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MAJOR PHYSICS EXPERIMENTS - 1
After the following statements from Wikipedia, please add a statement about what the experiment definitely proved.
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* Al-Khazini makes extensive use of the experimental method to prove his theories on mechanics in The Book of the Balance of Wisdom (1121)
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* Kamāl al-Dīn al-Fārisī provides the first correct explanation of the rainbow phenomenon and uses the experimental method to prove his theory (13th century)
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* Galileo Galilei uses rolling balls to disprove the Aristotelian theory of motion (1602 - 1607)
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* Henry Cavendish's torsion bar experiment (1798)
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* Thomas Young's double-slit experiment (c. 1805)
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* Hans Christian Ørsted discovers the connection of electricity and magnetism by experiments involving a compass and electric circuits (1820)
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* James Prescott Joule demonstrates the mechanical equivalent of heat, an important step in the development of thermodynamics. (1834)
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* Christian Doppler arranges to have trumpets played from a passing train. The ground-observed pitch was higher than that played when the train was approaching then lower than that played as the train passed and moved away, demonstrating the Doppler effect (1845)
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* Léon Foucault's namesake Foucault pendulum is first exhibited. It demonstrates the Coriolis effect and the rotation of the Earth (1851)
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* Edwin Hall discovers a voltage across a conductor with a transverse applied magnetic field, the Hall effect 1879
MAJOR PHYSICS EXPERIMENTS - 2
After the following statements from Wikipedia, please add a statement about what the experiment definitely proved about matter or space or space-time.
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* Michelson-Morley experiment exposes weaknesses of the prevailing variant of the theory of luminiferous aether. (1887)
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* Guglielmo Marconi demonstrates that radio signals can travel between two points separated by an obstacle. Marconi's servant is behind a hill 3 kilometers away and fires his rifle upon receiving the signals (1895).
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* J. J. Thomson's cathode ray tube experiments (discovers the electron and its negative charge) (1897)
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* Roland von Eötvös publishes the result of the second series of experiments, clearly demonstrating that inertial and gravitational mass are one and the same. (1909)
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* Robert Millikan's oil-drop experiment, which suggests that electric charge occurs as quanta (whole units), (1909)
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* Heike Kamerlingh Onnes demonstrates superconductivity (1911)
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* Ernest Rutherford's gold foil experiment demonstrated that the positive charge and mass of an atom is concentrated in a small, central atomic nucleus, disproving the then-popular plum pudding model of the atom (1911)
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* Arthur Eddington leads an expedition to the island of Principe to observe a total solar eclipse (gravitational lensing). This allows for an observation of the bending of starlight under gravity, a prediction of Albert Einstein's theory of relativity. It was confirmed (although it was later shown that the margin of error was as great as the observed bending) (1919)
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* Otto Stern and Walther Gerlach conduct the Stern-Gerlach experiment, which demonstrates particle spin (1920)
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* Enrico Fermi splits the atom (1934, although the results were not fully understood until 1939, by Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann)
MAJOR PHYSICS EXPERIMENTS - 3
After the following statements from Wikipedia, please add a statement about what the experiment definitely proved about matter or space or space-time.
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* The Cockcroft-Walton (CW) generator, or multiplier, was named after the two men who in 1932 used this circuit design to power their particle accelerator, performing the first artificial nuclear disintegration in history.
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* Enrico Fermi builds the first critical nuclear reactor (1942)
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* The Manhattan Project A team of scientists led by J. Robert Oppenheimer developed the atomic bomb in New Mexico. (1945)
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* John Bardeen and Walter Brattain fabricate the first working transistor (1947)
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* Clyde L. Cowan and Frederick Reines confirm the existence of the neutrino in the neutrino experiment (1955)
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* The Scout rocket experiment confirms the time dilation effect of gravity. (1976)
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* Alain Aspect performs the Bell test experiments in the 1980s.
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* Eric A. Cornell and Carl E. Wieman synthesize Bose-Einstein condensate at the University of Colorado at Boulder (1995)
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Hutchison Effect causes objects to move about defying gravity and causes metals to melt at room temperature and resolidify.
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