Earth is Round | Kannada
Channel: Arvind Gupta
Date: 18/08/2016

This is a very simple experiment which shows that our Earth has a shape of a huge ball. You will need a big plastic ball, marker and a pen knife. Take a big plastic ball and mark a small rectangle on it with a marker pen. Then we will cut this rectangle with a pen knife. Remove the small piece from the ball. On examining you will find that the small piece looks flat both on the top and bottom surface. This is what we see on mother earth. If we look at a huge field or a large playground it usually appears flat to us. But this field or playground is actually part of our mother earth which is a huge sphere.

This work is supported by IUCAA (www.iucaa.in) and TATA Trust (http://www.tatatrusts.org/) and (www.tata.com/aboutus/sub_index/Tata-trusts)

TATA Trust: Education is one of the key focus areas for Tata Trusts, aiming towards enabling access of quality education to the underprivileged population in India. To facilitate quality in teaching and learning of Science education through workshops, capacity building and resource creation, Tata Trusts have been supporting Muktangan Vigyan Shodhika (MVS), IUCAA's Children’s Science Centre, since inception. To know more about other initiatives of Tata Trusts, please visit www.tatatrusts.org

Credits:,Ashok Rupner, Manish Jain, Pradnya Pujari, Shivaji Mane, Jyoti Hiremath, Arvind Gupta, Vidula Mhaiskar

Dubbed in Kannada by PK Nanawaty