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Cavendish experiment, an Uncommon card
The Cavendish experiment, performed in 1797–1798 by English scientist Henry Cavendish, was the first experiment to measure the force of gravity between masses in the laboratory and the first to yield accurate values for the gravitational constant.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 66
- DEF
- 46
- Power
- 112
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 88,000
Power 112 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 50 % of WikiCards cards.
Cavendish experiment quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Cavendish experiment card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
His experiment gave the first accurate values for these ______ constants.
Answer
geophysical. His experiment gave the first accurate values for these geophysical constants. From the Cavendish experiment article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Romila Thapar. Romila Thapar 69 · Cavendish experiment 66 · Mother of vinegar 61 · Vibhishana 58 ATK in WikiCards.
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The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Because of the unit conventions then in use, the gravitational constant does not appear explicitly in Cavendish's work.
- Instead, the result was originally expressed as the relative density of Earth, or equivalently the mass of Earth.
- His experiment gave the first accurate values for these geophysical constants.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Cavendish experiment article was read about 88,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 66 and blocks with 46: each hit it takes is cut by 18 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Cavendish experiment (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Henry Cavendish, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
