Measurement of the Relativistic Potential Difference Across a Rotating Dielectric Cylinder

Details Measurement of the Relativistic Potential Difference Across a Rotating Dielectric Cylinder Measurement of the Relativistic Potential Difference Across a Rotating Dielectric Cylinder

2001-04-30

arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0104101v1

Am.J.Phys. 69 (2001) 648-654

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

22 pages, 5 figures; to be published in the American Journal of Physics

Scientific paper

10.1119/1.1362695

According to the Special Theory of Relativity, a rotating magnetic dielectric cylinder in an axial magnetic field should exhibit a contribution to the radial electric potential that is associated with the motion of the material's magnetic dipoles. In 1913 Wilson and Wilson reported a measurement of the potential difference across a magnetic dielectric constructed from wax and steel balls. Their measurement has long been regarded as a verification of this prediction. In 1995 Pelligrini and Swift questioned the theoretical basis of experiment. In particular, they pointed out that it is not obvious that a rotating medium may be treated as if each point in the medium is locally inertial. They calculated the effect in the rotating frame and predicted a potential different from both Wilson's theory and experiment. Subsequent analysis of the experiment suggests that Wilson's experiment does not distinguish between the two predictions due to the fact that their composite steel-wax cylinder is conductive in the regions of magnetization. We report measurements of the radial voltage difference across various rotating dielectric cylinders, including a homogeneous magnetic material (YIG), to unambiguously test the competing calculations. Our results are compatible with the traditional treatment of the effect using a co-moving locally inertial reference frame, and are incompatible with the predictions based on the model of Pelligrini and Swift.

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