experimental physics

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meaningsofexperimentalandphysics

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experimental
adjective
uk
/ɪkˌsper.ɪˈmen.təl/us
/ɪkˌsper.əˈmen.t̬əl/
using new methods, ideas, substances, etc. that have not been tried before, usually in order to find out what effect ...
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physics
noun[U]
uk
/ˈfɪz.ɪks/us
/ˈfɪz.ɪks/
the scientific study of matter and energy and the effect that they have on ...
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In a way, behavioral finance suffers from the same criticism once directed atexperimentalphysics.
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In monthly sessions and regular meetings, they discussed various subjects in the fields of theoretical andexperimentalphysicsand physiology.
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Chairs forexperimentalphysicswere set up and even methodology reflected the emancipatory process of the experimentalists.
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Whether his experimental knowledge should be regarded as applied mathematics orexperimentalphysics in its own right was obviously answered differently in the 1830s.
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The first three were at the vanguard ofexperimentalphysics, extracting from the hitherto mysterious ether (which had previously been assigned divine attributes) the imponderable fluids of heat and electricity.
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Experimentalphysicsdid not influence chemistry by the direct application of basic physical concepts of affinity or the atom or by the direct use of mathematics.
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Experimentalphysicsrested to a large degree on the hope that one could begin with instrumental measurements without presupposing too clear an idea of the things measured.
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In the course of development this latter position became obsolete, "new and hitherto unknown physical truths" were in fact established by experiment and helped emancipateexperimentalphysicsfrom natural history.
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He published papers in natural history, mechanics, mathematics, chemistry, andexperimentalphysics.
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During his career he published more than 300 papers, some of which delved intoexperimentalphysics.
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His work is principally inexperimentalphysicsusing accelerators, lasers, and nuclear spectroscopy to investigate nuclear structure.
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Experimentalphysicsexpands, and is expanded by, engineering and technology.
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His research was intoexperimentalphysics, in particular, electrical conduction in gases and electromagnetic radiation.
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Proton decay was, for a time, an extremely exciting area ofexperimentalphysicsresearch.
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Both became the focus of majorexperimentalphysicsefforts starting in the early 1980s.
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Between 1735 and 1793, there were over seventy individuals offering courses and demonstrations for public viewers inexperimentalphysics.
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Inexperimentalphysics, he has worked on a precision measurement of vacuum polarization in muonic atoms to test quantum electrodynamics.
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During hisexperimentalphysicslectures, using even the simplest demonstration equipment was virtually impossible.
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Since no chair forexperimentalphysicshad existed before, everything had to be built up from scratch (teaching, laboratories, electronics, mechanical workshop).
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This is in contrast toexperimentalphysics, which uses experimental tools to probe these phenomena.
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