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Is it the 'same' result : replication in physics /
Replication, the independent confirmation of experimental results and conclusions, is regarded as the 'gold standard' in science. This book examines the question of successful or failed replications and demonstrates that that question is not always easy to answer. It presents clear example...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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San Rafael [California] (40 Oak Drive, San Rafael, CA, 94903, USA) :
Morgan & Claypool Publishers,
[2018]
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| Colección: | IOP (Series). Release 5.
IOP concise physics. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Introduction
- part I. Successful replications. 2. The discovery of the Higgs boson
- 3. The observation of gravity waves
- 3.1. The binary pulsar
- 3.2. The binary black hole merger
- 4. The scattering of antineutrons by protons
- part II. Failed replications. 5. Is there a Fifth Force?
- 5.1. Thieberger's experiment
- 5.2. The Eöt-Wash experiment
- 5.3. Discussion
- 5.4. A Bayesian interlude
- 6. Is there a Universal gravitational constant?
- 6.1. Measurements of G
- 6.2. A curious correlation?
- part III. Problems, large and small. 7. Physical constants and the properties of elementary particles
- 8. Millikan's measurements of the charge of the electron
- 8.1. The 1911 experiment
- 8.2. The 1913 experiment
- 9. Are there low-mass electron-positron states?
- 9.1. Positron lines
- 9.2. Electron-positron states
- 10. The pentaquark
- 10.1. The experimental results
- 10.2. Discussion
- 11. Whose neutrino is it, Majorana's or Dirac's?
- 11.1. The problem
- 11.2. The early experiments
- 11.3. The second generation experiments
- 11.4. Discussion
- 12. Conclusion.