The publication work of forth issue of HimNayani have been started. Devender Sharma is the Editor in Chief of this issue.

Science Section



TRICKY MATHEMATICS
Long ago, a mathematician used to cheat people. Once he borrowed Rs. 4,000 from a rich man. After a few days borrowed Rs. 2,000 from the same man. Many days past, the mathematician did not return the money to the rich man. The rich man went to the mathematician and asked to return the money to him. But to his great surprise, the mathematician replied that there is no need to pay the debt “See here, friend” said the mathematician. ‘The sum of 4,000 and 2,000 is equal to 0’. So I do not have any balance to pay. The rich man took the matter to the court when the judge came to know this, he was astonished. He asked the mathematician to prove that sum of 4,000 and 2,000 is zero and not 6,000. The clever mathematician agreed he said:
          Let     a        = 4000
                    b        = 2000
          And   c        = 6000
                   a+b    = c
          Multiplying both sides by (a+b)
          (a+b) (a+b)            = c (a+b)
          a2 + ab+ ba+ b2         = ca + cb
          a2 + ab – ac           = b2 – ba + cb
          a (a+b-c)               = -b (b+a-c)
So      a = -b
          a + b = 0
Hence 4000+2000 = 0
Shruti Thakur
10+2 (Non-medical).

CONCEPT OF GREEN CHEMISTRY
The term ‘Green Chemistry’ was coined in 1991 by Anasta. The purpose is to design chemicals and chemical processes that will be less harmful to human health and environment. Green Chemistry protects the environment, not by cleaning up, but by inventing new chemical processes that do not pollute. Green Chemistry is the utilization of a set of principles that will help to reduce the use of generation of hazardous substances during the manufacture and application of chemical products. Its seeks to reduce pollution at source. The fundamental idea of green chemistry is that, the designer of a chemical is responsible for considering what will happen to the world after the chemical agent is put in place. The practice of green chemistry means doing clean chemistry, and it cannot be less chemistry. It is a rapidly developing and an important area in the chemical sciences.
Swati Sharma
10+2 (Medical)


PUZZLES:-
1.   How can you make a total of 1000 by using sixteen 4’s ?
2.   Can you write 13 using only the digit 3 five time ?
    Pritika
10+2 (Non-medical)

Puzzle Answers:
Ans.1. 444+444+44+44+4+4+4+4+4+4   
Ans.2. 33+3+3/3


GLOBAL WARMING
Some of the gases in the atmosphere help to keep the earth warm. They trap heat from the sun in the same way that a greenhouse traps heat. This process is known as the green house effect. But as these gases increases, the earth could be becoming too warm.
Green House Gases: -     The earth’s surface absorbs some of the heat from the sun, but the rest of bounced back into the atmosphere. Most of it escapes into space, but some is trapped in the atmosphere by gases known as ‘Green House Gases’. The main green house gases are carbon dioxide and water in the form of clouds. As the amount of green house gases increases, more heat is trapped.
          Most greenhouse gases occur naturally, but industrial process and other pollution are increasing the amount of green houses gases in the atmosphere. Scientist think that this may be causing the earth to be come warmer. This process is known as global warming.
Green House Effects:-   
Rising sea level: - As temperature, so will the sea level. This will eventually result in the flooding of low-lying areas. Scientist estimate that the sea level is rising at a rate of 1-2mm year. It may rise by further 0.25-1m by the year 2100. There are two main reason for the increased volume of water. Firstly as the ocean heat up, the water expands. The sea level rises because the water is taking up more space. Secondly, the higher temperature may cause glaciers and polar icecaps to melt. This water will then flood into the sea.
Changing climate: -        If temperature rise, climate all over the world will be affected. Scientist predict that the average temperatures will increase by around 200 C. The effect this will have is not known. Some areas may become warmer and drier, and other wetter. There may also be an increase in extreme weather such as strong winds and rainstorms.
          Changing in climate will also affected the habitats of plant and animals. This could help some species to thrive. While other may be forced to move in search of food and water is therefore for survive.
Shifting of balance: -      People have already begun to take steps to reduce the emission of gases that contribute to global warming. The main ways that this can be achieved are by looking at alternative energy and reduce pollution levels.
Sachin
10+2 (Non-medical).

