What makes a good experiment? : reasons and roles in science / Allan Franklin.
Material type: TextPublication details: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2016]Description: 1 online resourceContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780822981008
- 0822981009
- 507.8 23
- Q175 .F78527 2016
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I. Conceptually Important Experiments: Those That Lead to Significant Changes in Theory; 1. Gregor Mendel, "Experiments in Plant Hybridization": The Best Experiments Ever Done!; 2. The Discovery of Parity Nonconservation; 3. The Meselson-Stahl Experiment": The Most Beautiful Experiment in Biology"; 4. CP or Not CP: A Convincing Experiment; 5. The Nondiscovery of Parity Nonconservation: A Missed Opportunity; Part II. Measuring a Quantity of Importance; 6. Measuring a Quantity of Importance and Testing an Equation: Millikan and Planck's Constant.
17. A Tale of Two Experiments: Is There a Fifth Force?18. The Search for Magnetic Monopoles; Conclusion; Notes; References; Index.
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