We all remember that scene from the bollywood movie "3 idiots" where the professor asks the class the definition of machine.
When I passed from standard X, those days it used to be a compulsory board exam and with scores not grades. I used to wait for new books to read. My father taught Physics to me and others in my class. (Yes, my father is a teacher in KV. Which KV ? A lot many. Teachers and their family including kids used to get transferred every 3 or 4 years).
So when I got in Class XI. I was so eager to read all these new science, new things and new undiscovered worlds to explore. So I started with Physics. I picked one of my father's book and it was like more than 2000 pages almost as thick as my mother's Ramayana book, which she used to read in 2 days on occasion of Ramanavmi. And I started with my first chapter and first topic in the book. the book was called Comprehensive Physics XI or Pradeep's Physics XI. I do not remember which one I started with. Both books were same word by word except the cover-page.
The first chapter was about science. And as the chapter was Science , it started with the definition of science. It had the definition of science by Einstein and Newton and Faraday and by every other scientist or mathematician or botanist or doctor or may be some plumber. As I had just passed standard X where books used to be as thin as H C Verma's Physics, I used to read line by line almost everything, and had the understanding that anything can be asked in the exam. So to remember the definition of Science by different Scientist given in some 15 pages, it took me some 7 or 8 days. Oh god finally, did it.
So you can imagine the level of excitement I had. I started with the next topic. And what a wonderful topic it was. A complete new thing, it was the definition of Physics.
When I passed from standard X, those days it used to be a compulsory board exam and with scores not grades. I used to wait for new books to read. My father taught Physics to me and others in my class. (Yes, my father is a teacher in KV. Which KV ? A lot many. Teachers and their family including kids used to get transferred every 3 or 4 years).
So when I got in Class XI. I was so eager to read all these new science, new things and new undiscovered worlds to explore. So I started with Physics. I picked one of my father's book and it was like more than 2000 pages almost as thick as my mother's Ramayana book, which she used to read in 2 days on occasion of Ramanavmi. And I started with my first chapter and first topic in the book. the book was called Comprehensive Physics XI or Pradeep's Physics XI. I do not remember which one I started with. Both books were same word by word except the cover-page.
The first chapter was about science. And as the chapter was Science , it started with the definition of science. It had the definition of science by Einstein and Newton and Faraday and by every other scientist or mathematician or botanist or doctor or may be some plumber. As I had just passed standard X where books used to be as thin as H C Verma's Physics, I used to read line by line almost everything, and had the understanding that anything can be asked in the exam. So to remember the definition of Science by different Scientist given in some 15 pages, it took me some 7 or 8 days. Oh god finally, did it.
So you can imagine the level of excitement I had. I started with the next topic. And what a wonderful topic it was. A complete new thing, it was the definition of Physics.
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