow about the noble writer who was weak and hungry. He said to the swallow, “It is very cold. The poor writer has no fire. He is trying to finish a book

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Class 5 / English And Grammar Course Book 2 / The Story of the Happy Prince / The Story of the Happy Prince

The Story of the Happy Prince Page No 7

The Happy Prince told the swallow to give the sapphire of his other eye to a poor girl, who was crying in the nearby lane. The Happy Prince requested the swallow to give outer layers gold, little by l

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Class 5 / English And Grammar Course Book 2 / A Tale of Trickery / A Tale of Trickery

A Tale of Trickery Page No 17

There was a time when the animals talked like people. Once near a farm, a rooster sat on a branch of a tall tree. The morning sun was bright, the air was warm and the coun­tryside was quiet. The r

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Class 5 / English And Grammar Course Book 2 / A Tale of Trickery / A Tale of Trickery

A Tale of Trickery Page No 18

But what if the hungry wolf comes along? Or the lion? They might eat me up.’ I want to tell you something really great; said the fox. The rooster looked down. ‘What’s it?’

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Class 5 / English And Grammar Course Book 2 / Springtime Magic / Springtime Magic

Springtime Magic

Springtime magic is in the air, As flowers bloom without a care, The sun shines bright, the birds sing clear, And all around, the world appears. The grass is green, the sky is blue,

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Class 5 / English And Grammar Course Book 2 / A Year in Nature / A Year in Nature

A Year in Nature Page No 30 and 31

Nature all over the world changes its colours several times in a year. Each of these changes manifests itself in the form of one season. There are four seasons in a year: spring, summer, autumn and wi

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Class 5 / English And Grammar Course Book 2 / A Year in Nature / A Year in Nature

A Year in Nature Page No 32

At times, heavy rains cause floods. Autumn comes between summer and winter. Gen­erally, its period is from September to October. During this season, it is neither too hot nor too cold. It is a per

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Class 5 / English And Grammar Course Book 2 / Science and Technology / Science and Technology

Science and Technology Page No 39

The modern age is the age of science and technology. In every walk of life, we depend on science. Science has given us a lot of comforts. Science has shortened the dis­tances and has lengthened th

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Class 5 / English And Grammar Course Book 2 / Science and Technology / Science and Technology

Science and Technology Page No 40

Philo Taylor Farnsworth did not allow television viewing in his home. He said there was nothing good on it. Computer Over the past few years, computers have become a vastly popular household i

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Class 5 / English And Grammar Course Book 2 / Science and Technology / Science and Technology

Science and Technology Page No 40

Philo Taylor Farnsworth did not allow television viewing in his home. He said there was nothing good on it. Computer Over the past few years, computers have become a vastly popular household i

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Class 5 / English And Grammar Course Book 2 / Science and Technology / Science and Technology

Science and Technology Page No 41

Work on computers continued in the 20th century: Konrad Zuse’s Z3 was the first pro­grammable computer, invented in 1941. The Colossus computer was the first com­pletely electronic compu

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Class 5 / English And Grammar Course Book 2 / Memories of Home / Memories of Home

Memories of Home

When I close my eyes and think of home, A picture forms in my mind, all on its own. I see the place where I was born, The house that kept me safe, from dusk to dawn. The porch where I

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Class 5 / Science Course Book 2 / Forces and Machines / Forces and Machines

Friction

Forces and Machines We use force when we do work. We use force when we write on a paper, open a door, pedal a bicycle or push an iron nail into the wood. We cannot see a force but we can see its effe

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Class 5 / Science Course Book 2 / Forces and Machines / Forces and Machines

Advantages And Disadvantages Of Friction

Advantages And Disadvantages Of Friction Advantages of Friction Many of our daily life activities such as walking, writing and stopping the fast moving vehicles by applying brakes are due to fri

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Class 5 / Science Course Book 2 / Forces and Machines / Forces and Machines

Methods to Reduce Friction

Methods to Reduce Friction Friction can be reduced by the following methods Polishing of surfaces Polishing of surfaces of the objects reduces the friction. Using lubricants Use of lubr

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Class 5 / Science Course Book 2 / Forces and Machines / Forces and Machines

Gravitational Force

Gravitational Force We know that when a ball is thrown upward it comes back to the Earth. It is easy to go down Stairs as compared to moving up­stairs. A cricket ball thrown upward, comes downw

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Class 5 / Science Course Book 2 / Forces and Machines / Forces and Machines

Lever, Using ball bearings

Lever A lever is a simple machine which turns about a fixed point. When a force is applied at one end of the lever, it turns about the fixed point to lift the load at the other end. The fixed p

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Class 5 / Science Course Book 2 / Forces and Machines / Forces and Machines

Second and third kind of lever

Second kind of lever In the second kind of lever, the load is between the ful­crum and the effort. Bottle opener, wheelbarrow, nut cracker, paper cutter and door, etc., are the examples of

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Class 5 / Science Course Book 2 / Light / Light

Luminous and Non-Luminous Objects

Light is a form of energy. The Sun is the biggest source of light. Light bulbs, flames of fire, candles, etc., are also the sources of light. Light travels in a straight line. It can travel through di

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Class 5 / Science Course Book 2 / Light / Light

Transparent, Opaque and Translucent Objects

Transparent, Opaque and Translucent Objects Objects can be classified as transparent, opaque and translucent. The objects through which light can pass are called transparent objects. Glass, water a

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Class 5 / Science Course Book 2 / Light / Light

Light Travels in a Straight Line

Light Travels in a Straight Line We can prove that light travels in a straight line. Let us perform an experiment as follows: Experiment Take three similar cardboards and make holes in them at

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Class 5 / Science Course Book 2 / Light / Light

Shadow Formation, Location, size and shape of shadow

Shadow Formation Light travels in a straight line. When an opaque object is placed in the path of the light, it cannot pass through the object. Hence, shadow is formed behind the opaque object. Sha

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Eclipse

Eclipse The Earth moves around the Sun and the Moon moves around the Earth. When the Moon, the Earth and the Sun come in a straight line, an eclipse takes place (Figure a, b). Solar Eclipse

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Class 5 / Science Course Book 2 / Electricity and Magnetism / Electricity and Magnetism

Introduction And Electric Current

Introduction All the material objects are composed of extreme­ly small particles called atoms. An atom consists of further smaller particles called electrons, pro­tons, neutrons, etc. Protons

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Class 5 / Science Course Book 2 / Electricity and Magnetism / Electricity and Magnetism

Electrical Circuit and its Components

Electrical Circuit and its Components The path along which electric current flows is called an electrical circuit. Figure shows the flow of electric current from one end of the cell to the other en

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Class 5 / Science Course Book 2 / Electricity and Magnetism / Electricity and Magnetism

Fuse and its Uses

Fuse and its Uses Fuse is a safety device connected in electrical circuits. It is a thin metal wire which allows a specific amount of current to flow through it. If the current exceeds the limit, t

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Class 5 / Science Course Book 2 / Electricity and Magnetism / Electricity and Magnetism

Static Electricity

Static Electricity We have learnt about two types of charges, i.e., positive charge and negative charge. Positive charge appears on an object when it loses electrons. Negative charge ap­pears o

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Class 5 / Science Course Book 2 / Electricity and Magnetism / Electricity and Magnetism

How do static charges build up?

How do static charges build up? Rubbing of certain materials with one another creates imbalance of positive and neg­ative charges on them. For example, when a plastic comb is rubbed through dry

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Class 5 / Science Course Book 2 / Electricity and Magnetism / Electricity and Magnetism

Lightning

Lightning Lightning is an example of static dis­charge. The patches of clouds during their movement rub against each oth­er. As a result, huge amount of static charges appear on the cloud p

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Class 5 / Science Course Book 2 / Electricity and Magnetism / Electricity and Magnetism

Electromagnets

Electromagnets There is a close relationship between electric current and magnetism. Let us perform an activity to understand the relationship between electric current and magnetism. • Take

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Class 5 / Science Course Book 2 / Electricity and Magnetism / Electricity and Magnetism

Uses of Electromagnets

Uses of Electromagnets Electromagnets attract the objects made of iron, nickel and cobalt. They are used wide­ly in our daily life. For example, they are used in magnetic locks, circuit breaker

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Class 5 / Science Course Book 2 / Safety and First Aid / Safety and First Aid

Introduction And Safety At Different Places

Safety and First aid Introduction In previous classes, we have studied that we must follow safety rules everywhere. However, accidents still take place. They cause pain and sufferings. Some of the c

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Class 5 / Science Course Book 2 / Safety and First Aid / Safety and First Aid

First Aid - Simple Cuts, Sprain

First Aid Sometimes accidents happen despite following safety measures. A person may get in­jured and need immediate help. The immediate help given to an injured person, before a doctor arrives

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Class 5 / Science Course Book 2 / Safety and First Aid / Safety and First Aid

First Aid - Fracture, Heat stroke, Bleeding Nose

Fracture: A crack in a bone is called a fracture. A slip or a fall may cause fracture. In case of a fracture, do not move the injured part. Use a splint to provide support. A splint is made of wood

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First Aid - Object in the Eye, Animal Bites, In Case of Burns

Object in the Eye: Wash your hand before touching the eye. Wash your eyes with water repeatedly. Do not put any sharp object in the eye to remove the particle. Animal Bites: Animal bites caus

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Class 5 / Science Course Book 2 / The Nervous System / The Nervous System

Introduction And Brain

The Nervous System The nervous system is the most complex of all the body systems. It is also the most important system as it controls all the other body systems and the sense organs. The nervous sys

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Spinal cord And Nerves

Spinal cord: The spinal cord originates from the medulla and extends almost till the lower end of our backbone. It is surrounded and protect­ed by the vertebral column. The spinal cord itself i

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Sense Organs - Eyes

Sense Organs We have five sense organs: eyes, ears, nose, tongue and skin. They are associated with sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch respectively. Our sense organs have special sensory re

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Sense Organs - Ears

Ears: The ears help us to hear sounds. They help us to maintain balance. They are situated in the head region. The ear is made of three parts— the outer ear though which sound enters; the middl

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Nose And Tongue

Nose: The nose helps us to smell and breathe. There are mil­lions of nerve endings on the upper part of the nose. When the smell reaches these hair like nerves, they send message to the brain thr

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Skin

Skin: The tongue helps us to identify different tastes. It also helps us to speak. The sur­face of the tongue is covered with taste buds. The nerve end­ing in the taste buds help us to iden

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Class 5 / Science Course Book 2 / Food and Health / Food and Health

Introduction

Food and Health Lucy gets easily tired after playing for a little while. She often suffers from cold and lacks energy which makes her feel weak. However, her friend Sar­ah plays for hours, doesn&

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Carbohydrates And Fats

Carbohydrates: Carbohydrates are energy giving food. They are also known as starch food. They provide our body with heat and energy; they form a major part of our diet. Rice, wheat, potato, and sug

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Proteins, Vitamins and Minerals

Proteins: Proteins are known as the body building food of our body. They are needed for growth and repair of our body. They also help in building muscles. Children need more protein in their diet a

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Water, Roughage

Water: Almost two thirds of our body is made up of water. Water helps in regulating the temperature of our body and helps in the proper functioning of our organs. We lose wa­ter while breathing

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Balanced Diet

Balanced Diet Food that contains the right amount of nutrients, water and roughage in a meal according to age and lifestyle is called a balanced diet. To stay healthy it is important to have a bala

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Deficiency Diseases - Malnutrition

Deficiency Diseases A disease is a condition in which a body or any part of the body is not able to function properly. Deficiency diseases occur when a person’s diet lacks in required essenti

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Night Blindness And Beriberi

Night Blindness A person suffering from night blindness finds it difficult to see in dim light. The eyes become dull, triangular patches appear on the white portion of the eyes and the skin becomes

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Class 5 / Science Course Book 2 / Food and Health / Food and Health

Scurvy And Rickets

Scurvy Lack of Vitamin C causes scurvy. Scurvy causes bleeding and swell­ing of gums. The gums get easily infected. Oranges, lemon, amla, tomatoes, and sprouted grains are rich in vitamin C.

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Anaemia, Goitre And Obesity

Anaemia Lack of iron in food causes anaemia. It decreases the level of haemoglobin in our body. Haemoglobin is a substance present in blood that carries oxygen. An anaemic person gets tired easily,

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Healthy eating Habits

Healthy eating Habit Besides eating a well-balanced diet, we should also take care while cooking food. The food should not be overcooked as it loses it nutrition value. Wash the vegetables be

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Class 4 / English And Grammar Course Book 1 / The Value of Hard Work / The Value of Hard Work

The Value of Hard Work

One afternoon, a woodcutter was returning home through the forest. He was tired, but proud that he had completed a full day’s work. He saw something shiny behind a big tree stump. It was

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Little Drops And Little Grains

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An Unexpected Balloon Ride

I always dream of flying. I am a brave child by nature. I always imagined to achieve my success in the skies. I live in a mountainous area which is an ideal tourist spot. Flying was my passion. Once I

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An Unexpected Balloon Ride

There were two men holding the seat of the balloon for the pilot. Robert lit the burners to heat the air and the balloon swelled up. Hot air began to fill the balloon. The pilot sat in his seat. The b

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Class 4 / English And Grammar Course Book 1 / The Accidental Discovery of Glass / The Accidental Discovery of Glass

The Accidental Discovery of Glass

Thousands of years ago, some fishermen camped for the night on a sandy beach. After they went to sleep, the hot coals from their campfire glowed far into the night. In the morning one of the men n

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The Accidental Discovery of Glass

Legends say that this may be the way that people first discovered glass. Glass is formed when sand is mixed with certain chemicals in a very hot fire. Perhaps by accident, all of these materials were

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The Accidental Discovery of Glass

Over the years glass making improved a great deal. Today glass is so clear like crystal that you can hardly tell it is there. Houses can have many large windows. Some city skyscrapers look as though t

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The Accidental Discovery of Glass

Of all the objects made of glass, lenses are probably the most important. A lens is a specially curved piece of glass that bends light rays. Lenses make things look either bigger or smaller than they

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Class 4 / English And Grammar Course Book 1 / A Father's Pride / A Father's Pride

A Father's Pride

“Jan,” called his teacher, “don’t forget to tell your father about the hockey match on Friday night.” Jan’s expressions changed. “Why should my father come?&r

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A Father's Pride

“I know, Jan”, Mr. Wasif said, “but I am sure he wants to know about our national sport as much as you do. Fathers should also have fun in our game. See you both on Friday. By the wa

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A Father's Pride

They stopped thinking of him as a strange boy. But now Mr. Wasif was asking him to bring his father to school.”Hi, Jan,” called Samy, a dark-haired boy in a red-striped shirt. “I kno

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A Father's Pride

Jan’s eyes filled with tears, “I know I was wrong, Sir! I am going home now to ask my father to come.” “You don’t need to, Jan. I invited your father myself, and he wants

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A Genius Mistake

Salim shook his fountain pen twice, but it didn’t work. “My teacher is going to punish me. She will not be ready to accept any excuse if I don’t submit my homework assignment,&rd

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A Genius Mistake

As if by magic, clear blue words began to show. Salim moved the paper away from the heat of the bulb. Slowly the words began to disappear. “This is super!” he cried. “Just what I

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A Genius Mistake

Salim collected his books, packed his sneakers for gym the next day, and was ready to put his homework and notebooks in his bag. He looked around, puzzled. He had put his homework on the desk with his

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A Genius Mistake

This time Salim put the homework securely into his notebook. And just to make sure he would find it quickly the next day, he put a paper clip on the top of the page. That morning when Miss Nadia said,

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Numbers

Sense Of Large Numbers Seven-digit number: This is any number with 7 digits. An example is 89,72,543. In words, it is read as Eighty-nine lakh seventy-two thousand five hundred forty-three.

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Numbers

Writing Numbers Using Commas While writing a number, different periods are separated by putting a comma between two consecutive periods. Example : Write 40932045 and 375318277 in Indian place value

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International place value  International place value chart International place value chart for 9-digit numbers is divided into four periods i.e., ones, thousands and millions which are furt

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Numbers

Face Value & Place Value  The face value of a digit is the value of the digit itself at whatever place it may be. For example: In number 32876521, the face value of 1 is 1, 2 is 2, 5 i

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Numbers

Numbers on Abacus Representing numbers on abacus:

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Numbers

Comparing and Ordering Numbers Comparison of numbers refers to the process of determining which of two or more numbers is greater or smaller than the others. Ordering numbers means arranging a grou

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Class 5 / Mathematics Course Book 1 / Roman Numbers / Roman Numbers

Roman Numbers

Introduction to Roman Numbers Roman numerals are a system of numerical notation used in ancient Rome and still in limited use today. In this system, different letters represent different values, an

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Roman Number Rules

Roman Number Rules 1. Roman numerals are written using only seven letters: I, V, X, L, C, D, and M. Each letter represents a specific value: I represents the number 1 V represents the number 5 X re

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Roman Numbers

Writing Roman Numerals Example 1 : Write the following numbers in roman numerals: (a) 1287 (b) 699 (c) 789          (a) 1287  1287 = 1000 + 200 + 80 + 7 = MCCLXX

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Operations on Large Numbers

Addition Addition is a way of combining things and counting them together as one large group. The numbers that we add are called addends and the result of addition is called sum. Let us learn to ad

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Operations on Large Numbers

Subtraction Subtraction is a process of taking away. The number from which we subtract is always the bigger number. It is called minuend, The number that is subtracted is called subtrahend and the

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Operations On Large Numbers

Multiplication Multiplication is a process of repeated addition of the same number. The number that is multiplied is called multiplicand. The number which multiplies is called multiplier and the an

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Operations On Large Numbers

Division Divide is a process of taking away. The number from which we subtract is always the bigger number. It is called minuend, The number that is subtracted is called subtrahend and the answer i

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Class 5 / Mathematics Course Book 1 / Simplification : BODMAS / Simplification : BODMAS

Simplification : BODMAS

Order of Operations to Solve Expression We have already studied four basic fundamental operations ie., addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. Sometimes, we face many problems to simpli

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Simplification : BODMAS

Use of Brackets If some expressions are enclosed within a pair of brackets, it means that they have to be simplified first before the other operations. To simplify such expressions involving bracke

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Class 5 / Mathematics Course Book 1 / HCF and LCM / HCF and LCM

HCF and LCM

HCF HCF is the acronym of Highest Common Factor. It is calculated for two or more numbers. Highest Common Factor (HCF) of two or more numbers is the greatest number that divides the given numbers e

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HCF and LCM

LCM LCM is the acronym of Least Common Multiple. It is calculated for two or more numbers. Least Common Multiple (LCM) of two or more numbers is the smallest number among the common multiples. T

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HCF and LCM

Solve real life problems involving HCF and LCM Example 1 (HCF) Find the maximum length of a measuring tape that can exactly measure 18, 24 and 30 metre of wires? Solution We have to find H

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HCF and LCM

  Solve real life problems involving HCF and LCM Example 1 (HCF) Find the maximum length of a measuring tape that can exactly measure 18, 24 and 30 metre of wires? Solution We have

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HCF and LCM

  Solve real life problems involving HCF and LCM Example 1 (HCF) Find the maximum length of a measuring tape that can exactly measure 18, 24 and 30 metre of wires? Solution We have

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HCF and LCM

  Solve real life problems involving HCF and LCM Example 1 (HCF) Find the maximum length of a measuring tape that can exactly measure 18, 24 and 30 metre of wires? Solution We have

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HCF and LCM

  Solve real life problems involving HCF and LCM Example 1 (HCF) Find the maximum length of a measuring tape that can exactly measure 18, 24 and 30 metre of wires? Solution We have

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Class 5 / Mathematics Course Book 1 / Fractions / Fractions

Fractions

Understanding Fractions Look at the circle It is divided into 4 equal parts. 1 part out of the 4 is coloured. We say that \(1 \over 4\)of the circle is coloured. \(1 \over 4\) 

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Fractions

Like and unlike fractions  Gary’s mother bought two similar cakes.  She cut first cake in 8 equal pieces and took 1 piece out She took of the first cak She cut  se

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Fractions

Equivalent fractions  Look at the circle.    It is divided into 2 equal parts. \(1 \over 2\) of the circle is coloured Now look at this circle.  It is d

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Fractions

Equivalent fractions  Look at the circle.    It is divided into 2 equal parts. \(1 \over 2\) of the circle is coloured Now look at this circle.  It is d

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Fractions

Equivalent fractions  Look at the circle.    It is divided into 2 equal parts. \(1 \over 2\) of the circle is coloured Now look at this circle.  It is d

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Fractions

Equivalent fractions  Look at the circle.    It is divided into 2 equal parts. \(1 \over 2\) of the circle is coloured Now look at this circle.  It is d

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Fractions

Equivalent fractions  Look at the circle.    It is divided into 2 equal parts. \(1 \over 2\) of the circle is coloured Now look at this circle.  It is d

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Fractions

Addition and Subtraction of Fractions Addition and Subtraction of Like Fractions To add or subtract like fractions, add or subtract the numerators and divide by the common denominator Exa

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Fractions

Addition and Subtraction of Fractions Addition and Subtraction of Like Fractions To add or subtract like fractions, add or subtract the numerators and divide by the common denominator Exa

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Fractions

Addition and Subtraction of Fractions Addition and Subtraction of Like Fractions To add or subtract like fractions, add or subtract the numerators and divide by the common denominator Exa

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Fractions

Addition and Subtraction of Fractions Addition and Subtraction of Like Fractions To add or subtract like fractions, add or subtract the numerators and divide by the common denominator Exa

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Fractions

Addition and Subtraction of Fractions Addition and Subtraction of Like Fractions To add or subtract like fractions, add or subtract the numerators and divide by the common denominator Exa

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Fractions

Addition and Subtraction of Fractions Addition and Subtraction of Like Fractions To add or subtract like fractions, add or subtract the numerators and divide by the common denominator Exa

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Fractions

Multiplication of Fractions Multiplication of a Fraction by a Whole Number Multiplication of a Fraction by Another Fraction To multiply a fraction by a whole number, multiply the numerator of the g

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Fractions

Reciprocal of a Number Two numbers are reciprocal (multiplicative inverse) of each other, if their product is 1. For Example: \({2\over 5}\times{5\over 2}=1\) \(2\over 5\) and 

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Fractions

Division of Fractions Division of a Fraction by a Whole Number To divide a fraction by a whole number, multiply the fraction by the reciprocal of the whole number. Fraction ÷ Whole num

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Class 5 / Mathematics Course Book 1 / Decimals / Decimals

Decimals

Decimals A decimal is a number that is written using the base-ten place value system. A decimal point separates the ones and tenths digits Add and subtract decimals Addition of decimals Yo

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Decimals

Recognize like and unlike decimals Consider the following decimals: I) 33.2 It has one decimal place ii) 124.35 It has two decimal places. iii) 41.237 It has three decimal places. iv)

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Decimals

Multiplication of decimals by 10, 100 and 1000 (a)Multiplication of decimals by 10 Multiplying a decimal by 10 is equivalent to forming a new number by moving the decimal point of the given deci

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Decimals

Division of decimals by 10, 100 and 1000 (a)Division of decimals by 10 Dividing a decimal by 10 is equivalent to forming a new number by moving the decimal point of the given decimal to the left

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Decimals

Division of a decimal with a whole number Consider the following examples: Example 1  Divide 782.25 by 21 Solution  782.25 ÷ 21 Divide as you would with whole numbers.

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Decimals

Multiplication of Decimal Numbers Multiplication of a decimal with tenth, and hundredths only Consider the following example Example 1 Find the product of 7.5 and 0.6 Solution :7.5 ×

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Decimals

Division of Decimal by Decimal (by converting decimals to fractions) Example 1 Divide 0.8 by 0.4 Solution   0.8 ÷ 0.4 \(\frac{8}{10}\div \frac{4}{10}=\frac{8}{10}\times \f

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Decimals

Use of division to change fractions into decimals Example 1 Convert \(1 \over 4\) to decimal. Thus  \(1 \over 4\)=0.25 Remember: Dividend 1 is smaller than divisor 4. W

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Decimals

Simplify decimal expressions involving brackets (applying one or more basic operations) Example 1         Simplify: 2.1 + (1.3 × 2.1 ÷ 0.7) Soluti

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Decimals

Round off decimals upto specified number of decimal places Definition: To round a number means to approximate the number to a given value. When rounding look at the digit to the right of the giv

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Decimals

Convert fractions to decimals and vice versa We have learnt how to convert fraction to decimals in article 4.1.1. We know that: \({1 \over 4}=0.25\)           

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Decimals

Solve real life problems involving decimal Example 1 Noureen bought 6 note books at the rate of Rs. 22.75 per notebook. How much did she pay? Solution Cost of one notebook = Rs. 22.75

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Class 4 / Mathematics Course Book 1 / Numbers / Numbers

Numbers

Numbers of 5, 6, and 7 digits Numbers of 5, 6, and 7 digits refer to numbers with a specific number of digits.  A number of 5 digits has exactly 5 digits, and can range from 10,000 to 99,99

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Numbers

Indian place value chart Let us read numbers using an Indian place value chart. Reading 5-digit numbers Example: Let’s read the number 87987 87987 = 80000 + 7000 + 900 + 80 +

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Numbers

Face value & Place value Face Value The face value of a digit is the value of the digit itself at whatever place it may be For example: In number 36521, the face value of 1 is 1, 2 is 2,

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Numbers

Number line Jack and Sara are holding a banner to show a number line. The number line shows numbers from left to right  in order from smallest to greatest with equal spaces.  You c

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Numbers

Comparing and Ordering Numbers Comparison of numbers refers to the process of determining which of two or more numbers is greater or smaller than the others. Rule 1 : A number with more digits i

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Class 4 / Mathematics Course Book 1 / Roman Numerals / Roman Numerals

Roman Numerals

Roman Numbers Roman numerals are a system of numerical notation used in ancient Rome and still in limited use today. In this system, different letters represent different values, and the numbers ar

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Numbers

Roman Number Rules 1. The Roman numerals are formed by combining different symbols together. The value of a Roman numeral is the sum of the values of its individual symbols. 2. A smaller

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Roman Numerals

Writing Roman Numerals Example 1 : Write the following numbers in roman numerals:  (a) 245             (b) 313    

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Roman Numerals

Writing Roman Numerals Example 1 : Write the following numbers in roman numerals:  (a) 245             (b) 313    

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Addition

Addition of 5, 6 and 7 digit numbers (without regrouping) Addition without regrouping : Arrange the numbers in different groups like ones, tens, hundreds, thousands, ten thousands, lakhs and ten la

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Addition

Addition of 5, 6 and 7 digit numbers (with regrouping) Addition with regrouping : Group the numbers into columns like ones, tens, hundreds, thousands, ten thousands, lakhs and ten lakhs. Add the nu

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Addition

Properties of Addition Property 1 : Commutative : The answer will be the same even if you change the order of addition. Example : Solve : 34,142 + 58,776 and 58,776 + 34,142 So, 34,142 +

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Addition

Mental addition Example 1 : Let’s find the sum of 28 and 44 Step 1: Add 20 + 40 hold, 8 and 4 in mind, 2 + 4 = 6 means 20 + 40 = 60. Step 2: Add 8 + 4 = 12.  Step 3: Add 60 +

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Substraction

Subtraction of 5, 6 and 7 digit numbers (without regrouping) In the previous class, we have learnt the subtraction of two numbers up to four digits. In this class, we will learn how to subtract 5,

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Substraction

Subtraction of 5, 6 and 7 digit numbers (with regrouping) Subtraction without regrouping : First, separate the numbers being subtracted into columns based on their place value (ones, tens, hundreds

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Substraction

Mental Subtraction Let’s find the difference between 44 and 28 Count on from 28 to 30. Hold the 2 in your head. 30 to 44 is 10 + 4 = 14. Add the 2 in 14.14 + 2 = 16 is the answer. Fi

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Multiplication

Multiplication In the previous class, we have learnt multiplication up to 4-digit numbers by 1-digit and 2-digit numbers. In this class, we will learn more about multiplication. Multiplication b

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Multiplication

Multiplication problems in daily life 1.The capacity of a drum is 60 liters of milk. How much milk can be collected in 7 drums of such capacity? Answer: 7 Drums can hold 420 litres 2.The

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Multiplication

Properties of Multiplication Property 1: Commutative : The product of two numbers does not change if the order of the numbers is altered, according to this property.  For example: 500 &time

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Division

Division Division by 1 digit number Division is a process of repeated subtraction, let’s divide 5 digit number by 1 digit. Example 1: Divide 91756 ÷ 8 Step 1: Divide 9 by

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Division

Properties of Division Property 1: When you divide any number by 1, the result is the number itself and there is no remainder. Example: 9489 ÷ 1 = 9489; 80924 ÷ 1 = 80924; 324994 &

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Division

Word problems A train runs 5,580 km in 36 hours. Find the speed of the train in km/hour.  Number of km = 5580 km Time = 36 hours So lets divide the number of km by time. The trai

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Factors and Multiples

Divisibility rules A number is completely divisible by another number if remainder is 0. A whole number Is divisible by 2: if the last digit is 0 or divisible by 2 (even). For example, 54, 98

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Factors and Multiples

Prime and composite numbers  Prime number is a number that can only be divided exactly by 1 and itself. Think about number 3. It can only be divided by 1 and 3, without leaving a remaind

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Factors and Multiples

Multiples A number that is completely divisible by another number is a multiple of that number Let’s find multiples of 3 using a number line. Start from 0 and count on in 3 equal st

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Factors and Multiples

Factors Let’s arrange 8 balls in equal groups There is more than one way to do this. The number 8 can be divided by 1, 2, 4 and 8 without leaving a remainder. 1, 2, 4 and 8 are c

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Factors and Multiples

Prime Factorization We can express a number as a product of its prime factors. Factor Tree Method Example 1: Find prime factors of 27 Start with the smallest prime number that is a fac

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Class 4 / Mathematics Course Book 1 / Factors and Multiples / Factors and Multiples

Factors and Multiples

Common multiples Example 1 : Can you find common multiples of 2 and 3? Let’s write first ten multiples of 2,  2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20  Let’s write first ten multip

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Class 4 / Mathematics Course Book 1 / Factors and Multiples / Factors and Multiples

Factors and Multiples

Finding LCM using prime factorization We can also find LCM using prime factorization method.  Example 1: Let’s find LCM of 6 and 8 using prime factorization method.  Step

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Class 4 / Mathematics Course Book 1 / Factors and Multiples / Factors and Multiples

Factors and Multiples

Common factors and Highest Common Factor (HCF) Example 1: Can you find common factors of 12 and 18?  Let’s write factors of 12.  1 2 3 4 6 12 Let’s write factors

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Class 4 / Mathematics Course Book 1 / Factors and Multiples / Factors and Multiples

Factors and Multiples

Finding HCF using prime factorization We can also find HCF using prime factorization method. Example 1: Let’s find HCF of 6 and 24 using prime factorization method. Step 1 : Find prim

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Class 4 / Science Course Book 1 / Getting to Know Our Body / Getting to Know Our Body

Getting to know Our Body

Our body has various parts just like a machine (Figure 1.1). These parts are called organs. Organs work together to make our body work Whenever we look into a mirror we see many of our organs (

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Class 4 / Science Course Book 1 / Getting to Know Our Body / Getting to Know Our Body

Getting to know Our Body

Bones Look at the Figure 1.7. It shows the bones which are present in our body. Bones make up the structure of our bodies. We call this structure the skeleton. An adult skeleton is made up of 206 b

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Class 4 / Science Course Book 1 / Getting to Know Our Body / Getting to Know Our Body

Getting to know Our Body

Muscles Muscles perform many functions in the body. Muscles help us in walking, running, lifting things, writing and many other actions (Figure 1.10). Movement of our Body by Muscles Musc

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Class 4 / Science Course Book 1 / Getting to Know Our Body / Getting to Know Our Body

Getting to know Our Body

Heart Sometimes we get hurt and get a cut, blood flows out and we need a bandage to stop the bleeding. The blood in our body is continuously circulating. It is a need of our body. The flow of blood

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Class 4 / Science Course Book 1 / Getting to Know Our Body / Getting to Know Our Body

Getting to know Our Body

Skin It is an important organ of the body which performs many functions such as it covers the body altogether (Figure 1.16). It stops germs and dirt from getting into the body Figure 1.16: S

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Class 4 / Science Course Book 1 / Getting to Know Our Body / Getting to Know Our Body

Getting to know Our Body

Malaria and Dengue Fever Malaria and dengue are the diseases which are spread by mosquitoes. Malaria is caused by micro-organisms called Plasmodium. Plasmodium are transferred to human blood by the

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Class 4 / Science Course Book 1 / The Basic Needs of Living Things / The Basic Needs of Living Things

The Basic Needs of Living Things

The Basic Needs Of Living There are many things around us. Some of them are non-living things like table , chair, book, etc. Some are living things like animals and plants. Living things can grow, ea

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Class 4 / Science Course Book 1 / The Basic Needs of Living Things / The Basic Needs of Living Things

The Basic Needs of Living Things

Physical Characteristics of Life Movement Movement is a characteristic of life. Nonliving things cannot move on their own Different groups of animals make different types of movements. This

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Class 4 / Science Course Book 1 / The Basic Needs of Living Things / The Basic Needs of Living Things

The Basic Needs of Living Things

Life Cycle Life cycle means different stages which a living thing goes through during its life. Life Cycle of Plants A plant passes through various stages during its life time. • The life

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Class 4 / Science Course Book 1 / Living Things and Their Environment / Living Things and Their Environment

Living Things and Their Environment

Environment And Its Types Environment When we talk about our environment, we mean every thing around us which can affect our lives. It includes air, water, sunlight, plants and ani

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Class 4 / Science Course Book 1 / Living Things and Their Environment / Living Things and Their Environment

Living Things and Their Environment

Adaptation Of Animals Effects of Organisms upon one another Many kinds of organisms live together in an environment. They influence the lives of one another. Sometimes one organism harms the other

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Class 4 / Science Course Book 1 / Living Things and Their Environment / Living Things and Their Environment

Living Things and Their Environment

Eating Habits of Animals Living things in an environment need different amounts of food to meet their energy needs. Green plants make their own food. They make more food than they need. Animals can

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Class 4 / Science Course Book 1 / Living Things and Their Environment / Living Things and Their Environment

Living Things and Their Environment

Producers, Consumers and Decomposers  Producers Plants prepare food for themselves and for all other organisms. That is why they are called producers. Plants produce various types of food

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Class 4 / Science Course Book 1 / Living Things and Their Environment / Living Things and Their Environment

Living Things and Their Environment

FOOD CHAIN Organisms also depend upon one another for food. An animal feeds on plants or animals and is itself eaten by some other animal. A third animal consumes the second animal and so on. For

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Class 4 / Science Course Book 1 / Matter and its States / Matter and its States

Matter and its States

Introduction To Matter We see different things around us. Trees, flowers and animals are found everywhere in our surrounding. We also see different objects in our homes and schools. There are mou

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Class 4 / Science Course Book 1 / Matter and its States / Matter and its States

Matter and its States

Three States of Matter Matter exists in three physical states that are solids, liquids and gases. Solids A lot of things have fixed volume and fixed shape. Such things are called solids. T

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Class 4 / Science Course Book 1 / Matter and its States / Matter and its States

Matter and its States

Effect of Heat on Matter ( Solids, Liquids and Gases ) Things change their state on heating or cooling. Solids melt on heating and change into their liquid states. Liquids boil on heating and chang

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Class 4 / Science Course Book 1 / Matter and its States / Matter and its States

Matter and its States

Mixing of Materials Most of the things we find in our surroundings are not in their pure form. They are the mixtures of different substances. For example, soil is the mixture of sand, rocks, moistu

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Class 4 / Science Course Book 1 / Matter and its States / Matter and its States

Matter and its States

Filtration Filtration is another method of separating the insoluble and suspended components of a mixture. In this method, the mixture is passed through a porous sheet like a filter paper, a cotton

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Class 4 / Science Course Book 1 / Matter and its States / Matter and its States

Matter and its States

Filtration Filtration is another method of separating the insoluble and suspended components of a mixture. In this method, the mixture is passed through a porous sheet like a filter paper, a cotton

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Class 4 / Science Course Book 1 / Temperature and its Measurement / Temperature and its Measurement

Temperature and its Measurement

What Is Temperature? When your mother is cooking bread for you and you touch the bread, how does it feel? It feels hot. Again when you are eating an ice cream, how do you feel the ice cream? It feels

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Class 4 / Science Course Book 1 / Temperature and its Measurement / Temperature and its Measurement

Temperature and its Measurement

Temperature Scales The numbers written on the thermometer show the degree of hotness or coldness of a body. These numbers are called Temperature Scale. Now-a-days, two types of temperature scales a

