Physics 30 - Unit C: Chapter 13.2

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13.2 - The Speed of Light

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Michelson’s Experiment

Light could be observed in the telescope if the rotating mirrors completed 1/8 of a rotation between the time left and then returned.

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Michelson Experiment Equation

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Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)

One of the first recorded attempts to measure the speed of light

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Olaus Rømer (1644 – 1710)

Christiaan Huygens (1629 - 1695)

Rømer and Huygens observed variations in the timing of eclipses of one of the moons of Jupiter.

  • They reasoned that the 22 minute discrepancy was the time that it took light to travel the distance of Earth’s orbital diameter (3.0 × 1011 m).