Monthly Archive:: November 2014
06 Nov 2014
Corn plastics or Bio-plastics: The challenges
Plastics are used widely in everyday. They are quite dangerous to our environment as they are non bio degradable meaning they don’t decay. So there is a need to keep on recycling them. Also the plastics are manufactured from oil which is a non renewable resource. They are actually carbon based polymers of different organic
05 Nov 2014
Atmosphere of the moon
Moon was thought to have no atmosphere until recently. Discovery of existence of water on the surface of moon have led to the idea that moon indeed has an atmosphere. Presence of minute amounts of ice was detected by the satellites launched in the lunar orbit. If there is ice, then there must be water
04 Nov 2014
All about winning..
It was games day and Amar was a bit nervous. He has wanted the trophy for the fastest boy in school for a long while. Every time that he tried he would be beaten by about three other boys. This meant that Amar never got a medal for either the first, second or third place.
04 Nov 2014
Undersea mountains: Basics ought to be known.
Undersea mountain ranges are a huge interconnected mountain system that extends more than 40,000 miles through the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans. The best known among them is the Mid-Atlantic ridge. Many of the mountains formed at the mid-ocean ridges have been carried away from the ridge as new ocean crust forms and sea floor
03 Nov 2014
Escape velocity and satellites.
We know that rockets launch satellites. The rockets are fired from the ground into the outer space. Once the rocket reaches extremely thin air up, the rocket's navigational system releases the satellite. Rockets are fired once again to ensure some separation between the launch vehicle and the satellite itself. A rocket is controlled very precisely