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Class 4 / Science Course Book 1 / Temperature and its Measurement / Temperature and its Measurement

Temperature and its Measurement

Clinical Thermometer A clinical thermometer is used for measuring the temperature of the human body. Its glass tube is marked in centigrade scale from 35 to 42°C and in Fahrenheit scale from 95

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Class 4 / Science Course Book 1 / Temperature and its Measurement / Temperature and its Measurement

Temperature and its Measurement

Take the following safety measures while using thermometers:  1. Keep the thermometer upright while measuring the temperature. 2. Mercury is harmful to health, therefore, in case of breaka

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Class 4 / Social Course Book 1 / Our Country – India / Our Country – India

Our Country-India

Our Country - India Introduction India is also known by the names Hindustan and Bharat. India is a democratic country. Here, people belonging to different religions- Hindu, Muslim, Sikh and Christ

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Class 4 / Social Course Book 1 / Our Country – India / Our Country – India

Our Country-India

Location as per the world and in the globe The location of India is very unique. It is located in the largest continent of the world that is Asia.  India is located in the northern hemisph

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Class 4 / Social Course Book 1 / Our Country – India / Our Country – India

Our Country-India

Political And Administrative Divisions India is a vast country. For administrative purposes, the country is divided into 29 States and 9 Union Territories. Delhi is the national capital. The state

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Class 4 / Social Course Book 1 / Northern Mountains / Northern Mountains

Northern Mountains

Northern Mountains Introduction The northern mountains in the north of India extend from northwest to northeast of India. The Himalayas, the karakoram mountains and the northeastern mountain ran

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Class 4 / Social Course Book 1 / Northern Mountains / Northern Mountains

Northern Mountains

The Himalayas consist of three parallel ranges. 1.The Greater Himalayas or Himadri :  It is the highest Himalayan range. Kanchenjunga is the highest peak in India. Many glaciers originate f

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Class 4 / Social Course Book 1 / Northern Mountains / Northern Mountains

Northern Mountains

Climate: Greater Himalayas are extremely cold. Lesser Himalayas are pleasant during summer. The Shiwaliks get heavy rainfall. Vegetation: The vegetation of Himalayas varies with the altitud

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Class 4 / Social Course Book 1 / Northern Mountains / Northern Mountains

Northern Mountains

Advantage of the Himalayas:  The Himalayas are scenic At the same time they are useful to us in many ways:  • The Himalayas are like natural hames on our other borders •

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Class 4 / Social Course Book 1 / The Northern Plains / The Northern Plains

The Northern Plains

Northern Plains Introduction A plain is a large flat area of fertile land. A large part of Northern India makes up the Northern Plains. This region is plain and flat and extends from Punjab in the

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Class 4 / Social Course Book 1 / The Northern Plains / The Northern Plains

The Northern Plains

The Ganga River  It is drained by the rivers Yamuna, Ganga, Ghaghara, Gandak, Kosi and Teesta from the Himalayas in the north. The river Ganga originates from the Gangotri glacier. The

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Class 4 / Social Course Book 1 / The Northern Plains / The Northern Plains

The Northern Plains

Yamuna River Yamuna is the sub-basin of the Ganga river system. It rises in the Yamunotri glacier and flows through the states of Haryana and Uttar Pradesh before joining the Ganga at Prayagraj. Th

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Class 4 / Social Course Book 1 / The Northern Plains / The Northern Plains

The Northern Plains

Importance of Northern plains The area is also rich in ground water sources.  Its soils have the capacity to grow any crop of the tropical and temperate regions. They are the largest an

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Class 4 / Social Course Book 1 / The Indian Desert / The Indian Desert

The Indian Desert

The Indian Desert Introduction The land to the west of the Aravalli Hills, in Rajasthan, is rocky and sandy. This is the Great Indian Desert, also known as the Thar Desert. It stretches from the

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Class 4 / Social Course Book 1 / The Indian Desert / The Indian Desert

The Indian Desert

Climate The Thar Desert remains hot and dry throughout the year. There is very little or no rainfall. In summer days are very hot and nights are cool. In winter, days are warm and nights are very c

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Class 4 / Social Course Book 1 / The Indian Desert / The Indian Desert

The Indian Desert

Water supply "There is always very little water. Village women walk long distances to fetch water. The state government is trying to provide water for domestic use and irrigation. Water from R

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Class 4 / Social Course Book 1 / Coastal Areas and Islands / Coastal Areas and Islands

Coastal Area and Islands

Cosatal areas and Islands Introduction The Deccan plateau is flanked by coastal plains on the east and the west. Western coastal plains are washed by the Arabian Sea, whereas the eastern coastal p

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Class 4 / Social Course Book 1 / Coastal Areas and Islands / Coastal Areas and Islands

Coastal Area and Islands

Western coastal plain The western coastal plain stretches from the Gulf of Kutch in the north, to Kanyakumari in the south. Different parts of the coast are known by different names. 1. Gulf o

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Class 4 / Social Course Book 1 / Coastal Areas and Islands / Coastal Areas and Islands

Coastal Area and Islands

Western coastal plain The western coastal plain stretches from the Gulf of Kutch in the north, to Kanyakumari in the south. Different parts of the coast are known by different names. 1. Gulf o

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Class 4 / Social Course Book 1 / Coastal Areas and Islands / Coastal Areas and Islands

Coastal Area and Islands

Eastern Coastal Plains The eastern coastal plains lie between the Eastern Ghats and the Bay of Bengal and stretch from West Bengal to Kanyakumari. These plains can be divided into two parts. 1.Nort

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Class 4 / Social Course Book 1 / Coastal Areas and Islands / Coastal Areas and Islands

Coastal Area and Islands

1. Andaman and Nicobar Group of Islands The Andaman and Nicobar group of islands is located in the deep Bay of Bengal about 1353 kilometres from Chennai. This group comprises 350 big and small isla

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Class 4 / Social Course Book 1 / Elements of Weather / Elements of Weather

Elements of Weather

Introduction Weather means change in temperature, humidity, air pressure, conditions of winds, clouds and rain of a particular area. The temporary atmospharic condition of a place is known as weath

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Class 4 / Social Course Book 1 / Elements of Weather / Elements of Weather

Elements of Weather

Air pressure The air has weight. The air weight at a particular place is known as air pressure of that place. As the altitude increases, the air pressure decreases. The air pressure is measured wi

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Class 4 / Social Course Book 1 / Elements of Weather / Elements of Weather

Elements of Weather

Humidity The amount of moisture in the air is called humidity. The level of humidity is high in areas close to the sea and of maximum rainfall. The level of humidity is low in areas which are dry

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Class 4 / Social Course Book 1 / Forests and Wildlife of India / Forests and Wildlife of India

Forest and Wildlife of India

Forests and Wildlife of India Introduction Forests We can see around us different types of trees, plants, 3 shrubs, creepers, bushes and grasses. If they grow naturally, they are called natural

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Class 4 / Social Course Book 1 / Forests and Wildlife of India / Forests and Wildlife of India

Forest and Wildlife of India

Types of Forests in India India possesses different types of climates and landforms, so a large variety of trees is found here. The important types of forests in India are as follows : 1.Evergr

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Class 4 / Social Course Book 1 / Forests and Wildlife of India / Forests and Wildlife of India

Forest and Wildlife of India

Coniferous Forests : Coniferous forests grow on mountains, so they are also called mountain forests. These trees are tall and have pointed needle-shaped leaves. So, snow cannot settle on them. The

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Class 4 / Social Course Book 1 / Forests and Wildlife of India / Forests and Wildlife of India

Forest and Wildlife of India

Significance of Forests Forests are very important and useful to us in many ways. They give us many products like timber, fuel, herbs, gum, honey, rubber among other things. They prevent soil erosi

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Class 4 / Social Course Book 1 / Forests and Wildlife of India / Forests and Wildlife of India

Forest and Wildlife of India

Conservation of Forests In view of the significance of forests, it is necessary to protect them. At the same time, we need to cut trees for different needs. Forests are cleared for many reasons, su

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Class 4 / Social Course Book 1 / Forests and Wildlife of India / Forests and Wildlife of India

Forest and Wildlife of India

Wildlife India possesses a rich variety of wildlife. Wildlife means different species of animals, birds, insects, fishes and reptiles which live in the nature. The place where an animal normally li

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Class 4 / Social Course Book 1 / Minerals in India / Minerals in India

Minerals in India

Minerals in India Introduction Minerals are essential for our comfortable living. We use them for different purposes. They are found deep in the earth. These minerals have to be dug out. For this,

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Class 4 / Social Course Book 1 / Minerals in India / Minerals in India

Minerals in India

Types of minerals: Many different minerals are found in the earth. They can be grouped into two types: Metallic minerals and Non-metallic minerals. Metallic Minerals Metallic mineral is a met

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Class 4 / Social Course Book 1 / Minerals in India / Minerals in India

Minerals in India

Non-Metallic Minerals Important non-metallic minerals include coal, petroleum, sulphur, phosphorus, salt, mica, gypsum, diamond, limestone etc. Uranium and thorium are also included among non-meta

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Class 4 / Social Course Book 1 / Minerals in India / Minerals in India

Minerals in India

Conservation of Minerals Minerals take thousands of years to form, so they are called non-renewable resources. They are available in the world in a limited quantity. If we use them thoughtlessly, t

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Class 4 / Social Course Book 1 / Human Resources of India / Human Resources of India

Human Resources of India

Human Resources of India Introduction India is the seventh largest country in the world in terms of land and is the world’s second largest country in terms of population. India’s popul

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Class 4 / Social Course Book 1 / Human Resources of India / Human Resources of India

Human Resources of India

Human Resource Development To achieve human resource development, the government has initiated a number of steps. These are mainly in the following directions: Health: A healthy person can work

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Class 4 / Social Course Book 1 / Crops and Livestock in India / Crops and Livestock in India

Crops and Livestock in India

Crops and Livestock of India Introduction India is called an agricultural country because about 52 percent of working people are directly engaged in agriculture and livestock Crops Owing to

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Class 4 / Social Course Book 1 / Crops and Livestock in India / Crops and Livestock in India

Crops and Livestock in India

Classification of Crops We can divide our crops into different classes. Two main categories of crops are food and non-food crops Rice : Rice is an important staple diet for a large number of

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Class 4 / Social Course Book 1 / Crops and Livestock in India / Crops and Livestock in India

Crops and Livestock in India

Cash Crops Cash crops are grown for sale in the market, and not for domestic consumption. Important cash crops include sugarcane, cotton, jute, oilseeds, spices, fruits, vegetables and beverages e

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Class 4 / Social Course Book 1 / Crops and Livestock in India / Crops and Livestock in India

Crops and Livestock in India

Some crops can also be grouped as follows

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Class 4 / Social Course Book 1 / Crops and Livestock in India / Crops and Livestock in India

Crops and Livestock in India

Live Stock Wild animals live in their natural habitat, like the forest. On the other hand, domestic animals are used and reared for different purposes such as food, skin, bone, hair, transportatio

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Class 4 / Social Course Book 1 / Industries in India / Industries in India

Industries in India

Industries in India Introduction In past, human desires and necessities were very limited. The basic needs were food, clothes and shelter. With the passage of time, these desires and basic necess

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Class 4 / Social Course Book 1 / Industries in India / Industries in India

Industries in India

Goods and Services Goods Goods means such things which we can see, touch and use in our daily life. Example : fruit, dress, car, house and chair etc.

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Class 4 / Social Course Book 1 / Industries in India / Industries in India

Industries in India

On the basis of raw material used, industries can be of two types

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Class 4 / Social Course Book 1 / Industries in India / Industries in India

Industries in India

On the basis of size, capital and number of workers, industries can be classified into three types:

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Class 4 / Social Course Book 1 / Industries in India / Industries in India

Industries in India

Industrial Development in India India is emerging as a large industrial power. We are competing with the most industrialised nations of the world. We are already the sixth largest economic power.

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Class 3 / English And Grammar Course Book 1 / Scary Uncle Jose / Scary Uncle Jose

Scary Uncle Jose

 It was Sunday morning Jack could not wait to go out and play with the boys of his community. Cricket was his favourite sport, and playing it was something he looked forward to all week. After

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Class 3 / English And Grammar Course Book 1 / Scary Uncle Jose / Scary Uncle Jose

Scary Uncle Jose

Enthusiasm soon turned into horror as Jack saw where the ball landed. It had crashed into the window of the most terrifying man in the neighbourhood - Scary Uncle Jose. Scary Uncle Jose was an old man

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Class 3 / English And Grammar Course Book 1 / Scary Uncle Jose / Scary Uncle Jose

Scary Uncle Jose

He could not resist his curiosity, so he pointed towards the trophies. Uncle Jose laughed and told him that he had been the Captain of the Indian Cricket Team about forty years ago. He had played agai

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Class 3 / English And Grammar Course Book 1 / Rebbeca’s Tenth Birthday / Rebbeca’s Tenth Birthday

Rebbeca’s Tenth Birthday

The day Rebbeca had been waiting for had finally arrived. It was her tenth birthday. Rebbeca had spent hours and hours making arrangements for this very special day. She wanted everything to be perfec

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Class 3 / English And Grammar Course Book 1 / Rebbeca’s Tenth Birthday / Rebbeca’s Tenth Birthday

Rebbeca’s Tenth Birthday

Rebbeca looked at the clock and realized that it was already two o’ clock. Her guests would be arriving any minute now Rebbeca wondered what gifts she would receive. What she wanted the most was

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Class 3 / English And Grammar Course Book 1 / Rebbeca’s Tenth Birthday / Rebbeca’s Tenth Birthday

Rebbeca’s Tenth Birthday

She even asked the teacher to change her seat so she would not have to sit next to Sara. This was the longest the two girls had ever gone without speaking to each other. On the third day of their figh

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Class 3 / English And Grammar Course Book 1 / Rebbeca’s Tenth Birthday / Rebbeca’s Tenth Birthday

Rebbeca’s Tenth Birthday

The two girls hugged and Sara explained that her mother caught a bad case of food poisoning on the morning of Rebbeca’s birthday. She said she had tried to explain this situation to Rebbeca many

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Class 3 / English And Grammar Course Book 1 / Crossing Busy Roads / Crossing Busy Roads

Crossing Busy Roads

When crossing busy traffic streets  It can be tricky, let me say.  It’s something I am required to do Almost every single day.  I’ve learned these little safety

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Class 3 / English And Grammar Course Book 1 / Grandparents Day / Grandparents Day

Grandparents Day

Lisa wanted to be just like her grandmother when she grew up. Grandma was special because her fingers worked like magic. Within minutes, she could use her silver knitting needles to knit anything Lisa

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Class 3 / English And Grammar Course Book 1 / Grandparents Day / Grandparents Day

Grandparents Day

One morning, Lisa woke up late for school. She forgot that it was Grandparents Day. Her teacher had asked every student to bring one item from home that described their grandmother or grandfather.

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Class 3 / English And Grammar Course Book 1 / Grandparents Day / Grandparents Day

Grandparents Day

Did somebody in class steal them? Did she forget them somewhere? Lisa could not help crying. Lisa hesitantly walked into Grandma’s room. “Lisa, I’m so glad you’re home. I can&r

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Class 3 / English And Grammar Course Book 1 / Grandparents Day / Grandparents Day

Grandparents Day

Early the next morning, the bell rang before it was time for Lisa to catch the bus. When Grandma opened the door, she was surprised to see the bus driver standing there, holding nothing else but her s

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Class 3 / English And Grammar Course Book 1 / The Science Summer Camp / The Science Summer Camp

The Science Summer Camp

Julia was a kind and compassionate girl who loved helping others. She always tried to use science to solve problems around her. From a young age, she showed potential to be a scientist someday. On

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Class 3 / English And Grammar Course Book 1 / The Science Summer Camp / The Science Summer Camp

The Science Summer Camp

Julia wanted to attend this program more than anything, but she was scared. She knew her mother would never let her travel to any nearby community, even if it was to teach those in need. She remem

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Class 3 / English And Grammar Course Book 1 / The Science Summer Camp / The Science Summer Camp

The Science Summer Camp

Just as she was wondering how this could have happened, her father, William, walked into the room. He had just returned home from his shift at the village hospital. He saw the joy on his daughter&

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Class 3 / English And Grammar Course Book 1 / The Night / The Night

The Night

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Class 3 / Mathematics Course Book 1 / Comparison of Numbers / Comparison of Numbers

Comparison of numbers

Comparing numbers Greater than Which box has more Chocolates? The box on the left has more sweets. We can show this as Greater than ‘>’ If one value is large

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Class 3 / Mathematics Course Book 1 / Comparison of Numbers / Comparison of Numbers

Comparison of numbers

Comparison Rules Rule 1: If a number has more digits than another, it is the greater of the two. Example: Compare 3457 and 621. Solution: Here, the number 3457 has 4 digits and the number

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Class 3 / Mathematics Course Book 1 / Addition / Addition

Addition

Addition without carrying Addition is to collect them together. Here, we will learn the addition of four-digit numbers. We can add two or more numbers together at a time. The numbers which we add a

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Class 3 / Mathematics Course Book 1 / Addition / Addition

Addition

Addition with carrying Example: Find the sum of 1253 and 4936 Solution: Step 1 Write the given numbers in the columns of thousands, hundreds, tens, and ones. Step 2 Add ones, 3 o

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Class 3 / Mathematics Course Book 1 / Addition / Addition

Addition

Addition problems in daily life Example: There are 20 apples and 30 mangoes on Benjamin’s cart. How many fruits are there altogether? Solution: There are 50 fruits altogether

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Class 3 / Mathematics Course Book 1 / Addition / Addition

Addition

Properties Of Addition Property 1: Numbers can be added in any order, the sum remains the same. Example : Lucas bought 3 red balloons and 2 blue balloons. How many balloons does Lucas have?

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Class 3 / Mathematics Course Book 1 / Addition / Addition

Mental addition

Example  Find the sum of 12 and 26. 12 + 26 = ? 12 = 10 + 2 26 = 20 + 6 Step 1 Add tens, 10 + 20 = 30 Step 2 Add ones, 2 + 6 = 8 Step 3 Add both answers,

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Class 3 / Mathematics Course Book 1 / Subtraction / Subtraction

Subtraction

Example: Find the difference between 5676 and 3213. Solution: Step 1 Write the given numbers in the columns of thousands, hundreds, tens, and ones Step 2 Subtract ones, 6 ones &ndas

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Class 3 / Mathematics Course Book 1 / Subtraction / Subtraction

Subtraction

Example: Subtract 4936 from 9253. Solution: Step 1 Write the given numbers in the columns of thousands, hundreds, tens, and ones. Step 2 Subtract ones, 3 ones - 6 ones is not possible,

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Class 3 / Mathematics Course Book 1 / Subtraction / Subtraction

Subtraction

Example: William has 16 goats in his farm. He sold 5 goats. How many goats were left on his farm? Solution: William has 16 goats, He sold 5 goats.  Number of goats left: William h

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Class 3 / Mathematics Course Book 1 / Subtraction / Subtraction

Subtraction

properties of subtraction Property 1: When 0 is subtracted from a number, the difference is the number itself. For example: 7217 - 0 = 7217 Property 2: When a number is subtracted from itsel

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Class 3 / Mathematics Course Book 1 / Multiplication / Multiplication

Multiplication

Review: Multiplication As Repeated addition Look at these examples. There are 2 groups.  Each group has 4 bananas There are 3 groups. Each group has 2 apples. Ther

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Class 3 / Mathematics Course Book 1 / Multiplication / Multiplication

Multiplication

How many stars are there altogether? There are 4 groups. Each group has 2 stars.  2 + 2 + 2 + 2 = 8 4 × 2 = 8  We read it as four times two equals eight How man

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Class 3 / Mathematics Course Book 1 / Multiplication / Multiplication

Multiplication

Multiplication Tables Let’s quickly revise the tables we learned.

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Class 3 / Mathematics Course Book 1 / Multiplication / Multiplication

Multiplication

Multiplication of a 4 - Digit Number by a 1 - Digit number Example: Multiply 1424 by 2. Solution: Step 1: Write the given numbers in multiplication form. Step 2: Multiply the ones: 4 ones

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Class 3 / Mathematics Course Book 1 / Multiplication / Multiplication

Multiplication

Example: Multiply 1265 by 5. Solution: Step 1: Write the given numbers in multiplication form Step 2: Multiply the ones : 5 ones × 5 ones = 25 ones. Write 5 under ones column and car

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Class 3 / Mathematics Course Book 1 / Multiplication / Multiplication

Multiplication

Multiplication By Two Digit Numbers Example: Multiply 65 by 32. Solution: Step 1: Write the given numbers in multiplication form. Step 2: Multiply 65 by 2 ones : 65 × 2 ones = 130 ones

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Class 3 / Mathematics Course Book 1 / Multiplication / Multiplication

Multiplication

Properties Of Multiplication Property 1: Numbers can be multiplied in any order. The product remains the same.  For example: 4 × 5 = 5 × 4 = 20 Look at the picture.

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Class 3 / Mathematics Course Book 1 / Multiplication / Multiplication

Multiplication

Henry has 6 sweets. Lucy has also 6 sweets. How many sweets do they have in total? There are 2 children. Each child has 6 sweets. 2 × 6 = 12 (2 times 6 = 12)  Henry and Lucy ha

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Class 3 / Environmental Studies Course Book - 1 / The Solar System / The Solar System

The Solar System

Our Solar System The sun and its nine planets, along with their moons, make up a family called the solar system.  The Sun is a star. It is only one of millions and millions of stars in

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Class 3 / Environmental Studies Course Book - 1 / The Solar System / The Solar System

The Solar System

The Earth: The earth is at the right distance from the sun and has right mixture of air, heat and water which makes life possible on earth. It is the only planet where life is known to exist.

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Class 3 / Environmental Studies Course Book - 1 / Life on the Earth / Life on the Earth

Life on the earth

Life on the earth is possible due to the sun, air and water. Habitat The place where the living things dwell is called their habitat. The sun is the biggest source of light and heat on the Earth

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Class 3 / Environmental Studies Course Book - 1 / Life on the Earth / Life on the Earth

Life on the earth

Wildlife: Animals Living in the Forest Wild animals live in jungles, deserts or in the water, just as human beings live in villages and cities. The areas of the earth where trees and plants grow i

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Class 3 / Environmental Studies Course Book - 1 / Life on the Earth / Life on the Earth

Life on the earth

Living Things Found in Desert Part of the Earth where there is sandy soil, shortage of water and vegetation is called desert. It receives little rainfall. Only such animals and plants which can

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Class 3 / Environmental Studies Course Book - 1 / Life on the Earth / Life on the Earth

Life on the earth

Aquatic life Living Things Found in Water Water is a habitat of many animals and plants. For example, frog, fish, dolphin and fungus live in water. Hippopotamus also lives in water. The anim

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Class 3 / Environmental Studies Course Book - 1 / Life on the Earth / Life on the Earth

Life on the earth

Animals of the Snowy Regions Some parts of the Earth remain covered with snow throughout the year. The plants and animals found in these areas can survive in extreme cold weather. Thick skin an

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Class 3 / Environmental Studies Course Book - 1 / Developmental Phases in the Living Things / Developmental Phases in the Living Things

Developmental phases in the Living Things

Life cycle of a butterfly Eggs : A butterfly first starts out as an egg. A girl butterfly lays small, round eggs on a leaf. She lays the eggs really close together.  Caterpillar : A cat

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Class 3 / Environmental Studies Course Book - 1 / Developmental Phases in the Living Things / Developmental Phases in the Living Things

Developmental phases in the Living Things

Life cycle of a frog Egg : Tiny frog eggs are laid in masses in the water by a female frog. The eggs hatch into tadpoles. Life cycle of a frog Tadpole : (also called the polliwog) This stag

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Class 3 / Environmental Studies Course Book - 1 / Developmental Phases in the Living Things / Developmental Phases in the Living Things

Developmental phases in the Living Things

Life cycle of a hen The hen lays eggs. She sits on eggs for 21 days. It is called incubation. After 21 days chickens hatch from eggs.

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Class 3 / Environmental Studies Course Book - 1 / Developmental Phases in the Living Things / Developmental Phases in the Living Things

Developmental phases in the Living Things

Life cycle of plant Growth of plants A seed gradually grows into a plant. 1. Planting Seed is planted, watered, and warmed by the sun.  2. Germination Roots emerge from seed undergroun

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Class 3 / Environmental Studies Course Book - 1 / Time, Directions and Shadows / Time, Directions and Shadows

Time, Directions and Shadows

Shadow A shadow is a dark shape formed when an object blocks the passage of light. A shadow is always formed on the opposite side to the source of light.  Everyday, the sun rises from the s

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Class 3 / Environmental Studies Course Book - 1 / Time, Directions and Shadows / Time, Directions and Shadows

Time, Directions and Shadows

Directions In the morning, if you face the rising sun, it means you are looking towards the East. Your back will be towards the West. Your right hand side is the South while your left hand side is

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Class 3 / Environmental Studies Course Book - 1 / Types of Resources / Types of Resources

Types of Resources

We have many things around us. There are also job opportunities for us. We use them to meet the needs of our life. All these things are called resources. The resources are of three types: 1. Natur

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Class 3 / Environmental Studies Course Book - 1 / Types of Resources / Types of Resources

Types of Resources

Renewable Resources Resources that can never run out or can replenish through natural processes after a finite interval of time are said to be renewable resources. Eg. forest, wind, water and solar

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Class 3 / Environmental Studies Course Book - 1 / Types of Resources / Types of Resources

Types of Resources

Non-Renewable Resources These are finite resources or we can say that they are exhaustible resources, once they are exhausted, it will take them millions of years to form. Eg. Minerals, fossil f

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Class 3 / Environmental Studies Course Book - 1 / Types of Resources / Types of Resources

Types of Resources

Human Resources The skills and abilities of a person are called human resources. For example, masons have skills to construct buildings. A painter makes these buildings beautiful by paintin

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Class 3 / Environmental Studies Course Book - 1 / Types of Resources / Types of Resources

Types of Resources

Capital Resources A man uses his wealth to make such resources which become a source of income. These resources are called capital resources. For example, bus, car, tractor, computer, fa

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Class 3 / Environmental Studies Course Book - 1 / Food and Nutrition / Food and Nutrition

Food and nutrition

Animals need food for their energy and growth. All animals do not eat similar food. Some animals eat only grass and plants, some eat meat while some animals eat both plants and meat. Herbivores

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Class 3 / Environmental Studies Course Book - 1 / Food and Nutrition / Food and Nutrition

Food and nutrition

Carnivores The animals which eat only meat are called carnivores. Carnivores depend on the meat of other animals. They have long, sharp and pointed teeth. For example, lion, tiger, hyena, wolf etc

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Class 3 / Environmental Studies Course Book - 1 / Food and Nutrition / Food and Nutrition

Food and nutrition

Good heath and Balanced diet Hygienic environment, suitable balanced diet, regular exercise and proper sleep ensure good health What Vegetables should we have? For good health, we use veg

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Class 3 / Environmental Studies Course Book - 1 / Occupations / Occupations

Occupations

Occupations Teacher School is where we learn things. Our teachers teach us how to read and write. They teach us to be honest, to tell the truth, to be on time, and to be brave. They teach us how t

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Class 3 / Environmental Studies Course Book - 1 / Occupations / Occupations

Occupations

Doctor Our health is taken care of by the doctor. When we get sick, he takes care of us. After a checkup, he gives us medicine. He gives us shots sometimes to protect us from diseases like typhoid,

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Class 3 / Environmental Studies Course Book - 1 / Occupations / Occupations

Occupations

Postman The postman is an important person. He goes to the postbox to get the post and then takes it to the post office. Some post carriers pick up letters from the old office and take them to

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Class 3 / Environmental Studies Course Book - 1 / Occupations / Occupations

Occupations

police The police keep people safe and help keep the law and order. The police catch thieves and bad people. They keep the crowd from getting out of hand. They help people find children who live in

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Class 3 / Environmental Studies Course Book - 1 / Occupations / Occupations

Occupations

Barber In a salon, a barber is the person who cuts our hair. We should take care of our hair if we want to look smart. There are many salons for both men and women in most cities today. A salon tha

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Class 3 / Environmental Studies Course Book - 1 / Occupations / Occupations

Occupations

Civil Engineer A civil engineer is someone who builds different kinds of buildings, like homes and places of business. He also builds overpasses.  There are a lot of real estate companies wher

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Class 3 / Environmental Studies Course Book - 1 / Ancient Peoples and their Livings / Ancient Peoples and their Livings

Ancient people and their livings

Ancient people-their living Early Days Today after coming from school, Andrew and Angela were waiting for their father as they needed his help in doing their homework. Father came back from his jo

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Ancient people and their livings

Invention of wheel and use of metals played a vital role in human civilization. To meet his food requirements, man started cultivation and cattle farming. Beside getting milk and meat from anim

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Class 5 / Mathematics Course Book 2 / Percentages / Percentages

Percentages

Percentages  Recognise the percentage as a special kind of fraction. Percent: A ratio whose denominator is 100. The symbol for percent is %. The model on right has 25 out of 100 squares

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Class 5 / Mathematics Course Book 2 / Percentages / Percentages

Percentages

Convert percentages to fractions, decimals and viceversa (a)Conversion of percentage to fraction and decimal Example 1 Convert 13% to fraction and decimal. Solution  13%  

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Class 5 / Mathematics Course Book 2 / Percentages / Percentages

Percentages

Finding the percentage of a number To find the percentage of a number, convert the given percentage into a fraction and then multiply it by the given number Example : Find the value of 30% of 60

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Class 5 / Mathematics Course Book 2 / Distance, Time and Temperature / Distance, Time and Temperature

Distance, Time and Temperature

Distance Distance is a numerical description of how far apart objects are. Conversion of Units of Lengths We can covert the unit of distance from one unit to another using the given chart.

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Distance, Time and Temperature

Time Time is measured using seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months and years. Clocks measure time in seconds, minutes, hours. Calendars are used to keep the records of days, weeks, months and

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Distance, Time and Temperature

Temperature Temperature is one of the basic physical quantities of science. It’s a numerical representation of how cold or hot an object is. Temperature is defined as the degree of heat prese

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Class 5 / Mathematics Course Book 2 / Unitary Method / Unitary Method

Unitary Method

Unitary Method Describe the concept of unitary method Unitary means “of one”. In unitary method the cost of several objects is given and then by finding the cost of one object we can

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Class 5 / Mathematics Course Book 2 / Unitary Method / Unitary Method

Unitary Method

Direct and Inverse Proportion Define ratio of two quantities A ratio is a relation between two quantities of the same kind. It can be expressed as a fraction. The symbol for ratio is a colon (:)

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Class 5 / Mathematics Course Book 2 / Measurement / Measurement

Measurement

Measurement In the previous class, we have studied that the basic units of measuring length, weight and capacity are metre (m), gram (g) and litre (l) respectively. In this class, we will study more

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Class 5 / Mathematics Course Book 2 / Measurement / Measurement

Measurement

Measurement of Weight Gram is the basic unit of measuring weight. The units smaller than the basic unit are named by adding prefixes deci, centi, milli and so on while the units bigger than the bas

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Class 5 / Mathematics Course Book 2 / Measurement / Measurement

Measurement

Measurement of Capacity Litre is the basic unit of measuring capacity. The units smaller than the basic unit are named by adding prefixes deci, centi, milli and so on while the units bigger than th

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Class 5 / Mathematics Course Book 2 / Measurement / Measurement

Measurement

Fundamental Operations on Measurement Example: Mohan covered a distance of 15 km 275 m in the first hour and 18 km 803 m in the second hour. What distance did he cover in two hours? Solution: Di

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Class 5 / Mathematics Course Book 2 / Geometry / Geometry

Geometry

Angles Recall an angle and recognize acute, right, obtuse, straight and reflex angle We have learn’t about an angle and its different types in previous classes. However we recall these con

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Class 5 / Mathematics Course Book 2 / Geometry / Geometry

Geometry

Draw Acute and Obtuse angles of different measures using Protractor Draw an Acute Angle Draw an angle of measure 40°. Steps of Construction: (I)Draw a ray QR (II)Place the straight

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Class 5 / Mathematics Course Book 2 / Geometry / Geometry

Geometry

Draw an angle equal in measure to a given angle  Steps of Construction (I)Measure the given angle ABC with the help of a protractor that is ∠ABC=50°. We have to draw an angle equal

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Class 5 / Mathematics Course Book 2 / Geometry / Geometry

Geometry

Draw an angle twice in measure to a given angle.  Steps of Construction (i)Measure the given angle ABC with the help of a protractor ∠ABC=40°. We have to draw an angle twice in m

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Class 5 / Mathematics Course Book 2 / Geometry / Geometry

Geometry

Draw an angle equal in measure to the sum of two angles Steps of Construction (I)Measure the given angles ABC and LMN with the help of protractor and note that ∠ABC = 40° and ∠LMN =

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Class 5 / Mathematics Course Book 2 / Geometry / Geometry

Geometry

Construction of Angels We have to construct a right angle, a straight angle and a reflex angle. We shall construct these angles one by one. Right Angle Construct an angle whose measure

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Geometry

Straight Angle Straight Angle Construct an angle of measure 180° Steps of Construction: 1.Draw a ray QR 2.Place a protractor on QR such that its central point falls on Q and th

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Class 5 / Mathematics Course Book 2 / Geometry / Geometry

Geometry

Reflex Angle Construct an angle of measure 210°. Now, 210° = 180° + 30° Steps of Construction: (i)Draw a ray YZ. (ii)Place a protractor on \(\overrightarrow{YZ}\)

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Class 5 / Mathematics Course Book 2 / Geometry / Geometry

Geometry

Triangles Definition of a Triangle A triangle is a simple closed figure having three sides and three angles. (i) In the given triangle ABC: (ii)A, B and C are the vertices. (iii)AB, BC a

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Class 5 / Mathematics Course Book 2 / Geometry / Geometry

Geometry

Construction of triangles when three sides are given Equilateral Triangle Example: Draw an equilateral triangle PQR whose measure of each side is 3cm. Solution: Steps of Construction

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Geometry

Quadrilateral A closed plane figure with four sides is known at as a quadrilateral. It has also four angles and four vertices.

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Class 5 / Mathematics Course Book 2 / Geometry / Geometry

Geometry

Recognize the kinds of Quadrilateral  Following are the different kinds of quadrilateral. (i) Square          (ii) Rectangle    

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Class 5 / Mathematics Course Book 2 / Geometry / Geometry

Geometry

Construction of Square and Rectangle Square We know that a square has four equal sides and each angle is of 90° . Example Construct a square with length of each side 2.5cm. Sol

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Class 5 / Mathematics Course Book 2 / Perimeter and Area / Perimeter and Area

Perimeter and Area

Perimeter and Area Recognition of Region of a Closed Figure Region of a closed figure comprises of the surface enclosed by the boundary and the boundary of the figure itself. The regions of

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Class 5 / Mathematics Course Book 2 / Perimeter and Area / Perimeter and Area

Perimeter and Area

Perimeter (i)Perimeter of a square We know that a square has four sides of equal length. To find the perimeter of the square, we add the lengths of four sides of a square i.e; Perimeter o

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Perimeter and Area

Area of a Square and Rectangle  (i) Area of a Square The area is the product of length and breadth. In a square length of each side is equal i.e.  length = breadth = side A

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Class 5 / Mathematics Course Book 2 / Perimeter and Area / Perimeter and Area

Perimeter and Area

Application of formulas to find Perimeter and Area of a Square and a Rectangular Region Example 1: Find the perimeter and area of a square whose side is 12 cm. Solution: Length of the side

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Class 5 / Mathematics Course Book 2 / Perimeter and Area / Perimeter and Area

Perimeter and Area

Solution of Appropriate Problems of Perimeter and Area Example 1: The length of a square shaped room is 5 metre. Find the cost of flooring at the rate of Rs.900 per square metre Solution:

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Class 5 / Mathematics Course Book 2 / Data Handling / Data Handling

Data Handling

Data Data is a collection of information in the form of numerical figures. It can be arranged and displayed in the form of tables, graphs or charts, In the previous classes, we have learn't to

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Class 5 / Mathematics Course Book 2 / Data Handling / Data Handling

Pie Chart

Pie Chart Data can also be represented by dividing a circle into sectors, Such representation of data is called a pie chart or circle graph. Pie charts are circular in shapes. Each section of the p

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Class 3 / Mathematics Course Book 1 / Four And Five Digit Numbers / Four And Five Digit Numbers

Review Two Digit Numbers

Review Two Digit Numbers 1 block =1 one Group of ten blocks =1 ten  How many tens and ones are in 53? There are 5 tens. They represent 50 blocks. There are 3 ones. They rep

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Class 3 / Mathematics Course Book 1 / Four And Five Digit Numbers / Four And Five Digit Numbers

Review Three Digit Numbers

Three Digit Numbers Ten tens added together equal one hundred. How many hundreds, tens and ones are in 146? There is 1 hundreds, 4 tens and 6 ones in 146. 146 = 1 hundred 4 tens an

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Class 3 / Mathematics Course Book 1 / Four And Five Digit Numbers / Four And Five Digit Numbers

Abacus On Three Digit Numbers

Abacus On Three Digit Numbers   Here is shown an abacus with 3 sticks. Each stick has some beads in it. Starting from the left, the numbers of beads show the numbers of hundreds, te

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Class 3 / Mathematics Course Book 1 / Four And Five Digit Numbers / Four And Five Digit Numbers

Four Digit Numbers

Four Digit Number Jack has 10 coins of one hundred each. 2 3 4 9 = 2 thousands 3 hundreds 4 tens 9 ones

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Abacus On Four Digit Numbers

Abacus On Four Digit Numbers   Here is shown an abacus with 4 sticks. Each stick has some beads in it. Starting from the left, the numbers of beads show the numbers of thousands, hundreds

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Class 3 / Mathematics Course Book 1 / Four And Five Digit Numbers / Four And Five Digit Numbers

Five Digit Number

Five Digit Number Sara has 10 coins of one thousand each.

