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Explain the relation between physics, technology and society by example.

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`to` Discipline of thermodynamics arose from the need to understand and improve the working of heat engines. The steam engine, as we know is inseparable from the industrial revolution in England in the eighteenth century.
`to` An example of the wireless communication technology that followed the discovery of the basic laws electricity and magnetism in the nineteenth century.
`to` In 1938, Hahn and Meitner discovered the phenomenon of neutron-induced fission of uranium which would serve as the basis of nuclear power reactors and nuclear weapons.
`to` Another important example is the silicon chip. that triggered the computer revolution in the last three decades of the twentieth century.
`to` A most significant area to which physics has and will contribute is the development of alternative energy resources.


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