Life is Like That !
[ Albert Einstein ]

     Albert Einstein's theory of bending of light been proved right to the exact decimal point, during the eclipse of 1919. When Einstein received photographers, he viewed them with a twinkle in his eyes. "Now that my Theory of Relativity has been proved true," he chuckled, "Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. Had my theory been proved false, False would have said that I was German and Germany would have declared that I was a Jew."

     On being asked the theory of relativity, Einstein said, "When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute it will seem like more than an hour. This is relativity."

     When the Nazis found out that Einstein was not going to return from the USA, they were enraged and they plundered and ransacked his house, confiscating all his bank documents. They also put prize of US$ 1,000 on Einstein's head. When he heard of this, Einstein remarked, "I did not know it was worth so much."

     Churchill Eisenhart, son of the former Dean of Princeton University, tells of a telephone call to the Dean's office. The caller said, "Perhaps you could direct me to where Dr.Einstein lives." Since it had been agreed that Einstein was to be protected from inquisitive callers, the request was politely refused. The voice on the other end dropped to a whisper and continued, "Please do not tell anybody, but I am on my way home and have forgotten where my house is."

     Asked one day for a mathematical formula for success in life, Einstein gave the following one, "If A is success in life, then the formula is A equals X plus Y plus Z. X being work and Y being play.
          "And what is Z?" the questioner promptly asked.
          "Keeping your mouth shut," was the reply.

Check Your Physics!
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1. It is easier to pull than push a lawn mower. Why?
2. A man standing in a bus at rest jerked backwards as the bus starts moving in the forward direction suddenly. Why?
3. A cricketer lowers his hands his hands while catching a ball. Why?
4. Why does the image in a mirror reflected from left to right and not top to bottom? 5. Why does the weight of a body decreases in water?
6. An astronaut in a satellite orbiting close to earth experiences weightlessness. Why?
7. The moon rounds the Earth in almost circular orbit. Does Earth perform some work on the moon?
8. A shell has kinetic energy and momentum. Just then it explodes. What about the momentum and kinetic energy of the pieces?
9. Why is it so the two identical spheres of which one is solid and other hollow take different times to descend on inclined plane?
10. If a ball dropped from a satellite orbiting around the earth, will it each surface of Earth? Why?

Check Your IQ!
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     Point out the last letter of the correct words formed by the following jumbled spellings.
1. SUGILNES
a) S      b) G     c) E      d) L     
2. OVREC
a) C       b) R      c) V       d) E     
3. GANURP
a) G       b) P      c)R       d) A     
4. RSHTI
a)T       b) R       c) I       d)S     
5. SGLAS
a) S       b) L       c) G       d) A     
6. NNECOCT
a) T       b) N       c) E       d) O     
7. TCHCA
a)C       b) T      c)A       d) H     
8. ROABD
a)R       b) B       c) D       d) A     
9. PETYREWRIT
a) P       b) T       c) R       d)E     
10.RUMMRU
a)U      b) R       c)M       d) E     

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