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Class 3 / Mathematics Course Book 1 / Four And Five Digit Numbers / Four And Five Digit Numbers

Face Value And Place Value

Face Value And Place Value   Face Value The face value of a digit is the value of the digit itself at whatever place it may be. For example: In number 6521, Place Value The plac

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Class 3 / Mathematics Course Book 1 / Four And Five Digit Numbers / Four And Five Digit Numbers

Successor And Predecessor

Successor and Predecessor Successor The number which comes just after a given number is called its successor.  It is obtained by adding 1 to the given number. For example: 5000 is

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NUMBER SYSTEM

NUMBER SYSTEM Introduction In your earlier classes, you have learnt about the number line and how to represent various types of numbers on it (see Fig. 1.1). Just imagine you start from z

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POLYNOMIALS

POLYNOMIALS 2.1 Introduction  You have studied algebraic expressions, their addition, subtraction, multiplication and division in earlier classes. You also have studied how to factorise som

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COORDINATE GEOMETRY

COORDINATE GEOMETRY 3.1 Introduction You have already studied how to locate a point on a number line. You also know how to describe the position of a point on the line. There are many other sit

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Class 9 / Maths / Linear Equations in Two Variables / CBSE CONTENT

LINEAR EQUATIONS IN TWO VARIABLES

LINEAR EQUATIONS IN TWO VARIABLES The principal use of the Analytic Art is to bring Mathematical Problems to Equations and to exhibit those Equations in the most simple terms that can be &mdas

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Class 9 / Maths / Introduction to Euclid’s Geometry / CBSE CONTENT

INTRODUCTION TO EUCLID’S GEOMETRY

INTRODUCTION TO EUCLID’S GEOMETRY 5.1 Introduction The word ‘geometry’ comes form the Greek words ‘geo’, meaning the ‘earth’, and ‘metrein’

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LINES AND ANGLES

LINES AND ANGLES 6.1 Introduction  In Chapter 5, you have studied that a minimum of two points are required to draw a line. You have also studied some axioms and, with the help of these axi

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Class 9 / Maths / Triangles / CBSE CONTENT

TRIANGLES

TRIANGLES 7.1 Introduction You have studied about triangles and their various properties in your earlier classes. You know that a closed figure formed by three intersecting lines is called a tr

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Class 9 / Maths / Quadrilaterals / CBSE CONTENT

QUADRILATERALS

QUADRILATERALS 8.1 Properties of a Parallelogram You have already studied quadrilaterals and their types in Class VIII. A quadrilateral has four sides, four angles and four vertices. A parallel

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CIRCLES

CIRCLES 9.1 Angle Subtended by a Chord at a Point  You have already studied about circles and its parts in Class VI. Take a line segment PQ and a point R not on the line containing PQ. Join

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Class 9 / Maths / Heron’s formula / CBSE CONTENT

HERON’S FORMULA

HERON’S FORMULA 10. 1 Area of a Triangle — by Heron’s Formula We know that the area of triangle when its height is given, is \(\frac{1}{2}\) × base × height. Now s

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Class 9 / Maths / Surface Areas and Volumes / CBSE CONTENT

SURFACE AREAS AND VOLUMES

SURFACE AREAS AND VOLUMES 11.1 Surface Area of a Right Circular Cone We have already studied the surface areas of cube, cuboid and cylinder. We will now study the surface area of cone. So far, w

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Class 9 / Maths / Statistics / CBSE CONTENT

STATISTICS

STATISTICS 12.1 Graphical Representation of Data The representation of data by tables has already been discussed. Now let us turn our attention to another representation of data, i.e., the grap

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Types Of Numbers

Types Of Numbers Introduction   In your earlier classes, you have learnt about the number line and how to represent various types of numbers on it (see Fig. 1.1). Just imagine you

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Rational And Irrational Numbers

Rational And Irrational Numbers We saw, in the previous section, that there may be numbers on the number line that are not rationals. In this section, we are going to investigate these numbers. So

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Decimal Expansion Of Real Numbers

Decimal Expansion Of Real Numbers   In this section, we are going to study rational and irrational numbers from a different point of view. We will look at the decimal expansions of real num

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Operations On Real Numbers

Operations On Real Numbers   You have learnt, in earlier classes, that rational numbers satisfy the commutative, associative and distributive laws for addition and multiplication. Moreover,

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POLYNOMMIALS

POLYNOMIALS Introduction  You have studied algebraic expressions, their addition, subtraction, multiplication and division in earlier classes. You also have studied how to factorise some al

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Class 9 / CBSE Maths / Polynomials / Polynomials

POLYNOMIALS

 Polynomials in One Variable Let us begin by recalling that a variable is denoted by a symbol that can take any real value. We use the letters x, y, z, etc. to denote variables. Notice that 2

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Class 9 / CBSE Maths / Polynomials / Polynomials

POLYNOMIALS

Zeroes of a Polynomial Consider the polynomial p(x) = \(5{{x}^{3}}-2{{x}^{2}}+3x-2\)  If we replace x by 1 everywhere in p(x), we get \( \begin{align}   & p\left( 1 \right)=5\times

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POLYNOMIALS

Factorisation of Polynomials  Let us now look at the situation of Example 10 above more closely. It tells us that since the remainder, \(\left( q-\frac{1}{2} \right)= 0\), (2t + 1) is a factor

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Class 9 / CBSE Maths / Coordinate Geometry / Coordinate Geometry

Coordinate Geometry

Introduction You have already studied how to locate a point on a number line. You also know how to describe the position of a point on the line. There are many other situations, in which to find a

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Class 9 / CBSE Maths / Polynomials / Polynomials

POLYNOMIALS

Algebraic Identities From your earlier classes, you may recall that an algebraic identity is an algebraic equation that is true for all values of the variables occurring in it. You have studied th

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Coordinate Geometry

Cartesian System You have studied the number line in the chapter on ‘Number System’. On the number line, distances from a fixed point are marked in equal units positively in one directi

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Class 9 / CBSE Maths / Introduction To Euclids Geometry / Introduction To Euclids Geometry

Introduction To Euclids Geometry

Introduction The word ‘geometry’ comes form the Greek words ‘geo’, meaning the ‘earth’, and ‘metrein’, meaning ‘to measure’. Geometry app

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Introduction To Euclids Geometry

Euclid’s Definitions, Axioms and Postulates         The Greek mathematicians of Euclid’s time thought of geometry as an abstract model of the wor

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Class 9 / CBSE Maths / Linear Equations In Two Variables / Linear Equations In Two Variables

LINEAR EQUATIONS IN TWO VARIABLES

LINEAR EQUATIONS IN TWO VARIABLES The principal use of the Analytic Art is to bring Mathematical Problems to Equations and to exhibit those Equations in the most simple terms that can be  

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LINEAR EQUATIONS IN TWO VARIABLES

 Linear Equations  Let us first recall what you have studied so far. Consider the following equation:  2x + 5 = 0 Its solution, i.e., the root of the equation, is −&

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LINEAR EQUATIONS IN TWO VARIABLES

Solution of a Linear Equation You have seen that every linear equation in one variable has a unique solution. What can you say about the solution of a linear equation involving two variables? As t

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Class 9 / CBSE Maths / Triangles / Triangles

Triangles

Introduction You have studied about triangles and their various properties in your earlier classes. You know that a closed figure formed by three intersecting lines is called a triangle. (‘T

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Class 9 / CBSE Maths / Triangles / Triangles

Trianlges

Congruence of Triangles  You must have observed that two copies of your photographs of the same size are identical. Similarly, two bangles of the same size, two ATM cards issued by the same ba

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Class 9 / CBSE Maths / Lines And Angles / Lines And Angles

Lines And Angles

Introduction          In Chapter 5, you have studied that a minimum of two points are required to draw a line. You have also studied some axioms and, with the help of these

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Triangles

Criteria for Congruence of Triangles In earlier classes, you have learnt four criteria for congruence of triangles. Let us recall them. Draw two triangles with one side 3 cm. Are these triangles co

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Class 9 / CBSE Maths / Lines And Angles / Lines And Angles

Lines And Angles

Basic Terms and Definitions Recall that a part (or portion) of a line with two end points is called a line-segment and a part of a line with one end point is called a ray. Note that the line segmen

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Class 9 / CBSE Maths / Lines And Angles / Lines And Angles

Lines And Angles

Intersecting Lines and Non-intersecting Lines Draw two different lines PQ and RS on a paper. You will see that you can draw them in two different ways as shown in Fig. 6.5 (i) and Fig. 6.5 (ii).

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Class 9 / CBSE Maths / Triangles / Triangles

Trianlges

Some Properties of a Triangle In the above section you have studied two criteria for congruence of triangles. Let us now apply these results to study some properties related to a triangle whose tw

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Triangles

Some More Criteria for Congruence of Triangles You have seen earlier in this chapter that equality of three angles of one triangle to three angles of the other is not sufficient for the congruence

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Class 9 / CBSE Maths / Lines And Angles / Lines And Angles

Lines And Angles

Pairs of Angles In Section 6.2, you have learnt the definitions of some of the pairs of angles such as complementary angles, supplementary angles, adjacent angles, linear pair of angles, etc. Can y

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Class 9 / CBSE Maths / Lines And Angles / Lines And Angles

Lines And Angles

Lines Parallel to the Same Line If two lines are parallel to the same line, will they be parallel to each other? Let us check it. See Fig. 6.18 in which line m || line l and line n || line l. &

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Class 9 / CBSE Maths / Quadrilaterals / Quadrilaterals

Quadrilaterals

Properties of a Parallelogram You have already studied quadrilaterals and their types in Class VIII. A quadrilateral has four sides, four angles and four vertices. A parallelogram is a quadrilatera

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Class 9 / CBSE Maths / Circles / Circles

Circles

Angle Subtended by a Chord at a Point You have already studied about circles and its parts in Class VI. Take a line segment PQ and a point R not on the line containing PQ. Join PR and QR (see Fig.

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Class 9 / CBSE Maths / Circles / Circles

Circles

Perpendicular from the Centre to a Chord Activity  Draw a circle on a tracing paper. Let O be its centre. Draw a chord AB. Fold the paper along a line through O so that a portion of the chord

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Class 9 / CBSE Maths / Circles / Circles

Circles

Equal Chords and their Distances from the Centre Let AB be a line and P be a point. Since there are infinite numbers of points on a line, if you join these points to P, you will get infinitely man

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Class 9 / CBSE Maths / Circles / Circles

Circles

Angle Subtended by an Arc of a Circle You have seen that the end points of a chord other than diameter of a circle cuts it into two arcs – one major and other minor. If you take two equal cho

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Circles

Cyclic Quadrilaterals A quadrilateral ABCD is called cyclic if all the four vertices of it lie on a circle (see Fig 9.18). You will find a peculiar property in such quadrilaterals. Draw sev

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Class 9 / CBSE Maths / Herons Formula / Herons Formula

Herons Formula

HERON’S FORMULA  Area of a Triangle — by Heron’s Formula We know that the area of triangle when its height is given, is 12 × base × height. Now suppo

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Statistics

STATISTICS Graphical Representation of Data The representation of data by tables has already been discussed. Now let us turn our attention to another representation of data, i.e., the graphical

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Class 9 / CBSE Maths / Surface Areas And Volumes / Surface Areas And Volumes

Surface Areas And Volumes

Surface Area of a Right Circular Cone We have already studied the surface areas of cube, cuboid and cylinder. We will now study the surface area of cone.        So

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Class 9 / CBSE Maths / Quadrilaterals / Quadrilaterals

Quadrilaterals

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Surface Areas And Volumes

Surface Area of a Sphere What is a sphere? Is it the same as a circle? Can you draw a circle on a paper? Yes, you can, because a circle is a plane closed figure whose every point lies at a constant

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Class 9 / CBSE Maths / Surface Areas And Volumes / Surface Areas And Volumes

Surface Areas And volumes

Volume of a Right Circular Cone In earlier classes we have studied the volumes of cube, cuboid and cylinder  Fig 11.11 In Fig 11.11, can you see that there is a right circular cylinder

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Class 9 / CBSE Maths / Surface Areas And Volumes / Surface Areas And Volumes

Surface Areas And Volumes

Volume of a Sphere Now, let us see how to go about measuring the volume of a sphere. First, take two or three spheres of different radii, and a container big enough to be able to put each of the sp

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Class 8 / CBSE Maths / Understanding Quadrilaterals / Understanding Quadrilaterals

Understanding Quadrilaterals

Introduction You know that the paper is a model for a plane surface. When you join a number of points without lifting a pencil from the paper (and without retracing any portion of the drawing othe

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Class 8 / CBSE Maths / Understanding Quadrilaterals / Understanding Quadrilaterals

Understanding Quadrilaterals

Regular and irregular polygons  A regular polygon is both ‘equiangular’ and ‘equilateral’. For example, a square has sides of equal length and angles of equal measure.

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Class 8 / CBSE Maths / Understanding Quadrilaterals / Understanding Quadrilaterals

Understanding Quadrilaterals

Sum of the Measures of the Exterior Angles of a Polygon On many occasions a knowledge of exterior angles may throw light on the nature of interior angles and sides. DO THIS Draw a polygon on

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Class 8 / CBSE Maths / Understanding Quadrilaterals / Understanding Quadrilaterals

Understanding Quadrilaterals

Kinds of Quadrilaterals Based on the nature of the sides or angles of a quadrilateral, it gets special names. Trapezium Trapezium is a quadrilateral with a pair of parallel sides Stu

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Class 8 / CBSE Maths / Understanding Quadrilaterals / Understanding Quadrilaterals

Understanding Quadrilaterals

Parallelogram A parallelogram is a quadrilateral. As the name suggests, it has something to do with parallel lines. Study these figures and try to describe in your own words what we mean by

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Class 8 / CBSE Maths / Understanding Quadrilaterals / Understanding Quadrilaterals

Understanding Quadrilaterals

Angles of a parallelogram We studied a property of parallelograms concerning the (opposite) sides. What can we say about the angles? Property: The opposite angles of a parallelogram are of equa

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Class 8 / CBSE Maths / Understanding Quadrilaterals / Understanding Quadrilaterals

Understanding Quadrilaterals

Diagonals of a parallelogram The diagonals of a parallelogram, in general, are not of equal length. (Did you check this in your earlier activity?) However, the diagonals of a parallelogram have an

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Class 8 / CBSE Maths / Understanding Quadrilaterals / Understanding Quadrilaterals

Understanding Quadrilaterals

Some Special Parallelograms Rhombus We obtain a Rhombus (which, you will see, is a parallelogram) as a special case of kite (which is not a a parallelogram). Note that the sides of rhombus

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Class 8 / CBSE Maths / Understanding Quadrilaterals / Understanding Quadrilaterals

Understanding Quadrilaterals

A rectangle A rectangle is a parallelogram with equal angles (Fig). What is the full meaning of this definition? Discuss with your friends.  If the rectangle is to be equiangular,

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Class 8 / CBSE Maths / Understanding Quadrilaterals / Understanding Quadrilaterals

Understanding Quadrilaterals

A square  A square is a rectangle with equal sides. BELT is a square, BE = EL = LT = TB ∠B, ∠E, ∠L, ∠T are right angles.  BL = ET and \(\overline{BL}||

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Class 8 / CBSE Maths / Data Handling / Data Handling

Data Handling

Looking for Information In your day-to-day life, you might have come across information, such as:  (a) Runs made by a batsman in the last 10 test matches.  (b) Number of wickets taken

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Class 8 / CBSE Maths / Data Handling / Data Handling

Data Handling

Circle Graph or Pie Chart Have you ever come across data represented in circular form as shown (Fig 4.1)? These are called circle graphs. A circle graph shows the relationship between a who

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Class 8 / CBSE Maths / Rational Numbers / Rational Numbers

Rational Numbers

Introduction In Mathematics, we frequently come across simple equations to be solved. For example, the equation              &n

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Class 8 / CBSE Maths / Rational Numbers / Rational Numbers

Rational Numbers

Closure Properties of Rational Numbers (i) Whole numbers Let us revisit the closure property for all the operations on whole numbers in brief. Check for closure property under all the fo

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Class 8 / CBSE Maths / Rational Numbers / Rational Numbers

Rational Numbers

Commutativity Property of Rational Numbers (i) Whole numbers Recall the commutativity of different operations for whole numbers by filling the following table. Check whet

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Class 8 / CBSE Maths / Rational Numbers / Rational Numbers

Rational Numbers

Associativity Property of Rational Numbers (i) Whole numbers Recall the associativity of the four operations for whole numbers through this table: Fill in this table and

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Class 8 / CBSE Maths / Data Handling / Data Handling

Data Handling

Chance and Probability  Sometimes it happens that during rainy season, you carry a raincoat every day and it does not rain for many days. However, by chance, one day you forget to take the rai

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Class 8 / CBSE Maths / Data Handling / Data Handling

Data Handling

Equally likely outcomes: A coin is tossed several times and the number of times we get head or tail is noted. Let us look at the result sheet where we keep on increasing the tosses Observe

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Class 8 / CBSE Maths / Data Handling / Data Handling

Data Handling

Linking chances to probability Consider the experiment of tossing a coin once. What are the outcomes? There are only two outcomes – Head or Tail. Both the outcomes are equally likely. Likelih

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Class 8 / CBSE Maths / Data Handling / Data Handling

Data handling

Outcomes as events Each outcome of an experiment or a collection of outcomes make an event. For example in the experiment of tossing a coin, getting a Head is an event and getting a Tail is al

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Class 8 / CBSE Maths / Data Handling / Data Handling

Data Handling

Chance and probability related to real life We talked about the chance that it rains just on the day when we do not carry a rain coat. What could you say about the chance in terms of probabili

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Class 8 / CBSE Maths / Squares and Square Roots / Squares and Square Roots

Squares and Square Roots

Introduction You know that the area of a square = side × side (where ‘side’ means ‘the length of a side’). Study the following table What is special about t

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Class 8 / CBSE Maths / Squares and Square Roots / Squares and Square Roots

Squares and Square Roots

Properties of Square Numbers Following table shows the squares of numbers from 1 to 20 Study the square numbers in the above table. What are the ending digits (that is, digits in the units

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Class 8 / CBSE Maths / Squares and Square Roots / Squares and Square Roots

Squares and Square Roots

Some More Interesting Patterns 1. Adding triangular numbers. Do you remember triangular numbers (numbers whose dot patterns can be arranged as triangles)? If we combine two consecutive trian

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Class 8 / CBSE Maths / Squares and Square Roots / Squares and Square Roots

Squares and Square Roots

Finding the Square of a Number And Other patterns in squares Squares of small numbers like 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, ... etc. are easy to find. But can we find the square of 23 so quickly? The answer

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Class 8 / CBSE Maths / Squares and Square Roots / Squares and Square Roots

Squares and Square Roots

Pythagorean triplets Consider the following\(\) 3\(^2\) + 4\(^2\) = 9 + 16 = 25 = 5\(^2\) The collection of numbers 3, 4 and 5 is known as Pythagorean triplet.  6, 8, 10 is also a Py

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Class 8 / CBSE Maths / Squares and Square Roots / Squares and Square Roots

Squares and Square Roots

Square Roots  Study the following situations. (a) Area of a square is 144 cm2 . What could be the side of the square? We know that the area of a square = side2 If we assume the lengt

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Class 8 / CBSE Maths / Squares and Square Roots / Squares and Square Roots

Squares and Square Roots

Finding square roots The inverse (opposite) operation of addition is subtraction and the inverse operation of multiplication is division. Similarly, finding the square root is the inverse operatio

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Squares and Square Roots

Finding square root through repeated subtraction Finding square root through repeated subtraction Do you remember that the sum of the first n odd natural numbers is n 2 ? Tha

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Squares and Square Roots

Finding square root through prime factorisation Consider the prime factorisation of the following numbers and their squares. How many times does 2 occur in the prime factorisation of 6? Onc

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Class 8 / CBSE Maths / Rational Numbers / Rational Numbers

Rational Numbers

The role of zero (0) Look at the following. 2 + 0 = 0 + 2 = 2 (Addition of 0 to a whole number) – 5 + 0 = ... + ... = – 5 (Addition of 0 to an integer) \(\frac{-2}{7}+...=0+\

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Class 8 / CBSE Maths / Squares and Square Roots / Squares and Square Roots

Squares and Square Roots

Finding square root by division method When the numbers are large, even the method of finding square root by prime factorisation becomes lengthy and difficult. To overcome this problem we use Long

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Class 8 / CBSE Maths / Rational Numbers / Rational Numbers

Rational Numbers

Distributivity of multiplication over addition for rational numbers To understand this, consider the rational numbers \(\frac{-3}{4},\frac{2}{3}and\frac{-5}{6}\) \(\frac{-3}{4}\times \left\{ \fr

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Class 8 / CBSE Maths / Squares and Square Roots / Squares and Square Roots

Squares and Square Roots

Square Roots of Decimals Consider  Step 1 To find the square root of a decimal number we put bars on the integral part (i.e., 17) of the number in the usual manner. And place bars on the deci

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Class 8 / CBSE Maths / Linear Equations in One Variable / Linear Equations in One Variable

Linear Equations in One Variable

Introduction In the earlier classes, you have come across several algebraic expressions and equations. Some examples of expressions we have so far worked with are: 5x, 2x – 3, 3x + y, 2xy

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Class 8 / CBSE Maths / Linear Equations in One Variable / Linear Equations in One Variable

Linear Equations in One Variable

Solving Equations having the Variable on both Sides An equation is the equality of the values of two expressions. In the equation 2x – 3 = 7, the two expressions are 2x – 3 and 7. In m

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Class 8 / CBSE Maths / Linear Equations in One Variable / Linear Equations in One Variable

Linear Equations in One Variable

Reducing Equations to Simpler Form Example: Solve \(\frac{6x+1}{3}+1=\frac{x-3}{6}\) Solution: Multiplying both sides of the equation by 6,        

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Class 8 / CBSE Maths / Cubes and Cube Roots / Cubes and Cube Roots

Cubes and Cube Roots

Introduction This is a story about one of India’s great mathematical geniuses, S. Ramanujan. Once another famous mathematician Prof. G.H. Hardy came to visit him in a taxi whose number was 1

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Class 8 / CBSE Maths / Cubes and Cube Roots / Cubes and Cube Roots

Cubes and Cube Roots

Cubes  You know that the word ‘cube’ is used in geometry. A cube is a solid figure which has all its sides equal. How many cubes of side 1 cm will make a cube of side 2 cm? How man

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Class 8 / CBSE Maths / Cubes and Cube Roots / Cubes and Cube Roots

Cubes and Cube Roots

Some interesting patterns 1.Adding consecutive odd numbers Observe the following pattern of sums of odd numbers. Is it not interesting? How many consecutive odd numbers will be needed to obt

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Class 8 / CBSE Maths / Cubes and Cube Roots / Cubes and Cube Roots

Cubes and Cube Roots

Smallest multiple that is a perfect cube Raj made a cuboid of plasticine. Length, breadth and height of the cuboid are 15 cm, 30 cm, 15 cm respectively. Anu asks how many such cuboids will she

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Class 8 / CBSE Maths / Cubes and Cube Roots / Cubes and Cube Roots

Cubes and Cube Roots

Cube Roots If the volume of a cube is 125 cm\(^3\) , what would be the length of its side? To get the length of the side of the cube, we need to know a number whose cube is 125.  Finding t

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Class 8 / CBSE Maths / Mensuration / Mensuration

Mensuration

Introduction We have learnt that for a closed plane figure, the perimeter is the distance around its boundary and its area is the region covered by it. We found the area and perimeter of various p

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Class 8 / CBSE Maths / Mensuration / Mensuration

Mensuration

Area of a Polygon We split a quadrilateral into triangles and find its area. Similar methods can be used to find the area of a polygon. Observe the following for a pentagon: (Fig 9.1, 9.2)

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Class 8 / CBSE Maths / Mensuration / Mensuration

Mensuration

Solid Shapes  In your earlier classes you have studied that two dimensional figures can be identified as the faces of three dimensional shapes. Observe the solids which we have discussed so fa

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Class 8 / CBSE Maths / Mensuration / Mensuration

Mensuration

Surface Area of Cube Imran, Monica and Jaspal are painting a cuboidal, cubical and a cylindrical box respectively of same height (Fig 9.4). They try to determine who has painted more area. H

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Class 8 / CBSE Maths / Mensuration / Mensuration

Mensuration

Surface Area of Cuboid Suppose you cut open a cuboidal box and lay it flat (Fig 9.15). We can see a net as shown below (Fig 9.16). Write the dimension of each side. You know that a cuboid h

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Class 8 / CBSE Maths / Mensuration / Mensuration

Mensuration

Cylinders Most of the cylinders we observe are right circular cylinders. For example, a tin, round pillars, tube lights, water pipes etc DO THIS (i) Take a cylindrical can or box and trace t

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Class 8 / CBSE Maths / Mensuration / Mensuration

Mensuration

Volume of Cube Amount of space occupied by a three dimensional object is called its volume. Try to compare the volume of objects surrounding you. For example, volume of a room is greater than the v

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Class 8 / CBSE Maths / Mensuration / Mensuration

Mensuration

Cuboid Take 36 cubes of equal size (i.e., length of each cube is same). Arrange them to form a cuboid. You can arrange them in many ways. Observe the following table and fill in the blanks.

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Class 8 / CBSE Maths / Mensuration / Mensuration

Mensuration

Cylinder We know that volume of a cuboid can be found by finding the product of area of base and its height. Can we find the volume of a cylinder in the same way? Just like cuboid, cylinder

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Class 8 / CBSE Maths / Mensuration / Mensuration

Mensuration

Volume and Capacity There is not much difference between these two words. (a) Volume refers to the amount of space occupied by an object. (b) Capacity refers to the quantity that a contain

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Class 8 / CBSE Maths / Algebraic Expressions and Identities / Algebraic Expressions and Identities

Algebraic Expressions and Identities

Addition and Subtraction of Algebraic Expressions In earlier classes, we have already become familiar with what algebraic expressions (or simply expressions) are. Examples of expressions are: &

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Class 8 / CBSE Maths / Algebraic Expressions and Identities / Algebraic Expressions and Identities

Algebraic Expressions

Multiplication of Algebraic Expressions:Introduction (i) Look at the following patterns of dots                             &n

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Class 8 / CBSE Maths / Algebraic Expressions and Identities / Algebraic Expressions and Identities

Algebraic Expressions

Multiplying a Monomial by a Monomial Expression that contains only one term is called a monomial. Multiplying two monomials : We begin with 4 × x = x + x + x + x = 4x as seen earlier.

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Class 8 / CBSE Maths / Algebraic Expressions and Identities / Algebraic Expressions and Identities

Algebraic expressions and Identities

Multiplying a Monomial by a Polynomial Expression that contains two terms is called a binomial. An expression containing three terms is a trinomial and so on. In general, an expression containing,

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Class 8 / CBSE Maths / Algebraic Expressions and Identities / Algebraic Expressions and Identities

Algebraic Expressions

Multiplying a Polynomial by a Polynomial Multiplying a binomial by a binomial: Let us multiply one binomial (2a + 3b) by another binomial, say (3a + 4b). We do this step-by-step, as we did in ea

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Class 8 / CBSE Maths / Exponents and Powers / Exponents and Powers

Exponents and Powers

Introduction Do you know? Mass of earth is 5,970,000,000,000, 000, 000, 000, 000 kg. We have already learnt in earlier class how to write such large numbers more conveniently using exponents, a

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Class 8 / CBSE Maths / Exponents and Powers / Exponents and Powers

Exponents and Powers

Powers with Negative Exponents You know that, 102 = 10 × 10 = 100                     &

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Class 8 / CBSE Maths / Direct and Inverse Proportions / Direct and Inverse Proportions

Direct and Inverse Proportions

Introduction Mohan prepares tea for himself and his sister. He uses 300 mL of water, 2 spoons of sugar, 1 spoon of tea leaves and 50 mL of milk. How much quantity of each item will he need, if he

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Class 8 / CBSE Maths / Direct and Inverse Proportions / Direct and Inverse Proportions

Direct and Inverse Proportions

Direct Proportion If the cost of 1 kg of sugar is ₹36, then what would be the cost of 3 kg sugar? It is ₹108. Similarly, we can find the cost of 5 kg or 8 kg of sugar. Study the following t

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Class 8 / CBSE Maths / Direct and Inverse Proportions / Direct and Inverse Proportions

Direct and Inverse Proportions

Let us consider some solved examples where we would use the concept of direct proportion. Example 1: The cost of 5 metres of a particular quality of cloth is  ₹210. Tabulate the cost of

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Class 8 / CBSE Maths / Direct and Inverse Proportions / Direct and Inverse Proportions

Direct and Inverse Proportions

Inverse Proportion Two quantities may change in such a manner that if one quantity increases, the other quantity decreases and vice versa. For example, as the number of workers increases, time tak

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Class 8 / CBSE Maths / Direct and Inverse Proportions / Direct and Inverse Proportions

Direct and Inverse Proportions

Example 7: 6 pipes are required to fill a tank in 1 hour 20 minutes. How long will it take if only 5 pipes of the same type are used? Solution: Let the desired time to fill the tank be x minutes.

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Class 8 / CBSE Maths / Exponents and Powers / Exponents and Powers

Exponents and Powers

Laws of Exponents We have learnt that for any non-zero integer a, a m × a n = a m + n , where m and n are natural numbers. Does this law also hold if the exponents are negative? Let us explor

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Class 8 / CBSE Maths / Exponents and Powers / Exponents and Powers

Exponents and Powers

Use of Exponents to Express Small Numbers in Standard Form Observe the following facts. 1. The distance from the Earth to the Sun is 149,600,000,000 m. 2. The speed of light is 300,000,000

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Class 8 / CBSE Maths / Exponents and Powers / Exponents and Powers

Exponents and Powers

Comparing very large and very small numbers The diameter of the Sun is 1.4 × 109 m and the diameter of the Earth is 1.2756 × 107 m. Suppose you want to compare the diameter of the E

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Class 8 / CBSE Maths / Factorisation / Factorisation

Factorisation

Introduction Factors of natural numbers: You will remember what you learnt about factors in Class VI. Let us take a natural number, say 30, and write it as a product of other natural numbers, sa

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Factorisation

Factors of algebraic expressions We have seen in Class VII that in algebraic expressions, terms are formed as products of factors. For example, in the algebraic expression 5xy + 3x the term 5xy has

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Factorisation

What is Factorisation? When we factorise an algebraic expression, we write it as a product of factors. These factors may be numbers, algebraic variables or algebraic expressions.   &n

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Class 8 / CBSE Maths / Factorisation / Factorisation

Factorisation

Factorisation by regrouping terms Look at the expression 2xy + 2y + 3x + 3. You will notice that the first two terms have common factors 2 and y and the last two terms have a common factor 3. But t

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Class 8 / CBSE Maths / Factorisation / Factorisation

Factorisation

Factorisation using identities We know that       (a + b) 2 = a 2 + 2ab + b 2 (I)               &n

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Class 8 / CBSE Maths / Factorisation / Factorisation

Factorisation

Factors of the form ( x + a) ( x + b) Let us now discuss how we can factorise expressions in one variable, like x 2 + 5x + 6, y 2 – 7y + 12, z 2 – 4z – 12, 3m2 + 9m + 6, etc. Obse

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Class 8 / CBSE Maths / Factorisation / Factorisation

Factorisation

Division of Algebraic Expressions We have learnt how to add and subtract algebraic expressions. We also know how to multiply two expressions. We have not however, looked at division of one algebrai

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Class 8 / CBSE Maths / Factorisation / Factorisation

Factorisation

Division of a monomial by another monomial Consider 6x 3 ÷ 2x We may write 2x and 6x 3 in irreducible factor forms,           2x = 2 &tim

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Class 8 / CBSE Maths / Factorisation / Factorisation

Factorisation

Division of a polynomial by a monomial Let us consider the division of the trinomial 4y 3 + 5y 2 + 6y by the monomial 2y.                     &

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Class 8 / CBSE Maths / Factorisation / Factorisation

Factorisation

Division of Algebraic Expressions Continued (Polynomial ÷ Polynomial) • Consider (7x 2 + 14x) ÷ (x + 2) We shall factorise (7x 2 + 14x) first to check and match factors with

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Class 4 / Science Course Book 1 / Food and Health / Food and Health

Food Groups And Sources

Food Groups and Sources – Carbohydrates, Protiens And Fats Food is one of the basic needs of life. We need food in the same way a car needs fuel. It gives us energy. Our body needs e

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Class 8 / CBSE Maths / Introduction to Graphs / Introduction to Graphs

Introduction to Graphs

Introduction Have you seen graphs in the newspapers, television, magazines, books etc.? The purpose of the graph is to show numerical facts in visual form so that they can be understood quickly, e

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Class 8 / CBSE Maths / Introduction to Graphs / Introduction to Graphs

Introduction to Graphs

Introduction Have you seen graphs in the newspapers, television, magazines, books etc.? The purpose of the graph is to show numerical facts in visual form so that they can be understood quickly, e

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Class 4 / Science Course Book 1 / Food and Health / Food and Health

Vitamins, Minerals And Water

Vitamins, Minerals And Water Vitamins Vitamins are needed in small amounts for the normal functioning of our body. They help in keeping our eyes, bones, teeth and gums healthy. Unlike carbohydra

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Class 8 / CBSE Maths / Introduction to Graphs / Introduction to Graphs

Introduction to Graphs

Example 1: (A graph on “performance”) The given graph (Fig 13.3) represents the total runs scored by two batsmen A and B, during each of the ten different matches in the year 2007. Study t

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Class 4 / Science Course Book 1 / Food and Health / Food and Health

Balanced Diet And Unbalanced Diet

Balanced Diet And Unbalanced Diet Balanced Diet and its Importance We eat different types of food everyday. These may be wheat, rice, pulses, vegetables, fruits, meat, milk, curd, etc. which con

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Class 8 / CBSE Maths / Introduction to Graphs / Introduction to Graphs

Introduction to Graphs

Some Applications  In everyday life, you might have observed that the more you use a facility, the more you pay for it. If more electricity is consumed, the bill is bound to be high. If less e

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Class 8 / CBSE Maths / Introduction to Graphs / Introduction to Graphs

Introduction to Graphs

Example : (Principal and Simple Interest) A bank gives 10% Simple Interest (S.I.) on deposits by senior citizens. Draw a graph to illustrate the relation between the sum deposited and simple interest

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Class 4 / Science Course Book 1 / Food and Health / Food and Health

Food Pyramid

Food Pyramid A food pyramid is a chart that helps us in choosing our daily food. It shows food which we should eat from each group everyday. The food pyramid helps people to select foods that supp

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Class 4 / Science Course Book 1 / Food and Health / Food and Health

Personal Hygiene

Personal Hygiene Personal hygiene may be described as the principle of maintaining cleanliness of the body parts like head, hair, ears, face, eyes, nose, neck, teeth, hands, feet and skin Basic

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Class 8 / CBSE Maths / Introduction to Graphs / Introduction to Graphs

Introduction to Graphs

Example : (Time and Distance) Ajit can ride a scooter constantly at a speed of 30 kms/hour. Draw a time-distance graph for this situation. Use it to find (i) the time taken by Ajit to ride 75 km.

