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• Fringe shift — Yellow areas produce bright lines of constructive interference. The dark areas produce dark lines of destructive interference. ] A fringe shift is most often referred to in interferometry experiments such as the Michelson Morley. It is the… …   Wikipedia

• Michelson–Morley experiment — Box plots based on data from the Michelson–Morley experiment The Michelson–Morley experiment was performed in 1887 by Albert Michelson and Edward Morley at what is now Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. Its results are generally… …   Wikipedia

• Sagnac effect — The Sagnac effect (also called Sagnac Interference), named after French physicist Georges Sagnac, is a phenomenon encountered in interferometry that is elicited by rotation. The Sagnac effect manifests itself in a setup called ring interferometry …   Wikipedia

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• Kennedy–Thorndike experiment — The Kennedy–Thorndike experiment ( Experimental Establishment of the Relativity of Time ), first conducted in 1932, is a modified form of the Michelson–Morley experimental procedure. The modification is to make one arm of the classical… …   Wikipedia

• Michelson–Gale–Pearson experiment — The Michelson–Gale–Pearson experiment (1925) is a modified version of the Michelson Morley experiment and the Sagnac Interferometer. It measured the Sagnac effect due to Earth s rotation, and thus tests the theories of special relativity and… …   Wikipedia

• Michelson-Gale-Pearson experiment — The Michelson Gale Pearson experiment (1925) is a modified version of the Michelson Morley experiment and the Sagnac Interferometer which tests the theories of special relativity and luminiferous ether along the rotating frame of Earth. The aim… …   Wikipedia

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