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The 10 Most Beautiful Experiments: A Walk Through 2000 Years of Physics

In a survey some years back, physicists identified the 10 experiments that they felt were not just important…but elegant and beautiful. 

In the course of the lecture, the instructor will cover:
*How to measure the size, mass and rotation of the Earth.
*What light is made up of.
*The atom and electron.
*Wave mechanics.
*And a smidgen of Quantum Mechanics.

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