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Millikan Oil Drop Experiment: First Measurement of Fundamental Electric Charge on Electron

By: Feature Writer Paul A. Heckert

Biography of Physicist Robert Andrews Millikan: Won Nobel Prize in Physics for Measuring the Charge on the Electron

By: Feature Writer Paul A. Heckert

Ohm's Law: Voltage is Proportional to Current and Resistance

By: Erin Britton

Planck's Law: Describing Colour Changes by Coupling the Physics of Heat and Light

By: Erin Britton

Absolute Zero: The Point at Which a Substance Is So Cold Its Atoms Cease Moving

By: Erin Britton

Brownian Motion: The Motion of Particles Buffeted by Invisible Water or Gas Molecules

By: Erin Britton

Newton's Theory of Colour: White Light Is Comprised of Individual Colours

By: Erin Britton

Second Law of Thermodynamics: Heat Travels from Hot to Cold Bodies and Not the Other Way Around

By: Erin Britton

Hooke's Law: Elastic Materials Stretch in Proportion to the Force Used on Them

By: Erin Britton

Ideal Gas Law: The Pressure, Volume and Temperature of a Gas Are All Linked

By: Erin Britton

Understanding the Cavendish Experiment: Measuring Newton's Universal Gravitational Constant, G

By: Feature Writer Paul A. Heckert

Johannes Kepler (1571 – 1630): A Biography of the German Mathematician, Astronomer and Astrologer

By: Erin Britton

Ernst Mach (1838 – 1916): A Biography of the Austrian Physicist and Philosopher

By: Erin Britton

Newton's Law of Gravitation: All Bodies Attract Each Other Through the Force of Gravity

By: Erin Britton

Kepler's Laws: Three Rules That Govern the Orbits of the Planets

By: Erin Britton

Isaac Newton (1643 – 1727): A Biography of the Great English Physicist and Mathematician

By: Erin Britton

Newton's Laws of Motion: The Relationship between Forces and Motion Explained

By: Erin Britton

Mach's Principle: Through Gravity Objects Far Away Affect How Things Move Nearby

By: Erin Britton

Jean Perrin and Atomic Theory: Calculating Avogadro's Constant

By: Andy Allison

Black-Body Radiation: The Ultraviolet Catastrophe and Fall of Classical Physics

By: Isaac M. McPhee

Early Particle Accelerators: A History ol Deciphering the Reality of the Subatomic World

By: Isaac M. McPhee

Physicist, Hubert Mack Thaxton: An Early Black American Scientist in Nuclear Physics

By: Feature Writer Paul A. Heckert

Tour the Secret City of Oak Ridge: VIsit the First Nuclear Reactor; See Where Atomic Bomb Fuel Was Made

By: Holly Martin

The Secret Science of World War II: The Manhattan Project Created Atomic Bomb Fuel in Oak Ridge, Tenn.

By: Holly Martin

The Origins of the Calendar: Measuring Earth Time

By: Katharine M. J. Osborne

Galileo's Thermometer: How Does a Galileo Thermometer Tell the Temperature?

By: Feature Writer Paul A. Heckert

Galileo's Telescope Discoveries: Galileo Observed the Sun, Moon, Jupiter, Venus, Saturn, and Stars

By: Feature Writer Paul A. Heckert

Galileo and the Pendulum: Pendulums, Clocks, Longitude, and Navigation

By: Feature Writer Paul A. Heckert

Physics in the 21st Century: Predictions on the future of physics

By: Katharine M. J. Osborne

Phlogiston and Aether: When Good Theories Go Bad

By: Katharine M. J. Osborne

The Trinity Test Site: Important Places in Physics

By: Katharine M. J. Osborne

Physics Through the Ages: Part 4: Physics in the Early Industrial Age

By: Katharine M. J. Osborne

Physics Through the Ages: Part 3: The Age of Enlightenment

By: Katharine M. J. Osborne

Physics Through the Ages: Part 2: The Caliphate

By: Katharine M. J. Osborne

Physics Through the Ages: Part 1: Physics in Antiquity

By: Katharine M. J. Osborne

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