LIFE OF SCIENCE STUDENT
The life of a student is full of cares and worries. He is unable to discover a catalyst that can decrease the rate of his worries. He can’t have a sleep because the ultrasonic sound of physics always buzzing near his ears. Thus like a bat he grasps all his books and start studying. The force of attraction attracts him to his textbooks but the force of repulsion always respect him for studying them. The balance of physics and chemistry puts his mind out of the balance. “Equilibrium Balance”. The balance of his mind get disturbed and his brain can’t attain the state of equilibrium until his books are stacked in a close cupboard. On opening a chapter on “Electric Current” the current of his fear flows through the body. Somehow science student learns and enters examination hall, his brain gets heated up due to friction to remember everything. The ground heat evaporates everything, but still he should follow the principle: “try-try again”.
Shruti Thakur
10+2 (Non-medical).

SOLAR SYSTEM
Stars:-
          We see a large number of stars in the sky at night. Stars are big heavenly bodies. They are huge balls of fiery gases which produce their own heat and light. They look small as they are exceedingly far from the earth. Stars appear to remain fixed at one place. The sun is also a star. We get heat and light from the sun. The sun and other stars is that the sun is relatively very close to us. Others stars are very far from the earth. We do not feel their heat. We get very little light from them.
Solar System:-
          There are some other bright objects in the sky which move around the sun along fixed paths. These are called planets. There are eight planets in our solar system. Each planets revolves around the sun on its own path which is called on orbit. The orbits are curved paths. All planets revolve around the sun in the same direction, anti-clockwise, except Venus, which travels in clockwise direction. The eight planets in their order of increasing distance from the sun are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.
Pluto, which was also classified as a planet few years back, is now considered as a dwarf planet.
Moons:-
          Small heavenly bodies which move around the planets are called moons or satellites. They do not have their own light but reflect the light of the Sun. Earth has one moon. Both Saturn and Jupiter have more than sixty moons each. Some planets do no have any moon. The Sun, the light planets and their moons and a number of asteroids together form the Solar System.
Earth:-
          Earth was a huge ball of dust and burning gases. It kept on spinning. As it spun around for million of years, its outer surface became cold and hard. Some of the hot gases escaped while some were trapped inside. So, the outer surface of the Earth is hard but the inside has not molten material. The Earth’s outer most hard layer is called the crust. The inner layer of the Earth is called its core. The core has not gases inside it.
Movement of the Earth:-
          The Earth completes one rotation in 24 hours. The rotation of the Earth causes day and night.
Movement around the Sun:-
          Our Earth completes one revolution in 364  days, which is also called a Solar year. The revolution of Earth causes seasons.

Jyotsna Kaushik
10+2 (Medical)


INDIAN MATHEMATICIANS
1.   Ramanujam:-      
He was born on 22nd of Dec. 1887 in a small village of Tanjore District Madras. He failed in English in Intermidiate, so his formal studies were stopped but his self study of Mathematics continued. He sent a set of 120 theorems to Professor Hardy of Cambridge. As a result he invited Ramanujam to England. Ramanujam showed that any big number can be written as sum of not more than four prime numbers. He showed, how to divide the number into two or more squares or cubes. When Mr. Littlewood came to see Ramanujam in taxi number 1729, Ramanujam said that 1729 is the smallest number which can be written in the form of sum of cubes of two numbers in two ways i.e.
1729 = 93 + 103 = 13 + 123
Since then the number 1729 is called Ramanujan’s number.
2.   Aryabhata:-
Aryabhata was born in 476 A.D. in Kusumpur India. He was the first person to say that Earth is spherical and it revolves around the Sun. He gave the formula (a+b)2 = a2 +b2+ 2ab.
3.   Brahmagupta:-
Brahmagupta was born in 598 A.D. in Pakistan. He gave four methods of multiplication. He gave the following formula, used in G.P. Series:-
a+ar+ar2+ar3+ …. +arn-1 = a(rn-1)
                                           r-1
 
4.   Shakuntala Devi:-
She was born in 1939. In 1980 she gave the product of two nos. of having thirteen digit each within 28 seconds, many countries have invited her to demonstrate her extraordinary talent. In Dallas she competed with a computer to see who give the cube root of 188138517 faster, she won. At the University of USA she was asked to give the 23rd root of 9167486769200391580986609275853801624831066801
4430862240712651642793465704086709605620821016129132845564895780158806771.
She answered in 50 seconds. The answer is 546372891. It took a UNIVAC.1108 computer, full one minute (10 seconds more) to confirm that she was right after it was fed with 1300 instructions. Now she is known to be Human Computer.

