Experimental Physicist Robert Hart’s curiosity about music and how violins work led him to pour glitter on plates. And his friend’s curiosity about how a marble would move if you drop it onto a saddle …
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Experimental Physicist
Experimental physicists do … experiments. They test ideas out by collecting data and then analyzing that data. Experimental physicist Robert Hart explains that physics “is all about modeling the world…using your mathematical models to predict the outcome of a measurement, setting up a measurement very carefully, and then taking the measurement and comparing it to the thing you predicted.” He uses statistics (standard deviations, the normal distribution, etc) to determine how successful his experiments are.