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Class 8 / CBSE Maths / Comparing Quantities / Comparing Quantities

Comparing Quantities

Recalling Ratios and Percentages We know, ratio means comparing two quantities. A basket has two types of fruits, say, 20 apples and 5 oranges. Then, the ratio of the number of oranges to the

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Class 8 / CBSE Maths / Comparing Quantities / Comparing Quantities

Comparing Quantities

Finding Discounts Discount is a reduction given on the Marked Price (MP) of the article. This is generally given to attract customers to buy goods or to promote sales of the goods. You can find th

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Class 8 / CBSE Maths / Comparing Quantities / Comparing Quantities

Comparing Quantities

Sales Tax/Value Added Tax/Goods and Services Tax The teacher showed the class a bill in which the following heads were written. Sales tax (ST) is charged by the government on the sale of an ite

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Class 8 / CBSE Maths / Comparing Quantities / Comparing Quantities

Comparing Quantities

Compound Interest You might have come across statements like “one year interest for FD (fixed deposit) in the bank @ 9% per annum” or ‘Savings account with interest @ 5% per annu

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Class 8 / CBSE Maths / Comparing Quantities / Comparing Quantities

Comparing Quantities

Deducing a Formula for Compound Interest Zubeda asked her teacher, ‘Is there an easier way to find compound interest?’ The teacher said ‘There is a shorter way of finding compoun

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Class 8 / CBSE Maths / Comparing Quantities / Comparing Quantities

Comparing Quantities

Applications of Compound Interest Formula  There are some situations where we could use the formula for calculation of amount in CI. Here are a few. (i) Increase (or decrease) in populatio

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Class 7 / CBSE Maths / Integers / Integers

Integers

PROPERTIES OF ADDITION AND SUBTRACTION OF INTEGERS We have learnt about whole numbers and integers in Class VI. We have also learnt about addition and subtraction of integers. Closure under Add

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Class 7 / CBSE Maths / Integers / Integers

Integers

 MULTIPLICATION OF INTEGERS We can add and subtract integers. Let us now learn how to multiply integers.  Multiplication of a Positive and a Negative Integer We know that multipl

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Class 7 / CBSE Maths / Integers / Integers

Integers

PROPERTIES OF MULTIPLICATION OF INTEGERS Closure under Multiplication 1. Observe the following table and complete it: What do you observe? Can you find a pair of integers whose product

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Class 7 / CBSE Maths / Integers / Integers

Integers

DIVISION OF INTEGERS We know that division is the inverse operation of multiplication. Let us see an example for whole numbers. Since 3 × 5 = 15 So 15 ÷ 5 = 3 and 15 &divi

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Class 7 / CBSE Maths / Fractions and Decimals / Fractions and Decimals

Fractions and Decimals

MULTIPLICATION OF FRACTIONS You know how to find the area of a rectangle. It is equal to length × breadth. If the length and breadth of a rectangle are 7 cm and 4 cm respectively, then what w

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Class 7 / CBSE Maths / Fractions and Decimals / Fractions and Decimals

Fractions and Decimals

Multiplication of a Fraction by a Fraction Farida had a 9 cm long strip of ribbon. She cut this strip into four equal parts. How did she do it? She folded the strip twice. What fraction of the tota

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Class 7 / CBSE Maths / Data Handling / Data Handling

Data Handling

REPRESENTATIVE VALUES You might be aware of the term average and would have come across statements involving the term ‘average’ in your day-to-day life:  Isha spends on an ave

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Data Handling

ARITHMETIC MEAN The most common representative value of a group of data is the arithmetic mean or the mean. To understand this in a better way, let us look at the following example: Two vessels co

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Class 7 / CBSE Maths / Data Handling / Data Handling

Data Handling

MODE As we have said Mean is not the only measure of central tendency or the only form of representative value. For different requirements from a data, other measures of central tendencies are use

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Class 7 / CBSE Maths / Data Handling / Data Handling

Data Handling

MEDIAN We have seen that in some situations, arithmetic mean is an appropriate measure of central tendency whereas in some other situations, mode is the appropriate measure of central tendency. Le

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Class 7 / CBSE Maths / Data Handling / Data Handling

Data Handling

USE OF BAR GRAPHS WITH A DIFFERENT PURPOSE We have seen last year how information collected could be first arranged in a frequency distribution table and then this information could be put as a vi

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Class 7 / CBSE Maths / Simple Equations / Simple Equations

Simple Equations

A MIND-READING GAME! The teacher has said that she would be starting a new chapter in mathematics and it is going to be simple equations. Appu, Sarita and Ameena have revised what they learnt in a

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Class 7 / CBSE Maths / Simple Equations / Simple Equations

Simple Equations

REVIEW OF WHAT WE KNOW Note, (4.1) and (4.2) are equations. Let us recall what we learnt about equations in Class VI. An equation is a condition on a variable. In equation (4.1), the variable is x

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Class 7 / CBSE Maths / Simple Equations / Simple Equations

Simple Equations

SETTING UP OF AN EQUATION Let us take Ameena’s example. Ameena asks Sara to think of a number. Ameena does not know the number. For her, it could be anything 1, 2, 3, . . ., 11, . . . , 100,

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Class 7 / CBSE Maths / Simple Equations / Simple Equations

Simple Equations

WHAT EQUATION IS? In an equation there is always an equality sign. The equality sign shows that the value of the expression to the left of the sign (the left hand side or LHS) is equal to the valu

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Class 7 / CBSE Maths / Simple Equations / Simple Equations

Simple Equations

Solving an Equation  Consider an equality 8 – 3 = 4 + 1…….. (4.5)  The equality (4.5) holds, since both its sides are equal (each is equal to 5) * Let us now add

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Class 7 / CBSE Maths / Simple Equations / Simple Equations

Simple Equations

APPLICATIONS OF SIMPLE EQUATIONS TO PRACTICAL SITUATIONS We have already seen examples in which we have taken statements in everyday language and converted them into simple equations. We also have

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Class 7 / CBSE Maths / Fractions and Decimals / Fractions and Decimals

Fractions and Decimals

DIVISION OF FRACTIONS John has a paper strip of length 6 cm. He cuts this strip in smaller strips of length 2 cm each. You know that he would get 6 ÷ 2 =3 strips. John cuts another strip

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Class 7 / CBSE Maths / Fractions and Decimals / Fractions and Decimals

Fractions and Decimals

Division of a Fraction by a Whole Number What will be ÷ 3?        Based on our earlier observations we have: \(\frac{3}{4}\) ÷ 3 = \(\frac{3}{4}\

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Class 7 / CBSE Maths / Fractions and Decimals / Fractions and Decimals

Fractions and Decimals

MULTIPLICATION OF DECIMAL NUMBERS Reshma purchased 1.5kg vegetable at the rate of ₹8.50 per kg. How much money should she pay? Certainly it would be ₹ (8.50 × 1.50). Both 8.5 and 1.5 are

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Class 7 / CBSE Maths / Fractions and Decimals / Fractions and Decimals

Fractions and Decimals

Multiplication of Decimal Numbers by 10, 100 and 1000 Reshma observed that 2.3 = \(\frac{23}{10}\) whereas 2.35 = \(\frac{235}{10}\). Thus, she found that depending on the position of the decimal

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Class 7 / CBSE Maths / Fractions and Decimals / Fractions and Decimals

Fractions and Decimals

DIVISION OF DECIMAL NUMBERS Savita was preparing a design to decorate her classroom. She needed a few coloured strips of paper of length 1.9 cm each. She had a strip of coloured paper of length 9.5

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Class 7 / CBSE Maths / Fractions and Decimals / Fractions and Decimals

Fractions and Decimals

Division of a Decimal Number by a Whole Number Let us find \(\frac{6.4}{2}\). Remember we also write it as 6.4 ÷ 2. So, 6.4 ÷ 2 = \(\frac{64}{10}\) ÷ 2 = \(\frac{64}{10}\ti

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Class 7 / CBSE Maths / Fractions and Decimals / Fractions and Decimals

Fractions and Decimals

Division of a Decimal Number by another Decimal Number Let us find \(\frac{25.5}{0.5}\) i.e., 25.5 ÷ 0.5. We have \(\frac{255}{10}\div \frac{5}{10}=\frac{255}{10}\times \frac{10}{5}=51\)

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Class 7 / CBSE Maths / The Triangle and its Properties / The Triangle and its Properties

The Triangle and its Properties

INTRODUCTION A triangle, you have seen, is a simple closed curve made of three line segments. It has three vertices, three sides and three angles. Here is ∆ABC (Fig 6.1). It has Sides: \(

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Class 7 / CBSE Maths / The Triangle and its Properties / The Triangle and its Properties

The Triangle and its Properties

MEDIANS OF A TRIANGLE  Given a line segment, you know how to find its perpendicular bisector by paper folding. Cut out a triangle ABC from a piece of paper (Fig 6.3). Consider any one of its s

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Class 7 / CBSE Maths / The Triangle and its Properties / The Triangle and its Properties

The Triangle and its Properties

ALTITUDES OF A TRIANGLE  Make a triangular shaped cardboard ABC. Place it upright on a table. How ‘tall’ is the triangle? The height is the distance from vertex A (in the Fig 6.4)

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Class 7 / CBSE Maths / The Triangle and its Properties / The Triangle and its Properties

The Triangle and its Properties

EXTERIOR ANGLE OF A TRIANGLE AND ITS PROPERTY DO THIS 1.Draw a triangle ABC and produce one of its sides, say BC as shown in Fig 6.7. Observe the angle ACD formed at the point C. This angle lies

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Class 7 / CBSE Maths / The Triangle and its Properties / The Triangle and its Properties

The Triangle and its Properties

ANGLE SUM PROPERTY OF A TRIANGLE There is a remarkable property connecting the three angles of a triangle. You are going to see this through the following four activities. 1. Draw a triangle.

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Class 7 / CBSE Maths / The Triangle and its Properties / The Triangle and its Properties

The Triangle and its Properties

TWO SPECIAL TRIANGLES : EQUILATERAL AND ISOSCELES  A triangle in which all the three sides are of equal lengths is called an equilateral triangle. Take two copies of an equilateral triangle AB

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Class 7 / CBSE Maths / The Triangle and its Properties / The Triangle and its Properties

The Triangle and its Properties

SUM OF THE LENGTHS OF TWO SIDES OF A TRIANGLE 1. Mark three non-collinear spots A, B and C in your playground. Using lime powder mark the paths AB, BC and AC. Ask your friend to start from A an

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Class 7 / CBSE Maths / The Triangle and its Properties / The Triangle and its Properties

The Triangle and its Properties

RIGHT-ANGLED TRIANGLES AND PYTHAGORAS PROPERTY Pythagoras, a Greek philosopher of sixth century B.C. is said to have found a very important and useful property of right-angled triangles given in t

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Class 7 / CBSE Maths / Comparing Quantities / Comparing Quantities

PERCENTAGE – ANOTHER WAY OF COMPARING QUANTITIES

PERCENTAGE – ANOTHER WAY OF COMPARING QUANTITIES Anita said that she has done better as she got 320 marks whereas Rita got only 300. Do you agree with her? Who do you think has done bette

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Class 7 / CBSE Maths / Comparing Quantities / Comparing Quantities

PERCENTAGE – ANOTHER WAY OF COMPARING QUANTITIES

Converting Fractional Numbers to Percentage  Fractional numbers can have different denominator. To compare fractional numbers, we need a common denominator and we have seen that it is more con

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Class 7 / CBSE Maths / Comparing Quantities / Comparing Quantities

PERCENTAGE – ANOTHER WAY OF COMPARING QUANTITIES

Converting Decimals to Percentage We have seen how fractions can be converted to per cents. Let us now find how decimals can be converted to per cents. EXAMPLE  Convert the given decim

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Class 7 / CBSE Maths / Lines and Angles / Lines and Angles

Lines and Angles

INTRODUCTION You already know how to identify different lines, line segments and angles in a given shape. Can you identify the different line segments and angles formed in the following figures? (F

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Class 7 / CBSE Maths / Comparing Quantities / Comparing Quantities

PERCENTAGE – ANOTHER WAY OF COMPARING QUANTITIES

  Fun with Estimation Percentages help us to estimate the parts of an area.  EXAMPLE : What per cent of the adjoining figure is shaded? SOLUTION :We first find the fraction of

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Class 7 / CBSE Maths / Comparing Quantities / Comparing Quantities

PERCENTAGE – ANOTHER WAY OF COMPARING QUANTITIES

USE OF PERCENTAGES Interpreting Percentages We saw how percentages were helpful in comparison. We have also learnt to convert fractional numbers and decimals to percentages. Now, we shall lear

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Class 7 / CBSE Maths / Comparing Quantities / Comparing Quantities

PERCENTAGE – ANOTHER WAY OF COMPARING QUANTITIES

Converting Percentages to “How Many”  Consider the following examples: EXAMPLE : A survey of 40 children showed that 25% liked playing football. How many children liked playing

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Class 7 / CBSE Maths / Lines and Angles / Lines and Angles

Lines and angles

RELATED ANGLES Complementary Angles : When the sum of the measures of two angles is 90°, the angles are called complementary angles.   (i)   (ii)      

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Class 7 / CBSE Maths / Comparing Quantities / Comparing Quantities

PERCENTAGE – ANOTHER WAY OF COMPARING QUANTITIES

Ratios to Percents Sometimes, parts are given to us in the form of ratios and we need to convert those to percentages. Consider the following example: EXAMPLE : Reena’s mother said, to ma

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Class 7 / CBSE Maths / Lines and Angles / Lines and Angles

Lines and Angles

PAIRS OF LINES Intersecting Lines:                                           &nbs

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Class 7 / CBSE Maths / Comparing Quantities / Comparing Quantities

PERCENTAGE – ANOTHER WAY OF COMPARING QUANTITIES

Increase or Decrease as Per Cent There are times when we need to know the increase or decrease in a certain quantity as percentage. For example, if the population of a state increased from 5,50,000 to

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Class 7 / CBSE Maths / Comparing Quantities / Comparing Quantities

PERCENTAGE – ANOTHER WAY OF COMPARING QUANTITIES

PRICES RELATED TO AN ITEM OR BUYING AND SELLING The buying price of any item is known as its cost price. It is written in short as CP. The price at which you sell is known as the selling pr

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Class 7 / CBSE Maths / Comparing Quantities / Comparing Quantities

PERCENTAGE – ANOTHER WAY OF COMPARING QUANTITIES

Profit or Loss as a Percentage The profit or loss can be converted to a percentage. It is always calculated on the CP. For the above examples, we can find the profit % or loss %. Let us co

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PERCENTAGE – ANOTHER WAY OF COMPARING QUANTITIES

CHARGE GIVEN ON BORROWED MONEY OR SIMPLE INTEREST Sohini said that they were going to buy a new scooter. Mohan asked her whether they had the money to buy it. Sohini said her father was going to t

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PERCENTAGE – ANOTHER WAY OF COMPARING QUANTITIES

Interest for Multiple Years If the amount is borrowed for more than one year the interest is calculated for the period the money is kept for. For example, if Anita returns the money at the end of t

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Class 7 / CBSE Maths / Lines and Angles / Lines and Angles

Lines and angles

CHECKING FOR PARALLEL LINES If two lines are parallel, then you know that a transversal gives rise to pairs of equal corresponding angles, equal alternate interior angles and interior angles on the

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Class 7 / CBSE Maths / Perimeter and Area / Perimeter and Area

Perimeter and Area

AREA OF A PARALLELOGRAM We come across many shapes other than squares and rectangles. How will you find the area of a land which is a parallelogram in shape? Let us find a method to get the area o

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Class 7 / CBSE Maths / Perimeter and Area / Perimeter and Area

Perimeter and Area

AREA OF A TRIANGLE  A gardener wants to know the cost of covering the whole of a triangular garden with grass. In this case we need to know the area of the triangular region. Let us fin

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Class 7 / CBSE Maths / Rational Numbers / Rational Numbers

Rational Numbers

INTRODUCTION You began your study of numbers by counting objects around you. The numbers used for this purpose were called counting numbers or natural numbers. They are 1, 2, 3, 4, ... By including

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Class 7 / CBSE Maths / Perimeter and Area / Perimeter and Area

Perimeter and Area

CIRCLES A racing track is semi-circular at both ends (Fig 9.18). Can you find the distance covered by an athlete if he takes two rounds of a racing track? We need to find a method to find

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Class 7 / CBSE Maths / Rational Numbers / Rational Numbers

Rational Numbers

NEED FOR RATIONAL NUMBERS Earlier, we have seen how integers could be used to denote opposite situations involving numbers. For example, if the distance of 3 km to the right of a place was denoted

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Class 7 / CBSE Maths / Perimeter and Area / Perimeter and Area

Perimeter and Area

Area of Circle Consider the following: A farmer dug a flower bed of radius 7 m at the centre of a field. He needs to purchase fertiliser. If 1 kg of fertiliser is required for 1 square metre

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Class 7 / CBSE Maths / Algebraic Expressions / Algebraic Expressions

Algebraic Expressions

INTRODUCTION We have already come across simple algebraic expressions like x + 3, y – 5, 4x + 5, 10y – 5 and so on. In Class VI, we have seen how these expressions are useful in formula

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Class 7 / CBSE Maths / Algebraic Expressions / Algebraic Expressions

Algebraic Expressions

TERMS OF AN EXPRESSION We shall now put in a systematic form what we have learnt above about how expressions are formed. For this purpose, we need to understand what terms of an expression and the

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Class 7 / CBSE Maths / Rational Numbers / Rational Numbers

Rational Numbers

WHAT ARE RATIONAL NUMBERS? The word ‘rational’ arises from the term ‘ratio’. You know that a ratio like 3:2 can also be written as \(\frac{3}{2}\) . Here, 3 and 2 are natura

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Class 7 / CBSE Maths / Rational Numbers / Rational Numbers

Rational Numbers

POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE RATIONAL NUMBERS Consider the rational number \(\frac{2}{3}\) . Both the numerator and denominator of this number are positive integers. Such a rational number is called a pos

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Class 7 / CBSE Maths / Rational Numbers / Rational Numbers

Rational Numbers

RATIONAL NUMBERS ON A NUMBER LINE The points to the right of 0 are denoted by + sign and are positive integers. The points to the left of 0 are denoted by – sign and are negative integers

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Class 7 / CBSE Maths / Rational Numbers / Rational Numbers

Rational Numbers

RATIONAL NUMBERS IN STANDARD FORM Observe the rational numbers \(\frac{3}{5},\frac{-5}{8},\frac{2}{7},\frac{-7}{11}\).        The denominators of these rational nu

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Class 7 / CBSE Maths / Rational Numbers / Rational Numbers

Rational Numbers

COMPARISON OF RATIONAL NUMBERS We know how to compare two integers or two fractions and tell which is smaller or which is greater among them. Let us now see how we can compare two rational numbers.

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Class 7 / CBSE Maths / Rational Numbers / Rational Numbers

Rational Numbers

COMPARISON OF RATIONAL NUMBERS We know how to compare two integers or two fractions and tell which is smaller or which is greater among them. Let us now see how we can compare two rational numbers.

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Class 7 / CBSE Maths / Rational Numbers / Rational Numbers

Rational Numbers

COMPARISON OF RATIONAL NUMBERS We know how to compare two integers or two fractions and tell which is smaller or which is greater among them. Let us now see how we can compare two rational numbers.

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Class 7 / CBSE Maths / Rational Numbers / Rational Numbers

Rational Numbers

COMPARISON OF RATIONAL NUMBERS We know how to compare two integers or two fractions and tell which is smaller or which is greater among them. Let us now see how we can compare two rational numbers.

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Class 7 / CBSE Maths / Rational Numbers / Rational Numbers

Rational Numbers

COMPARISON OF RATIONAL NUMBERS We know how to compare two integers or two fractions and tell which is smaller or which is greater among them. Let us now see how we can compare two rational numbers.

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Class 7 / CBSE Maths / Rational Numbers / Rational Numbers

Rational Numbers

COMPARISON OF RATIONAL NUMBERS We know how to compare two integers or two fractions and tell which is smaller or which is greater among them. Let us now see how we can compare two rational numbers.

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Class 7 / CBSE Maths / Rational Numbers / Rational Numbers

Rational Numbers

COMPARISON OF RATIONAL NUMBERS We know how to compare two integers or two fractions and tell which is smaller or which is greater among them. Let us now see how we can compare two rational numbers.

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Class 7 / CBSE Maths / Rational Numbers / Rational Numbers

Rational Numbers

COMPARISON OF RATIONAL NUMBERS We know how to compare two integers or two fractions and tell which is smaller or which is greater among them. Let us now see how we can compare two rational numbers.

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Class 7 / CBSE Maths / Rational Numbers / Rational Numbers

Rational Numbers

RATIONAL NUMBERS BETWEEN TWO RATIONAL NUMBERS Reshma wanted to count the whole numbers between 3 and 10. From her earlier classes, she knew there would be exactly 6 whole numbers between 3 and 10.

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Class 7 / CBSE Maths / Rational Numbers / Rational Numbers

Rational Numbers

OPERATIONS ON RATIONAL NUMBERS You know how to add, subtract, multiply and divide integers as well as fractions. Let us now study these basic operations on rational numbers. Addition: Let us

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Class 7 / CBSE Maths / Algebraic Expressions / Algebraic Expressions

Algebraic Expressions

LIKE AND UNLIKE TERMS When terms have the same algebraic factors, they are like terms. When terms have different algebraic factors, they are unlike terms. For example, in the expression 2xy &ndash

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Class 7 / CBSE Maths / Algebraic Expressions / Algebraic Expressions

Algebraic Expressions

MONOMIALS, BINOMIALS, TRINOMIALS AND POLYNOMIALS  An expression with only one term is called a monomial; for example, 7xy, – 5m, 3z 2 , 4 etc. An expression which contains two unlike ter

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Class 7 / CBSE Maths / Algebraic Expressions / Algebraic Expressions

Algebraic Expressions

FINDING THE VALUE OF AN EXPRESSION We know that the value of an algebraic expression depends on the values of the variables forming the expression. There are a number of situations in which we nee

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Class 7 / CBSE Maths / Symmetry / Symmetry

Symmetry

INTRODUCTION Symmetry is an important geometrical concept, commonly exhibited in nature and is used almost in every field of activity. Artists, professionals, designers of clothing or jewellery, ca

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Class 7 / CBSE Maths / Symmetry / Symmetry

Symmetry

LINES OF SYMMETRY FOR REGULAR POLYGONS You know that a polygon is a closed figure made of several line segments. The polygon made up of the least number of line segments is the triangle. (Can ther

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Class 7 / CBSE Maths / Symmetry / Symmetry

Symmetry

ROTATIONAL SYMMETRY What do you say when the hands of a clock go round? You say that they rotate. The hands of a clock rotate in only one direction, about a fixed point, the centre of the clock-fa

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Class 7 / CBSE Maths / Symmetry / Symmetry

Symmetry

LINE SYMMETRY AND ROTATIONAL SYMMETRY You have been observing many shapes and their symmetries so far. By now you would have understood that some shapes have only line symmetry, some have only rot

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Class 7 / CBSE Maths / Visualising Solid Shapes / Visualising Solid Shapes

Visualising Solid Shapes

INTRODUCTION: PLANE FIGURES AND SOLID SHAPES In this chapter, you will classify figures you have seen in terms of what is known as dimension. In our day to day life, we see several objects lik

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Class 7 / CBSE Maths / Visualising Solid Shapes / Visualising Solid Shapes

Visualising Solid Shapes

FACES, EDGES AND VERTICES Do you remember the Faces, Vertices and Edges of solid shapes, which you studied earlier? Here you see them for a cube: The 8 corners of the cube are its vertices.

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Class 7 / CBSE Maths / Exponents and Powers / Exponents and Powers

Exponents and Powers

INTRODUCTION Do you know what the mass of earth is? It is 5,970,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 kg! Can you read this number? Mass of Uranus is 86,800,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 kg. Which

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Class 7 / CBSE Maths / Visualising Solid Shapes / Visualising Solid Shapes

Visualising Solid Shapes

NETS FOR BUILDING 3-D SHAPES Take a cardboard box. Cut the edges to lay the box flat. You have now a net for that box. A net is a sort of skeleton-outline in 2-D [Fig13.4 (i)], which, when folded

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Class 7 / CBSE Maths / Visualising Solid Shapes / Visualising Solid Shapes

Visualising Solid Shapes

DRAWING SOLIDS ON A FLAT SURFACE Your drawing surface is paper, which is flat. When you draw a solid shape, the images are somewhat distorted to make them appear three-dimensional. It is a visual

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Class 7 / CBSE Maths / Visualising Solid Shapes / Visualising Solid Shapes

Visualising Solid Shapes

Isometric Sketches Have you seen an isometric dot sheet? (A sample is given at the end of the book). Such a sheet divides the paper into small equilateral triangles made up of dots or lines. To dr

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Class 7 / CBSE Maths / Exponents and Powers / Exponents and Powers

Exponents and Powers

EXPONENTS We can write large numbers in a shorter form using exponents. Observe 10, 000 = 10 × 10 × 10 × 10 = 104        The short notation 1

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Class 7 / CBSE Maths / Exponents and Powers / Exponents and Powers

Exponents and Powers

LAWS OF EXPONENTS Multiplying Powers with the Same Base: (i) Let us calculate 22 × 23 2 2 × 23 = (2 × 2) × (2 × 2 × 2)      &

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Class 7 / CBSE Maths / Exponents and Powers / Exponents and Powers

Exponents and Powers

Dividing Powers with the Same Base Let us simplify 37 ÷ 34 ? \({{3}^{7}}\div {{3}^{4}}=\frac{{{3}^{7}}}{{{3}^{4}}}=\frac{3\text{ }\times 3\times 3\times 3\times 3\times 3\times 3}{3\text{

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Class 7 / CBSE Maths / Exponents and Powers / Exponents and Powers

Exponents and Powers

Taking Power of a Power Consider the following Simplify \({{({{2}^{3}})}^{2}};{{({{3}^{2}})}^{4}}\) Now, \({{({{2}^{3}})}^{2}}\) means 23 is multiplied two times with itself. \({{({

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Class 7 / CBSE Maths / Exponents and Powers / Exponents and Powers

Exponents and Powers

Multiplying Powers with the Same Exponents Can you simplify 23 × 33 ? Notice that here the two terms 23 and 33 have different bases, but the same exponents. Now, 2 3 × 33 = (2

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Class 7 / CBSE Maths / Exponents and Powers / Exponents and Powers

Exponents and Powers

Dividing Powers with the Same Exponents Observe the following simplifications: (i)\(\frac{{{2}^{4}}}{{{3}^{4}}}=\frac{2\times 2\times 2\times 2}{3\times 3\times 3\times 3}=\frac{2}{3}\times \fra

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Class 3 / Mathematics Course Book 1 / Ascending And Descending Order / Ascending And Descending Order

Ascending order

Ascending order Look at these numbers. Which is the smallest number? Which is the biggest number? The smallest number is written first. The biggest number is written at the

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Class 3 / Mathematics Course Book 1 / Ascending And Descending Order / Ascending And Descending Order

Descending order

Descending order Look at these numbers. Which is the smallest number? Which is the biggest number? The biggest number is written first. The smallest number is written at the

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Class 7 / CBSE Maths / Visualising Solid Shapes / Visualising Solid Shapes

Visualising Solid Shapes

Visualising Solid Objects Here are some activities you could try in your free time to help you visualise some solid objects and how they look. Take some cubes and arrange them as shown in Fig 13.16

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Class 7 / CBSE Maths / Visualising Solid Shapes / Visualising Solid Shapes

Visualising Solid Shapes

One Way to View an Object is by Cutting or Slicing Slicing game Here is a loaf of bread (Fig 13.20). It is like a cuboid with a square face. You ‘slice’ it with a knife. When y

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Class 7 / CBSE Maths / Visualising Solid Shapes / Visualising Solid Shapes

Visualising Solid Shapes

Another Way is by Shadow Play  A shadow play Shadows are a good way to illustrate how three-dimensional objects can be viewed in two dimensions. Have you seen a shadow play? It is a form o

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Class 7 / CBSE Maths / Visualising Solid Shapes / Visualising Solid Shapes

Visualising Solid Shapes

A Third Way is by Looking at it from Certain Angles to Get Different Views One can look at an object standing in front of it or by the side of it or from above. Each time one will get a different

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Class 7 / CBSE Maths / Exponents and Powers / Exponents and Powers

Exponents and Powers

MISCELLANEOUS EXAMPLES USING THE LAWS OF EXPONENTS Let us solve some examples using rules of exponents developed. EXAMPLE  Write exponential form for 8 × 8 × 8 × 8 taking

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Class 7 / CBSE Maths / Exponents and Powers / Exponents and Powers

Exponents and Powers

DECIMAL NUMBER SYSTEM Let us look at the expansion of 47561, which we already know: 47561 = 4 × 10000 + 7 × 1000 + 5 × 100 + 6 × 10 + 1 We can express it using powe

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Class 7 / CBSE Maths / Exponents and Powers / Exponents and Powers

Exponents and Powers

EXPRESSING LARGE NUMBERS IN THE STANDARD FORM Let us now go back to the beginning of the chapter. We said that large numbers can be conveniently expressed using exponents. We have not as yet shown

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Class 6 / CBSE Maths / Knowing Our Numbers / Knowing Our Numbers

Knowing Our Numbers

Introduction Counting things is easy for us now. We can count objects in large numbers, for example, the number of students in the school, and represent them through numerals. We can also communica

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Class 6 / CBSE Maths / Knowing Our Numbers / Knowing Our Numbers

Knowing Our Numbers

Comparing Numbers As we have done quite a lot of this earlier, let us see if we remember which is the greatest among these : (i) 92, 392, 4456, 89742 (ii) 1902, 1920, 9201, 9021, 9210 So,

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Class 6 / CBSE Maths / Knowing Our Numbers / Knowing Our Numbers

Knowing Our Numbers

How many numbers can you make? Suppose, we have four digits 7, 8, 3, 5. Using these digits we want to make different 4-digit numbers in such a way that no digit is repeated in them. Thus, 7835 is

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Class 6 / CBSE Maths / Knowing Our Numbers / Knowing Our Numbers

Knowing Our Numbers

Shifting digits Have you thought what fun it would be if the digits in a number could shift (move) from one place to the other?        Think about what would happ

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Class 6 / CBSE Maths / Knowing Our Numbers / Knowing Our Numbers

Knowing Our Numbers

Introducing 10,000 We know that beyond 99 there is no 2-digit number. 99 is the greatest 2-digit number. Similarly, the greatest 3-digit number is 999 and the greatest 4-digit number is 9999. What

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Class 6 / CBSE Maths / Knowing Our Numbers / Knowing Our Numbers

Knowing Our Numbers

Revisiting place value You have done this quite earlier, and you will certainly remember the expansion of a 2-digit number like 78 as       78 = 70 + 8 = 7 × 10

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Class 6 / CBSE Maths / Knowing Our Numbers / Knowing Our Numbers

Knowing Our Numbers

Introducing 1,00,000 Which is the greatest 5-digit number?          Adding 1 to the greatest 5-digit number, should give the smallest 6-digit number : 99,999 + 1 = 1,0

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Class 6 / CBSE Maths / Knowing Our Numbers / Knowing Our Numbers

Knowing Our Numbers

Larger numbers           If we add one more to the greatest 6-digit number we get the smallest 7-digit number. It is called ten lakh. Write down the gr

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Class 6 / CBSE Maths / Knowing Our Numbers / Knowing Our Numbers

Knowing Our Numbers

An aid in reading and writing large numbers Try reading the following numbers : (a) 279453      (b) 5035472 (c) 152700375 (d) 40350894 Was it difficult? Did you find

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Class 6 / CBSE Maths / Knowing Our Numbers / Knowing Our Numbers

Knowing Our Numbers

Large Numbers in Practice In earlier classes, we have learnt that we use centimetre (cm) as a unit of length. For measuring the length of a pencil, the width of a book or notebooks etc., we use ce

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Class 6 / CBSE Maths / Whole Numbers / Whole Numbers

Whole Numbers

Predecessor and successor Given any natural number, you can add 1 to that number and get the next number i.e. you get its successor. The successor of 16 is 16 + 1 = 17, that of 19 is 19 +1 = 20

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Class 6 / CBSE Maths / Whole Numbers / Whole Numbers

Whole Numbers

Whole Numbers We have seen that the number 1 has no predecessor in natural numbers. To the collection of natural numbers we add zero as the predecessor for 1. The natural numbers along with zer

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Class 6 / CBSE Maths / Whole Numbers / Whole Numbers

Whole Numbers

The Number Line Draw a line. Mark a point on it. Label it 0. Mark a second point to the right of 0. Label it 1. The distance between these points labelled as 0 and 1 is called unit distance. On th

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Basic Geometrical Ideas

Introduction Geometry has a long and rich history. The term ‘Geometry’ is the English equivalent of the Greek word ‘Geometron’. ‘Geo’ means Earth and ‘metr

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Basic Geometrical Ideas

Points By a sharp tip of the pencil, mark a dot on the paper. Sharper the tip, thinner will be the dot. This almost invisible tiny dot will give you an idea of a point. A point determines a

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Basic Geometrical Ideas

A Line Segment Fold a piece of paper and unfold it. Do you see a fold? This gives the idea of a line segment. It has two end points A and B.  Take a thin thread. Hold its two ends and

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Basic Geometrical Ideas

A Line  Imagine that the line segment from A to B (i.e. \(\overline{AB}\)) is extended beyond A in one direction and beyond B in the other direction without any end (see figure). You now get a

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Basic Geometrical Ideas

Intersecting Lines Look at the diagram (Fig 4.4). Two lines \(l_1\) and \(l_2\) are shown. Both the lines pass through point P. We say \(l_1\) and \(l_2\)intersect at P. If t

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Basic Geometrical Ideas

Parallel Lines  Let us look at this table (Fig 4.6). The top ABCD is flat. Are you able to see some points and line segments? Are there intersecting line segments? Yes, AB and BC inter

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Class 6 / CBSE Maths / Playing With Numbers / Playing With Numbers

Playing with Numbers

Introduction Ramesh has 6 marbles with him. He wants to arrange them in rows in such a way that each row has the same number of marbles. He arranges them in the following ways and matches the total

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Basic Geometrical Ideas

Curves Have you ever taken a piece of paper and just doodled? The pictures that are results of your doodling are called curves You can draw some of these drawings without lifting the pencil

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Basic Geometrical Ideas

Polygons  Look at these figures 4.13 (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v) and (vi). What can you say? Are they closed? How does each one of them differ from the other? (i), (ii), (iii), (iv) and

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Basic Geometrical Ideas

Angles Angles are made when corners are formed. Here is a picture (Fig 4.16) where the top of a box is like a hinged lid. The edges AD of the box and AP of the door can be imagined as two r

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Factors And Multiples Mary wants to find those numbers which exactly divide 4. She divides 4 by numbers less than 4 this way                    

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Prime and Composite Numbers We are now familiar with the factors of a number. Observe the number of factors of a few numbers arranged in this table. We find that (a) The number 1 has on

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Tests for Divisibility of Numbers Is the number 38 divisible by 2? by 4? by 5?           By actually dividing 38 by these numbers we find that it is divisible by 2 but

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Common Factors and Common Multiples Observe the factors of some numbers taken in pairs. (a) What are the factors of 4 and 18?      The factors of 4 are 1, 2 and 4. &

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Prime Factorisation When a number is expressed as a product of its factors we say that the number has been factorised. Thus, when we write 24 = 3×8, we say that 24 has been factorised. This

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Highest Common Factor We can find the common factors of any two numbers. We now try to find the highest of these common factors. What are the common factors of 12 and 16? They are 1, 2 and 4.

