One easy assessment is a well-known experiment known as the "ruler drop test". You'll need the assistance of a family member or friend for this one, as well as a ruler: • Sit in a chair ...

Researchers at Trinity College who have been conducting one version of the most famous long-term experiment in the world—dubbed the pitch drop experiment—have finally recorded a drop of pitch ...

But it turns out that this is the sort of thought experiment that might be useful ... while being dropped down a 146 meter high shaft. The drop shaft, located at the Center of Applied Space ...

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Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland has also been conducting their own experiment since 1944. Finally after 69 long years, the first drop of pitch has finally fallen. The drop occurred on July 11 ...