• Thumbnail for Pitch drop experiment
    A pitch drop experiment is a long-term experiment which measures the flow of a piece of pitch over many years. "Pitch" is the name for any of a number...
    20 KB (1,912 words) - 05:01, 1 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for Pitch (resin)
    slowly. The pitch drop experiment taking place at University of Queensland is a long-term experiment which demonstrates the flow of a piece of pitch over many...
    9 KB (1,057 words) - 21:08, 29 April 2025
  • Thumbnail for Drop (liquid)
    behavior. In the famous pitch drop experiments, pitch – a substance somewhat like solid bitumen – is shown to be a liquid in this way. Pitch in a funnel slowly...
    17 KB (1,993 words) - 02:22, 30 April 2025
  • Thumbnail for Thomas Parnell (scientist)
    Physics at the University of Queensland. He started the famous pitch drop experiment there. Thomas Parnell was born in West Haddon, Northamptonshire...
    9 KB (871 words) - 04:48, 20 February 2025
  • behaves in much the same manner. The pitch drop experiment is a famous fluid breakup experiment using high viscous tar pitch. The rate of breakup is slowed...
    27 KB (4,276 words) - 18:32, 12 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bitumen
    Bituminous rocks Blacktop Cariphalte Duxit Macadam Oil sands Pitch drop experiment Pitch (resin) Road surface Tar Tarmac Sealcoat Stamped asphalt The...
    96 KB (12,037 words) - 00:42, 15 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for Long-term experiment
    1864. The pitch drop experiment has been running at the University of Queensland since 1927. The William James Beal Germination Experiment has been running...
    13 KB (1,599 words) - 15:13, 21 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Viscosity
    S2CID 39833708. Edgeworth, R.; Dalton, B.J.; Parnell, T. (1984). "The pitch drop experiment". European Journal of Physics. 5 (4): 198–200. Bibcode:1984EJPh...
    99 KB (11,463 words) - 16:25, 8 May 2025
  • Substances with a very high viscosity such as pitch appear to behave like a solid (see pitch drop experiment) as well. In particle physics, the concept is...
    9 KB (1,007 words) - 11:52, 7 March 2025
  • patiently conducting the so-called pitch drop experiment that began in the year 1927—in which a glob of congealed black tar pitch has been slowly dripping through...
    213 KB (24,589 words) - 17:55, 15 May 2025
  • experiments and inform students and the general public. At some stage (likely in 1984) he modified the long-running St. Andrews pitch drop experiment...
    12 KB (1,234 words) - 01:44, 14 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Oxford Electric Bell
    Oxford Electric Bell (category Physics experiments)
    have been constructed in 1825. Long-term experiment Franklin bells Beverly Clock (1864) Pitch drop experiment (1927) Clock of the Long Now "Walker, Robert"...
    6 KB (680 words) - 22:49, 17 March 2025
  • Thumbnail for Beverly Clock
    the clock begins operating again. Long-term experiment Oxford Electric Bell (1840) Pitch drop experiment (1927) Cox's timepiece Clock of the Long Now...
    3 KB (353 words) - 18:13, 11 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for Internal structure of Earth
    OCLC 957751024. Edgeworth, R.; Dalton, B.J.; Parnell, T. "The Pitch Drop Experiment". The University of Queensland Australia. Archived from the original...
    33 KB (3,149 words) - 09:52, 8 May 2025
  • century medicine made with opium Pitch drop experiment, demonstration of the time that it takes for a drop of pitch to fall This disambiguation page lists...
    310 bytes (80 words) - 01:37, 29 August 2022
  • S2CID 94555820 Edgeworth, R; Dalton, B J; Parnell, T (1984), "The pitch drop experiment", European Journal of Physics, 5 (4): 198–200, Bibcode:1984EJPh...
    37 KB (2,473 words) - 01:31, 11 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Nicolae Vasilescu-Karpen
    why the pile is still working. Oxford Electric Bell Beverly Clock Pitch drop experiment (in Romanian) Academia RPR, Dicționar Enciclopedic Român, București:...
    7 KB (711 words) - 11:39, 31 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for World Expo 88
    University pavilion the world's longest lab experiment was on display. The pitch drop experiment, which features tar pitch slowly dripping through a funnel at...
    44 KB (4,426 words) - 08:26, 18 May 2025
  • (orientation)--Overdrive – Oversteer – Pascal (unit) – Physics – Pinion – Piston – Pitch drop experiment – Plasma processing – Plasticity – Pneumatics – Poisson's ratio...
    8 KB (628 words) - 16:19, 4 October 2024
  • a time capsule at the abbey containing a long-term experiment inspired by the pitch drop experiment. The installation includes an extremely viscous petroleum-derived...
    121 KB (6,835 words) - 00:31, 20 May 2025
  • its permanent home. In the same year, the pitch drop experiment was started by Thomas Parnell. The experiment has been described as the world's oldest...
    103 KB (8,920 words) - 20:52, 6 May 2025
  • modulus, and ultimate tensile strength. Physics – Pinion – Piston – Pitch drop experiment – Plain bearing – Plasma processing – Plasticity – Pneumatics –...
    86 KB (10,427 words) - 06:59, 24 April 2025
  • research. Its most famous experiment is Parnell's Pitch Drop Experiment which is the longest running scientific experiment in the world. The school has...
    3 KB (416 words) - 22:28, 7 November 2023
  • Work begins on never-completed Holy Name Catholic Cathedral. 1927 Pitch drop experiment begins. 1928 Sir Charles Kingsford Smith lands in Brisbane, from...
    20 KB (2,289 words) - 04:20, 27 February 2025
  • Thomas Parnell, first Professor of Physics at UQ, who started the pitch drop experiment Sandro Porceddu, radiation oncologist Hugh Possingham, conservation...
    21 KB (2,326 words) - 01:35, 24 February 2025
  • thermodynamics. Doppler experiment (1845): Christian Doppler arranges to have trumpets played from a passing train. The ground-observed pitch was higher than...
    20 KB (2,423 words) - 15:50, 31 March 2025
  • Thumbnail for Split-finger fastball
    the appearance of "drop off the table" movement from the pitch. When thrown correctly, the split-finger's apparent last-second drop causes many batters...
    9 KB (1,063 words) - 18:36, 9 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for University of Queensland Seismology Station
    long term research project of the University, second only to the Pitch Drop experiment. The station was established following the Gayndah earthquake of...
    8 KB (745 words) - 06:34, 16 January 2023
  • Thumbnail for Sound
    Sound (section Pitch)
    sounds, pitch relates to the frequency of the slowest vibration in the sound (called the fundamental harmonic). In the case of complex sounds, pitch perception...
    37 KB (4,178 words) - 04:29, 20 May 2025
  • X-248/Belle – A small cyan experiment with a pitchfork-shaped head who is designed to scare people with a loud high-pitched shriek. Her "one true place"...
    123 KB (14,561 words) - 15:14, 22 May 2025