What makes a good experiment? : reasons and roles in science / Allan Franklin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Franklin, Allan, 1938-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science--Methodology--Juvenile literature.

Science.

Science--Methodology.

Science--Experiments--Juvenile literature.

Science--Experiments.

Experimental design.

Genre:

Juvenile works.

Physical Description:

viii, 372 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2016]

Contents:

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! 11

2 The Discovery of Parity Nonconservation 29

3 The Meselson-Stahi Experiment The Most Beautiful Experiment in Biology" 41

4 CP or Not CP A Convincing Experiment 57

5 The Nondiscovery of Parity Nonconservation A Missed Opportunity 69

Part II Measuring a Quantity of Importance

6 Measuring a Quantity of Importance and Testing an Equation Millikan and Planck's Constant 83

7 Robert Millikan and the Charge of the Electron 112

Part III Evidence for Entities

8 "Observing" the Neutrino The Reines-Cowan Experiments 121

9 The Discovery of the n Meson 147

10 Is There a Second Neutrino? 152

11 The Missing Piece of the Puzzle The Discovery of the Higgs Boson 163

Part IV Solving a Vexing Problem

12 William Wilson and the Absorption of p Rays 181

13 Ellis and Wooster, the Continuous Energy Spectrum in β Decay Something Is Missing 197

14 The Solar-Neutrino Problem 214

Part V Measuring Nothing

15 The Disappearance of the 17-keV Neutrino 229

16 The Michelson-Morley Experiment 241

17 A Tale of Two Experiments: Is There a Fifth Force? 268

18 The Search for Magnetic Monopoles 281.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-357) and index.

ISBN:

9780822944416

0822944413

OCLC:

946142280