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| + | According to Jean Antoine Nollet (1770), experimental physics cannot do without instruments.<ref>{{cite book | ||
| + | |editors=Lewis Pyenson, Jean-François Gauvin | ||
| + | |title=The art of teaching Physics, The Eighteenth-Century Demonstration Apparatus of Jean Antoine Nollet | ||
| + | |publisher=Les éditions du Septentrion | ||
| + | |year=2002 | ||
| + | |pages=220 | ||
| + | |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=LEJfIJK84MAC&pg=PA19&lpg=PA19&dq=experimental+physics+cannot+do+without+instruments&source=bl&ots=pspJ9qcn87&sig=g7srCJdTE-_CMO3ZaBm_BcYxLwA&hl=en&sa=X&ei=qKxxUMfJC8natAbvrID4DQ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=experimental%20physics%20cannot%20do%20without%20instruments&f=false | ||
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| + | |quote=Experimental physics, Nollet insisted, cannot do without instruments}}</ref> | ||
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| + | == External Links == | ||
| + | [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11090b.htm Jean-Antoine Nollet (Catholic Encyclopedia)] | ||
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Revision as of 16:25, October 7, 2012
Experimental science is science based on experimental research that plays the role of testing hypothesis, typically in controlled laboratory settings. The hypothesis investigated in classical experimental science postulate regularities among event-types. These regularities may be statistical, as in quantum mechanics, and they may or may not be causal. Experimental scientist are interested in testing functional regularities (e.g. the Boyle-Charles's law for ideal gases), as well as causal regularities. A test condition C is inferred from the hypothesis and a prediction is made about what should happen if C is realized. This forms the basis for a series of controlled experiments.[1]
According to Jean Antoine Nollet (1770), experimental physics cannot do without instruments.[2]
External Links
Jean-Antoine Nollet (Catholic Encyclopedia)
References
- ↑ Cleland, C.E. (September 2002). "Methodological and Epistemic Differences between Historical Science and Experimental Science" (PDF). Philosophy of Science 69: 474–496. http://spot.colorado.edu/~cleland/articles/Cleland.PS.Pdf. Retrieved 25.1.2012.
- ↑ (2002) The art of teaching Physics, The Eighteenth-Century Demonstration Apparatus of Jean Antoine Nollet. Les éditions du Septentrion, 220. ISBN 2-89448-320-1. “Experimental physics, Nollet insisted, cannot do without instruments”