The experiments of Lord Rayleigh and DeWitt Bristol Brace (1902, 1904) were aimed to show whether length contraction leads to birefringence or not. They...
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order to explain the Trouton–Noble experiment, the Experiments of Rayleigh and Brace, and Kaufmann's experiments. It has the form x ′ = γ φ ( x − v t...
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Luminiferous aether (redirect from Ether (physics and astronomy))
electrostatic fields, and the experiments of Rayleigh and Brace (1902, 1904), to detect double refraction in various media. However, all of them obtained a...
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Aether theories (redirect from Theories of aether)
which Rayleigh and Brace tested and failed to find (Experiments of Rayleigh and Brace). All of those results required the full application of the Lorentz...
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experiments, the Trouton–Noble experiment, the experiments of Rayleigh and Brace, and the Trouton–Rankine experiment. In the 1920s, a series of Michelson–Morley...
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Special relativity (redirect from Special theory of relativity)
Trouton–Noble experiment (1903) showed that the torque on a capacitor is independent of position and inertial reference frame. The Experiments of Rayleigh and Brace...
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following terms: Experiments of Rayleigh and Brace Rayleigh bandwidth Rayleigh beamwidth Rayleigh–Carson reciprocity Rayl, rayl or Rayleigh Rayleigh–Faber–Krahn...
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inertial frame of reference of an observer co-moving with the experimental apparatus) were made in the Experiments of Rayleigh and Brace (1902, 1904), though...
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subjected to a torque. In addition, the Experiments of Rayleigh and Brace intended to measure some consequences of length contraction in the laboratory frame...
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aether. Lorentz was perplexed by experiments such as the Trouton–Noble experiment and the experiments of Rayleigh and Brace, which failed to validate his...
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Association for the Advancement of Science, and member of the Council of the American Physical Society. Experiments of Rayleigh and Brace English Wikisource has...
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results of many experiments (including the Michelson–Morley experiment, the Experiments of Rayleigh and Brace, and the Trouton–Noble experiment), according...
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relativistic effect and some form of time dilation is present – similarly to the previous experiments by Rayleigh (1902) and Brace (1904). 1908 – Walther...
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Morley and Morley conduct a number of MM experiments with a 100 ft interferometer, producing the null result. 1902 to 1904 – Lord Rayleigh and DeWitt...
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Expansion of the universe Expectation value (quantum mechanics) Experimental physics Experiments in Fluids Experiments of Rayleigh and Brace Explicit symmetry...
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Hendrik Lorentz (category Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences)
of experiments like those of Michelson, Rayleigh and Brace, not a fortuitous compensation of opposing effects, but the manifestation of a general and...
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Albert Einstein (category Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences)
fluctuations, and demonstrated how both the effect and Rayleigh scattering originate from the atomistic constitution of matter. The Annus Mirabilis papers are four...
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Animal navigation (section Effects of human activity)
David Redish states that "The carefully controlled experiments of Mittelstaedt and Mittelstaedt (1980) and Etienne (1987) have demonstrated conclusively that...
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of experiments like those of Michelson, Rayleigh and Brace, not a fortuitous compensation of opposing effects, but the manifestation of a general and...
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called Rayleigh scattering, explaining why the sky is blue, and predicted the existence of the surface waves now known as Rayleigh waves. Rayleigh's textbook...
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and bombed Rawreth, Thundersley and Rayleigh and at sea at the Blackwater and Margate. Three houses were damaged and a farm building at Rawreth were damaged...
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Explorer 51 (section Experiments)
measurements, and the other was a calibrated position. The dynamic range of the instrument was 1.E16 photons per s m2 (1.E6 rayleighs). In order that...
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