Physics: THEORY & EXPERIMENTS”
Theory and experiments in physics
If you compare physics to some other science, you are going to see that there is a great degree of differentiation between the Theory as well as the experiments in physics. Since the advent of the 20th century, physicists are specialising in different fields of physics, which can be either experimental physics or theoretical physics. This difference can be seen in the case of biologists and chemists who are theorists who have gone into the field of proving their theories by experiments. However, chemists and biologists are also going into their own specialised fields of theoretical biology and chemistry or experimental biology and chemistry.
A theorist is going to prove his theory by developing a mathematical model, which agrees with experiments which have already been done. In this manner, he is going to predict the future results successfully. On the other hand, a person who is an experimentalist is going to think of ways and means to perform and devise new experiments to prove or disapprove a hypothesis or theory. A person who is doing an experiment will either focus upon an existing theory or try to find out something new. Both experiments and theories depend on each other even if they might have been developed differently and separately. If you happen to be doing an experiment in physics and come up with a result that cannot be explained by existing theories, here is a new challenge and phenomena, which has to be explored fully. That is the main purpose of theories and experiments in physics.