States of Matter by Deepak Dhar

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Channel: International Centre for Theoretical Sciences · 2018 · Science & Technology

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States of Matter

Speaker: Deepak Dhar (Visiting Faculty, IISER Pune)

When: 4pm to 6pm Sunday, 09 December 2018

Where: J. N. Planetarium, Sri T. Chowdaiah Road, High Grounds, Bangalore

We have all read that matter exists in one of three different states: solid, liquid and the gaseous state. But what exactly is the difference between these states? Are there other states of matter possible? This talk will begin with these easy to pose questions, and I will try to show that a good understanding of these is not quite so straight forward. This is an attempt to describe the way scientists go about trying to understand and describe nature.

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