Top 10 Most Beautiful Physics Experiments

The Top Ten

1 Double-slit electron diffraction

2 Galileo's experiment on falling objects

3 Millikan's oil-drop experiment

A really delicate experiment which determined the charge of electron, and with the help of e/m ratio, its mass too.

4 Newton's decomposition of sunlight with a prism

5 Young's light-interference experiment

Completely proves the wave nature of light

Consequence: Wave Interference

6 Galileo's experiments with rolling balls down inclined planes

7 Cavendish's torsion-bar experiment

8 Eratosthenes' measurement of the Earth's circumference

9 Rutherford's discovery of the nucleus

I was expecting this to be higher on this list. This is beautiful in the remarkable change that was made in the scientific community.

10 Foucault's pendulum

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