The Ethereal Aether: A History of the Michelson-Morley-Miller Aether-drift Experiments, 1880-1930University of Texas Press, 1972 - 361 síður "A historical narrative of one of the great experiments in modern physical science. The fame of the 1887 Michelson-Morley aether-drift test on the relative motion of the earth and the luminiferous aether derives largely from the role it is popularly supposed to have played in the origins, and later in the justification, of Albert Einstein's first theory of relativity; its importance is its own". |
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Síða 253
... fringes under ordinary circumstances were suffi- ciently quiet to measure , but so extraordinarily sensitive was the instrument that the stamping of the pavement , about 100 meters from the observatory , made the fringes disappear ...
... fringes under ordinary circumstances were suffi- ciently quiet to measure , but so extraordinarily sensitive was the instrument that the stamping of the pavement , about 100 meters from the observatory , made the fringes disappear ...
Síða 266
... fringes at once appeared . They could then be altered in width or direction by the screws , till the best result was obtained . A slight motion of one of the mirrors produced an inclination of the fringes , and the horizontal wire of ...
... fringes at once appeared . They could then be altered in width or direction by the screws , till the best result was obtained . A slight motion of one of the mirrors produced an inclination of the fringes , and the horizontal wire of ...
Síða 276
... fringes should be 2D ; Con- V2 sidering only the velocity of the earth in its orbit , this would be 2DX10- . If , as was the case in the first experiment , D = 2x10 waves of yellow light , the displacement to be expected would be 0.04 ...
... fringes should be 2D ; Con- V2 sidering only the velocity of the earth in its orbit , this would be 2DX10- . If , as was the case in the first experiment , D = 2x10 waves of yellow light , the displacement to be expected would be 0.04 ...
Efni
On the Relative Motion of the Earth and | 90 |
Miller Challenges Michelson 19201925 | 190 |
Michelson Reaffirms the Null 19251930 | 213 |
Höfundarréttur | |
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