<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/509eeb62-ecac-4721-8ce4-eebfa5770118/EC43290A-CD1A-471A-BF15-2315144B703E/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://physics-animations.com/Physics/English/top_ref.htm" href="http://physics-animations.com/Physics/English/top_ref.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">physics-animations.com</a></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"><FONT face="Arial" size="2">Science's 10 Most Beautiful Physics Experiments</FONT></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">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&amp;en=d110cb64250fdf6a&amp;ex=1033444800&amp;partner=GOOGLE&amp;pagewanted=all&amp;position=top" sp_eventWasSet="on"><FONT color=#000000>the paper of George Johnson</FONT></A> in <A href="http://www.nytimes.com" sp_eventWasSet="on"><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.<BR></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"><STRONG><BR />1. Double-slit electron diffraction<BR /></STRONG></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/443CCB06-9B70-4D3B-8192-B5BE8A13368C" 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"><STRONG><BR />2. Galileo's experiment on falling objects<BR /></STRONG></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/222FFB7C-3C16-4940-BFEB-2CC653D44E1D" 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 align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/physics-animations.com/img/850D8E14-5D5A-4C93-A765-8FEC78FE0EB5" 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"><STRONG><BR />3. Millikan's oil-drop experiment<BR /><BR /></STRONG></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/6345CDD8-4F73-41E1-B3FD-4207A18A2C6A" 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"><STRONG><BR />4. Newton's decomposition of sunlight with a prism<BR /></STRONG></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="" bgcolor=""><tr><TD vAlign="middle" align="center" width="160" bgColor="#000000" height="120"><P align="center"><A name="B1000"><IMG height="80" hspace="0" src="http://physics-animations.com/Physics/B1000.gif" width="107" vspace="0" border="0" /> </A></P><P align="center"> </P><P align="center"><A name="Strips"><IMG height="80" hspace="0" src="http://physics-animations.com/Physics/Strips.gif" width="107" vspace="0" border="0" /></A></P></TD></tr></table></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"><STRONG><BR />5. Young's light-interference experiment</STRONG></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/2B11432E-5C04-4DEF-B5C5-CC390E59C53B" 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"><FONT face="Arial" size="2"><BR />6. Cavendish's torsion-bar experiment</FONT></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="" bgcolor=""><tr><TD vAlign="middle" align="center" width="160" bgColor="#000000" height="120"><P align="center"><A name="erat"><IMG height="75" hspace="0" src="http://physics-animations.com/Physics/erat.gif" width="100" vspace="0" border="0" /></A></P></TD></tr></table></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"><STRONG><BR />7. Eratosthenes' measurement of the Earth's circumference<BR /><BR /></STRONG></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"><P align="center"><A name="angl"><IMG height="75" hspace="0" src="http://physics-animations.com/Physics/angl.gif" width="100" vspace="0" border="0" /></A></P></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"><STRONG><BR />8. Galileo's experiments with rolling balls down inclined planes<BR /><BR /></STRONG></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/2A12C9DD-AAE3-42EE-91AE-C60A35901C95" 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 align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/physics-animations.com/img/3B8885A9-E40D-458E-AFDF-6300059DC514" 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"><STRONG><BR />9. Rutherford's discovery of the nucleus</STRONG></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="" bgcolor=""><tr><TD bgColor="#ffffff" height="120"><P align="center"><A name="fouc01"><IMG height="75" hspace="0" src="http://physics-animations.com/Physics/fouc01.gif" width="100" vspace="0" border="0" /> </A></P><P align="center"> </P><P align="center"><A name="fouc02"><IMG height="75" hspace="0" src="http://physics-animations.com/Physics/fouc02.gif" width="100" vspace="0" border="0" /></A></P></TD></tr></table></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"><STRONG><BR />10. Foucault's pendulum</STRONG></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/EC43290A-CD1A-471A-BF15-2315144B703E/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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