What did Einstein call his desk drawer at the patent office? Why?
Solution and Explanation
Einstein called his desk drawer at the patent office the ‘bureau of theoretical physics’ because he was working as a technical expert in the patent office in Bern where he was supposed to be assessing other peoples’ inventions. The drawer was the place were he used to store his secretly developed ideas.
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- Explain what the reasons for the following are.
(i) Einstein leaving the school in Munich for good.
(ii) Einstein wanting to study in Switzerland rather than in Munich.
(iii) Einstein seeing in Mileva an ally.
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- Do you think Innisfree is only a place, or a state of mind? Does the poet actually miss the place of his boyhood days?
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1. ______the firefighters finally put out the fire. (They worked round the clock.)
2. She watched the sunset above the mountain,_____ (She noticed the colours blending softly into one another.)
3. The excited horse pawed the ground rapidly, _____(While it neighed continually.)
4. _____, I found myself in Bangalore, instead of Benaras. (I had taken the wrong train.)
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What kind of place is Innisfree? Think about:
(i) the three things the poet wants to do when he goes back there (stanza I);
(ii) what he hears and sees there and its effect on him (stanza II);
(iii) what he hears in his “heart’s core” even when he is far away from Innisfree (stanza III).
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- By now you may have concluded that Innisfree is a simple, natural place, full of beauty and peace. How does the poet contrast it with where he now stands? (Read stanza III.)
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In Fig. 9.26, A, B, C and D are four points on a circle. AC and BD intersect at a point E such that ∠ BEC = 130° and ∠ ECD = 20°. Find ∠ BAC.
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