Experimental Determination Of The Velocity Of Light

by Albert Abraham Michelson

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52 pages, Hardcover

Published August 26, 2015

About the author

Prussian-born American physicist Albert Abraham Michelson with Edward Williams Morley helped to disprove the existence of ether, the hypothetical medium of electromagnetic waves, and won a Nobel Prize of 1907 in physics.

People know for his work on the measurement of the speed of light and especially for the experiment. He received the first in sciences.

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Reviews

[David · Rating 5 out of 5]

I downloaded this from gutenberg.org as an e-pub, with images. It is only 34 pages long, but very clearly written to explain the reasoning behind the experiment, the equipment used and the methodology. This research was published in 1880, and some of the equipment used could easily be duplicated or done much more precisely by high school physics students with devices they could build themselves today.This is a fascinating historical document worthy of reading by those interested in history, science, any of a number of areas.