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Lowest Common Multiple What are the common multiples of 4 and 6? They are 12, 24, 36, ... . Which is the lowest of these? It is 12. We say that lowest common multiple of 4 and 6 is 12. It is the s

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Some Problems on HCF and LCM We come across a number of situations in which we make use of the concepts of HCF and LCM. We explain these situations through a few examples. Example 12 : Two tan

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Integers

Introduction Sunita’s mother has 8 bananas. Sunita has to go for a picnic with her friends. She wants to carry 10 bananas with her. Can her mother give 10 bananas to her? She does not have en

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Integers

Tag me with a sign We have seen that some numbers carry a minus sign. For example, if we want to show Ronald’s due amount to the shopkeeper we would write it as – 3. Following is an

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Integers

Let us understand this by the following figures. Let us suppose that the figures represent the collection of numbers written against them.   Natural numbers    Zero&nb

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Representation of integers on a number line Draw a line and mark some points at equal distance on it as shown in the figure. Mark a point as zero on it. Points to the right of zero are positive

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Integers

Ordering of integers Raman and Imran live in a village where there is a step well. There are in all 25 steps down to the bottom of the well.       One day Raman and Im

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Class 6 / CBSE Maths / Understanding Elementary Shapes / Understanding Elementary Shapes

Understanding Elementary Shapes

Introduction All the shapes we see around us are formed using curves or lines. We can see corners, edges, planes, open curves and closed curves in our surroundings. We organise them into line segme

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Understanding Elementary Shape

Right And Straight Angles You have heard of directions in Geography. We know that China is to the north of India, Sri Lanka is to the south. We also know that Sun rises in the east and sets in the

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Acute Obtuse and Reflex Angles We saw what we mean by a right angle and a straight angle. However, not all the angles we come across are one of these two kinds. The angle made by a ladder

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Understanding Elementary Shapes

Measuring Angles The improvised ‘Right-angle tester’ we made is helpful to compare angles with a right angle. We were able to classify the angles as acute, obtuse or reflex. But this d

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Perpendicular Lines When two lines intersect and the angle between them is a right angle, then the lines are said to be perpendicular. If a line AB is perpendicular to CD, we write AB⊥ CD &nb

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Classification of Triangles  Do you remember a polygon with the least number of sides? That is a triangle. Let us see the different types of triangle we can get. Take some more triangles an

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Quadrilaterals  A quadrilateral, if you remember, is a polygon which has four sides. (a) Both of you will have a pair of 30°– 60°– 90° set-squares. Place them as sho

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Understanding Elementary Shapes

Polygons So far you studied polygons of 3 or 4 sides (known as triangles and quardrilaterals respectively). We now try to extend the idea of polygon to figures with more number of sides. We may cl

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Integers

Addition of Integers Do This (Going up and down) In Mohan’s house, there are stairs for going up to the terrace and for going down to the godown. Let us consider the number of stai

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Addition of integers on a number line It is not always easy to add integers using coloured buttons. Shall we use number line for additions? (i) Let us add 3 and 5 on number line.  Fig 6

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Subtraction of Integers with the help of a Number Line       We have added positive integers on a number line. For example, consider 6+2. We start from 6 and go 2 steps to

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Data Handling

Introduction You must have observed your teacher recording the attendance of students in your class everyday, or recording marks obtained by you after every test or examination. Similarly, you must

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Recording Data Let us take an example of a class which is preparing to go for a picnic. The teacher asked the students to give their choice of fruits out of banana, apple, orange or guava. Uma is

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Data Handling

Organisation of Data To get the same information which Salma got, Ronald needs only a pen and a paper. He does not need pebbles. He also does not ask students to come and place the pebbles. He pre

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Pictograph        A cupboard has five compartments. In each compartment a row of books is arranged. The details are indicated in the adjoining table :     &nbs

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Data Handling

Interpretation of a Pictograph Example 3 : The following pictograph shows the number of absentees in a class of 30 students during the previous week : (a) On which day were the maximum numb

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Mensuration

Introduction When we talk about some plane figures as shown below we think of their regions and their boundaries. We need some measures to compare them. We look into these now.    

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Fractions

Introduction Subhash had learnt about fractions in Classes IV and V, so whenever possible he would try to use fractions. One occasion was when he forgot his lunch at home. His friend Farida invited

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A Fraction Let us recapitulate the discussion. A fraction means a part of a group or of a region. \(5\over 12\) is a fraction. We read it as “five-twelfths”. What does “12&rd

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Fractions

Fraction on the Number Line You have learnt to show whole numbers like 0,1,2... on a number line.  We can also show fractions on a number line. Let us draw a number line and try to mark&nb

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Fractions

Proper Fractions You have now learnt how to locate fractions on a number line. Locate the fractions \(3 \over 4\) ,\(1\over 2\) ,\(9\over 10\) ,\(0 \over 3\) ,\(5\over 8\)

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Fractions

Improper and Mixed Fractions Anagha, Ravi, Reshma and John shared their tiffin. Along with their food, they had also, brought 5 apples. After eating the other food, the four friends wanted to eat

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Fractions

Equivalent Fractions Look at all these representations of fraction (Fig 7.10) These fractions are \(1 \over 2\) ,\(2 \over 4\) ,\(3\over 6\) representing the parts taken fro

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Fractions

Simplest Form of a Fraction Given the fraction \(36\over 54\) , let us try to get an equivalent fraction in which the numerator and the denominator have no common factor except 1. How do

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Fractions

Like Fractions Fractions with same denominators are called like fractions. Thus \(\frac{1}{15},\frac{2}{15},\frac{3}{15},\frac{8}{15}\) are all like fractions. Are \(7 \over 27\) and&nbs

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Fractions

Comparing Fractions  Sohni has 3\(\frac{1}{2}\) rotis in her plate and Rita has 2\(3 \over 4\) rotis in her plate. Who has more rotis in her plate? Clearly, Sohni has 3 full rotis and mor

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Fractions

Comparing like fractions  Like fractions are fractions with the same denominator. Which of these are like fractions? \(\frac{2}{5},\frac{3}{4},\frac{1}{5},\frac{7}{2},\frac{3}{5},\frac{4}{5

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Mensuration

Perimeter Look at the following figures (Fig. 10.1). You can make them with a wire or a string.        If you start from the point S in each case and move along the line se

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Mensuration

Perimeter of a rectangle Let us consider a rectangle ABCD (Fig 10.2) whose length and breadth are 15 cm and 9 cm respectively. What will be its perimeter? Fig 10.2 Perimeter of the rectangl

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Mensuration

Perimeter of regular shapes Consider this example.        Biswamitra wants to put coloured tape all around a square picture (Fig 10.5) of side 1m as shown. What wi

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Fractions

Comparing unlike fractions Two fractions are unlike if they have different denominators. For example, \(\frac{1}{3}\) and \(\frac{1}{5}\) are unlike fractions. So are 2 3 and 3 5 . Un

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Fractions

Why LCM? The product of 6 and 15 is 90; obviously 90 is also a common multiple of 6 and 15. We may use 90 instead of 30; it will not be wrong. But we know that it is easier and more convenient to

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Mensuration

Area Look at the closed figures (Fig 10.8) given below. All of them occupy some region of a flat surface. Can you tell which one occupies more region? (a) (b)        &n

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Fractions

Addition and Subtraction of Fractions  So far in our study we have learnt about natural numbers, whole numbers and then integers. In the present chapter, we are learning about fractions, a dif

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Mensuration

Area of a rectangle With the help of the squared paper, can we tell, what will be the area of a rectangle whose length is 5 cm and breadth is 3 cm?        Dr

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Mensuration

Area of a square Let us now consider a square of side 4 cm (Fig 10.14).  Fig 10.14      What will be its area?      If we place it on a cent

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Fractions

Adding or subtracting like fractions All fractions cannot be added orally. We need to know how they can be added in different situations and learn the procedure for it. We begin by looking at addi

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Fractions

Adding and subtracting fractions We have learnt to add and subtract like fractions. It is also not very difficult to add fractions that do not have the same denominator. When we have to add or sub

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Class 6 / CBSE Maths / Decimals / Decimals

Decimals

Introduction Savita and Shama were going to market to buy some stationary items. Savita said, “I have 5 rupees and 75 paise”. Shama said, “I have 7 rupees and 50 paise”.

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Decimals

Comparing Decimals Can you tell which is greater, 0.07 or 0.1?         Take two pieces of square papers of the same size. Divide them into 100 equal parts. F

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Algebra

Introduction Our study so far has been with numbers and shapes. We have learnt numbers, operations on numbers and properties of numbers. We applied our knowledge of numbers to various problems in o

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Decimals

Using Decimals Money : We know that 100 paise = ₹1 Therefore, 1 paise = ₹\(\frac{1}{100}\)= ₹ 0.01 So, 65 paise = ₹\(\frac{65}{100}\) = ₹0.65 and 5 paise = ₹\(\frac{5}{10

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Algebra

Matchstick Patterns Ameena and Sarita are making patterns with matchsticks. They decide to make simple patterns of the letters of the English alphabet. Ameena takes two matchsticks and forms the l

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Decimals

Weight Nandu bought 500g potatoes, 250g capsicum, 700g onions, 500g tomatoes, 100g ginger and 300g radish. What is the total weight of the vegetables in the bag? Let us add the weight of all the v

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Algebra

The Idea of a Variable In the above example, we found a rule to give the number of matchsticks required to make a pattern of Ls. The rule was :  Number of matchsticks required = 2n &nbs

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Algebra

More Matchstick Patterns Ameena and Sarita have become quite interested in matchstick patterns. They now want to try a pattern of the letter C. To make one C, they use three matchsticks as shown i

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Algebra

More Examples of Variables We have used the letter n to show a variable. Raju asks, “Why not m”? There is nothing special about n, any letter can be used. Let us now consider va

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Ratio and Proportion

Introduction In our daily life, many a times we compare two quantities of the same type. For example, Avnee and Shari collected flowers for scrap notebook. Avnee collected 30 flowers and Shari coll

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Decimals

Addition of Numbers with Decimals Do This Add 0.35 and 0.42. Take a square and divide it into 100 equal parts. Mark 0.35 in this square by shading 3 tenths and colouring 5 hundred

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Ratio and Proportion

Ratio Consider the following: Isha’s weight is 25 kg and her father’s weight is 75 kg. How many times Father’s weight is of Isha’s weight? It is three times. Cost of a

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Ratio and Proportion

Same ratio in different situations :  Consider the following : ● Length of a room is 30 m and its breadth is 20 m. So, the ratio of length of the room to the breadth of the room = \

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Ratio And Proportion

Sharing a ratio means something! Consider the following examples : ● Raj purchased 3 pens for ₹15 and Anu purchased 10 pens for ₹50. Whose pens are more expensive?    Ratio

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Proportion  Consider this situation : Raju went to the market to purchase tomatoes. One shopkeeper tells him that the cost of tomatoes is ₹40 for 5 kg. Another shopkeeper gives the cost as 6

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Ratio and Proportion

Unitary Method Consider the following situations: ● Two friends Reshma and Seema went to market to purchase notebooks. Reshma purchased 2 notebooks for ₹24. What is the price of one notebo

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Hindi Sample Content

आपका स्वागत है “हिंदी निबंध” पर, जहां आपको सरल भाषा में विविध विषयों पर ले

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EVEN AND ODD NUMBERS

Even And Odd Numbers Natural numbers : The counting numbers are known as natural numbers. Ex : 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 .............. Whole numbers : The natural numbers together with ‘0’ are

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multiples and factors

Multiples And Factors Introduction:  *    If a number ‘a’ divides another number ‘b’ exactly then we say that ‘b’ is called multiple of &lsq

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PRIME AND COMPOSITE NUMBERS

Prime And Composite Numbers Observe the number of factors of some numbers arranged in the following table Number        Factors  Number of factors

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INTRODUCTION: “MEASUREMENT” is the determination of the size or magnitude of something. Measurement can also be defined as “Comparison of an unknown quantity with some known quantit

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Units & DIMENSIONS - UNITS & RULES

DEFINITIONS FOR S.I. UNITS: Fundamental quantities Meter: The distance travelled by light in vacuum in 1 in 299, 792, 458th second is called meter. Kilogram: kilogram is the mass of a platinum - ir

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The things or objects, which we all use in our daily life are made up of different types of materials Examples: Pen, Book, Chair etc....  Material is a substance that is used for making things.

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MATTER:    Any material which has mass and occupies space is called matter. CHARACTERISTICS OF MATTER :      (i) Matter is composed of  tiny particles called

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INTEGERS

Integers and Absolute Values     Till now we have learnt two types of number system. Those are natural numbers and whole numbers. Here we try to study whole numbers in depth Observa

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INTEGERS ARTHIMETIC OPERATIONS AND ABSOLUTE VALUES

Addition of integers -      As we already know addition of any two numbers a and b means moving b units to right of a on the line. The same is followed even in the addition o

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Fundamentals of Fractions

In Mathematics, fractions are defined as the parts of a whole. The whole can be an object or a group of objects. In real life, when we cut a piece of cake from the whole of it, then the portion is the

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Matter may be defined as anything that occupies space, possesses mass and presence of which can be felt by any one or more of our five senses (i.e. sight, smell, taste, touch and hearing) PHYSICAL NA

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PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL CLASSIFICATION OF MATTER

Matter is defined as something which has some mass and occupies some  space. It occurs in three different states based on physical classification. They  are solids, liquids & gases. Thes

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UNITS AND DIMENSIONS - PHYSICAL QUANTITIES & UNITS

PHYSICAL QUANTITIES:     A quantity which can be measured and by which various physical happenings can     be explained and expressed in form of laws is called a physica

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Class 6 / Integrated IIT / Physics Integrated IIT / Units and Measurements - Dimensional Formula

UNITS AND DIMENSIONS - DIMENSIONAL FORMULA

Dimension:     Dimensions of a physical quantity are the powers to which the base quantities are raised to represent one unit of that quantity. The dimensions of a physical quantity de

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RATIONAL NUMBERS AND PROPERTIES, OPERATIONS

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SQUARES AND SQUARE ROOTS What is special about the numbers 4, 9, 25, 64 and other such numbers? Since, 4 can be expressed as 2 × 2 = 22, 9 can be expressed as 3 × 3 = 32, all  such

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Divisibility Rule of 2     If a number is even or a number whose last digit is an even number i.e.  2,4,6,8 including 0, it is always completely divisible by 2. Example: 508 is a

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Learning Objectives:      Know about the properties of Rational numbers.     Understand the Decimal representation of rational numbers.     Understand t

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Learning Objectives :      1.    Fundamental concepts 2.    Fundamental operations ( Related to Algebraic expressions Real time applications:  &

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Class 7 / Integrated IIT / Physics Integrated IIT / Distance, Displacement, Speed And Velocity

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Introduction          Kinematics is the science of describing the motion of objects using words, diagrams,numbers, graphs, and equations. Kinematics is a branch of

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Operation on Fractions

If \( \frac{x} {y} \) and \( \frac{z} {w} \) are two fractions then the fraction lying between them is \( \frac{{x + z}} {{y + w}} \) Thus we have \( \frac{x} {y},\frac{{x + z}} {

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Distance & Displacement:     Distance and displacement are two quantities that may seem to mean the same thing yet have distinctly different definitions and meanings. Distance is

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When atoms of two or more elements combine, a molecule of a compound is formed. The capacities of these elements to combine with each other determine the formula of the compound formed.   &

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Introduction :      In order to represent the elements, instead of using full lengthy names, scientists use abbreviated names. These abbreviated names of the elements are known as

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Matter may be defined as anything that occupies space, possesses mass and presence of which can be felt by any one or more of our five senses (i.e. sight, smell, taste, touch and hearing) PHYSICAL NA

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COMPOUND ANGLES

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Multiples And Sub-Multiples If A,2A, 3A ...... are called multiple angles, then \( \frac{A} {2},\,\frac{A} {3},\,\frac{A} {4}..... \) are called sub multople angles. 1) sin 2A = 2 sinA cosA

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Multiples and Sub multiples Proof : We know,  i) sin (A + B) = sinA . cosB + cosA . sinB     Put A = B     sin 2A = sinA cosA + cosA . sinA ii) cos (A + B

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Multiples And Sub-Multiples

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Multiples And Sub-Multiples

Multiples And Sub-Multiples We know      sin3A=3 sinA - 4 sin3A     Put A =\( \frac{A} {3} \)     sinA = 3sin\( \frac{A} {3} \) - 4sin3\

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Multiples And Sub-Multiples Theorem : When cos2A is known, then the value of sinA, cosA tan A and cotA in terms of cos2A   i)  \( \sin A = \pm \sqrt {\frac{{1 - \cos 2A}} {2}} \)

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Multiples And Sub-Multiples Theorem :  Prove that i)\( \sin 18^0 = \frac{{\sqrt 5 - 1}} {4} \)      ii)\( \cos 18^0 = \frac{{\sqrt {10 + 2\sqrt 5 } }} {4} \)  &

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Multiples And Sub-Multiples Theorem : Prove that i)\( \sin 22\frac{1} {2}^0 = \sqrt {\frac{{\sqrt 2 - 1}} {{2\sqrt 2 }}} \)           ii)\( \cos 22\frac{1} {

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Multiples And Sub-Multiples Theorem Prove that:i)\( \sin 7\frac{1} {2}^0 = \frac{{\sqrt {4 - \sqrt 6 - \sqrt 2 } }} {{2\sqrt 2 }} \) ii)\( \cos 7\frac{1} {2}^0 = \frac{{\sqrt {4 + \s

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Multiples And Sub-Multiples

Multiples And Sub-Multiples Theorem Prove that:i)\( \sin 7\frac{1} {2}^0 = \frac{{\sqrt {4 - \sqrt 6 - \sqrt 2 } }} {{2\sqrt 2 }} \) ii)\( \cos 7\frac{1} {2}^0 = \frac{{\sqrt {4 + \s

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Good Habits

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Class 2 / EVS Course Book 2 / Neat And Clean Environment / How To Dispose Of Garbage

Neat And Clean Environment

Neat And Clean Environment HOW TO DISPOSE OF GARBAGE We should throw garbage or rubbish in covered dustbins. The dustbins should be kept outside the houses. When we are in schools or outside in pa

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Class 2 / EVS Course Book 2 / Neat And Clean Environment / Cleanliness In The Surroundings

Neat And Clean Environment

Neat And Clean Environment CLEANLINESS IN THE SURROUNDINGS Clean surroundings help us to live a healthy life. We can keep our surroundings clean in the following ways: Do not litter parks, scho

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Class 2 / EVS Course Book 2 / Neat And Clean Environment / Staying Fit And Healthy

Neat And Clean Environment

Neat And Clean Environment STAYING FIT AND HEALTHY To be fit and healthy, we should do some exercise, maintain correct posture, play games and take good rest. • Exercise makes our muscles an

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Class 2 / EVS Course Book 2 / Our Earth / Natural Things

Our Earth

Our Earth The only planet which we can touch is our earth. Earth, our home, is the third planet from the sun. It is the only planet known to have an atmosphere containing free oxygen, oceans of liq

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Class 2 / EVS Course Book 2 / Our Earth / Man-made things

Our Earth

Our Earth Man Made Things There are many things which are made by man. They are called man made things. Man has made things to satisfy is needs. Man needs shelter, so he makes homes. Man also need

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Class 2 / EVS Course Book 2 / Agriculture And Farming / Introduction

Agriculture And Farming

Agriculture And Farming Agriculture is a primary activity. It includes growing crops, fruits, vegetables, flowers and rearing of livestock. We need food to stay alive and active and to do our work

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Class 2 / EVS Course Book 2 / Agriculture And Farming / Paddy Farming

Agriculture And Farming

Agriculture And Farming Paddy Farming or Rice Farming Rice is the main crop. Other crops include wheat, maize, pulses and oil seeds. Paddy is also called rice paddy. A small level flooded field is

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Class 2 / EVS Course Book 2 / Agriculture And Farming / Wheat Farming

Agriculture And Farming

Agriculture And Farming Wheat field or Wheat Farming At first, the wheat is green and can look like grass. Then it grows taller and becomes a golden brown color as it dries. Wheat products.

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Class 2 / EVS Course Book 2 / Agriculture And Farming / Cotton Farming

Agriculture And Farming

Agriculture And Farming Cotton Farming The farmer grows cotton crop. Cotton is obtained from cotton crop. Thread is prepared from cotton. Cotton is a Kharif crop in the major parts of the country.

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Class 2 / EVS Course Book 2 / Agriculture And Farming / Dairy Farming

Agriculture And Farming

Agriculture And Farming Farmers rear animals We get milk from buffaloes and cows. Dairy is a universal agricultural production people milk dairy animals in almost every country across the world, a

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Class 2 / EVS Course Book 2 / Constructions / Introduction

Constructions

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Class 2 / EVS Course Book 2 / Constructions / Bricks, Cement, Iron Rods

Constructions

Bricks Building,. Offices, houses, hospitals, sheds, flats - the list of building types you can create with bricks goes on and on. Cement Cement is mainly used as a binder in concrete, which is

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Class 2 / EVS Course Book 2 / Constructions / Sand, Stone crush, Timber wood

Constructions

Sand Sand is the primary substance used in the construction of roads, bridges, high-speed trains and even land regeneration projects. Stone crush Crushed stone is used for concrete aggregate, f

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Class 2 / Mathematics Course Book 2 / Fractions / Some Standard Fractions

Fractions

Fractions Look at the circle. It is divided into 2 equal parts.  1 part out of 2 is coloured of the circle. \(1 \over 2\) of the circle is coloured. The circle is divided in

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Class 2 / EVS Course Book 2 / Constructions / The Workmen And their Tools

Constructions

The workmen and their tools          A mason building a wall with a ‘kandy’                      &nbs

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Class 2 / Mathematics Course Book 2 / Fractions / More About Fractions

Fractions

More about Fractions Look at the circle. What fraction of the circle is coloured?

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Class 2 / Mathematics Course Book 2 / Fractions / More About Fractions

Fractions

More about Fractions Look at the circle. What fraction of the circle is coloured?

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Class 2 / Mathematics Course Book 2 / Geometry / Geometry, Point, Line, Drawing A Straight line, Different Types Of Lines

Geometry

Geometry A branch of mathematics that deals with points, lines, angles, surfaces, and solids. Point A point is defined as a location in any space and is represented by a dot (.). It does not

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Class 2 / EVS Course Book 2 / Constructions / A Few Famous Buildings Of India

Constructions

A few famous buildings of India                         India Gate                  &n

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Class 2 / Mathematics Course Book 2 / Geometry / Vertex Of Shapes

Geometry

Vertex of shapes The point where 2 sides join is called a vertex A triangle has 3 vertices. A rectangle has 4 vertices. A circle has 0 vertex. A square has 4 vertices.

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Class 2 / Mathematics Course Book 2 / Geometry / Shapes-Plane Shapes

Geometry

Shapes Plane shapes Plane shapes are also called 2-dimensional figures as they have only two dimensions-- length and breadth.

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Class 2 / Mathematics Course Book 2 / Geometry / Shapes-Solid Shapes

Geometry

Shapes Solid shapes Solid shapes are also called 3-dimensional figures as they have three dimension-- length, breadth and height Cuboid:   A cuboid has 6 faces, 12 edges and 8 v

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Class 2 / Mathematics Course Book 2 / Geometry / Rolling And Sliding

Geometry

Rolling and sliding Solids with curved surface roll down from a slopping surface.  Solids with plane surface slide down from a slopping surface.

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Class 2 / EVS Course Book 2 / Sky / Stars, Sun

Sky

Sky Stars When we see a clear night sky, we observe many stars shining brightly. Stars are very far away from us. Most stars are so far away that we cannot see them at all. Sun The sun is th

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Class 2 / Mathematics Course Book 2 / Time / Time

Time

Time A clock tells us the time. It has a minute hand and an hour hand. The longer hand is the minute hand. It shows us the minutes. The shorter hand is the hour hand. It shows us the hours. When th

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Class 2 / EVS Course Book 2 / Sky / Moon

Sky

Moon The moon is the earth’s only natural satellite. It is our closest neighbour. It is much smaller in size than our earth. The moon does not have its own light. It reflects the light of the s

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Class 2 / Mathematics Course Book 2 / Time / Knowing about clock

Time

Knowing about clock Look at this clock. The minute hand is at 12 and the hour hand is at 3. The minute hand wants to move from 12 to 1. It will need to count 60 seconds to complete 1 m

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Class 2 / Mathematics Course Book 2 / Time / Reading Clock

Time

Reading clock Look at this clock. The hour hand is at 3. We write 3 on the left side.  3 :  The minute hand is at 2. This means it is 10 minutes after 3 o'clock. We write

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Class 2 / Mathematics Course Book 2 / Time / Days Of The Week

Time

Days of the week

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Class 2 / Mathematics Course Book 2 / Time / Months Of The Year

Time

Months of the year

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Class 2 / Mathematics Course Book 2 / Time / Seasons Of The Year

Time

Seasons of the year These are the four season of year Spring begins from March 1, summer begins from June 1, autumn begins from September 1, and winter begins from December 1

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Class 2 / Mathematics Course Book 2 / Money / Coins And Notes

Money

Money We use money every day in our lives. We buy things using coins and notes. Here are some of the coins and notes we use Coins and Notes

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Class 2 / Mathematics Course Book 2 / Money / Combination Of Coins And Notes

Money

Combination of Coins and Notes 1.Sara has a Rs. 10 note and two Rs. 5 coins. How much money does she have? Sara has Rs. 20 in total 2. Henry has a Rs. 20 note and two Rs. 2 coins. How muc

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Class 2 / EVS Course Book 2 / Means Of Transportation / Introduction

Means Of Transportation

Means Of Transportation Introduction We travel from one place to another. Any vehicle which we use for travelling is known as means of transport. With the advancement in science, better and quicke

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Class 2 / Mathematics Course Book 2 / Money / Addition And Subtraction Of Money

Money

Addition and Subtraction of Money Addition of Money To add two or more amounts, we simply write Rs and P in their respective columns and then add the amounts as ordinary numbers Example: L

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Class 2 / EVS Course Book 2 / Means Of Transportation / Land Transport

Means Of Transportation

Land Transport All vehicles which travel on land are called land transport. Example bikes, cars, buses, and vans. Trains and metros are the best examples of track transport.     &nbs

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Class 2 / EVS Course Book 2 / Means Of Transportation / Water Transport

Means Of Transportation

Water Transport For water transport, earlier we had boats which we used to paddle. But now we have motor boats and they move very fast. Do you know that a submarine travels under water and a hovercra

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Class 2 / Mathematics Course Book 2 / Measurement / Measurement Of Length

Measurement

Measurement of length Length Length is a measure of how long an object is. Different lengths are measured in different units. In our daily lives, we measure the lengths of many different item

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Class 2 / EVS Course Book 2 / Means Of Transportation / Air Transport

Means Of Transportation

Air Transport Aeroplanes and helicopters are the fastest means of transport. They are means of air transport. Astronauts use spacecraft to travel in space.

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Class 2 / Mathematics Course Book 2 / Measurement / Measurement Of Capacity

Measurement

Measurement of Capacity Capacity is the amount of any liquid that a container can hold. For example: The capacity of a glass is the amount of water that the glass can hold. Standard unit of c

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Class 2 / Mathematics Course Book 2 / Measurement / Measurement Of Weight

Measurement

Measurement of weight Some things are heavier than other things. We measure the weight of things to know how heavy or light they are. Standard unit of weight is kilogram. Hence, Johny is 2 m

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Class 2 / Mathematics Course Book 2 / Data Handling / Data

Data Handling

Data Data is a set of information or facts. It is used to find out things or to make decisions. Getting information from various sources and noting them is called data collection. For example

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Class 2 / Mathematics Course Book 2 / Data Handling / Representation Of Data

Data Handling

Representation of Data Data can be represented in many ways like by using tick marks, blocks etc Using Tick Marks Suppose your table A looks like this Then using tick marks, table B wi

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Class 2 / EVS Course Book 2 / Means Of Communication / Introduction

Means Of Communication

Means Of Communication Introduction We love and need to keep in touch with our near and dear ones. We do that through different means of communication. Communication means sending or receiving inf

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Class 2 / EVS Course Book 2 / Means Of Communication / Different Means Of Communication

Means Of Communication

Different Means of communication In earlier days, we used to write letters, send cards through the post. If we want to post any letter written on a white sheet of paper, we can go to any post office

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Class 4 / English And Grammar Course Book 2 / A Battle Of Wits / A Battle Of Wits

A Battle Of Wits

A Battle Of Wits   The mountain and the squirrel Had a quarrel, And the former called the latter  “Little prig”. Bun replied,  “You are doubtless very big;

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Class 4 / English And Grammar Course Book 2 / A Monkey's Tale / Page No.12

A Monkey's Tale

A Monkey's Tale Once there lived a wise monkey. He was very clever. The other monkeys always listened to him. “My friends,” he would say, “This forest is not a safe place. Fie

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Class 4 / English And Grammar Course Book 2 / A Monkey's Tale / Page No.13 And Page No.14

A Monkey's Tale

But the monkeys stopped. They did not drink. They waited for their friend. The wise monkey walked round the lake. He saw a strange thing. Marks of feet went down to the water. But no marks came back u

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Class 4 / English And Grammar Course Book 2 / The Secret Language Of Ants / Page No.21

The Secret Language Of Ants

The Secret Language Of Ants Have you ever seen an ant hill ? Have you ever seen a trail of ants? You might have noticed that ants are usually together. That’s because ants live in groups. The

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Class 4 / English And Grammar Course Book 2 / The Secret Language Of Ants / Page No.22

The Secret Language Of Ants

It was trying to find its way back home. Then the ant disappeared through a hole in the wall. It was gone for a long time. Some time later, a bunch of ants started coming through the hole in the wall.

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Class 4 / English And Grammar Course Book 2 / The Secret Language Of Ants / Page No.23

The Secret Language Of Ants

the chemicals and follow the trail. This is how the other ants found the jar of jam. The first ant left the trail of chemicals as it walked back home. This trail showed the other ants the way to the f

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Class 4 / English And Grammar Course Book 2 / Money Tree / Money Tree

Money Tree

Money Tree   Why do they say money grows on trees? I don’t know I admit Her eight-year-old eyes look into my soul. They kind of do though because money is made of paper And paper

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Class 4 / English And Grammar Course Book 2 / Curious Little Boy / Curious Little Boy

Curious Little Boy

Curious Little Boy   I know a curious little boy, Who is always asking “Why?” Why this, why that, why then, why now? Why not, why by-the-by? He wants to know why wood should

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Class 4 / English And Grammar Course Book 2 / The Power Of Honesty / Page No.38

The Power Of Honesty

The Power Of Honesty Robert was a great scholar. He is famous. His childhood story of truthfulness is known to all Jaipur with a caravan. He was an intelligent boy and his mother wished him to stud

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Class 4 / English And Grammar Course Book 2 / The Power Of Honesty / Page No.39 And Page No.40

The Power Of Honesty

Robert was on his way with the caravan. When they were passing through a desert a band of robbers attacked them. They started robbing the money and precious belongings of the travellers. A robber also

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Class 4 / Science Course Book 2 / Force And Machines / Force

Force And Machines

Force And Machines What is Force?         Pushing and pulling is a part of our daily life. A hawker pushes his cart to move it from place to place (Figure 7.1). A horse pulls

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Class 4 / Science Course Book 2 / Force And Machines / Effects Of Force

Force And Machines

Effects of Force 1. Force and Change in Motion Motion is important to our lives and it affects so many things that we do. Motion is the change in position of an object. We have already seen that the

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Class 4 / Science Course Book 2 / Force And Machines / Distance And Speed

Force And Machines

Distance and Speed Mr. Saleem and Mr. Kareem started their journey from Lahore to Islamabad (400 km). Mr. Saleem boards a train from Lahore. He travels for 4 hours and reaches Islamabad. On the other

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Class 4 / Science Course Book 2 / Force And Machines / Simple Machines

Force And Machines

Simple Machines A thing that helps us to do something faster or easier is called simple machine. Simple machines are the lever, the pulley, the inclined plane and the wheel and axle. We shall learn a

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Class 4 / Science Course Book 2 / Introduction To Sound / Sound

Introduction To Sound

Introduction To Sound Sound We hear different sounds in our surroundings. For example, we hear chirping of birds, car horns and sounds of rickshaws. We listen to the teacher in the classroom. We e

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Class 4 / Science Course Book 2 / Introduction To Sound / How Is Sound Produced

Introduction To Sound

How is Sound Produced Sound is Produced by Vibrating Objects Sound is produced by vibrating objects. For example, in a drum, skin vibrates to produce sound. In a guitar, strings vibrate to produce so

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Class 4 / Science Course Book 2 / Introduction To Sound / Intensity Of Sound

Introduction Of Sound

Intensity of Sound Sounds of drum, rickshaw, trains whistle, donkey, etc. are very a loud. On the other hand, the sounds of chirping of birds, rustling of laves, ticking of clocks are soft. The loudn

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Class 4 / Science Course Book 2 / Introduction To Sound / Medium For Sound To Travel

Introduction To Sound

Medium for Sound to Travel Does the sound need a material medium to travel around? Most of the sounds that we hear reach us by travelling through air. Air is a medium through which sound can travel.

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Class 4 / Science Course Book 2 / Introduction To Sound / Noise And Its Effects On Human Health

Introduction To Sound

Noise We feel pleasure to hear music or chirping of birds in the garden (Figure 8.5). Such sounds are called pleasant or musical sounds. There are some other sounds which we do not like to hear; such

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Class 4 / Science Course Book 2 / Introduction To Sound / Measures To Reduce Noise Pollution

Introduction To Sound

Measures to Reduce Noise Pollution Excessive noise that may harm human health is called noise pollution. There are laws to reduce noise pollution but due to lack of awareness, people do not care abou

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Class 4 / Science Course Book 2 / Electricity And Magnetism / Introduction

Electricity And Magnetism

Electricity And Magnetism Everyone is familiar with the word ‘electricity’. It is used to light up our bulbs, tubes and energy savers. It also provides power to refrigerator, washing ma

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Class 4 / Science Course Book 2 / Electricity And Magnetism / Simple Circuit

Electricity And Magnetism

Simple Circuit To make use of electricity we have to set up an arrangement through which current can pass. This arrangement is called an electric circuit. Thus, an electric circuit is a closed path t

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Class 4 / Science Course Book 2 / Electricity And Magnetism / Switches

Electricity And Magnetism

Use of a Switch To open and close the path of current easily and safely, we use a switch. These are the switches which make it possible for us to OFF and ON our household electrical appliances safely

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Class 4 / Science Course Book 2 / Electricity And Magnetism / Magnets

Electricity And Magnetism

Magnets Surely, you have seen or played with a magnet. It is a piece of material which can attract iron objects like nails, clips and common pins. Some stones also attract iron pieces. These stones a

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Class 4 / Science Course Book 2 / Electricity And Magnetism / Magnetic And Non-Magnetic Materials

Electricity And Magnetism

Magnetic and Non-Magnetic Materials We know that a magnet pulls some objects. Does a magnet pull objects made up of all kinds of materials? Let us perform an activity to distinguish the objects which

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Class 4 / Science Course Book 2 / Movements Of The Earth / Shape Of The Earth

Movements Of The Earth

Movements Of The Earth Shape of the Earth Ancient people believed that the Earth was flat. Therefore, the ships reaching the far ends would fall down and would not come back. In 1519, a Portuguese

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Class 4 / Science Course Book 2 / Movements Of The Earth / Earth's Spin

Movements Of The Earth

Spin of Earth — Days and Nights It was the old belief that the Earth was stationary while the Sun and the Moon were revolving around it. The occurrence of days and nights was due to their mot

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Class 4 / Science Course Book 2 / Movements Of The Earth / Revolution Of The Earth

Movements Of The Earth

Revolution of the Earth - The Year When a body is circling around another body, it is said that the first body is revolving around the other body. One complete round trip of a body around another b

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Class 4 / Science Course Book 2 / Soil / Introduction

Soil

Soil Introduction Soil is the mixture of rock debris and organic materials which develop on the earth’s surface. The major factors affecting the formation of soil are relief, parent material

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Class 4 / Science Course Book 2 / Soil / Soil

Soil

Soil Soil is one of the most important natural resources. It provides anchorage to the plants and supplies water and nutrients. It is the home for many organisms. Soil is essential for agriculture.

