El experimento de Cavendish

Abstract

In this article, we present a description of the \textit{apparatus} employed by Henry Cavendish, which in turn is actually a compendium of 17 complex experiments, to try to experimentally measure the universal gravitation constant, theoretically posed by the divine Sir Isaac Newton, in his monumental \textit{Principia Mathematica}.\\ Since the gravitational force is very small, gravitational experiments in the laboratory are highly susceptible to strange disturbances. Measuring gravitation in the laboratory is then that problematic and today such difficulties persist.