check out the source for descriptions and animations of the experiments.
Robert P.
Crease, a member of the philosophy department at the State University of
New York at Stony Brook and the historian at Brookhaven National
Laboratory, recently asked physicists to nominate the most beautiful
experiment of all time. Based on the paper
of George Johnson in The New York
Times we list below 10 winners of this polling and accompany
the short explanations of the physical experiments with computer
animations.
1. Double-slit electron diffraction
2. Galileo's experiment on falling objects
3. Millikan's oil-drop experiment
4. Newton's decomposition of sunlight with a prism
5. Young's light-interference experiment
7. Eratosthenes' measurement of the Earth's circumference
8. Galileo's experiments with rolling balls down inclined planes
9. Rutherford's discovery of the nucleus
10. Foucault's pendulum
|
clipped from physics-animations.com
No comments:
Post a Comment