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R Edgeworth1, B J Dalton1 and T Parnell1
Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd
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Citation R Edgeworth et al 1984 Eur. J. Phys. 5 198
DOI 10.1088/0143-0807/5/4/003
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In the foyer of the Department of Physics at the University of Queensland in Brisbane is an experiment to illustrate, for teaching purposes, the fluidity and the very high viscosity of pitch, set up in 1927 by Professor Thomas Parnell, the first Professor of Physics there. An account is given of the experiment to illustrate the fluidity of pitch.
