The Enigma of the Crookes Radiometer https://FreeCourseWeb.com English | 2022 | ISBN: 1887187448 | 127 Pages | EPUB | 2.44 MB
William Crookes was one of the great nineteenth century experimental physicists. One day, as he was working in his lab, he made a discovery that would become an obsession and the centerpiece of his life for the next several years. He discovered that when he brought a source of heat close to a ball suspended in a vacuum, the ball would be repelled.
He thought that he had discovered a link between heat and the force of gravity. This started him on a long series of experiments that eventually led to the common Crookes radiometer that you see today.