Science's 10 Most Beautiful Physics Experiments


	Science's 10 Most Beautiful Physics Experiments
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7-31-2007 8:03 PM
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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 <A href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/24/science/24BEAU.html?ei=5062&en=d110cb64250fdf6a&ex=1033444800&partner=GOOGLE&pagewanted=all&position=top"> <FONT color="#000000"> the paper
      of George Johnson</FONT></A> in <A href="http://www.nytimes.com"><FONT color="#000000">The New York
      Times</FONT></A> we list below 10 winners of this polling and accompany
      the short explanations of the physical experiments with computer
      animations.
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      1. Double-slit electron diffraction</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://physics-animations.com/Physics/English/top_ref.htm"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/physics-animations.com/img/8AC23AB8-75CA-4D0C-8209-D2BB09A5B16D" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://physics-animations.com/Physics/English/top_ref.htm">
      2. Galileo's experiment on falling objects</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://physics-animations.com/Physics/English/top_ref.htm"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/physics-animations.com/img/C0C1734A-3905-49FA-AD9A-3CE3EE7CD17A" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://physics-animations.com/Physics/English/top_ref.htm">
      3. Millikan's oil-drop experiment</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://physics-animations.com/Physics/English/top_ref.htm"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/physics-animations.com/img/BD2AD187-111C-4755-A651-0D2A5BBA8615" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://physics-animations.com/Physics/English/top_ref.htm">
      4. Newton's decomposition of sunlight with a pris</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://physics-animations.com/Physics/English/top_ref.htm"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD width="160" valign="middle" height="120" bgcolor="#000000" align="center"><P align="center">
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      5. Young's light-interference experiment</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://physics-animations.com/Physics/English/top_ref.htm"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/physics-animations.com/img/6CEA9D4A-2C58-49AE-81E6-082DDD7BD889" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://physics-animations.com/Physics/English/top_ref.htm">
      6. Cavendish's torsion-bar experiment</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://physics-animations.com/Physics/English/top_ref.htm"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/physics-animations.com/img/299AB263-4DA3-4A31-BB1C-D381E90163D3" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://physics-animations.com/Physics/English/top_ref.htm"><DIV>
      7. Eratosthenes' measurement of the Earth's circumference</DIV>
      </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://physics-animations.com/Physics/English/top_ref.htm"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/physics-animations.com/img/03E150DF-39E1-4761-891A-1BC38B3459EE" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://physics-animations.com/Physics/English/top_ref.htm">
      8. Galileo's experiments with rolling balls down inclined planes</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://physics-animations.com/Physics/English/top_ref.htm"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD height="120" bgcolor="#ffffff"><P align="center">
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      9. Rutherford's discovery of the nucleus</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://physics-animations.com/Physics/English/top_ref.htm"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD height="120" bgcolor="#ffffff"><P align="center">
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      10. Foucault's pendulum</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/3B077880-72A4-4137-8F69-B6337ED29533/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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