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States of matter

Popular Physics 2009-04-20 v2

Abstract

This is a written version of a popular science talk for school children given on India's National Science Day 2009 at Mumbai. I discuss what distinguishes solids, liquids and gases from each other. I discuss briefly granular matter that in some ways behave like solids, and in other ways like liquids.

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@article{arxiv.0904.2664,
  title  = {States of matter},
  author = {Deepak Dhar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0904.2664},
  year   = {2009}
}

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5 pages, eps figures, written version of a public lecture given at Mumbai on Feb 28, 2009