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Ƶ student creates physics textbook with interactive 3D models
05 December

Yulia Yundunova, a student of the Graduate School of Printing and Media Technologies at Ƶ, is working on a physics textbook using interactive 3D models with which students will be able to interact. The textbook assumes deep immersion in the subject and will cover all the topics of the school physics course. The creators of the project plan to promote it primarily as a textbook for tutors who strive for non-standard but high-quality presentation of material. A student launches her startup thanks to her participation in the Ƶ Accelerator.

The startup team includes physicists, web developers, 3D modelers and designers. Now the startup is at the stage of developing topics on optics, 3D models are in the process of creation, as well as the project's website.

"Once at school I participated in the Russian language Olympiad, and in that room I noticed a sign with a quote from Ernest Rutherford, who said that all sciences are divided into physics and stamp collecting. That's when I decided to learn physics. As a humanities major, I had a very difficult path to eventually pass the physics exam. The material in the textbooks was very complicated, and I wanted to understand what was behind all these terms, how everything really works. Our textbook has no goal to prepare graduates to pass the USE - in this they will be helped by solving the same type of tasks, but it will give a deep understanding of physics. It will contain both easy and very difficult material, and now we are thinking about how best to label the difficulty levels in it," says Yulia Yundunova, the founder of the startup and a student of St. Petersburg State University of Physics and Technology.

The textbook will be promoted among tutors, in particular students who teach additional classes for schoolchildren. According to Yulia, the textbook will help to attract students, as with it the lessons will become interactive.

There are plans to release the textbook on polymer paper. The startup also plans to expand its line of textbooks in the future. Negotiations are under way with a potential author of materials for an English textbook.