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The Programme will support one 4 - 10 week summer internship placement, alternating annually between Cavendish Astrophysics and the Institute of Astronomy

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The Cavendish Astrophysics Group carries out a wide range of research programmes centred on four major areas each linked to experimental and instrumental programmes

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Epub 2006 Nov 26

1 Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, JJ Thomson Ave

, Cambridge CB3 0HE, UK

Cavendish did not directly measure the gravitational constant

He used a torsion balance to measure the density of the Earth

Using Cavendish's results, others calculated the value of G

What is the value of Big G? The value of G, also called ''Big G '' is 6

It is known to four significant figures

Cavendish lived and wrote in the thick of the mechanistic revolution of the seventeenth century, though many of her views—about thinking matter, the transfer of motion, and the nature of scientific explanation—are largely anti-mechanistic, and in many respects her arguments run against the grain

The Cavendish Astrophysics Group carries out a wide range of research programmes centred on four major areas each linked to experimental and instrumental programmes

The areas and the associated facilities are: