THIS is a revised and enlarged version of the author's Laboratory Manual published in 1913. In addition to some fifteen new experiments, introductory paragraphs have been prefixed to each experiment ...

THIS extremely useful and carefully prepared little book is intended to form the basis of the practical teaching of physics for schoolboys. It describes the way of performing fifty-eight experiments ...

The most beautiful experiment in physics, according to a poll of Physics World readers, is the interference of single electrons in a Young’s double slit. Robert P Crease reports Simply beautiful – the ...

Diana Parno’s head swam when she first stepped inside the enormous, metallic vessel of the experiment KATRIN. Within the house-sized, oblong structure, everything was symmetrical, clean and blindingly ...

The simple experiment setup. Image via Wiki Commons. In 1927, physicist Thomas Parnell poured hot pitch into a funnel at the ...

What is the most beautiful experiment in physics? Robert P Crease invites your suggestions Small wonder: this STM image of an oval-shaped array of iron atoms on a copper surface is a real experimental ...

The Matter of Everything tells the history of physics through experiments. Any book about the history of science for a general audience will, of necessity, be something of a distortion. The question ...