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Class 4 / Science Course Book 2 / Soil / Types Of Soils

Soil

Types of soil As you know, weathering of rocks produces small particles of various materials. These include sand and clay. The relative amount of sand and clay depends upon the rock from which the pa

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Class 4 / Science Course Book 2 / Water / Introduction

Water

Water Introduction Water is so important for life that we can not imagine life without it. The evolution of life itself took place in the water. In the evolution of all kinds of life, water has pl

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Class 4 / Science Course Book 2 / Water / Need For Water

Water

Need for water Water is needed for three main purposes : domestic purposes, agricultural purposes and industrial purposes. At home, we need water for drinking, washing, cleaning, cooking etc. In agri

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Class 4 / Science Course Book 2 / Water / Source Of Irrigation

Water

Sources of irrigation Sources of Irrigation Irrigation is an important need. For this, a very large amount of water is needed. To water the crops, there are used different means, the important ones

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Class 5 / Social Course Book 2 / Machine Era / Introduction

Machine Era

Machine Era Introduction Tools and machines are like additional hands that aid us in performing tasks quickly and effectively. From the alarm clock that wakes us up in the morning to the televis

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Class 4 / Science Course Book 2 / Water / Tanks And Ponds

Water

Tanks and Ponds : Wells cannot be dug where the earth is hard and rocky, like in the Deccan Plateau. In such places, rainwater is stored in tanks and ponds for irrigation and other purposes. A tank

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Class 5 / Social Course Book 2 / Machine Era / Industrial Revolution

Machine Era

Industrial Revolution In the progress of civilization, man developed knowledge. To preserve it, he taught it to his children who, in turn, further developed this knowledge. This was how knowledge f

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Class 5 / Social Course Book 2 / Machine Era / Steam Engine

Machine Era

Steam Engine Handcarts and animal-drawn carts were used until the first half of the eighteenth century. Different types of wheels were being made to fit different types of carts being made. Speed h

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Class 5 / Social Course Book 2 / Machine Era / Mass Production

Machine Era

Mass Production The steam engine now made it easy to automate machinery. This meant that the tools which had to be operated by hand could now run on steam. It aided in mass industrial production to

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Class 5 / Social Course Book 2 / Innovations in Medicine / Introduction

Innovations In Medicine

Innovations In Medicine Introduction Every person needs medicine at one time or the other; for example, when you hurt your foot or when you fall ill. When illness is slight, your mother first trie

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Class 4 / Science Course Book 2 / Water / Rivers and Canals And The Important Canals In India

Water

Rivers and Canals: A canal is an artificial channel constructed to convey water from rivers, reservoirs, etc. for several purposes like power generation, navigation, irrigation, etc There are a lar

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Class 5 / Social Course Book 2 / Innovations in Medicine / Medical Instruments - Clinical Thermometer, Stethoscope

Innovation in Medicines

Medical Instruments Clinical Thermometer   In many illnesses, like an infection, the body temperature goes up. When a doctor feels you warm, he at first measures your body temperature. For t

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Class 4 / Science Course Book 2 / Water / Dams And Important Dams In India

Water

Dams A dam is a barrier that stops the flow of water and results in the creation of a reservoir. Dams are mainly built in order to produce electricity by using water. This form of electricity is know

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Class 5 / Social Course Book 2 / Innovations in Medicine / Microscope, X-ray Machine, Other Instruments

Innovation in Medicines

Microscope   The microscope is an important tool found in school laboratories. By placing a small object like a paper pin under its lens, you can magnify and view it clearly. Even tiny particle

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Class 5 / Social Course Book 2 / Innovations in Medicine / Prevention and Cure - Medicines and Antibiotics, Surgery

Innovations in Medicine

Prevention and Cure Prevention is better than cure, yet a person can fall ill suddenly, which requires cure. Let’s talk about it. Medicines and Antibiotics Medical science has been at w

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Class 5 / Social Course Book 2 / Innovations in Medicine / Vaccination, Pasteurization

Innovation in Medicine

Vaccination When a disease has broken out, a treatment becomes necessary. How good it would be if it could be prevented altogether. The scientists have discovered a method to prevent certain diseas

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Class 5 / Social Course Book 2 / Innovations in Medicine / Basic Health Care

Innovations in Medicine

Basic Health Care Diseases cause various problems. Their cures are time-consuming, painful and expensive. Therefore, prevention remains the best option. There are some simple rules to stay healthy:

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Class 5 / Social Course Book 2 / Fight for Independence / Introduction, Extremists and Moderates Unite

Fight for Independence

Introduction These are the historic words of Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India, in 1947 when India gained freedom : “At the stroke of midnight hour when the world sleeps, Indi

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Class 4 / Social Course Book 2 / Life in Southern Plateaus of India / Madhya Pradesh

Life in Southern Plateaus of India

Life in Southern Plateaus of India Introduction The Southern Plateau is located in the southern part of India, stretching from the north to Kanyakumari, the southernmost tip of the country. It is

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Class 5 / Social Course Book 2 / Fight for Independence / The Year 1919 - Montagu-Chelmsford Reforms, Rowlatt Act

Fight For Independence

The Year 1919 The year of 1919 witnessed the events which made the Indians bitter against the British for all times to come. Montagu-Chelmsford Reforms: The British government passed the Governme

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Class 5 / Social Course Book 2 / Fight for Independence / Jallianwala Bagh Massacre

Fight for Independence

Jallianwala Bagh Massacre: When people in Punjab protested against the Rowlatt Act, the government arrested two leaders on 10 April, 1919. They were Satya Pal and Dr. Saifuddin Kitchlew. People decid

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Class 5 / Social Course Book 2 / Fight for Independence / Mahatma Gandhi

Fight For Independence

Mahatma Gandhi Gandhiji worked as a lawyer in South Africa for 21 years, where he fought for the rights of the blacks. He returned to India in 1915 and was introduced to politics by Gopal Krishna Gok

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Class 5 / Social Course Book 2 / Fight for Independence / Satyagraha and Non-cooperation Movement

Fight For Independence

Satyagraha and Non-cooperation Movement The British exploited the Indians, so a majority of our countrymen were poor and illiterate. It was not possible for them to give up their livelihood and join

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Class 5 / Social Course Book 2 / Fight for Independence / Emergence of New Leaders

Fight For Independence

Emergence of New Leaders During the freedom struggle, many new leaders emerged and contributed significantly to the movement. These leaders included Dr. Rajendra Prasad, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, M

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Class 4 / Social Course Book 2 / Life in Southern Plateaus of India / Chhattisgarh

Life in Southern Plateaus of India

Chhattisgarh Chhattisgarh is located in the basin of the Mahanadi River in the region of Chotanagpur Plateau. The tribal people have a large population here, the important of them being Maria, Muri

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Class 5 / Social Course Book 2 / Fight for Independence / Revolutionary Movement

Fight For Independence

Revolutionary Movement After the Non-cooperation Movement was called off, the freedom movement stalled, and people became impatient for independence. Some decided to take matters into their own hands

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Class 4 / Social Course Book 2 / Life in Southern Plateaus of India / Odisha

Life in Southern Plateaus of India

Odisha Odisha has both coastal plains and plateaus. The Mahanadi River has formed a fertile delta here. It receives a lot of rain. It is rich in forests and wildlife. Elephants, bison and panthers

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Class 4 / Social Course Book 2 / Life in Southern Plateaus of India / Maharashtra

Life in Southern Plateaus of India

Maharashtra Maharashtra comprises plateau with a narrow strip of coastal plain. This state has achieved industrial development to a significant level. It is an important centre of textile industrie

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Class 5 / Social Course Book 2 / Fight for Independence / Simon Commission, Demand for Poorna Swaraj

Fight For Independence

Simon Commission In 1927, the British government appointed a commission, called Simon Commission. It was to study the constitutional reforms. It had only British members, and no Indian representative

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Class 4 / Social Course Book 2 / Life in Southern Plateaus of India / Telangana

Life in Southern Plateaus of India

Telangana Located entirely in the Deccan Plateau, Telangana was carved out of the state of Andhra Pradesh on 2 June, 2014. With Hyderabad as its capital, this is the 29th state of India. Its major

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Class 4 / Social Course Book 2 / Life in Southern Plateaus of India / Andhra Pradesh

Life in Southern Plateaus of India

Andhra Pradesh Andhra Pradesh has both plain and plateau. The state of Telangana has been carved out of it. The inner area of Andhra Pradesh is a plateau while its coastal area is plain. Two chief

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Class 5 / Social Course Book 2 / Fight for Independence / Civil Disobedience Movement

Fight For Independence

Civil Disobedience Movement To pressure the British government, Gandhiji launched the Civil Disobedience Movement in 1930. People were appealed not to obey the British orders. They also asked people

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Class 4 / Social Course Book 2 / Life in Southern Plateaus of India / Karnataka

Life in Southern Plateaus of India

Karnataka Located on the Western Ghats, Karnataka comprises both plain and plateau. The Krishna, Tungabhadra and Kaveri are important rivers. Both tanks and canals are used for irrigation. There ar

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Class 5 / Social Course Book 2 / Fight for Independence / Government of India Act of 1935, Second World War (1939-45)

Fight For Independence

Government of India Act of 1935 The British first tried to suppress the movement by putting people behind bars; but when the situation remained very grave, they tried to pacify people. In 1935, Gandh

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Class 5 / Social Course Book 2 / Fight for Independence / Quit India Movement

Fight For Independence

Quit India Movement On 8 August, 1942, the Congress passed the Quit India Resolution. With this, Gandhiji launched the Quit India Movement. He gave the slogan : Do or die. In no time, the movement sp

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Class 4 / Social Course Book 2 / Life in Southern Plateaus of India / Tamil Nadu

Life in Southern Plateaus of India

Tamil Nadu Tamil Nadu is bounded by the Bay of Bengal to the east and the Indian Ocean to the south. It has both hills and coastal plains. Kanyakumari, the southernmost point of mainland India, is

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Class 5 / Social Course Book 2 / Fight for Independence / Indian National Army

Fight For Independence

Indian National Army Subhash Chandra Bose, popularly called Netaji, has played a very important role in the freedom struggle. He did not agree with Gandhiji on several points. When the British declar

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Class 5 / Social Course Book 2 / Fight for Independence / India Embraces Freedom

Fight For Independence

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Class 3 / Environmental Studies Course Book 2 / Our Houses / Houses

Our Houses

Our Houses Houses We need a house to live in. Our house protects us from heat, cold, storm and rain. It also protects us from animals and thieves. We see different types of houses around us. The t

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Class 3 / Environmental Studies Course Book 2 / Our Houses / Multi-Storey Building, Special Houses

Our Houses

Multi-storey building: A multi-storey bulding is also a pakka house. It has many floors. Many families can live at different floors.        Special Houses People who roam ar

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Class 3 / Mathematics Course Book 2 / Time / Time

Time

Time A clock tells us the time. It has a minute hand and an hour hand. The longer hand is the minute hand. It shows us the minutes. The shorter hand is the hour hand. It shows us the h

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Class 3 / Environmental Studies Course Book 2 / Our Houses / Healthy And Happy Family

Our Houses

Healthy and happy family A Good House A good house should have all the things we need to make ourselves safe and comfortable. A good house should have the following features: 1. It should be well-ve

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Class 3 / Mathematics Course Book 2 / Time / Time In Daily Life

Time

Time in daily life (am/pm)   Joseph and Sara are at the school. The time is 8 am Joseph and Sara are eating dinner. The time is 8 pm Read the sentence and encircle the right opt

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Class 3 / Environmental Studies Course Book 2 / Our Houses / A Clean House

Our Houses

A Clean House We must keep our house clean. Some insects like mosquito, housefly and cockroach spread diseases and make us sick. We can remove them by cleaning our house regularly. To keep our h

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Class 3 / Mathematics Course Book 2 / Time / Time Addition

Time

Time Addition Example: Look at the time. It is 3:00. We say it is 3 o’clock. What will be the time after 2 hours?   It will be 5 o’clock after 2 hours

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Class 3 / Environmental Studies Course Book 2 / Our Houses / Clothes

Our Houses

Clothes We need clothes to cover our body and to keep us warm in winter. Clothes also protect us from the heat of the sun, cold, rain, and insect bites. Early man used the skin of animals to cover th

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Class 3 / Mathematics Course Book 2 / Time / Time Subtraction

Time

Time subtraction Look at the time. It is 10 o’clock What will be the time 2 hours before? Look at the time. It is 8 o’clock.

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Class 3 / Environmental Studies Course Book 2 / Our Houses / Clothes that suit the Weather

Our Houses

Clothes that suit the Weather We wear clothes made of different materials according to the weather of the place we live in. In summer, we usually wear light-coloured clothes made from cotton or linen

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Class 3 / Mathematics Course Book 2 / Geometry / Review: Point, Line, Line Segment

Geometry

Geometry Review: Point A point is defined as a location in any space and is represented by a dot (.). It does not have any length, height, shape, or size Line A line is a one-dimensional f

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Class 3 / Mathematics Course Book 2 / Geometry / Ray, Intersecting Line

Geometry

Ray We know about sun-rays. A sun-ray starts from the sun and goes on a direc[1]tion up to endless space. Similarly a geometrical ray is considered a special kind of line which starts from a fixed

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Class 3 / Mathematics Course Book 2 / Geometry / Horizontal Line, Vertical Line, Slanting Lines

Geometry

Horizontal Line The lines drawn horizontally are called horizontal lines Vertical Line The lines drawn vertically are called vertical lines Slanting Line The lines drawn in a slanti

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Class 3 / Mathematics Course Book 2 / Geometry / Measuring Line Segment

Geometry

Measuring line segment If you are given a line segment of any length, then you can measure it with the help of ruler. Suppose we have to measure the length of line segment \(\overline{AB}\) give

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Class 3 / Mathematics Course Book 2 / Geometry / Plane Figures And Solid Figures

Geometry

Plane shapes Triangle A triangle has three sides and three corners. The triangle has no diagonal.  The lengths of the sides of a triangle may or may not be the same.    

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Class 3 / Mathematics Course Book 2 / Geometry / Perimeter

Geometry

Perimeter The perimeter of a figure is the total distance around all sides of the figures. Look at this square. Each side is 3 cm long. What is the total length of the square? 3cm +

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Class 3 / Environmental Studies Course Book 2 / Plants Life / Parts Of A Plant And Their Uses

Plants Life

Plants Life Parts of a plant and their uses A plant has two main parts: 1. Root 2. Shoot The part above the ground is called the shoot. It consists of the stem, leaves, buds, flowers and fruits

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Class 3 / Mathematics Course Book 2 / Data Handling / Data

Data Handling

Data Handling Data Pictograph is referred as the representation of data in picture form. In ancient time pictograph was the method for writing the information. Numbers were also represented in p

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Class 3 / Environmental Studies Course Book 2 / Plants Life / Roots

Plants Life

Roots Root is the part of the plant that usually grows below the ground. There are two main types of roots, taproots and fibrous roots. Taproots It consists of a main, thick root from which small

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Class 3 / Mathematics Course Book 2 / Data Handling / Tally Marks

Data Handling

Tally marks Tally marks are defined in the unary numeral system. It is a form of numeral used for counting. The general way of writing tally marks is as a group or set of five lines. The first four

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Class 3 / Environmental Studies Course Book 2 / Plants Life / Stem

Plants Life

Stem The stem is the main part of the shoot. The stem can be.     Strong stems The trunk of the trees are thick and strong. It holds the tree straight and upright.     We

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Class 3 / Environmental Studies Course Book 2 / Plants Life / Leaf

Plants Life

Leaf Most plants have green leaves and it grows on the branches of a plant. They differ in size and shape. The green color of a leaf is due to chlorophyll. The flat part of a leaf is called the leaf

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Class 3 / Mathematics Course Book 2 / Data Handling / Pictographs

Data Handling

Pictographs A pictograph is a graph that uses pictures or symbols to represent numbers.  It is known as the base point of all graphs James buys four types of fruits. He uses a pictu

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Class 3 / Environmental Studies Course Book 2 / Plants Life / Flower

Plants Life

Flower The most beautiful part of a plant is the flower. We see flowers like rose, jasmine and lotus. Flowers are of many colors, shapes and sizes. Most of the flowers look very beautiful. Many flowe

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Class 3 / Environmental Studies Course Book 2 / Birds / Bird

Birds

Birds Bird Birds are beautiful animals that can fly. Their body is divided into three parts –head, trunk and a tail. They have two pairs of limbs – the legs and the wings. Birds have l

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Class 3 / Environmental Studies Course Book 2 / Birds / Beaks

Birds

Let us now learn about the beaks of birds. Beaks A bird uses its beak to catch and eat food. Different birds have different kinds of beaks depending upon the food they eat. Birds such as sparrow a

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Class 3 / Environmental Studies Course Book 2 / Birds / Feet And Claws

Birds

Feet and Claws Birds have two feet usually with four toes on each. They use their feet to walk and hop around, as well as to catch and hold food. Flesh-eating birds such as eagle and vulture have ve

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Class 3 / Environmental Studies Course Book 2 / Birds / How Birds Fly

Birds

How birds fly Birds fly with the help of wings. Wings are joined to the body with strong muscles that help them to move. These muscles help the birds to move its wings. To fly, a bird flaps its

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Class 3 / Environmental Studies Course Book 2 / Birds / Feather

Birds

Feather A bird’s body and wings are covered with many feathers. There are three kinds of feathers, 1. Body feathers 2. Down feathers 3. Flight feathers 1. Body feathers cover a bird&rsqu

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Class 3 / Environmental Studies Course Book 2 / Birds / Nest

Birds

Nest Bird’s build nests using leaves, straws, twigs, wool, cotton and thread. Birds take care to build their nests in places safe from enemies and bad weather. We can see birds’ nests on

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Class 3 / Environmental Studies Course Book 2 / Our Body / Human Body

Our Body

Our Body Human body Human body is like a wonderful machine. It is unique and the most amazing machine in the world. It is capable of doing many things that no other machine can do. Human beings ar

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Class 3 / Environmental Studies Course Book 2 / Our Body / External Organs

Our Body

External Organ The external organs of our body are eyes, ears, nose, tongue and skin. We can see these organs. These external organs are our sense organs. Sense organs are important parts of our body

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Class 3 / Environmental Studies Course Book 2 / Our Body / Body Parts

Our Body

Body Parts

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Class 3 / Environmental Studies Course Book 2 / Our Body / Sense Organs

Our Body

Sense Organs Every human being has similar body parts. Yet, we look different from one another. Why? The shape and size of the body parts differ from person to person. This makes us look different

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Class 3 / Environmental Studies Course Book 2 / Our Body / Internal Organs

Our Body

Internal Organs We have a number of internal organs. We cannot see our internal organs. However, these organs help the body to function smoothly and keep us healthy and alive. The internal organs ar

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Class 3 / Environmental Studies Course Book 2 / Our Body / How should we take care of the sense organs?

Our Body

How should we take care of the sense organs? We should look after and take proper care of our sense organs. We must keep our sense organs clean and protect them from damage. The eyes: (i) Eyes ar

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Class 3 / Environmental Studies Course Book 2 / Living Things And Non Living Things / Introduction, Natural Things

Living Things and Non-Living Things

Living and  Non-Living Things We see many living and non-living things around us. We see men, women, children, animals, plants, birds, insects, bicycles, houses, stones, roads, benches, the Su

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Class 3 / Environmental Studies Course Book 2 / Living Things And Non Living Things / Man-Made things

Living Things And Non Living Things

Man-made things There are many things which are made by man. They are called man-made things. Man has made things to satisfy his needs. Man needs shelter, so he makes homes. Man also needs clothes,

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Class 3 / Environmental Studies Course Book 2 / Living Things And Non Living Things / Living Things And Non Living Things

Living Things And Non Living Things

Living things and non-living things We know, natural things include living things and some non-living things. Things like humans, animals and plants that have life are known as living things. Thing

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Class 3 / Environmental Studies Course Book 2 / Living Things And Non Living Things / Living Things Breathe Air To Live

Living Things And Non Living Things

Living things breathe air to live. Practice the activity to check this on your own. 1. We can press our nostrils between our thumb and finger now we are unable to breathe and we feel uncomfortable.

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Class 3 / Environmental Studies Course Book 2 / Living Things And Non Living Things / Living Things Need Food And Water To Survive

Living Things And Non Living Things

Living things need food and water to survive. If any such creatures do not get food for a very long time, they will die since; we know no living things can survive without food and water. Food and

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Class 3 / English And Grammar Course Book 2 / A Thief In the Market / Page No.5

A Thief In the Market

A Thief In the Market Red, green, blue, yellow, orange, purple - there were colours everywhere Alice looked. This was her first trip to the local market with her mother. She had been allowed to go

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Class 3 / English And Grammar Course Book 2 / A Thief In the Market / Page No.6

A Thief In the Market

“Get twenty rupees off if you buy two kilograms of tomatoes!” screamed another. Besides food, Alice also saw shoes, jewelry and clothes being sold. She loved how a shopkeeper’s smile

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Class 3 / English And Grammar Course Book 2 / A Thief In the Market / Page No.7

A Thief In the Market

Alice returned the bag to its owner. “I have never felt more proud of you, my daughter”, said her mother. Everyone present at the market cheered for the little girl and called her a he

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Class 3 / English And Grammar Course Book 2 / The Magic Pencil / Page No.15

The Magic Pencil

The Magic Pencil Looking left and right, Sara was unable to find a single tree to protect her from the hot summer sun. She missed the days when her community was surrounded by greenery. She used to

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Class 3 / English And Grammar Course Book 2 / The Magic Pencil / Page No.16

The Magic Pencil

A team of developers had chosen Sara’s community as the site for a new shopping center. They promoted this idea by telling people about all the fantastic facilities this shopping center would ho

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Class 3 / English And Grammar Course Book 2 / The Magic Pencil / Page No.17

The Magic Pencil

The seeds would get water from the rain and nutrients from the soil. This would help them grow, and eventually turn into trees. Grabbing the pencil she was using to finish her homework, Sara wondered

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Class 3 / English And Grammar Course Book 2 / Nature / Page No.26

Nature

Nature By putting a smile on a crying face A smile blooms on my face too By giving shelter to a tired traveler Tiredness of my mind disappears too. By giving water to a thirsty man Desires o

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Class 3 / English And Grammar Course Book 2 / Nature / Page No.27

Nature

Serving others is a noble quality that brings welfare in the society So we should share what we have with others As it brings out the best in us. Helping others is a great feeling Believe m

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Class 3 / English And Grammar Course Book 2 / Shelly The Little Snail / Shelly The Little Snail

Shelly the Little Snail

Shelly the Little Snail Shelly is a little snail. She is called Shelly because her home is a shell. Shelly slides very slowly along the ground. One day she slid a long way...about 100 metres. S

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Class 3 / English And Grammar Course Book 2 / Respect For Elders / Respect For Elders

Respect for Elders

Respect for Elders On the way to School Joseph and Aaron are going to school. They pass through a muddy patch. They try to go from a sidewalk. Suddenly, they see an old woman crossing the muddy r

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Class 3 / English And Grammar Course Book 2 / Festivals / Page No.45

Festivals

Festivals The horse and cattle show Benjamin is a ten year old boy who loves animals. Let us see what David saw at the Horse and Cattle Show. Benjamin came to Chennai to stay with his uncle for

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Class 3 / English And Grammar Course Book 2 / Festivals / Page No.46

Festivals

Benjamin loved animals so he was very happy and excited. All the animals had been decorated with flowers and beads. The animals stood in a line and followed their masters’ orders. Just when the

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Class 7 / Integrated IIT Chemistry / Solids, Liquids And Gases / Matter And Its Classification

Solids, Liquids And Gases

Solids, Liquids And Gases MATTER:    Any material which has mass and occupies space is called matter. CHARACTERISTICS OF MATTER :  (i) Matter is composed of  tiny parti

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Class 7 / Integrated IIT Chemistry / Solids, Liquids And Gases / Solids

Solids, Liquids And Gases

SOLIDS:  In solids, the molecules are closely packed, when heated at melting point, it changes its physical state and becomes a liquid. For an instance, When a solid substance is heated, the hea

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Class 7 / Integrated IIT Chemistry / Solids, Liquids And Gases / Liquids

Solids, Liquids And Gases

Liquids The spaces between the molecules of a liquid are slightly more than that in a solid but they are still very small. Due to comparatively less strong intermolecular forces, the positions of mol

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Class 7 / Integrated IIT Chemistry / Solids, Liquids And Gases / Gases

Solids, Liquids And Gases

GASES: The molecules of a gas have the maximum movement (or maximum kinetic energy). Due to this, the gases have the most disorder arrangement of molecules. Because of high kinetic energy and negli

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Class 7 / Integrated IIT Chemistry / Solids, Liquids And Gases / Plasma And Bose Einstein Condensate

Solids, Liquids And Gases

PLASMA :  Plasma is the fourth state of matter. Plasma is an ionised gas, a gas to which sufficient energy is provided to get free electrons from atoms or molecules to allow both the species,

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Class 8 / Integrated IIT Chemistry / Symbols And Rules / Introduction, Definition, Qualitative And Quantitative Significance

Symbols And Rules

Symbols And Rules Introduction :      In order to represent the elements, instead of using full lengthy names, scientists use abbreviated names. These abbreviated names of the

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Class 7 / Integrated IIT Chemistry / Classification Of Matter / Kinetic Molecular Theory Of Matter

Classification Of Matter

Classification Of Matter Matter is defined as something which has some mass and occupies some  space. It occurs in three different states based on physical classification. They  are solid

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Class 8 / Integrated IIT Chemistry / Symbols And Rules / Rules Of Assigning Symbols

Symbols And Rules

Rules of Assigning Symbols     Symbols can be denoted by the single letter, two letters & three letters. The symbols of elements are generally either the first or the first two le

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Class 7 / Integrated IIT Chemistry / Classification Of Matter / Properties Of Different States Of Matter

Classification Of Matter

Properties of different states of matter  based on physical classification:     The three states of matter exhibit different properties. Their properties can be shown in the form

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Class 8 / Integrated IIT Chemistry / Valency And Ions / Explanation of Valency

Valency And Ions

Valency And Ions When atoms of two or more elements combine, a molecule of a compound is formed. The capacities of these elements to combine with each other determine the formula of the compound fo

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Class 8 / Integrated IIT Chemistry / Valency And Ions / Modern Definition of Valency

Valency And Ions

Modern Definition of Valency :         According to the new concepts, Valency can be defind as the number of electrons that are lost or gained or shared with one atom of

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Valency And Ions

Nuclear Composition of Elements  Electronic Configuration of Elements     The distribution of electrons in different orbitals is known as Electronic Configuration of Elements

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Class 8 / Integrated IIT Chemistry / Valency And Ions / Valence electrons And Valency With Respect To Configuration

Valency And Ions

Valence electrons:       The electrons in the outermost shell of an atom are called its valence electrons.   Example : The number of valence electron in sodium is one.

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Class 7 / Integrated IIT Chemistry / Classification Of Matter / Interconversion Of States Of Matter

Classification Of Matter

Interconversion of states of matter :  The method of changing the matter from one state to another state by altering the conditions of temperature and pressure & back to the original state i

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Class 8 / Integrated IIT Chemistry / Valency And Ions / Radical or Ion

Valency And Ions

Radical or Ion : When an atom looses or gains electrons it converts into Radical or Ion. (or) An atom or group of atoms with charge on them is called Radical or ion (ii) Classification of ions: Ions

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Class 8 / Integrated IIT Chemistry / Valency And Ions / Electropositive ions And Its Properties

Valency And Ions

Electropositive ions         When an atom looses one or more electrons to get stability, The number of electrons lost by an atom of an element is its Positive valency an

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Class 8 / Integrated IIT Chemistry / Valency And Ions / Monovalent, Bivalent Electropositive Ions

Valency And Ions

Monovalent electropositive ions     When an atom looses one electron or if any Radical or ion has uni positive charge on it then it is known as Monovalent electropositive ion or Unival

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Class 8 / Integrated IIT Chemistry / Valency And Ions / Trivalent, Tetravalent, Pentavalent Electropositive Ions

Valency And Ions

Trivalent electropositive ions         When an atom looses three electrons or if any Radical or ion has tripositive charge on it then it is known as Trivalent electropos

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Class 7 / Integrated IIT Chemistry / Symbols Of Elements And Rules / Element, Symbol And Rules

Symbols Of Elements And Rules

Symbols Of Elements And Rules ELEMENT:  The substance which cannot be broken down into simpler substances by physical or  chemical means is called as an Element. SYMBOL: The short hand

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Class 8 / Integrated IIT Chemistry / Valency And Ions / Concept Of Variable Valency

Valency And Ions

Concept of Variable Valency          Most elements such as Na, K, Mg, Al, Ca, Ba etc..exhibit a fixed valency in all their compounds, Sometimes the same element may for

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Class 8 / Integrated IIT Chemistry / Electronegative Ions / Electronegative Ions Explanation

Electronegative Ions

Electronegative Ions :          The species which carry negative charge on them (or) The species formed by gain of electrons by an atom are called Electronegative Ions.

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Class 8 / Integrated IIT Chemistry / Electronegative Ions / Monovalent Electronegative ions

Electronegative Ions

Monovalent negative ions: A radical formed when an atom gains one electron is called monovalent negative ions. llustration 2:  If in an element X there are seven electrons present in

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Class 7 / Integrated IIT Chemistry / Physical And Chemical Changes / Physical Change And Its Definition

Physical And Chemical Changes

Physical And Chemical Changes Physical and chemical changes: All substances around us undergo changes. In some cases, the changes are small and difficult to defect. In other cases, the changes are

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Class 8 / Integrated IIT Chemistry / Electronegative Ions / Bivalent And Trivalent Electronegative ions

Electronegative Ions

Bivalent Electronegaive ions A Radical or Ion which is formed by gaining of two electrons is called Bivalent Electronegaive ions Trivalent Electronegaive ions A Radical or Ion which is formed by

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Class 8 / Integrated IIT Chemistry / Formula / Formula, Information From The Formula

Formula

Formula : The symbolic representation of one molecule of a compound representing the number of atoms of various elements present in it is called formula of the           co

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Class 8 / Integrated IIT Chemistry / Formula / Naming Chemical Compounds From Their Formula

Formula

Naming chemical compounds from their fromula Usually the elements present in a  compound are named in order of symbols     appearing in formula. Following rules are applied in a

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Class 8 / Integrated IIT Chemistry / Formula / Naming Of Acids And Bases

Formula

Naming of Acids: a) The name of binary acids (acids containing hydrogen and one more element)are given by adding prefix hydro- and suffix-ic to the name of second element. Examples: i) Acids o

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Class 8 / Integrated IIT Chemistry / Metals And Non Metals / Elements, Metals And Its Properties

Metals And Non Metals

Metals And Non Metals   ELEMENTS: Substances which cannot be broken further into any other substances by any physical or chemical means are called Elements. Examples:Hydrogen,Oxygen,Nitrog

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Class 8 / Integrated IIT Chemistry / Metals And Non Metals / Non-Metals And Its Properties

Metals And Non Metals

NON-METALS An element is considered as non-metal if it has following characteristics.   i)It is non-lustrous i.e. it cannot glow. ii) It is bad conductor of heat and electricity. 

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Class 8 / Integrated IIT Chemistry / Metals And Non Metals / Metalloids And Noble Gases

Metals And Non Metals

Metalloids Metalloids are the elements which show both metallic and non-metallic properties.  Ex:Boron, Silicon, Germanium,Arsenic,Antimony, Selenium ,Tellurium There are 7 metalloids in natur

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Class 8 / Integrated IIT Chemistry / Synthetic Fibres And Plastics / Natural Fibres

SYNTHETIC FIBERS AND PLASTICS

SYNTHETIC FIBERS AND PLASTICS   A fiber (or fibre) is a slender, elongated, thread-like structure that occurs naturally or can be produced artificially. Fibers are fundamental components us

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Class 8 / Integrated IIT Chemistry / Synthetic Fibres And Plastics / Synthetic Fibres

SYNTHETIC FIBERS AND PLASTICS

Synthetic Fibers: Synthetic fibers are man-made fibers produced through chemical processes using polymers derived from petrochemicals or other chemical sources. Unlike natural fibers, which are obt

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Class 8 / Integrated IIT Chemistry / Synthetic Fibres And Plastics / Characteristics of Fibres

SYNTHETIC FIBERS AND PLASTICS

Characteristics of Fibers: Length: Fibers can be short or long, and their length contributes to the properties of the end product. Flexibility: Fibers are often flexible and can be woven or knit

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SYNTHETIC FIBERS AND PLASTICS

Some Important synthetic fiber Nylon: Nylon is a synthetic polymer and a type of synthetic fiber that was first developed by a team of researchers led by Wallace H. Carothers at DuPont in the late

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SYNTHETIC FIBERS AND PLASTICS

Rayon:  Rayon is a versatile and widely used semi-synthetic or regenerated cellulose fiber. Unlike synthetic fibers, which are entirely man-made from petrochemicals, rayon is derived from natu

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Class 8 / Integrated IIT Chemistry / Synthetic Fibres And Plastics / Acrylic

SYNTHETIC FIBERS AND PLASTICS

Acrylic Acrylic is a synthetic fiber known for its versatility, durability, and a range of applications. It is derived from acrylonitrile, a petrochemical compound, and is considered a synthetic or

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SYNTHETIC FIBERS AND PLASTICS

Polyester Polyester is a synthetic polymer made from petroleum-derived chemicals. It is a versatile and widely used synthetic fiber known for its durability, wrinkle resistance, and ease of care. P

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SYNTHETIC FIBERS AND PLASTICS

PLASTIC Plastic is a synthetic or semi-synthetic material made from polymers—large molecules composed of repeating structural units called monomers. Plastics are versatile materials known for

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SYNTHETIC FIBERS AND PLASTICS

Common Types of Plastics: Polyethylene (PE): Used in packaging (plastic bags, containers), pipes, and various consumer goods. High-density polyethylene (HDPE) and low-density polyethylene (LDPE)

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SYNTHETIC FIBERS AND PLASTICS

Types Of Plastics Thermoplastics and thermosetting plastics are two major categories of polymers or plastics, distinguished by their response to heat and the nature of their chemical bonds. The key

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SYNTHETIC FIBERS AND PLASTICS

Biodegradable and Non-Biodegradable Plastic Biodegradable Plastics: Biodegradable plastics are designed to break down naturally in the environment through the action of microorganisms, such as bac

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SYNTHETIC FIBERS AND PLASTICS

4R Principle - Reduce, Recycle, Reuse And Recover The 4R principle, often applied to waste management, stands for Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, and Recover. It is a guiding framework for minimizing the e

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COMBUSTION, FUELS AND FLAMES

COMBUSTION, FUELS AND FLAMES What is Combustion? Combustion is a chemical reaction between a fuel and atmospheric oxygen (an oxidizing agent), resulting in the release of heat and the formation of

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COMBUSTION, FUELS AND FLAMES

Does air is necessary for combustion process? Lets do an activity: To test the necessity of air (specifically, oxygen) for burning, you can perform a simple experiment. Keep in mind that safety pr

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Class 8 / Integrated IIT Chemistry / Combustion, Fuels & Flames / Ignition Temperature, Experiment

COMBUSTION, FUELS AND FLAMES

Ignition Temperature It is a crucial factor in understanding the flammability of materials. The ignition temperature, also known as the kindling point, is the minimum temperature at which a substance

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COMBUSTION, FUELS AND FLAMES

Types of combustion Combustion can occur in various forms, and different types of combustion processes are categorized based on specific characteristics. Here are some common types of combustion:

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COMBUSTION, FUELS AND FLAMES

Structure Of Flame The structure of a flame is determined by the combustion process occurring within it. Flames can vary in appearance based on factors such as the type of fuel, the availability

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COMBUSTION, FUELS AND FLAMES

Calorific Value Calorific value, also known as heating value or energy content, is a measure of the amount of energy released during the combustion of a substance. It is typically expressed in term

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Class 8 / Integrated IIT Chemistry / Coal And Petroleum / Introduction, Do all materials burn

COAL AND PETROLEUM

COAL AND PETROLEUM Introduction         We use different kinds of materials as fuels for various purposes at home.You might have observed or heard about how people us

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COAL AND PETROLEUM

What is needed for the process of combustion? •     We know that we need a match stick or a lighter to burn a material. •     How will you prove that air is

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COAL AND PETROLEUM

Exhaustible and Inexhaustible Resources: Now, we have to think about few questions to understand about need and importance of natural resources. •     Will the above resources

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COAL AND PETROLEUM

Bio-diesel an alternative fuel source: Bio-fuels are one of the major non-conventional energy resources.They are non-toxic and renewable.Bio-diesel is one of the bio-fuel which is an alternative or

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Natural gas                  Natural gas is found trapped betweenimpervious rocks, sometimes along with petroleum and sometimes witho

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Class 8 / Integrated IIT Chemistry / Coal And Petroleum / Other uses of coal, petroleum and natural gas

COAL AND PETROLEUM

Other uses of coal, petroleum and natural gas:                         Most of us think petroleum is a source of fuel.

