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Sunday, April 19, 2009
New Delhi (PTI): Students pursuing higher studies at the country's top technical institutes will now be able to do any experiment without going to a laboratory but through virtual labs.
The government will start a virtual lab to benefit about 10 top institutes, including IIT Delhi and certain science institutes, this year.
"The virtual lab will allow the students to do any kind of science experiment in their computers without going to the real labs," S N Singh, a professor of Applied Mechanics at IIT Delhi, told PTI.
The steps have been initiated after IIT-Delhi made such a proposal before the government, which accepted it. The project worth Rs 200 crore will be operational in a year's time, he said.
The entire lab will be operated through a server. The institutes will be connected to the lab and the students can do any type of experiments through computers sitting at their home on acid-base chemistry, thermo chemistry, solubility, redox chemistry and many more areas.
"They can mix up chemicals and do experiments through computers and get the same results they would get by doing such experiments in the real laboratories," he said.
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