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what is the perfect experiment?
Maxwell - 2017
A workshop held with primarily Year 1
PHD students in the NanoDTC
Department at Cambridge University in
the Maxwell Centre.
I set out to explore with them the idea of
the perfect experiment.
What is its purpose? What should it
entail?
You are to make a diagram or equation to
illustrate the perfect experiment.
equations
The Sequence of equations as they were
negotiated in pairs and then small groups.
Thank you to all those who came, got
involved and maybe reflected on what it
is to experiment....

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