Cavendish ExperimentThe Cavendish Experiment was invented/founded in 1797-1798 by a British scientist by the name Henry Cavendish. This experiment was the first to measure the force of gravity between masses in the laboratory and the first to yield accurate values for the gravitational constant.
The ExperimentThis experiment shows how Henry Cavendish found a way to find the density of the world
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Calculations for the experiment
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Some examples of the experiment
Reflections
Harvard Natural Sciences Lecture Demonstrations
Ron Kurtus' School for Champions
Stanford Weighing the Earth in 1798: The Cavendish Experiment