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Explores Joule's historical paddle wheel experiment, emphasizing precision, accuracy, old brewing practices, and the importance of skilled operators in scientific experiments.

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Explores quantum mechanics principles, focusing on atomic spectra and the failures of classical mechanics to explain them.

Making Sense of Experiments

Explores Newton's Experimentum Crucis, the challenges of experimental replication, and the gestural knowledge in early Victorian England.

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Covers the analyses of materials, characterisation techniques, and interactions of beams with matter.