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Class 8 / Integrated IIT Chemistry / Coal And Petroleum / Formation of coal, petroleum, Alternatives to natural gas

COAL AND PETROLEUM

Formation of coal:         The plants in large and dense forests in low lying wetlands got burried under the soil due to the natural processes like floods and earthquake

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Class 8 / Integrated IIT Chemistry / Coal And Petroleum / Conserving coal and petroleum

COAL AND PETROLEUM

Conserving coal and petroleum:                     Why does the price of petrol go up all the time? In simple terms, the price of any

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Class 8 / Integrated IIT Chemistry / Coal And Petroleum / Misuse of energy resources and consequences

COAL AND PETROLEUM

Misuse of energy resources and consequences: In our daily life while doing various day to day activities we use many types of energy resources and fuels without giving a thought about the exhaustib

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Class 8 / Integrated IIT Chemistry / Coal And Petroleum / Harmful effects caused during use of fuels

COAL AND PETROLEUM

Harmful effects caused during use of fuels:         Most of the harmful effects are due to carelessness of handling petroleum products. For example, crude oil and refi

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Class 7 / Integrated IIT Chemistry / Physical And Chemical Changes / Experiments To Show Physical Change

Physical And Chemical Changes

How to Identify a Physical Change? Sometimes, identifying and classifying a change as a physical change might seem difficult and seemingly impossible. The following pointers can help you understand w

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Class 7 / Integrated IIT Chemistry / Physical And Chemical Changes / Chemical Change And Its Definition

Physical And Chemical Changes

What are Chemical Changes? A chemical change is one where there are changes in the chemical properties of the components. Their chemical composition may change and the final product may have differen

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Class 7 / Integrated IIT Chemistry / Physical And Chemical Changes / Experiments To Show Chemical Change

Physical And Chemical Changes

Experiments to Show Chemical Changes: Burning of Magnesium ribbon: When a small piece of a thin strip or ribbon of magnesium cleaned with sandpaper is brought near the flame, then it burns with a bri

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Class 7 / Integrated IIT Chemistry / Acids, Bases & Salts - Indicators / Introduction

Acids, Bases & Salts-Indicators

Acids, Bases & Salts-Indicators In this chapter we learn about: 1.    Indicators 2.    Acids 3.    Bases 4.    Salts 5. &nb

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Class 7 / Integrated IIT Chemistry / Acids, Bases & Salts - Indicators / Indicators

Acids, Bases & Salts - Indicators

INDICATORS For identifying a substance as an acid or a base we make use of certain natural chemical substances which show a change in colour when placed in acid medium, base medium. These chemical

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Class 7 / Integrated IIT Chemistry / Acids, Bases & Salts - Indicators / Acids

Acids, Bases & Salts- Indicators

Acids Substances with sour taste and changing blue litmus to red are called acids. The term acid has been derived from Latin word acidus, which means sour in Latin. Basing on origin, these classified

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Class 7 / Integrated IIT Chemistry / Preparation And Properties Of Acids / Strong And Weak Acids

Preparation And Properties Of Acids

Preparation And Properties Of Acids The acids which undergoes complete ionisation when dissolved in water and furnish large concentration of H+  ions are called strong acids. Ex:- &nb

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Class 7 / Integrated IIT Chemistry / Preparation And Properties Of Acids / Preparation Of Acids

Preparation And Properties Of Acids

Preparation of acids 1.From Non metals. Elements such as carbon, sulphur, phosphorous etc. are burnt in oxygen and form their  oxides.These Oxides when dissolved in water forms respective aci

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Class 7 / Integrated IIT Chemistry / Preparation And Properties Of Acids / Physical And Chemical Properties Of Acids

Preparation And Properties Of Acids

Physical Properties of acids i)  All the acids are colourless, though sulphuric acid may be brown at times due to impurities. ii) Acid taste sour. iii) Acid turn blue litmus red

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Class 7 / Integrated IIT Chemistry / Preparation And Properties Of Acids / Uses Of Acids

Preparation And Properties Of Acids

Uses of Acids a. Hydrochloric acid : * It is used in our homes for cleaning kitchen sinks and sanitary ware or clogged drains. * It is used for cleaning metal surfaces before tinning or galv

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Class 7 / Integrated IIT Chemistry / Preparation And Properties Of Bases / Bases And Alkali

Preparation And Properties Of Bases

Preparation And Properties Of Bases Bases * Substances with sticky nature and changing red litmus into blue an called as bases. * The substance which react with acids to form salt and w

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Class 7 / Integrated IIT Chemistry / Preparation And Properties Of Bases / Classification Based On Strength And Acidity

Preparation And Properties Of Bases

CLASSIFICATION BASED ON STRENGTH Strong alkali :-     The alkalis which almost completely dissociates in an aqueous solution to produce high concentration of hydroxyl \( (OH^ - ) \

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Class 7 / Integrated IIT Chemistry / Preparation And Properties Of Bases / Preparation Of Bases Or Alkali

Preparation And Properties Of Bases

PREPARATION OF BASE / ALKALI A) Action of oxygen on metals: Heat any metal like Magnesium, Calcium etc.. in presence of air to give its oxides.      \( 4K + O_2 \xrightarrow{{}}

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Class 7 / Integrated IIT Chemistry / Preparation And Properties Of Bases / Bases And Alkali Properties

Preparation And Properties Of Bases

BASES / ALKALI PROPERTIES A)    Alkalis bitter in taste and have soap touch, i.e., a slippery sensation produces. B)    Turns red litmus blue, phenolphthalein solutio

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Class 7 / Integrated IIT Chemistry / Salts and Its Types / Salts, Normal Salts

Salts and Its Types

Salts and Its Types SALTS A substance formed by the partial or complete neutralisation of hydronium ion of an acid with base is called salt. A salt essentially consists of metallic ion or ammonium

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Class 7 / Integrated IIT Chemistry / Salts and Its Types / Acidic Salts, Basic Salts And Double Salts

Salts and Its Types

Acid Salt The salt formed by the partial replacement of replaceable hydrogen ions of an acid by a basic radicals is called acid salts. The salt of strong acids and weak bases give acidic solutions.

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Class 7 / Integrated IIT Chemistry / Water - Our Life Line / Introduction, Importance Of Water

Water - Our Life Line

Water - Our Life Line WATER FOR LIFE Water is indeed essential to life on Earth, earning it the title of "our lifeline." It plays a crucial role in various biological, ecological, and en

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Class 7 / Integrated IIT Chemistry / Water - Our Life Line / Sewage Collection And Treatment

Water - Our Life Line

SEWAGE Sewage is a liquid waste and refers to a mixture of domestic, industrial, and sometimes stormwater runoff that contains water, human waste, soaps, detergents, and other debris. It is generated

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Class 7 / Integrated IIT Chemistry / Water - Our Life Line / Sanitation, Disease And Sewage Disposal

Water - Our Life Line

SANITATION, DISEASE AND SEWAGE DISPOSAL Sanitation, disease prevention, and sewage disposal are interconnected aspects of public health and environmental management. Proper sanitation practices and

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Class 9 / Integrated IIT Chemistry / Physical Classification Of Matter / Physical Nature Of Matter

Physical Classification Of Matter

Physical Classification Of Matter Matter may be defined as anything that occupies space, possesses mass and presence of which can be felt by any one or more of our five senses (i.e. sight, smell, t

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Class 9 / Integrated IIT Chemistry / Physical Classification Of Matter / Characteristics - Spaces And Movement Of Particles

Physical Classification Of Matter

CHARACTERISTICS OF PARTICLES OF MATTER * Particles of matter have spaces between them When potassium permanganate (KMnO4), dettol, sugar or  salt are dissolved in water, then their particles

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Class 9 / Integrated IIT Chemistry / Physical Classification Of Matter / Intermixing And Attraction Of Particles

Physical Classification Of Matter

Intermixing of particles of different types of matter on their own is called diffusion Experiment-3 : Take two beakers filled with water and put a drop of blue or red ink slowly along the sides of

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Class 9 / Integrated IIT Chemistry / Physical Classification Of Matter / Illustrations

Physical Classification Of Matter

Illustrations Question 1:  Kitchen salt (NaCl) when added to water, gets evenly distributed in it. Which characteristic of particles of matter is exhibited by this ? Solution:   &

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Class 9 / Integrated IIT Chemistry / Physical Classification Of Matter / Solid State

Physical Classification Of Matter

Solid State Matter in solid state has a definite shape and definite volume. Examples: Silver, copper, sand, sugar, gold, ice, wood, stone, book, needle, pencil, piece of thread, etc.  *Pro

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Class 9 / Integrated IIT Chemistry / Physical Classification Of Matter / Liquid State

Physical Classification Of Matter

Liquid State The matter in liquid state have a definite volume and no definite shape. Examples : Water, blood, benzene, alcohol, milk, petrol, cooking oil, juice, cold drink etc. *Properties of

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Class 9 / Integrated IIT Chemistry / Physical Classification Of Matter / Gaseous State

Physical Classification Of Matter

Gaseous State The matter in gaseous state has neither definite volume nor shape. Examples : Air, oxygen, nitrogen, hydrogen, ammonia, carbon dioxide, compressed natural gas (CNG) etc. *Properti

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Class 9 / Integrated IIT Chemistry / Physical Classification Of Matter / Differences Between Solids, Liquids And Gases

Physical Classification Of Matter

Experiment to illustrate comparison between solids, liquid and gases in terms of compressibility.                             &nb

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Class 9 / Integrated IIT Chemistry / Physical Classification Of Matter / Plasma And Bose – Einstein Condensate

Physical Classification Of Matter

Plasma : Plasma (a mixture of free electrons and ions) is the fourth state of matter  (e.g. fluorescent tube or neon sign) Plasma is an ionised gas, a gas to which sufficient energy is provide

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Class 9 / Integrated IIT Chemistry / Physical Classification Of Matter / Examples

Physical Classification Of Matter

Examples Question:What is the general name of :         (a)    rigid form of matter ?         (b)    flui

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Class 9 / Integrated IIT Chemistry / Interconversion Of Matter / Latent Heat

Interconversion Of Matter

Interconversion Of Matter *Latent heat: The amount of heat required to change the state of matter from one state to another without rise in temperature is known as latent heat of that substance.&n

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Class 9 / Integrated IIT Chemistry / Interconversion Of Matter / Effect Of Temperature - Increasing the temperature by heating

Interconversion Of Matter

EFFECT OF CHANGE OF TEMPERATURE Effect of temperature on the change of state of matter can be explained by the following experiment *Increasing the temperature by heating   Experiment: Take

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Class 9 / Integrated IIT Chemistry / Interconversion Of Matter / Effect Of Temperature - On decreasing temperature by cooling

Interconversion Of Matter

*On decreasing temperature by cooling (i) Change of state from liquid to solid (solidification): When water is cooled (by lowering its temperature) it gets changed into solid ‘ice’. The

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Class 9 / Integrated IIT Chemistry / Interconversion Of Matter / Sublimation

Interconversion Of Matter

*SUBLIMATION Sublimation is the process of conversion of a solid directly into a gas or vice-versa without changing into liquid state.                  

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Class 9 / Integrated IIT Chemistry / Interconversion Of Matter / Effect Of Change Of Pressure

Interconversion Of Matter

EFFECT OF CHANGE OF PRESSURE The effect of pressure on the states of matter can be discussed by the following experiment. Experiment : Take a gas in a cylinder and apply pressure by pushing the pi

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Class 9 / Integrated IIT Chemistry / Interconversion Of Matter / Solved Examples

Interconversion Of Matter

SOLVED EXAMPLES Question:Convert the following temperature to Celsius scale :     (a)    300 K        (b)    573 K Solut

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Class 9 / Integrated IIT Chemistry / Interconversion Of Matter / Evaporation And Factors Affecting Evaporation

Interconversion Of Matter

EVAPORATION The phenomenon of change of a liquid into vapours at any temperature below its boiling point is called ‘evaporation’. Evaporation is a surface phenomenon i.e. only the parti

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Interconversion Of Matter

Experiment: Step I : Take 5ml of water in a test tube and keep it under a fan. Step II : Take 5ml of water in an open china dish and keep it under a fan. Step III : Take 5 ml of water in an open ch

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Class 9 / Integrated IIT Chemistry / Interconversion Of Matter / Cooling Caused By Evaporation

Interconversion Of Matter

SOME EXAMPLES OF COOLING CAUSED BY EVAPORATION FROM DAILY LIFE      (i) Pouring of Acetone on palm : We feel cool when we pour some acetone on our palm. This is because, the energy ne

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Class 9 / Integrated IIT Chemistry / Interconversion Of Matter / Solved Examples

Interconversion Of Matter

SOLVED EXAMPLES Question:    Why does a desert cooler cool better on a hot dry day ? Solution:    A hot dry day means temperature of the atmosphere is high and humidi

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Class 9 / Integrated IIT Chemistry / Is Matter Around Us Pure / The chemical classification of matter - Pure substances

IS MATTER AROUND US PURE

IS MATTER AROUND US PURE The chemical classification of matter : The chemical classification of matter is into two types      1) pure substances       

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Is Matter Around Us Pure

ELEMENTS Definition: Substances, which cannot be broken further into any other substances by any physical  or chemical means, are called ‘Elements’. Example : Hydrogen, oxygen,

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Is Matter Around Us Pure

Metals If an element is a metal, it should have the following characteristics: (i)    It should have lustre, i.e., it should have metallic glow. (ii)    It should be a

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Class 9 / Integrated IIT Chemistry / Is Matter Around Us Pure / Metalloids And Noble Gases

Is Matter Around Us Pure

Metalloids : Some element have intermediate properties of the metals and non-metals. The elements which exhibit the properties of metals as well as non-metals, are called metalloids. Example : Boro

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Class 9 / Integrated IIT Chemistry / Is Matter Around Us Pure / Compounds

Is Matter Around Us Pure

COMPOUNDS A compound is a pure substance formed from two or more elements combined together in a definite proportion by weight. Properties of compounds: i)A compund cannot be separated into its c

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Class 9 / Integrated IIT Chemistry / Is Matter Around Us Pure / Mixture And Its Properties

Is Matter Around Us Pure

MIXTURES A mixture is a material containing 2 or more elements or compounds that are in close contact and mixed together in any proportion. The components of a mixture can be separated by simple mech

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Class 9 / Integrated IIT Chemistry / Is Matter Around Us Pure / Solutions

Is Matter Around Us Pure

SOLUTIONS A homogeneous mixture of two or more substances is called a solution. In a solution there is homogeneity at the particle level. Usually we think of a solution as a liquid that contains eith

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Class 9 / Integrated IIT Chemistry / Is Matter Around Us Pure / Concentration Of A Solution, Mass Percentage, Volume Percentage

Is Matter Around Us Pure

Concentration of a solution :– The concentration of a solution is the amount of solute present in a given quantity of the solution. In other words the mass of the solute in grams, which is prese

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Class 9 / Integrated IIT Chemistry / Is Matter Around Us Pure / Saturated, Unsaturated, Super saturated Solution And Solubility

Is Matter Around Us Pure

*Saturated solution :– A solution which at a given temperature dissolves as much solute as it is capable of dissolving, is said to be a saturated solution. Ex.At 30°C, 55 g of common s

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Class 9 / Integrated IIT Chemistry / Is Matter Around Us Pure / Suspensions And Its Properties

Is Matter Around Us Pure

*Suspensions :–  A suspension is a heterogeneous mixture in which the small particles of a solid are spread  throughout a liquid without dissolving in it. The particles have a tendenc

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Class 9 / Integrated IIT Chemistry / Is Matter Around Us Pure / Colloids And Its Properties

Is Matter Around Us Pure

*Colloidal solution or Colloids :  A heterogeneous solution in which the particle size is in between 10–7cm to 10–5cm such that  the solute particles neither dissolve nor sett

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Is Matter Around Us Pure

Difference between true solutions and colloidal solutions  Difference between colloidal solutions and suspensions

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Class 9 / Integrated IIT Chemistry / Ions And Formula / Monovalent And Bivalent Electropositive Ions

Ions And Formula

Ions And Formula BEFORE LEARNING FORMULA OF A COMPOUND WE SHALL RECAP THE  CONCEPT OF ELECTROPOSITIVE AND ELECTRONEGATIVE IONS Electropositive ions When an atom looses one or more electro

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Class 9 / Integrated IIT Chemistry / Ions And Formula / Trivalent, Tetravalent And Pentavalent Electropositive Ions

Ions And Formula

Trivalent electropositive ions When an atom looses three electrons or if any Radical or ion has tripositive charge on it then it is known as Trivalent electropositive ion  Tetravalent elect

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Class 9 / Integrated IIT Chemistry / Ions And Formula / Monovalent And Bivalent Electronegative Ions

Ions And Formula

Electronegative Ions The species which carry negative charge on them (or) The species formed by gain of electrons by an atom are called Electronegative Ions. (or) Anions. Monovalent negative ions:

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Class 9 / Integrated IIT Chemistry / Ions And Formula / Trivalent And Tetravalent Electronegative Ions

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Trivalent Electronegaive ions A Radical or Ion which is formed by gaining of three electrons is called Trivalent Electronegaive ions. Tetravalent negative ions A radical formed by gaining 4 ele

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Class 9 / Integrated IIT Chemistry / Ions And Formula / Formula - Definition, Significance

Ions And Formula

FORMULA As already discussed, the elements are represented in the abbreviated form by their symbols. Similarly, a compound is represented in the abbreviated form by its chemical formula. Definitio

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Class 9 / Integrated IIT Chemistry / Ions And Formula / Names And Formulae Of A Simple Compounds

Ions And Formula

Names and Formulae of a Simple Compounds The simplest compounds are binary compounds. A binary compound is a compound that contains atoms of only two different elements. For example, NaCl is a bina

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Class 9 / Integrated IIT Chemistry / Ions And Formula / Writing Formula Of A Binary Molecular Compound

Ions And Formula

Writing formula of a Binary Molecular Compound In binary molecular compounds, the atoms of the two elements are held by covalent bonds. A covalent bond, as you know, is formed by sharing of electrons

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Class 9 / Integrated IIT Chemistry / Ions And Formula / Writing formula Of An Ionic Compound

Ions And Formula

Writing formula of An Ionic Compound (or) Compound containing Radicals: The formula of an ionic compound represents the simplest whole number ratio of ions in it. The total positive charge on catio

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Ions And Formula

Worked Examples Example-1 Write the Formula of oxide of elements ‘X’ when its Valency is 3 Solution      Symbols :    X    O  

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Class 9 / Integrated IIT Chemistry / Ions And Formula / Naming Of Acids

Ions And Formula

Naming of Acids Naming acids involves specific rules based on the type of acid: binary acids or oxyacids. Below are the general rules for naming acids: Binary Acids: Binary acids consist of hydro

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Class 9 / Integrated IIT Chemistry / Ions And Formula / Naming Of Bases

Ions And Formula

Naming of bases Bases contaning -OH radical are names as hydroxides, after the name of metal. Examples: i)     NaOH         Sodium hydroxide. ii) 

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Class 9 / Integrated IIT Chemistry / Chemical Reactions / Chemical Combination Reaction

Chemical Reactions

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Chemical Reactions

EXPERIMENT The chemical combination reaction can be well illustrated by conducting an experiment using calcium oxide and water which combine to form calcium hydroxide.       

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Class 9 / Integrated IIT Chemistry / Chemical Reactions / Chemical Decomposition Reaction

Chemical Reactions

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Chemical Reactions

EXPERIMENT The chemical decomposition reaction can be well illustrated by conducting an experiment using Sodium Nitrate.Sodium Nitrate on heating decomposes to form sodium nitrite and oxygen. Th

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Chemical Reactions

Chemical decomposition can occur in the following cases Case-i: A compound decomposes into two elements Example: When electric current is passed through acidified water, it decomposes to give hy

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Class 9 / Integrated IIT Chemistry / Chemical Reactions / Chemical Displacement Reaction

Chemical Reactions

CHEMICAL DISPALCEMENT REACTIONS  A single-displacement reaction, is a chemical reaction in which one (or more) element(s) replaces an/other element(s) in a compound. It can be represented gene

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Class 9 / Integrated IIT Chemistry / Chemical Reactions / Metal, Hydrogen, Halogen Replacement Reactions

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Metal displacement reaction: A chemical displacement reaction in which a metal is displaced from the compound is known as metal displacement reaction. For example , When a strip of magnesium meta

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Chemical Reactions

EXPERIMENT Let us perform an activity using copper sulphate solution and iron nails to understand the chemical displacement reactions as follows The equation is as follows       &n

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Class 9 / Integrated IIT Chemistry / Chemical Reactions / Double Displacement Reaction

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Chemical Reactions

EXPERIMENT Let us perform an activity using Silver nitrate, Sodium chloride to understand the chemical double displacement reactions as follows- Activity :Experiment: Apparatus:Two test tubes.

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Class 9 / Integrated IIT Chemistry / Chemical Reactions / Formation of a Precipitate, Gas in a double-displacement reaction

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Formation of a Precipitate in a double-displacement reaction A precipitate forms in a double-displacement reaction when the cations from one of the reactants combine with the anions from the other

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Class 9 / Integrated IIT Chemistry / Chemical Reactions / Formation of a Molecular Compound In A Double-displacement Reaction

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Formation of a Molecular Compound in a double-displacement reaction Another kind of double-replacement reaction is one that produces a molecular compound as one of its products. Many reactions can be

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Class 9 / Integrated IIT Chemistry / Chemical Equations And Laws / Chemical Equations

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Chemical Equations And Laws

How is an equation balanced? A chemical equation is balanced by assigning suitable co-efficients to the molecules wherever necessary by trial and error metho4) Balancing the equation.   

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Class 9 / Integrated IIT Chemistry / Chemical Equations And Laws / Atomic Mass And Molecular Weight

Chemical Equations And Laws

Atomic mass: It is defined as number of times one atom of an element is heavier  than  \( \frac{1} {{12}}th \) wt of one atom of C-12. 1)t.W.t = \( \frac{{\text{Wt}\,\tex

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Class 9 / Integrated IIT Chemistry / Chemical Equations And Laws / Laws Of Conservation Of Mass

Chemical Equations And Laws

Laws of conservation of mass:  This law was proposed by Lavoiser. This law states that mass can neither be created nor destroye This law is applicable to all chemical reactions. During a chemi

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Chemical Equations And Laws

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Chemical Equations And Laws

Law of multiple proportions: This law was put forth by Dalton in 1808. According to this law, if two elements combine to form more than one compound, then the different masses of one element which

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Postulates: A)A substance which contain one or more hydrogen atoms and which yield H+ ions in aqueous solution are acids.     Examples:    \( HCl_{(aq)} \text{ }\xrigh

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Limitations of Arrhenius theory: A)The definition of acids and bases are limited to aqueous solution only. B)Acidic nature of substances which do not contain H+ and basic nature of substances wh

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Example based on : Arrhenius Concept Ex.The characteristics of an acid is :     A) turns blue litmus to red. B) turns phenolphthalein pink from colourless.     C) de

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Class 9 / Integrated IIT Chemistry / Acids, Bases And Salts - Theories / Lowry - Bronsted Theory Of Acids And Bases

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Amphoteric : Substances which can act as acid as will as base are known as amphoteric     HCl + H2O     H3O+ + Cl–            

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Amphoteric : Substances which can act as acid as will as base are known as amphoteric     HCl + H2O   \(x = {-b \pm \sqrt{b^2-4ac} \over 2a}\)  H3O+ + Cl–                 base   

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A limitation of the Bronsted Lowery theory is that the extent to which a dissolved substance can act as an acid or a base depends largly on the solvent. A)HClO4  +  HF   \( \rightl

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Classification of Bronsted - Lowery Acids and Bases Bronsted - Lowery acids and bases can be  (i) Molecular    (ii) Cationic        and       &

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Classification of Solvents  There are two types of solvents     (i)   Protonic (protic)       and       (ii)  Aprotic  (i)

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Examples based on : Bronsted - Lowery Concept Ex.Select the aprotic solvent from the following is :     A) H2O    B) C6H6    C) HF    D)

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Lewis or Electronic theory of acids and bases According to Lewis theory, an acid is any molecule, ion or atom which can accept a pair of electron to form a co-ordinate covalent bond. Example: H+, B

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Drawbacks of Lewis theory A)This theory does not explain about the strength of acids and bases. B)Acids like HCl, H2SO4 etc do not form dative bonds with bases. C)Acid base reactions are fast but

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Example based on : Lewis Theory Ex.In which of the following reaction does NH3 act as an acid ?     A) NH3 + H+  \( \to \)  NH4+     B) NH3 + Na \(

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Class 9 / Integrated IIT Chemistry / Strength, Preparation And Properties Of Acids And Bases / Classification Of Acids Based On Strength

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Strength, Preparation and Properties Of Acids & Bases ACIDS: a substance with particular chemical properties including turning litmus red, neutralizing alkalis, and dissolving some metals; typ

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Strength, Preparation And Properties Of Acids And Bases

PREPARATION OF ACIDS 1.By direct combination of Elements. Acids are mostly prepared by a direct combination of elements. For example, hydrogen chloride gas is prepared from hydrogen and chlorine u

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Class 9 / Integrated IIT Chemistry / Strength, Preparation And Properties Of Acids And Bases / Physical Properties Of Acids

Strength, Preparation And Properties Of Acids And Bases

PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF ACIDS i)All the acids are colourless, though sulphuric acid may be brown at times due to impurities. ii)Acid taste sour. iii)Acid turn blue litmus red and methyl orange pin

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Class 9 / Integrated IIT Chemistry / Strength, Preparation And Properties Of Acids And Bases / Chemical Properties Of Acids

Strength, Preparation And Properties Of Acids And Bases

CHEMICAL PROPERTIES OF ACIDS 1.Action with metals: Metals displace hydrogen from the acids. They release hydrogen gas.           \( Zn + HCl\xrightarrow{{}}ZnCl_2

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Class 9 / Integrated IIT Chemistry / Strength, Preparation And Properties Of Acids And Bases / Bases Or Alkali

Strength, Preparation And Properties Of Acids And Bases

BASES / ALKALI Bases: *Substances with sticky nature and changing red litmus into blue an called as bases. *The substance which react with acids to form salt and water as the only products are ca

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Class 9 / Integrated IIT Chemistry / Strength, Preparation And Properties Of Acids And Bases / Preparation Of Bases

Strength, Preparation And Properties Of Acids And Bases

PREPARATION OF BASES A)Action of oxygen on metals: Heat any metal like Magnesium, Calcium etc.. in presence of air to give its oxides.       \( 4K + O_2 \xrightarrow{{}}

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Class 9 / Integrated IIT Chemistry / Strength, Preparation And Properties Of Acids And Bases / Properties Of Bases

Strength, Preparation And Properties Of Acids And Bases

BASES/ALKALI PROPERTIES A)Alkalis bitter in taste and have soap touch, i.e., a slippery sensation produces. B)Turns red litmus blue, phenolphthalein solution pink, methyl orange yellow and turmeri

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Class 6 / Integrated IIT Physics / Electric Current / Cell

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Electric Current INTRODUCTION *Electricity travels along a path. *The whole path along which electricity travels is known as a circuit. *The flow of current from +ve terminal to -ve terminal is

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Conductors: The materials that allow electric current to pass through them. Examples: Iron nail, copper wire, brass key, aluminium rod, pencil lead (graphite), mercury..etc.  *All metals are go

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Class 6 / Integrated IIT Physics / Light / Light:Introduction

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General definitions of light: 1.Optical medium: Any thing (material or non-materials), through which light energy passes wholly or partially, is called optical medium.  Ex: vacuum, air, most

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Class 6 / Integrated IIT Physics / Light / Shadows

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Shadows: Shadow: Dark patch formed behind an opaque body, when the opaque body is placed in the path of light is called shadow.              

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Class 6 / Integrated IIT Physics / Fun With Magnets / Magnetic And Non Magnetic Materials

Fun With Magnets

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Class 7 / Integrated IIT Physics / Heat / Temperature And Thermometer

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Heat LEARNING OBJECTIVES  * Heat and temperature. * Thermometric scales. * Heat capacity, water equivalent and specific heat. * Change of state. * Latent heat. * Principle of Calorimetry

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Class 7 / Integrated IIT Physics / Heat / Heat Transmission

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How is Heat Transferred? Heat can travel from one place to another in several ways. The different modes of heat transfer includes 1.Conductio 2. Convection3.  Radiation. Meanwhile, if the te

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Class 7 / Integrated IIT Physics / Friction / Types Of Friction

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Friction In this lesson you will learn about  * Friction, Advantages and disadvantages * Methods of minimising friction * Normal reaction *Types of friction *Motion on a Horizon

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Class 7 / Integrated IIT Physics / Electric Circuits And Currents / Current, Resistance And Ohm's Law

Electric Circuits And Currents

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Electric Circuits And Currents

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Sound Sound:-  Sound is a form of energy which emitted by a vibrating body that travels in the form of waves and causes the sensation of hearing sound cannot travel through vacuum.  The

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Sound

Characteristics of sound:-  Pitch:-   1. The pitch of a sound is the characteristic which distinguishes between a shrill (or sharp) sound and a grave (or flat) sound. 2. A sound of high

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Variation of velocity of sound in a gas with temperature.  The velocity of sound in a gas v = \( \sqrt {\frac{{\gamma p}} {\rho }} \)         \( v = \sqrt {\frac

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Light INTRODUCTION: Nature has endowed the human eye (retina) with the sensitivity to detect electromagnetic waves within a small range of the electromagnetic spectrum. Electromagnetic radiation

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REFLECTION FROM PLANE SURFACES I)When you look into a plane mirror, you see an image of yourself that has three properties  i)The image is up right (ii) The image is the same size as you are

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Class 8 / Integrated IIT Physics / Light / Eye

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INSIDE OF EYE: The eye is probably the most important optical instruments. In principle, an eye can be compared to a photographic camera. In a camera, the aperture of the lens has to be adjusted. B

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Class 8 / Integrated IIT Physics / Some Natural Phenomena / Lightening, Thunders

Some Natural Phenomena

Some Natural Phenomena In this chapter we shall discuss two destructive natural phenomena. These are lightning and earthquakes. We shall also discuss what steps we can take to minimise destruction

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Some Natural Phenomena

CHARGING BY RUBBING: Charging by rubbing, also known as triboelectric charging or tribocharging, is a phenomenon where certain materials become electrically charged after they come into contact wit

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Types of Charges: Positive Charge (+): Protons carry a positive charge. In most normal matter, protons are bound within atomic nuclei. Negative Charge (-): Electrons carry a negative charge. Ele

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Some Natural Phenomena

Transfer of Charge: The transfer of charge refers to the movement of electric charge from one object to another. There are several ways in which charge can be transferred, and these processes are f

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Stars and Solar System: The planets: The planets look like stars, but they do not have light of their own. They merely reflect the sunlight that falls on them. A planet has a definite path in whi

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Class 8 / Integrated IIT Physics / Kinematics Or Motion In A Straight Line / Distance And Displacement

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Speed And Velocity Speed: The distance travelled by the body in unit time is called its speed.         Speed (V) = \( \frac{{Dis\tan cetravelled}} {{Timetaken}

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Displacement-time graphs:These graphs are down by ploting displacement on Y-axis and time on X-axis .Slope of this graph gives velocity a)If the graph is a straight line parallel to time axis,then

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Class 9 / Integrated IIT Physics / Newton's Laws Of Motion / Newton's First Law

Newton's Laws Of Motion

Newton's Laws Of Motion NEWTONS FIRST LAW:If no external force acts, a body continues to be in its state of rest or of uniform motion along a straight line.          &n

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Newton's Laws Of Motion

NEWTON’S SECOND LAW OF MOTION 1.The rate of change of momentum of a body is directly proportional to the external force and the change in momentum takes place in the direction of the force. 2.

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Newton's Laws Of Motion

Newton's 3rd Law Of Motion NEWTON’S  THIRD LAW We have seen above that Newton's first law of motion defines force. The second law establishes a relation between the external for

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Class 9 / Integrated IIT Physics / Light / Refraction Of Light

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REFRACTIVE INDEX: I)Absolute refractive Index (µ): The absolute refractive index of a medium is the ratio of speed of light in free space (C) to speed of light in a given medium (V).  

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OPTICAL PATH (\(\Delta\)x): The shortest distance between any two points A and B is called geometrical path. The length of geometric path is independent of the medium that surrounds the path AB. Wh

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REAL AND APPARENT DEPTHS(NORMAL SHIFT)  As a consequence of refraction, the depth of an object lying inside an optically denser medium appears to be less than its real depth. Obect is in de

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Work-Power-Energy LEARNING OBJECTIVES:    ¨  Work and it’s nature. ¨   Expressions for workdone in different cases.     ¨   En

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ENERGY ¶¶ Introduction to Energy               It is often said that a person A is more energetic than a person B. The meaning of this s

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THRUST AND PRESSURE: A liquid exerts pressure.To show it,consider a vessel containing a liquid.If it has a small hole near the bottom,the liquid will flow out of it.If the motion of the liquid is s

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Sound Sound:- Sound is a form of energy which emitted by a vibrating body that travels in the form of waves and causes the sensation of hearing sound cannot travel through vacuum.The concept of so

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Characteristics of sound:- Pitch:- 1. The pitch of a sound is the characteristic which distinguishes between a shrill (or sharp) sound and a grave (or flat) sound. 2. A sound of high pitch is sai

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Variation of velocity of sound in a gas with temperature.      The velocity of sound in a gas v =              ()      

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Heat

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VECTORS Physical quantities: All measurable quantities are called physical quantities.  Physical quantities are classified into scalars and vectors.  Scalar Quantities: Physical quan

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Vectors-Types Of Vectors

Types of vectors 1) Equal vectors: If  two vectors have same magnitude and direction they are said to be equal vectors.               &n

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Vectors-Types Of Vectors

Angle between two vectors To find angle between two vectors, the two vectors from a point are drawn such that they should either co initial or co terminal. The shortest angle obtained in this way,

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Vectors-Displacement, Addition, Subtraction And Multiplication Of Vectors Physical quantities : The quantities that are measurable are called physical quantities     Ex: Length, Mas

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Vectors-Displacements, Addition, Subtraction And Multiplication Of Vectors

LAWS OF  VECTOR ADDITION Vector addition follows commutative,associative and distributive laws.         a) Commutative law : \( \overline {A} + \overline B

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Vectors-Displacement, Addition, Subtraction And Multiplication Of Vectors

Multiplication of a vector with a scalar :  a) When a vector is multiplied by a scalar, the resultant is also a vector.  b) \( \overrightarrow A = s\overrightarrow B \), If s is posi

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Newton's first Law Of Motion

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Newton's first Law Of Motion

APPLICATIONS OF INERTIA   Following examples from our daily life illustrate the law of inertia: 1.When a running horse suddenly stops,the rider falls forwards.Because the lower part of the b

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Newton's Third Law Of Motion

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Newton's Third Law Of Motion

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Class 6 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Forces In Nature / Forces In Nature

Forces In Nature

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Forces In Nature

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Work

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KINETIC ENERGY The energy possessed by a body by virtue of its motion is called kinetic energy.  Examples for body having kinetic energy ; (i) Flowing water possesses kinetic energy which

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Power

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Newton's Third Law Of Motion

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Introduction, Types And Frictions On Horizontal Surfaces

Distinction between static and kinetic friction When the body is at rest over the surface of another body the frictional force increases from zero to maximum value with the pulling force. The variati

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Class 7 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Introduction, Types And Friction On Horizontal Surface / Angle Of Friction

Introduction, Types And Friction On Horizontal Surfaces

Angle of friction: Angle between normal reaction and resultant of frictional force(F) and normal reaction(R) is called angle of friction(\(\theta\))             &nb

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Class 7 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Law Of Gravitation / Gravitation, Newton's Law Of Gravitation

Law Of Gravitation

Law Of Gravitation GRAVITATION We have discussed various forces : pushes and pulls, elastic force, friction and other forces that act when one body is in contact with another. In this chapter we s

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Class 7 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Law Of Gravitation / GRAVITATIONAL CONSTANT “G”

Law Of Gravitation

GRAVITATIONAL CONSTANT “G” (i) Gravitational constant is a scalar quantity. (ii) UNIT : S I : G = 6.67 × 10–11 N-m2/kg CGS 6.67 × 10–8 dyne-cm2/g2&nbs

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Class 7 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Law Of Gravitation / RELATION BETWEEN G AND g

Law Of Gravitation

RELATION BETWEEN G AND g We want to measure g due to M at a point P as per the procedure. place a point mass m at P measure the force imparted by M on the test mass m. this is equal to   Fg=

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Class 7 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Thrust And Pressure / Types Of Pressure

Thrust And Pressure

Thrust And Pressure TYPES OF PRESSURE Atmospheric pressure (Patm): Atmospheric pressure is the pressure exerted by environmental air. (or) The force exerted by atmosphere per unit area on th

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Class 7 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Thrust And Pressure / Pressure In A Fluid

Thrust And Pressure

PRESSURE IN A FLUID When a fluid (either liquid or gas) is at rest, it exerts a force perpendicular to any surface in contact with it, such as a container wall or a body immersed in the fluid. Whi

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Class 7 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Thrust And Pressure / Variation Of Pressure In A Static Fluid

Thrust And Pressure

Variation of Pressure in a static fluid Let us consider a container filled with water. Density of water can be taken as uniform through out the container. Let A and B be two points inside the water l

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Class 7 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Thrust And Pressure / Barometer

Thrust And Pressure

BAROMETER The instrument used for measuring of pressure is called Barometer. It was constructed by Torricelli in 1643.  It consists of a glass tube with a narrow uniform bore and of length 10

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Class 7 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Thrust And Pressure / Manometer

Thrust And Pressure

MANOMETER It is a device used to measure the pressure of a gas inside a container.  The U-shaped tube often contains mercury.      P1 = P2        &nb

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Class 7 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Buoyant Force / Buoyant Force

Buoyant Force

Buoyant Force BUOYANT FORCE When an object is immersed in a liquid, it experiences an upward force. This force is called buoyant force.  Let us consider a cylindrical object of height &lsquo

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Class 7 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Buoyant Force / Archimedes Principle

Buoyant Force

ARCHIMEDE’S PRINCIPLE Force of buoyancy acting on a body immersed partly or wholly in a static fluid is numerically equal to weight of the fluid displaced and is directed vertically upwards.

