They're actively engaged in the material, actually seeing the phenomena, by making measurements of real world experiments.

学生们能自主地参与到物质中，看见真切的现象，通过对真实世界实验,做出测量。

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We will give many lectures, ten or fifteen minutes of lectures, and that will be broken up by desktop experiments where the students collaborate with each other, doing experiments.

我们会讲很多小讲座，十或十五分钟一个，这些讲座中会间隔地穿插,桌面实验,学生可以一起合作，做实验。

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So, introduction, "in order to explain the results of experiments on scattering of alpha rays by matter, Professor Rutherford," and there is a footnote to the Rutherford model.

嗯，绪论，为了解释实验的结果,关于物质的alpha散射，卢瑟福说“,这儿有一个卢瑟福模型的脚注。

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