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Show-and-tell way to explain abstract science concepts
Experimental set-ups developed by NUS team - at fraction of the typical cost - used by JCs to teach physics
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Jurong Pioneer Junior College's head of department for curricular development and innovation Edwin Lim using a mobile phone spectrometer, which measures light wavelengths. With him (from far left) are students Narahda Lim and Haw Jin Yu; Professor Thirumalai Venky Venkatesan, director of the National University of Singapore's Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Initiative (NUSNNI); Dr Hariom Jani, a research fellow at NUSNNI; and NUS student Aarushi Khandelwal.
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A local team has found a way to make abstract concepts in quantum mechanics and nuclear physics more "real" at a low cost for junior college (JC) students.
In the past three years, a professor and a research fellow from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have come up with the experimental set-ups, with the support of the Education Ministry (MOE).