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Class 7 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Buoyant Force / Relative Density by Archimedes Principle

Buoyant Force

RELATIVE DENSITY OF ARCHIMEDE’S PRINCIPLE According to Archimedes principle, apparent loss of weight of a substance immersed in a liquid is equal to weight of displaced liquid . This principl

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Class 7 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Buoyant Force / Buoyant Force in Accelerating Fluids

Buoyant Force

Buoyant Force in Accelerating Fluids Suppose a body is dipped inside a liquid of density \( \rho _L \) placed in an elevator moving with an acceleration \( \mathop a\limits^ \to \). The

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Class 7 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Laws Of Flotation / Flotation

Laws Of Flotation

Laws Of Flotation FLOTATION When a body of density \(\rho_b\) and volume V is immersed in a liquid of density \(\rho_L\), the force is acting on the body are: (1) Weight of the body W = mg

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Class 7 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Laws Of Flotation / Laws Of Flotation

Laws Of Flotation

Laws of floatation : 1. The weight of floating body is equal to the weight of liquid displaced. 2. The centre of gravity of the floating body and the centre of buoyancy (centre of gravit

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Class 7 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Laws Of Flotation / Applications

Laws Of Flotation

APPLICATIONS 1. Animals have soft skeletons (unlike those of terrestrial) : The density of animals and fish living in water is almost same as the density of water. Therefore their weight is al

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Class 7 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Change Of State / Change Of State

Change Of State

Change Of State (i) Change of state from solid to liquid (fusion): When heat is supplied to a solid (ice), the kinetic energy of solid particles increases due to increase in temperature. As a resul

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Class 7 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Change Of State / Decreasing Temperature By Cooling

Change Of State

Decreasing Temperature By Cooling (i) Change of state from liquid to solid (solidification): When water is cooled (by lowering its temperature) it gets changed into solid ‘ice’. The pro

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Class 7 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Change Of State / Sublimation

Change Of State

SUBLIMATION Sublimation is the process of conversion of a solid directly into a gas or vice-versa without changing into liquid state.              

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Class 7 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Change Of State / Latent Heat

Change Of State

LATENT HEAT 1.The amount of heat gained or lost by unit mass of a subastance at a constant temperature is called  specific latent heat or heat of formation(L) 2.Specific latent heat or

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Class 7 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Change Of State / Different States of Matter

Change Of State

Different states of matter    

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Class 8 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Triangle Law And Polygon Law / Triangle Law Of Vectors

Triangle Law And Polygon Law

Triangle Law And Polygon Law Triangular law of vector addition             Statement - 1: If two vectors are represented both in magnitude and directio

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Class 8 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Triangle Law And Polygon Law / Sine Rule

Triangle Law And Polygon Law

Sine rule: In any triangle the length of the side is proportional to the sine of the angle opposite to it. (or) \( \frac{a} {{\sin A}} = \frac{b} {{\sin B}} = \frac{c} {{\sin C}} \)  

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Class 8 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Triangle Law And Polygon Law / Equilibriant Vector And Lami's Theorem

Triangle Law And Polygon Law

Equilibriant Vector  A single vector which balances two or more vectors acting on a body at the same time is called an equilibrant vector. It is equal and opposite to the resultant of various ve

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Class 8 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Triangle Law And Polygon Law / Tangent Formula

Triangle Law And Polygon Law

Tangent Formula (Application of lami's theorem) Let a bob of mass m suspended to the ceiling by means of a light string of length l is pulled by a horizontal force F till the weight of the bob,

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Class 8 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Triangle Law And Polygon Law / Polygon Law Of Vector Addition

Triangle Law And Polygon Law

polygon law of vector addition: If several vectors are represented both in magnitude and direction as the adjacent sides of a polygon taken in order then the closing side taken in reverse order rep

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Class 8 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Dot Product / Dot Product Of Vectors

Dot Product

Dot Product DOT PRODUCT OF VECTORS Multiplication of Vectors A vector multiplied by another vector may give   a scalar or a vector.  Hence there are two types of  products for mul

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Class 8 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Dot Product / Properties Of Scalar Product

Dot Product

Properties of Scalar Product: 1) Scalar product of two parallel vectors is  maximum \( \overrightarrow A .\overrightarrow B = \left| {\overrightarrow A } \right|\left| {\overrightarrow B }

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Class 8 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Dot Product / Applications Of Dot Product

Dot Product

Applications of Dot Product     i)  Angle between  two vectors  and  can be found from \( \cos \theta = \frac{{\overrightarrow {A.} \overrightarrow B }} {{\ov

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Class 8 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Dot Product / Examples Of Dot Product

Dot Product

Examples of dot product : 1) Work done is the dot product of force and displacement     W =\( \vec F.\,\vec S = FS\cos \theta \) . 2) Power is the dot product of force and

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Class 8 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Cross Product / Cross Product Of Vectors

Cross Product

Cross Product Vector Product or Cross Product  If \(\vec A\) and \(\vec B\) are two vectors and the angle between them is \(\theta\) then the cross product of these two vectors

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Class 8 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Cross Product / Laws Of Vector Product

Cross Product

Laws of Vector product: a) Cross product does not obey commutative law.       \( \overrightarrow A \times \,\overrightarrow B \ne \,\overrightarrow B \times \overrightarrow

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Class 8 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Cross Product / Properties Of Cross Product

Cross Product

Properties of cross Product: 1) If  \( \hat{i},\hat{j},\hat{k} \) are unit vectors then         \( \hat{i} \times \hat{i} = \hat{j} \times \hat{j} = \hat

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Class 8 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Cross Product / Examples Of Cross Product

Cross Product

Examples of cross product :  i) Angular momentum \( \mathop L\limits^ \to = \mathop r\limits^ \to \times \mathop P\limits^ \to \) ii) Linear velocity \( \mathop V

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Class 8 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Cross Product / Applications Of Cross Product

Cross Product

Applications of cross product :  (i) The area of triangle formed by \( \overrightarrow A \& \,\overrightarrow B \) as adjacent sides is \( \frac{1} {2}\left| {\overrightarro

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Class 8 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Speed And Velocity / Introduction

Speed And Velocity

Speed And Velocity §§ Introduction  Kinematics is the science of describing the motion of objects using words, diagrams, numbers, graphs, and equations. Kinematics is a branch

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Class 8 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Speed And Velocity / Rest And Motion

Speed And Velocity

§§ Rest: A body is said to be at rest if it does not change its position with respect to the reference point. The objects which remain stationary at a place and do not change their position

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Class 8 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Speed And Velocity / Speed

Speed And Velocity

§§ Speed: The distance travelled by the body in unit time is called its speed.         Speed (V) = \( \frac{{Dis\tan cetravelled}} {{Timetaken}} \) *s

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Class 8 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Speed And Velocity / Velocity

Speed And Velocity

§§ Velocity: The rate of displacement (or) displacement per unit time is called velocity.                         

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Class 8 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Acceleration / Acceleration

Acceleration

Acceleration   ACCELERATION If the velocity of a particle is changing as it moves then it is said to be moving with acceleration The acceleration measures how rapidly the velocity is changin

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Class 8 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Acceleration / Instantaneous Acceleration

Acceleration

INSTANTANEOUS ACCELERATION The acceleration of a particle at a particular instant of time is called it's instantaneous acceleration. It is also defined as the limit of average acceleration as th

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Class 8 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Acceleration / Equations Of Motion

Acceleration

Equations Of Motion The relation between v, u,a and s for  a body moving with uniform acceleration in a straight path are well known to us. Equations which relate these quantities are known as e

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Class 8 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Acceleration / Derivation for the Equation of Motion-1

Acceleration

DERIVATIONS OF EQUATION OF MOTION 1) Derivation for the Equation of Motion v = u+at Consider a body having initial velocity ‘u’. Suppose it is subjected to a uniform acceleration

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Class 8 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Acceleration / Derivation for the Equation of Motion-2

Acceleration

2) Derivation for the Equation of Motion s  = ut+at2 Velocity is defined as the rate of change of displacement. This is mathematically represented as:     \( Velocity = \

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Class 8 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Acceleration / Derivation for the Equation of Motion-3

Acceleration

3) Derivation of Third Equation of Motion v2- u2 = 2as      For the derivation of the third equation of motion, consider the same variables that were used for the derivation of th

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Class 8 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Acceleration / Displacement in nth Second of Motion

Acceleration

(d) Displacement in nth second of motion. Consider that an object starts moving with initial velocity u and the uniform acceleration a. Let the displacement of the object in the nth second of its moti

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Class 8 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Acceleration / Worked Examples

Acceleration

WORKED EXAMPLES Ö Example-1:If a sports car at rest accelerates uniformly to a speed of 144 km h-1 in 5 s then find distance travelled by it ? Sol : \( \begin{gathered} u = 0,v

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Class 8 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Freely Falling Body / Equations Of Motion

Freely Falling Body

Freely Falling Body MOTION IN A LINE - FREELY FALLING BODY Consider the case of an object moving in uniformly accelerated motion along a straight line OX with origin at O as shown in figure .Let i

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Class 8 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Freely Falling Body / Acceleration Due To Gravity

Freely Falling Body

ACCELERATION DUE TO GRAVITY(G) The uniform acceleration of a freely falling y towards the centre of earth due to earth's gravitational force is called acceleration due to gravity. i)It is deno

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Class 8 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Freely Falling Body / Body Falling Freely Under Gravity

Freely Falling Body

Body Falling Freely under Gravity the initial velocity is zero (i.e., u = 0 and a=g) The equations of motion of a body falling freely are) (i)v=u+at v=gt------(e) (ii)\( S = ut + \frac{1} {2}at

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Class 8 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Freely Falling Body / Time Of Descent

Freely Falling Body

TIME OF DESCENT Time taken by the freely falling body to reach the ground from the point of dropping is called time of descent.It is denoted by td..         From 

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Class 8 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Freely Falling Body / Velocity With Which The Body Reaches

Freely Falling Body

VELOCITY WITH WHICH THE BODY REACHES         from \( v^2 - u^2 = 2as \)     In case of freely falling body u=0,a=g S= distance travelled by t

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Class 8 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Freely Falling Body / Important Conclusions From Freely Falling Body

Freely Falling Body

Important Conclusions from above Equations: 1) From eq(f) ,  i.e., the distance fallen in time t,2t,3t,.........etc.will be in the ratio \( 1^2 ,2^2 ,3^2 ,.....etc \).    &nb

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Class 8 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Vertically Projected Body / Acceleration Due To Gravity

Vertically Projected Body

Vertically Projected Body ACCELERATION DUE TO GRAVITY(G) The uniform acceleration of a freely falling y towards the centre of earth due to earth's gravitational force is called acceleration du

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Class 8 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Vertically Projected Body / Equations Of Motion For Vertically Projected

Vertically Projected Body

Equations of motion for a body projected vertically upwards In case  of a body projected vertically upwards  a = -g   final velocity (v) = 0 at its highest point(maximum height). Th

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Class 8 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Vertically Projected Body / Time Of Ascent

Vertically Projected Body

(i)Time of ascent (ta) :  "For a body projected upwards the time to reach the maximum height is called time of ascent" Expression : Let a body be projected vertically upwards with

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Class 8 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Vertically Projected Body / Time Of Descent

Vertically Projected Body

(ii)Time of descent (td): "For a body projected upwards the time to travel from maximum height to the point of projection on ground is called time of descent" Expression : Let a body be p

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Class 8 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Vertically Projected Body / Time Of Flight

Vertically Projected Body

(iii)Time of  flight (T) : It is defined as the time for which a body remains in the air.                     T=td+ ta

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Class 8 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Vertically Projected Body / Maximum Height

Vertically Projected Body

(iv)Maximum Height (H) : Maximum height (Hmax): "For a body projected vertically upwards, the maximum vertical displacement from ground about which its velocity is zero is called its maximum hei

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Class 8 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Vertically Projected Body / Velocity Of Body On Reaching Point Of Projection

Vertically Projected Body

(v)Velocity of the body on reaching the point projection (\( V_{striking} \)) Let a body be projected vertically upwards with initial velocity u. The body reaches the point of projection once a

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Class 8 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Vertically Projected Body / Some Points Related To Vertically Projected Body

Vertically Projected Body

Some points related to vertically projected body: 1.A body projected vertically up travels a distance ‘S’ in the nth second.Distancetravelled by it in the (n+1)th  second is (S-g)

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Vertically Projected Body

WORKED EXAMPLES Ex 1:A stone is dropped from top of a tower 300m high and at the same time another is projected vertically upward with a velocity of 100 . Find  when and where the two stones m

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Class 8 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Graphs [S-T, V-T, A-T] / Displacement-Time Graphs

Graphs[S-T, V-T, A-T]

Graphs[S-T, V-T, A-T] Displacement-time graphs: These graphs are down by ploting displacement on Y-axis and time on X-axis .Slope of this graph gives velocity a)If the graph is a straight line pa

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Class 8 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Graphs [S-T, V-T, A-T] / Velocity-Time Graphs (a, b, c, d, e)

Graphs[S-T, V-T, A-T]

VELOCITY-TIME GRAPHS This graph is plotted by taking velocity on Y-axis and displacement on X-axis slope of this graph represents acceleration.Area under this graph gives displacement a)If the gra

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Class 8 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Graphs [S-T, V-T, A-T] / Velocity-Time Graphs (f, g, h, i, j, k)

Graphs [S-T, V-T, A-T]

f)For a body projected vertically up from the top of a tower,graph will be as shown.Area below the  graph gives -h where h is tower height.                

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Class 8 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Graphs [S-T, V-T, A-T] / Acceleration-Time Graphs

Graphs [S-T, V-T, A-T]

ACCELERATION-TIME GRAPHS This graph is drown by plotting acceleration on Y-axis and time on X-axis .Area below the graph gives change in velocity. a)For a body moving with uniform acceleration,gra

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Class 8 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Relative Motion / Relative Velocity

Relative Motion

Relative Motion RELATIVE VELOCITY  1.If \(\vec v_A\) and \(\vec V_B\) are the velocities of A and B then relative velocity of A with respect to B is \(\vec V_A -\vec V_B\) and

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Class 8 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Relative Motion / Motion Of Boat In A River - 1 to 7

Relative Motion

MOTION OF BOAT IN A RIVER 1. Let \(\vec U\) be the velocity of boat in still water.is \(\vec V\) velocity of water in a river.If the boat moves in that river,its resultant velocity i

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Class 8 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Relative Motion / Motion Of Boat In A River - 8 to 12

Relative Motion

8. If the boat crosses in the shortest time, resultant velocity of the boat is \( |\overrightarrow U + \overrightarrow V | = \sqrt {u^2 + V^2 } \)  in magnitude resultant displacement i

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Class 8 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Relative Motion / Rain And Umbrella Concept

Relative Motion

RAIN-UMBRELLA PROBLEM 1.Rain is falling vertically downwards with velocity \(\vec U\).A person is walking on a road with velocity  \(\vec V\).In order to protect himself from rain he must hold

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Class 8 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Motion In A Plane / Projectiles

Motion In A Plane

Motion In A Plane §§ PROJECTILE  Projectile is any body projected into the air at an angle othe than 90o with the horizontal near the surface of the earth. The path followed by

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Motion In A Plane

a) Time of ascent :- Time Taken to Reach Maximum Height. We let this time be denoted ta. At the maximum height the vertical velocity is zero i.e.,Vy=0             &

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Class 8 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Motion In A Plane / Horizontal Range, Relation Between Time Of Flights And Range

Motion In A Plane

d) Horizontal Range : - The horizontal distance travelled by the projectile while it touches the point on the same level of the point of projection is called horizontal range.     In

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Class 8 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Motion In A Plane / Vector Notation In Case Of Projectile Motion-Velocity After Some time

Motion In A Plane

§§ Vector notations incase of projectile motion a) Velocity after some time : Initital velocity the projectile          \( \overrightarrow v = \left(

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Class 8 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Motion In A Plane / Velocity After Some Height

Motion In A Plane

b) Velocity after some hegiht         \( \begin{gathered} \overrightarrow v = u\cos \theta \,\hat{i} + \left( {u\sin \theta } \right)\hat{j} \hfill \\ \overright

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Class 8 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Motion In A Plane / Position Vector Of The Particle

Motion In A Plane

c) Position vector of the particle                \( \vec U = \left( {u\cos \theta } \right)\hat{i} + \left( {u\sin \theta } \right)\hat{j} \)  &n

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Class 8 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Motion In A Plane / Position, Time and speed at any Angular Elevation 'theta'

Motion In A Plane

(d) Position, Time and speed at any angular elevation  Let a particle be projected with v0 at an angle \(\theta_0\) .After a time t it  moves with a velocity v at an angle \(\thet

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Class 8 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Motion In A Plane / Radius Of Curvature At any Point On Path Of The Projectile

Motion In A Plane

§§ Radius of curvature at any point on the path of a projectile              Let at any time t the velocity vector \(\vec v\) be inclined at

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Class 8 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Centripetal And Centrifugal Force / Circular Motion

Centripetal And Centrifugal Force

CIRCULAR MOTION When a particle moves in a circular path with uniform speed, the direction of its velocity changes at every point on the circumference of the circle continuously. But the magnitude

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Centripetal And Centrifugal Force

Definition : Centripetal Force: Centripetal force is the net or unbalanced force required by a body to perform uniform circular motion.             &nb

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Centripetal And Centrifugal Force

7.When an electron moves round the nucleus in a circular orbit,the electrostatic force between the electron and nucleus is the centripetal force. 8.If an electron of mass ‘m’ and charge &

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Centripetal And Centrifugal Force

Centripetal acceleration: When a particle moves in a circle,an acceleration acts towards the centre which changes the direction of its linear velocity.This acceleration is called normal   acc

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Centripetal And Centrifugal Force

CENTRIFUGAL FORCE 1.The pseudo force which acts radially outwards on the body moving along a circle is called centrifugal force. 2.Even through centripetal and centrifugal forces are equal in magn

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Centripetal And Centrifugal Force

CONICAL PENDULUM If the bob of a simple pendulum is pulled to a side and whirled to move along a circle in horizontal plane, the string sweeps a cone and this arrangement is called conical pendulum

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Circular Motion 2

Circular Motion 2 RIGID BODY A body which does not undergo any change in shape or size by the application of external force is called a rigid body.Further, a rigid body is that body in which the d

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Circular Motion 2

ROTATIONAL MOTION     In general ,there are two types of motion:     (i) translatory         (ii) rotatory We may, in any particular cas

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Circular Motion 2

ROTATIONAL KINEMATICS RELATIONS let the axis of ratation be passing through O and is perpendicular to the plane of the paper ,i.e., Z-axis is the axis of rotation.         &nbs

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Circular Motion 2

AXIS OF ROTATION: The axis of rotation refers to an imaginary line around which an object rotates or spins. In simple terms, it's the central line about which an object's movement occurs. T

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Circular Motion 2

ANGULAR VELOCITY Angular velocity:The rate of change of angular displacement is called angular velocity.it is denoted by \( \omega \) ,units are rad/sec. Let the body be rotating in counter c

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Circular Motion 2

 ANGULAR ACCELERATION The angular acceleration  of a rigid body is the rate of change of angular velocity of the body about the given axis of rotation. If angular speed \(\omega\) o

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EQUATIONS OF CIRCULAR MOTION AND COMPARISON  WITH EQUATIONS OF TRANSLATIONAL MOTION

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Laws Of Motion

Laws Of Motion FUNDAMENATLS OF STRINGS: 1. A string is assumed to be inextensible,i.e., perfectly elastic and massless. 2. The magnitude of accelerations of a number of bodies connected through &

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Laws Of Motion

MOTION OF BODIES IN CONTACT : If two bodies with masses m1 and m2  are lying in contact on a horizontal smooth table and a force F is applied on the mass m1, then equal acceleration is produced

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Laws Of Motion

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Laws Of Motion

c) When three bodies of masses m1,m2 and m3 are lying in contact on a horizontal smooth table and a horizontal force F on a body of mass:               Ac

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Laws Of Motion

§§ MOTION OF BODIES CONNECTED BY STRINGS  i) When two bodies of masses m1 and m2 are tied to the ends of a light string placed on the smooth horizontal surface, these are pulled

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Laws Of Motion

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GRAVITATION Newton's law of universal gravitation Derivation of Newton's law of universal gravitation               Newton's law of gravitation,

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Relation Between Universal Law Of Gravitation (G) and Acceleration due to gravity (g):            Let us consider the earth to be made of large number of concentric s

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Class 8 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Gravitation / 'g' in terms of R and Mean Density

Gravitation

a)In terms of Radius (R) and Mean Density \(\rho\)  we know that \( g = \frac{{Gm}} {{R^2 }} \)         \( \begin{gathered} M = \left[ {\frac{4}

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Class 8 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Gravitation / In terms Of 'M' And Density

Gravitation

b)In terms of Mass (M) and Density \(\rho\) As \( g = \frac{{Gm}} {{R^2 }} \)      \( \begin{gathered} M = \left[ {\frac{4} {3}\Pi R^3 } \right]\rho \Rightarrow R

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Class 8 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Gravitation / Variation Of 'g' With Altitude

Gravitation

VARIATION OF ‘G’ ABOVE THE SURFACE OF THE EARTH (OR) WITH ALTITUDE: Altitude refers to the height measured from the surface of the earth. Consider a body of mass m at a height h from t

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Class 8 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Gravitation / Variation Of 'g' With Depth

Gravitation

VARIATION OF g WITH DEPTH Let us assume that the earth to be a homogeneous uniform sphere of radius ‘R’,density \(\rho\) and mass ‘M’Now         &n

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Class 8 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Differentiation / Function

Differentiation

Differentiation  FUNCTION Constant : A quantity, whose value remains unchanged during mathematical operations, is called a constant quantity. The integers, fractions,\( \pi \) , e, etc are

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Class 8 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Differentiation / Differentiation

Differentiation

DIFFERENTIATION: The derivative or differential coefficient of a function is the limit to which the ratio of the small increment in the function to the corresponding small increment in the variable

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Class 8 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Differentiation / Physical Meaning Of dy/dx

Differentiation

Physical meaning of  \( \frac{{dy}} {{dx}} \): The concept of differentiation is made use of in physics in determining the instantaneous rate of change of a physical quantity w.r.t. some othe

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Class 8 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Differentiation / Theorems Of Derivation

Differentiation

4.03. THEOREMS OF DIFFERENTIATION 1. If c is a constant, then \( \frac{d} {{dx}}\left( c \right) = 0 \) 2. If y = cu, where c is a constant and u is a function of x, then \( \frac{{d

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Class 8 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Differentiation / Formulas for Differential Coefficients

Differentiation

FORMULAE FOR DIFFERENTIAL COEFFICIENTS OF TRIGONOMETRIC, LOGARITHMIC AND EXPONENTIAL FUNCTIONS 1. \( \frac{d} {{dx}}\left( {\sin x} \right) = \cos x \)         

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Class 9 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Motion Under Gravity / Acceleration Due To Gravity

Motion Under Gravity

MOTION UNDER GRAVITY ACCELERATION DUE TO GRAVITY(G) The uniform acceleration of a freely falling y towards the centre of earth due to earth's gravitational force is called acceleration due to

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Class 9 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Motion Under Gravity / Freely Falling Body

Motion Under Gravity

EQUATIONS OF MOTION FOR FREELY FALLING BODY Motion of all the dropped bodies falling rds the Earth when air resistance is ignored is mown as free fall. For a freely falling body, u=0, a=+g (i)v=u

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Class 9 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Motion Under Gravity / Time Of Descent

Motion Under Gravity

Time of descent: Time taken by the freely falling body to reach the ground from the point of dropping is called time of descent.It is denoted by td..         From&nbs

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Class 9 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Motion Under Gravity / Vertically Projected Body

Motion Under Gravity

VERTICALLY PROJECTED BODY EQUATIONS OF MOTION FOR VERTICALLY PROJECTED BODY For a body projected vertically upwards, a = g (since velocity, acceleration vectors are opposite) (i) v=u+at v=u-gt (

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Class 9 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Motion Under Gravity / Maximum Height

Motion Under Gravity

MOTION PARAMETERS OF A BODY PROJECTED VERTICALLY  UPWARDS (i) Maximum height (Hmax): "For a body projected vertically upwards, the maximum vertical displacement from ground about which i

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Class 9 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Motion Under Gravity / Time Of Ascent

Motion Under Gravity

(ii)Time of ascent (ta): "For a body projected upwards the time to reach the maximum height is called time of ascent" Expression : Let a body be projected vertically upwards with initial

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Class 9 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Motion Under Gravity / Time Of Descent

Motion Under Gravity

iii)Time of descent (td): "For a body projected upwards the time to travel from maximum height to the point of projection on ground is called time of descent" Expression : Let a body be p

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Class 9 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Motion Under Gravity / Time Of Flight

Motion Under Gravity

iv) Time of flight (tf): "For a body projected vertically upwards the sum of time of ascent and time of descent is called time of flight (tf)" It is the total time for which the body r

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Class 9 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Motion Under Gravity / Velocity Of The Body On Reaching Point of Projection

Motion Under Gravity

v)Velocity of the body on reaching the point projection (\( V_{striking} \)) Let a body be projected vertically upwards with initial velocity u. The body reaches the point of projection once agai

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Class 9 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Motion Under Gravity / Special Cases-1,2,3

Motion Under Gravity

Special cases: 1. Velocity at half maximum height =\( \frac{u} {{\sqrt 2 }} \) sol: Using the equation \( v^2 - u^2 = 2as \),we have a=-g               \

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Class 9 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Motion Under Gravity / Special Cases-4,5,6

Motion Under Gravity

4.Distance covered by a body projected vertically up in the last one second of its upward journey = Distance covered by it in the 1st second of its downward journey = Sol. For a body falling d

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Class 9 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Projection From Top Of A Tower / Projection From Top Of A Tower

Projection From Top Of A Tower

Projection From Top  Of A Tower (EXPRESSION FOR HEIGHT OF TOWER): Consider a tower of height H. Suppose a body is projected upwards vertically with initial velocity from the top of tower. Sup

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Class 9 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Projection From Top Of A Tower / Application 1

Projection From Top Of A Tower

Application-1: A balloon is rising up vertically. A stone is dropped from the balloon, when the velocity bal- loon is 'u'. At the instant, the stone velocity is also 'u' vertically

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Class 9 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Projection From Top Of A Tower / Application 2

Projection From Top Of A Tower

Application-2: Three bodies are projected from towers of same height as shown. 1st one is projected vertically up with a velocity 'u'. The second one is thrown down vertically with the same

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Class 9 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Projection From Top Of A Tower / Application 3

Projection From Top Of A Tower

Application-3 : A body projected vertically upwards from ground is at the same height h from the ground at two instants of time t1 and t2 (both being measured from the instant of projection) Now&nb

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Class 9 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Oblique Projectile From Inclined Surface / Oblique Projectile

Oblique Projectile From Inclined Surface

Oblique Projectile From Inclined Surface OBLIQUE PROJECTILE Any body projected into the air at an angle other than 90° with the horizontal near the surface of the earth, is called a projectile

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Class 9 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Oblique Projectile From Inclined Surface / The Trajectory Of A Projectile Is Parabola-Horizontal motion

Oblique Projectile From Inclined Surface

THE TRAJECTORY OF PROJECTILE IS A PARABOLA (In absence of air resistance) In absence of air resistance) Let a body be projected at 'O' with an initial velocity u that makes an angle This

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Class 9 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Oblique Projectile From Inclined Surface / The Trajectory Of A Projectile Is Parabola-Vertical Motion

Oblique Projectile From Inclined Surface

2) Now let us consider the vertical motion. In vertical direction, the acceleration of the projectile is equal to the free fall acceleration which is constant and always directed downward  &n

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Class 9 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Oblique Projectile From Inclined Surface / Motion Parameters Of Projectile-Time Of Ascent, Time Of Flight

Oblique Projectile From Inclined Surface

MOTION PARAMETERS OF A PROJECTILE i) Time of ascent (ta) For a projectile the time to reach maximum height is called time of ascent. For a projectile, the vertical component of velocity vy , is z

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Class 9 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Oblique Projectile From Inclined Surface / Maximum Height, Horizontal Range

Oblique Projectile From Inclined Surface

iii) Maximum height (Hmax): The vertical displacement of a projectile during time of ascent is the maximum height of the projectile. In the equation \( y = (u\sin \theta )t - \frac{1} {2}gt^2 \)

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Class 9 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Oblique Projectile From Inclined Surface / Velocity Of Projectile In Any Instant

Oblique projectile From Inclined Surface

v) Velocity of the Projectile at any Instant 't': The horizontal component of the projectile remains constant all the time. (because acceleration due to gravity has no component along the h

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Class 9 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Oblique Projectile From Inclined Surface / Important Points- 1to 6

Oblique Projectile From Inclined Surface

important points: 1.The horizontal component of velocity remains constant all along. (since acceleration due to gravity has no component along the horizontal. 2.The vertical component of velocit

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Class 9 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Oblique Projectile From Inclined Surface / Important Points-7,8

Oblique Projectile From Inclined Surface

7.If 'T' is the time of flight of a projectile, maximum height H=\( \frac{1} {8}gT^2 \) Sol. We know that , \( T = \frac{{2u\sin \theta }} {g} \Rightarrow u = \frac{{gT}} {{2\sin

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Class 9 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Oblique Projectile From Inclined Surface / Important Points-9,10,11

Oblique Projectile From Inclined Surface

9.    \( RTan\theta = 4{\rm H} = \frac{1} {2}gT^2 \)     range of a projectile is maximum when angle of projection 45° ,   \( \therefore R = \frac{{u^2 \

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Class 9 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Horizontal Projectile / Introduction

Horizontal Projectile

HORIZONTAL PROJECTILE Any body projected into the air at an angle other than 90° with the horizontal near the surface of the earth, is called a projectile. The science of projectile motion is

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Class 9 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Horizontal Projectile / Horizontal projection from top of a tower

Horizontal Projectile

HORIZONTAL PROJECTION FROM THE TOP OF A TOWER  Equation for Path (Trajectory):                          Suppose a body is p

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Class 9 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Horizontal Projectile / Time of Descent and Range

Horizontal Projectile

MOTION PARAMETERS OF A HORIZONTAL PROJECTILE i) Time of Descent: It is the time the body takes to touch the ground after it is projected from the height 'h'. For y = h and t = t we get &

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Class 9 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Horizontal Projectile / Velocity at any point

Horizontal Projectile

iii) Velocity of the projectile at any time 't' Let the body be at point P after the time t. Let vx and vy be velocities along x and y-directions. The horizontal velocity remains constant

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Class 9 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Horizontal Projectile / Applications

Horizontal Projectile

Application-1 : If a body projected horizontally with velocity u from the top of a tower strikes the ground at an angle of 45°                

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Class 9 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Horizontal Projectile / Applications

Horizontal Projectile

Application-3: A body is projected horizontally from the top of a tower. The line joining the point of projection and the striking point make an angle of 45° with the ground. Then, the displaceme

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Class 9 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Horizontal Projectile / Applications

Horizontal Projectile

Application-5 An aeroplane flies horizontally with a velocity 'u'. If a bomb is dropped by the pilot when the plane is at a height 'h' then a) the path of such as body is a vertical

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Class 9 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Horizontal Projectile / Applications

Horizontal Projectile

Application-8: Two bodies are thrown horizontally with velocities u1,u2  in mutually opposite directions from the same height. (or) A bomb at rest explodes into two fragments at a height 'h

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Class 9 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Newton's Laws Of Motion / Newton's 1st Law

Newton's Laws Of Motion

NEWTON’S LAWS OF MOTION Newton’s Laws of Motion : Newton’s First Law : Statement : "A body remains in a state of rest or of uniform motion unless acted uponby an external fo

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Class 9 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Newton's Laws Of Motion / Examples On Newton's 1st Law

Newton's Laws Of Motion

Consider the following example. A string with its one end connected to a ball and the other end held in hand is made to execute a circular motion. The string must providethe necessary centripetal for

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Class 9 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Newton's Laws Of Motion / Newton's 2nd Law

Newton's Laws Of Motion

Newton’s Second law : Statement :  The rate of change of momentum of a body is directly proportional to the external force and the change in momentum takes place in the direction of the

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Class 9 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Newton's Laws Of Motion / Newton's 3rd Law

Newton's Laws Of Motion

NEWTON”S THIRC LAW:for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Examples: 1. Swimming. A swimmer pushes the water backwards (action).The water pushes the swimmer forward(re

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Class 9 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Newton's Laws Of Motion / Law of Conservation of Linear Momentum

Newton's Laws Of Motion

change of its linear momentum: Law of conservation of linear momentum: Collision: If a number of bodies collide with one  another then total momentum of the bodies, just before collision

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Class 9 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Newton's Laws Of Motion / Law of Conservation of Linear Momentum

Newton's Laws Of Motion

change of its linear momentum: Law of conservation of linear momentum: Collision: If a number of bodies collide with one  another then total momentum of the bodies, just before collision

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Class 9 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Newton's Laws Of Motion / Applications of Law of Conservation of Linear Momentum - Application

Newton's Laws Of Motion

§§ APPLICATIONS OF THE PRINCIPLE OF CONSERVATION OF LINEAR MOMENTUM 1) Recoiling of a gun. When a bullet is fired from a gun, the gun recoils i.e. moves in a direction opposite to th

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Class 9 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Newton's Laws Of Motion / Applications - 2, 3, 4

Newton's Laws Of Motion

2) Flight of rockets and jet planes. In rockets and jet planes,the fuel is burnt in the presence of some oxidising agent in combustion chamber. The hot and highly compressed gases escape through

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Class 9 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Dot Product / Dot Product or Scalar Product

Dot Product

Dot Product DOT PRODUCT OR SCALAR PRODUCT In the previous chapters, we have studied vector quantities like displacement, velocity, acceleration, momentum, force etc. Addition and subtraction of ve

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Class 9 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Dot Product / Properties of Scalar Product

Dot Product

PROPERTIES OF SCALAR PRODUCT a) The dot product between two vectors obeys commutative law i.e., \( \overrightarrow P .\overrightarrow Q = \overrightarrow Q .\overrightarrow P \) b) T

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Class 9 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Dot Product / Examples of Scalar Product

Dot Product

Examples of scalar product: a) The scalar product of force and displacement, is called workdone by that force.     i.e., \( W = \overrightarrow F .\overrightarrow S \) b)&n

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Class 9 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Dot Product / Applications

Dot Product

Application : Geometrically, \( Q\cos \theta \) is the projection of \( \overrightarrow Q \text{ }onto\text{ }\overrightarrow P \) and \( P\cos \theta \) is the projection o

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Class 9 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Work / Introduction, Definition And Units Of Work

Work

WORK INTRODUCTION: The terms ‘work’, ‘energy’ and ‘power’ are frequently used in everyday language. A farmer clearing weeds in his field is said to be working h

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Class 9 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Work / Types of Work Done

Work

TYPES OF WORKDONE:  

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Class 9 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Work / Zero Work

Work

Zero work : Under three condition, work done becomes zero  W=Fscos\(\theta\) = 0 (1) If the force is perpendicular to the displacement              \( \l

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Class 9 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Work / Examples Of Positive And Negative Work

Work

EXAMPLES: Examples of positive work done 1. Kicking a football                    2. Moving a chair 3. Throwing a stone

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Class 9 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Work / Work done due to constant force

Work

WORKDONE DUE TO CONSTANT FORCE Let a constant force \(\overrightarrow F\)  be applied on the body such that it makes an angle  \(\theta\) with the horizontal and body is displaced through

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Class 9 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Work / Problems On Work done due to constant force

Work

Problem 1.  A body of mass 5 kg is placed at the origin, and can move only on the x-axis. A force of 10 N is acting on it in a direction making an angle of 600 with the x-axis and displaces it al

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Class 9 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Work / Work done due to a variable force

Work

WORKDONE DUE TO VARIABLE FORCE:  When the magnitude and direction of a force varies with position, the work done by such a force for an infinitesimal displacement is given by  \( dW = \

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Class 9 / IIT Foundation Plus Physics / Work / Problems On Work done due to variable force

Work

Problem 6. A position dependent force \( \overrightarrow F = \left( {7 - 2x + 3x^2 } \right)N \) acts on a small abject of mass 2 kg to displace it from x=0 to x=5m. The work done in joule is

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