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Examine the properties of Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluids through demonstrations involving honey and cornstarch

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John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh

Lord Rayleigh

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Italian physicist Guglielmo Marconi at work in the wireless room of his yacht Electra, c. 1920.

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