Shruti Thakur
10+2 (Non-medical)


COMPUTERS: THEIR IMPORTANCE IN DAY TO DAY LIFE.
Computers are playing an increasingly important part in our day to day life. There is hardly any field where computers are not used these days. They are used in education, in sports, in business, in large calculations, in weather-forecasts and even in medicine. They are used in helpful in deciding the cause of diseases. Large business houses make use of computers in calculating their payrolls, preparing bills and checking payments. Computers are playing an important part in teaching also. They have proved very helpful in teaching the students and testing their knowledge. In short, it has now became almost impossible to do without computers in any field of modern life.
Nidhi
10+2 (Medical)

Let’s Play Cricket
Team +2 Science

Batsman                                            Students
Bowler                                               The paper setter
Umpire                                              Paper Checker
Scorer                                                Examiner
Play Ground                                      G.S.S.S. Kahlog
Spectators                                         Helpless Guardians
Commentator                                    Marks Sheet
Expert Comment                               Classmates
Sixer                                                  Distinctions
Four                                                  First Class
Yorker                                               Compulsory Questions.
Googly                                               Changed Pattern
Bouncer                                            Questions from optional choices.
Umpire Decision                                35/100
Clean Bold                                        Fail
Oh ! its no ball                                  Passed in supplementary exams.

                                                          Ajay Kumar
                                                          10+2 (Non-medical)


FACTS ABOUT ANIMALS
1.       Dolphins:-
Dolphins have little or no sense of smell. They use their sense of taste to judge what food to eat.
2.       Apollo Butterflies:-
Apollo Butterflies are the strongest fliers. They can fly over high hills and even mountains.
3.       Bee:-
A Bee can string only once in its entire lifetime.
4.       Crab:-        
Crab spiders can change colour to hide in flowers and plants to catch small insects for food.
5.       Crocodiles:-
Cannot focus their eyes under water but can see very well above the surface.
6.       Snails:-
Have four noses.
7.       Cuckoos:-
Cuckoos are so lazy that they don’t make their own nests. They lay their eggs in Crow’s nest.
8.       Argentinosaurs:-
Is the biggest dinosaur ever discovered.
9.       Oysters:-
Can change their gender several times during their life time.
10.    Titanis:-
Was a huge flightless hunting bird that ate toothed tegers.

Jyotsna Kaushik
10+2 (Medical)


ANALYSIS OF BACK BENCHERS
1.   Symbol – Bb
2.   Atomic number – 420
3.   Chemical formula: Backbench + Mishchief.
4.   Chemical properties:-
(i)           Reacts with chalk to make cartoons on the board or to throw pieces on their classmates.
(ii)          Always take part in gossips and fights.
(iii)        Not a good conductor of peace.
5.   Physical properties:-
(i)           Rarely found in class.
(ii)          Always late in class.
(iii)        Mostly found in cinema halls. Colourful in appearance, looks like a hero, but indeed a zero.
6.   Uses:-
(i)           Good consumers of their parents property.
(ii)          They cause headache to the teachers.
Shruti Thakur
10+2 (Non-medical)


GENERAL KNOWLEDGE
1.   Earth is the only planet not named after a god.
2.   You are born with 300 bones, but by the time you become an adult; you only have 206.
3.   Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
4.   The longest highway in the world is the Trans-Canada.
5.   The Country also known as County of “Copper” is Zambia.
6.   The biggest desert in the world is the Sahara desert.
7.   The largest coffee growing country in the world is Brazil.
8.   Some worms will eat themselves if they can’t find any food.
Pritika
10+2 (Non-medical)


PLANT LIFE ON EARTH

The Earth is the only planet known to support living things, or organisms. There are millions of different kind of living things on Earth. They fall into two main group: animals and plants. To survive, nearly all of them need light and heat from the sun, food, water and air. The sun provides energy in the form of light.

The Green Planet:-
          Most planet on Earth have been leaves and stem. This is because plants contain a green substances called chlorophyll, which helps them to make their food by a process called photosynthesis. This is because of the billions of plants covering most of its surface.
Plant food:-
          Plant feed themselves by turning light from the sun into food chemicals in their leaves. This is called photosynthesis, which means “building with light”.
          For photosynthesis to happen, plants also need water and nutrients from the soil. They absorb these through their roots. They also take in carbon dioxide, a gas found in the air, through tiny holes in their leaves called stomata. They then use all these things to make glucose, a kind of sugars which they can feed on. Oxygen and water are produced too.

Plant babies:-
          Like all living things, plants reproduce. They do this by making seeds. The seeds usually from inside the flower. They may then be carried a long way by the wing before falling to ground and beginning to grow.
Types of plants:-
          Different types of living things are called species. There are millions of species of plants, from tiny flowers to enormous trees called giant sequoias, which are the biggest living things on Earth.

