The Fizeau experiment was carried out by Hippolyte Fizeau in 1851 to measure the relative speeds of light in moving water. Fizeau used a special interferometer...

light in moving water in an experiment known as the Fizeau experiment. Fizeau was born in Paris to Louis and Beatrice Fizeau. He married into the de Jussieu...

1849, Hippolyte Fizeau used a toothed wheel apparatus to perform absolute measurements of the speed of light in air. Subsequent experiments performed by...

fringes. The term Fizeau interferometer also refers to an interferometric arrangement used by Hippolyte Fizeau in a famous 1851 experiment that seemingly...

light, and the dragging of light in moving water observed in the 1851 Fizeau experiment. The notation employs u as velocity of a body within a Lorentz frame...

stationary aether was preferred because it appeared to be confirmed by the Fizeau experiment (1851) and the aberration of star light. According to the stationary...

was directly demonstrated by the Fizeau experiment (1851). It was later shown that all first-order optical experiments must give a negative result due...

shift Differential Doppler effect Doppler cooling Dopplergraph Fading Fizeau experiment Photoacoustic Doppler effect Range rate Rayleigh fading Redshift Laser...

was preferred because his dragging coefficient was confirmed by the Fizeau experiment in 1851, which measured the speed of light in moving liquids. Albert...

and his magnet and conductor thought experiments. He would also mention the importance of the Fizeau experiment and the observation of stellar aberration...

Fizeau–Foucault apparatus may refer to either of two nineteenth-century experiments to measure the speed of light: Fizeau's measurement of the speed of...

apparently confirmed by the Fizeau experiment (1851), Stokes' theory was apparently confirmed by the Michelson–Morley experiment (1881, 1887). Hendrik Lorentz...

cable, the setup is effectively a combination of a Sagnac experiment and the Fizeau experiment. In glass the speed of light is slower than in vacuum, and...

Michelson–Morley experiment, and the mathematical concept of local time (1895) to explain the aberration of light and the Fizeau experiment. This resulted...

What would be the speed of light in flowing water? In 1851, Fizeau conducted an experiment to answer this question, a simplified representation of which...

magnet and conductor problem, the negative aether drift experiments, as well as the Fizeau experiment, led Albert Einstein to develop the theory of special...

with the Fizeau experiment, the aberration of light, and more indirectly the negative aether drift tests such as the Michelson–Morley experiment, formed...

attempt by classical physics to explain stellar aberration and the Fizeau experiment, but was discarded when Albert Einstein introduced his theory of relativity...

implausible characteristics. For example, in his eponymous Fizeau experiment of 1851, Fizeau demonstrated that the speed of light through a moving column...

\end{aligned}}} where λ0 is the wavelength in vacuum. As shown in the Fizeau experiment, when light is transmitted through a moving medium, its speed relative...

scientific measurements in the mid-1800s, such as the Fizeau experiment and the Michelson–Morley experiment, that puzzling discrepancies began to be noted between...

thought experiments and real-world experiments in the area of quantum theory and relativity theory and other fields of physics. These include: The Fizeau experiment...

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it, he could explain the aberration of light and the result of the Fizeau experiment. In 1900 and 1904, Henri Poincaré called local time Lorentz's "most...

assumption of total aether entrainment that was falsified by the Fizeau experiment but that experiment does indeed show that that light is partially "carried along"...

satellite was used for precise orbit determination and the Fizeau experiment. The Fizeau experiment tests the theory of special relativity – that distance...

Kohlrausch (193,088 miles/second) and the speed of light determined by the Fizeau experiment (195,647 miles/second). Based on their same speed, he concluded that...

notable experiments in physics. The list includes only experiments with Wikipedia articles. For hypothetical experiments, see thought experiment. Bell tests...

which the aether is fully dragged by matter. However, other experiments like the Fizeau experiment and the effect of aberration disproved that model. A possible...

The transformation of velocity is useful in stellar aberration, the Fizeau experiment, and the relativistic Doppler effect. The Lorentz transformations...