CBSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE & LITERATURE

CLASS 10

THE MAKING OF A SCIENTIST

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What was the main point that Richard Feynman had when retelling the Encyclopedia Britannica story?
A
his father taught him to translate
B
dinosaurs had a lot of magnitude
C
dinosaurs were as tall as a two story building
D
they liked to read
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The message Feynman is trying to convey by the dinosaur example aligns quite well with this task: when you read something you must translate it so you truly understand it.

Detailed explanation-2: -Feynman provided a quantum-mechanical explanation for the Soviet physicist Lev Landau’s theory of superfluidity. Applying the Schrödinger equation to the question showed that the superfluid was displaying quantum mechanical behavior observable on a macroscopic scale.

Detailed explanation-3: -Richard Feynman was a Nobel-prizewinning US theoretical physicist. Famed for his brilliant mind and mercurial personality, his main work was in … quantum physics and particle physics, where he is particularly known for the Feynman diagram, a way of depicting particle processes graphically.

Detailed explanation-4: -Feynman’s genius lay in his ability to understand and present complex ideas in an intuitive and natural way. It is the reason Feynman remains an inspiration. He would exemplify this concept many times during his career, but never more so than in the development of his Feynman Diagrams.

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