Question :- Describe Physics in relation to society..
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the study of matter, energy and their interactions - is an international enterprise, which plays a key role in the future progress of humankind. ... Physics contributes to the technological infrastructure and provides trained personnel needed to take advantage of scientific advances and discoveries.
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✏ Physics in relation to society - The fate of a society is closely linked to physics. Whatever is discovered in physics,it immediately affects the society.
For example :-
▶ The developments of telephone, telegraph, telex enable us to quickly exchange messages between far off places.
▶ The discoveries of radio and television have made possible the instantaneous communication with other parts of the world.
▶ The launching of satellites into space had revolutionised the concept of communication.
▶ The development of alternative sources of energy is of great importance to the mankind.
▶ Microelectronics, lasers, computers, super - conductivity and nuclear energy have entirely changed the thinking and the living style of the human beings.
★ More to know :-
• The modern science in general and physics in particular has the potentiality to eradicate poverty and hunger from the surface of the earth, and to usher in the age of prosperity. On the other hand, a wrong use of discoveries in physics may bring about a disaster. The knowledge of physics can be applied alike, to the creation of heaven on the earth, or the total annihilation. Our wiseness lies in applying physics to solve the pressing problems the society faces and not to annihilate it.