Why we need plants:-
          Plants are essential for life on Earth. Without them, the planet would look totally different, and there would be no people or animals. Animals even meat eaters need plants, because plant form the basis of all food chains. Plant also give out oxygen and water, which animal and people need; and their roots hold the soil together. Without them, the soil would wash away into the sea. We use plants in many other ways, such as for wood and to make medicines, fabrics and perfumes. The Aloe, one of the thousands of plants from which we extract essence, is used in cosmetic and natural medicines.
Nidhika
10+2 (Medical)



SCIENCE JOKES
Once there was a question between Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics. Physics said that I can destroy the world by my tanks and rockets.
          At this chemistry said I can destroy the world by my dangerous chemical reactions. At last mathematics said that I can destroy the world by closing it into the brackets and then multiplying with zero.
Once there were three friends Mr. Physics, Mr. Chemistry and Mr. Mathematics. One day they had gone for a walk by the lake. Mr. Math said, “ Friends let me jump into this pool and final its depth”. He jumped into the pool. Mr. Physics & Mr. Chemistry got worried about him. So Mr. Physics said let I jump into this pool and find out that why the law of floatation not worked. So he also jumped into pool. After sometime when neither of them appeared Mr. Chemistry said sadly, “Hence proved that both were saluble in the water”.
Ajay Kumar
10+2 (Non-medical)


SIGNIFICANCE OR SOME FACTS ABOUT COLOUR
1.   Why is red colour used for signal lights?
It is because red light scattered the least by air molecules, has the longest wavelength and is visible from far.
2.   Why is army uniform Khaki in colour?
Because it is excellent camouflage (merge with the surroundings) shades to be worm detection by enemies.
3.   Why do the three colours in the Indian Flag represent?
Saffron:       stands for courage, sacrifice and spirit.
White:         stands for truth, purity and peace.
Green:         stands for faith and fertility.
Jyotsna Kaushik
10+2 (Medical).

KNOWLEDGE OF VITAMINS
Vitamin A:- Its chemical name is retinol. It is also called bright eye vitamin.
Function:- It helps in proper growth and normal skeletal development of the body.
(i)           It is essential for healthy teeth structure.
(ii)          It helps in the maintenance of healthy, growing soft skin.
Source: - Butter, Liver, Carrots, Spinach, Ghee,  Yellow Pumpkin, Fish Oil, Milk etc.
Deficiency: - It causes night blindness and xerophtnalmia i.e. hardening of Cornea Eye.
Vitamin B: - Its chemical name is thiamine.
Function:-
(i)           It helps in carbohydrate metabolism.
(ii)          It helps in functioning of heart nerves and muscles.
Sources:- Milk, Pulses, Sea Food, Green Vegetables, Dairy Products etc.
Deficiency:- Beri-beri.
Vitamin C:- Its chemical name is ascorbic acid.
Function:-
(i)           It is necessary for keeping teeth, gums and joints healthy.
(ii)          It helps in healing of cuts and wounds.
(iii)        It gives resistance to our body against diseases and infection.
Sources:-     Amla, Tomatoes, Mangoes, Oranges, Lemmon, Apples etc.
Deficiency: Scurvy.
Vitamin D:- It is also called calciferol.
Function:-
(i)           It keeps the bones and teeth healthy.
(ii)          It helps in the utilization of calcium and phosphorus.
Sources:- Cod Liver oil, Butter Milk, Egg Yak, Fish, Ghee, Cheese etc.
Deficiency:- Causes rickets.
Vitamin K:- It is also called phylloquihone.
(i)           It helps in clotting of blood and prevents hemorrhage.
Sources:- Green Leaf Vegetables, Soya been, Cabbage, Vegetables Oils, Spinach Tomatoes.
Deficiency: Vitamin K causes hemorrhage lengthens and the time of the blood clotting.
Pritika
10+2 (Non-medical)


SOME INTERESTING FACT’S ABOUT HUMAN SKELETON.

v  Human body has 206 bones.
v  Stapes is the smallest bone of human body, while femur is the longest bone of human body.
v  Human body has about 65% of H2O.
v  The human body has a pair of lungs: the right lung is the larger than the left.
v  Liver is the largest gland in human body.
v  Protein helps in growth of body.
v  A normal human adult body contain about 5.5 liters of blood.
v  The four groups of human blood are A,B, AB, O.
v  People having the blood “O” are universal donor.
v  The heart of a normal adult beats 72 times per minute.
v  Heart beat increases during exercise, exertion and excitement.
Nidhika
10+2 (Medical)