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Sunday, September 29, 2002

10 Most Beautiful Scientific Experiments
My favorite is Foucault's pendulum. I was fortunate enough to go to a school which has one. I would spend an inordinate amount of time watching the earth rotate back in middle school. My assignment, should I choose to accept it, is to ensure that I teach K about all of these experiments. The following list is from the New York Times.

Perhaps I can get our local government to erect a pendulum?

  1. Young's double-slit experiment applied to the interference of single electrons
  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
  6. Cavendish's torsion-bar 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

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