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  2. History of physics - Wikipedia

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    Ancient history. Elements of what became physics were drawn primarily from the fields of astronomy, optics, and mechanics, which were methodologically united through the study of geometry. These mathematical disciplines began in antiquity with the Babylonians and with Hellenistic writers such as Archimedes and Ptolemy.

  3. Physics - Wikipedia

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    Physics is the natural science of matter, involving the study of matter, its fundamental constituents, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force. Physics is one of the most fundamental scientific disciplines, with its main goal being to understand how the universe behaves.

  4. Linguistic history of India - Wikipedia

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    Hindustani is right now the most spoken language in the Indian subcontinent and the fourth most spoken language in the world. The development of Hindustani revolves around the various Hindi dialects originating mainly from Sauraseni Apabhramsha. A Jain text Shravakachar written in 933AD is considered the first Hindi book.

  5. Aryabhata - Wikipedia

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    Aryabhata is the author of several treatises on mathematics and astronomy, some of which are lost. He was student of Nalanda University, later becoming head of a department. Much of the research made at Nalanda included subjects in astronomy, mathematics, physics, biology, medicine, and other fields.

  6. Hindi - Wikipedia

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    Modern Standard Hindi, [a] commonly referred to as Hindi, is the standardised variety of the Hindustani language used as the official language of India alongside English. It is written in Devanagari script and is the lingua franca of North India.

  7. Nuclear physics - Wikipedia

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    Nuclear physics. Nuclear physics is the field of physics that studies atomic nuclei and their constituents and interactions, in addition to the study of other forms of nuclear matter . Nuclear physics should not be confused with atomic physics, which studies the atom as a whole, including its electrons .

  8. History of Hindustani language - Wikipedia

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    During this time Hindustani was the language of both Hindus and Muslims. The non-communal nature of the language lasted until the British Raj in India, when in 1837 Hindustani in the Persian script (i.e. Urdu) replaced Persian as the official language and was made co-official along with English.

  9. C. V. Raman - Wikipedia

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    Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman FRS (/ ˈ r ɑː m ə n /; 7 November 1888 – 21 November 1970) was an Indian physicist known for his work in the field of light scattering. Using a spectrograph that he developed, he and his student K. S. Krishnan discovered that when light traverses a transparent material, the deflected light changes its wavelength.