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发信人: wangcx (水耗子), 信区: Physics
标 题: Top 10 beautiful experiments
发信站: 哈工大紫丁香 (Thu Sep 12 21:14:49 2002) , 转信
发信人: montecarlo (舜~~梦仍是一样), 信区: Physics
标 题: Top 10 beautiful experiments
发信站: 日月光华 (2002年09月10日08:42:01 星期二), 站内信件
The list below shows the top 10 most frequently mentioned experiments by rea
ders of Physics World.
Top 10 beautiful experiments
1 Young's double-slit experiment applied to the interference of single elect
rons
2 Galileo's experiment on falling bodies (1600s)
3 Millikan's oil-drop experiment (1910s)
4 Newton's decomposition of sunlight with a prism (1665-1666)
5 Young's light-interference experiment (1801)
6 Cavendish's torsion-bar experiment (1798)
7 Eratosthenes' measurement of the Earth's circumference (3rd century BC)
8 Galileo's experiments with rolling balls down inclined planes (1600s)
9 Rutherford's discovery of the nucleus (1911)
10 Foucault's pendulum (1851)
Others experiments that were cited included:
Archimedes' experiment on hydrostatics
Roemer's observations of the speed of light
Joule's paddle-wheel heat experiments
Reynolds's pipe flow experiment
Mach & Salcher's acoustic shock wave
Michelson-Morley measurement of the null effect of the ether
R?ntgen's detection of Maxwell's displacement current
Oersted's discovery of electromagnetism
The Braggs' X-ray diffraction of salt crystals
Eddington's measurement of the bending of starlight
Stern-Gerlach demonstration of space quantization
Schr?dinger's cat thought experiment
Wu et al.'s measurement of parity violation
Goldhaber's study of neutrino helicity
Feynman dipping an O-ring in water
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