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Experiments

CONTENTS

3.1    Role of Experiments

3.2    The Experiment

3.3    Classification of Experiments

3.4    Plan for Successful Experimentation

3.5    Problems

…there is a diminishing return from increased theoretical complexity and … in many practical situations the problem is not sufficiently well defined to merit an elaborate approach. If basic scientific understanding is to be improved, detailed experiments will be required …

Graham B. Wallis. 1980. International Journal of Multiphase Flow 6:97.

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Measure what can be measured and make measurable what cannot be measured. Galileo Galilei, c.1600.

3.1      Role of Experiments

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