• Question: what was your first ever experiment?

    Asked by anon-197733 to Matthew, Sonal, Rosanna, Atreya, Marleen, Dan on 4 Mar 2019. This question was also asked by anon-197738, anon-198054.
    • Photo: Matthew Selwood

      Matthew Selwood answered on 4 Mar 2019:

      It was an imaging experiment. The method of making x-rays that my research group use is still quite new, so we were showing that you can make good quality images with it, as well as showing you can take a picture of the spinning blades in a turbo pump and not get any blur, as the “flash” is so quick everything looks like it is still! It was really cool, although I must confess that I really didn’t know what was going on most of the time, and was desperately trying to learn how all the equipment worked without breaking it or getting in the way!!

    • Photo: Marleen Wilde

      Marleen Wilde answered on 7 Mar 2019:

      Quite sadly I can’t remember, experiments at school seem to be ages away and even the placements during my undergraduate were so many I can’t remember much details or what was first.

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