Fizeau's "aether-drag" experiment in the undergraduate laboratory

Details Fizeau's "aether-drag" experiment in the undergraduate laboratory Fizeau's "aether-drag" experiment in the undergraduate laboratory

2012-01-02

arxiv.org/abs/1201.0501v1

Physics

Optics

9 pages, 9 figures, submitted to Am. J. Phys

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We describe a simple realization of Fizeau's "aether-drag" experiment. Using an inexpensive setup, we measure the phase shift induced by moving water in a laser interferometer and find good agreement with the relativistic prediction or, in the terms of nineteenth century physics, with Fresnel's partial-drag theory. This appealing experiment, particularly suited for an undergraduate laboratory project, not only allows a quantitative measurement of a relativistic effect on a macroscopic system, but also constitutes a practical application of important concepts of optics, data acquisition and processing, and fluid mechanics.

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