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Studies in Optics

Book by A.A. Michelson · 1 quotes · Electromagnetism, Fizeau, Foucault

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“The velocity of light is one of the most important of the fundamental constants of Nature. Its measurement by Foucault and Fizeau gave as the result a speed greater in air than in water, thus deciding in favor of the undulatory and against the corpuscular theory. Again, the comparison of the electrostatic and the electromagnetic units gives as an experimental result a value remarkably close to the velocity of light–a result which justified Maxwell in concluding that light is the propagation of an electromagnetic disturbance. Finally, the principle of relativity gives the velocity of light a still greater importance, since one of its fundamental postulates is the constancy of this velocity under all possible conditions.”

Important Light Nature Justification Naturalism Velocity Speed Of Light Maxwell Nobel Laureate Foucault Electromagnetism James Clerk Maxwell James Maxwell Velocity Of Light Fizeau Hippolyte Fizeau Jean Bernard Léon Foucault Léon Foucault

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