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The Mechanical Universe 41
Michelson-Morley Experiment |
In 1887, an exquisitely designed measurement of the earth's motion through the aether results in the most brilliant failure in scientific history.
Ch Frame Code Title
1 A Opening Sequence
2 02605 G Significance Of The Michelson-Morley Experiment
3 06488 V Historical Setting - 1887
4 08759 H Intro To Michelson And Morley
5 09262 V Star Field And Earth From Space
6 10149 V Rising Sun; Ocean Waves
7 10830 A Wave Motion And Coupled Oscillators
8 11240 V Rising Sun; Ocean Waves
9 11948 A Properties Of Wave Motion
10 12589 A Modern Solar System Model
11 12994 E Viscosity Of Fluids
12 13479 A Modern Solar System Model
13 13975 V Earth And Moon From Space
14 14436 H Michelson's Academic Background
15 15371 H Michelson With Apparatus
16 16474 E Modern Interferometer
17 16827 A Principles Of Interferometry
18 17875 A Destructive Interference
19 18970 A Michelson Morley Anticipated Results
20 19720 V Earth's Speed About The Sun
21 20815 H Galileo At The Inquisition
22 21920 H Michelson In Berlin
23 22225 E Michelson's First Interferometer
24 22629 H Berlin About 1880
25 22865 E Michelson's First Interferometer
26 23572 H Case Institute
27 24350 H Morley's Background
28 24660 E Improved 1887 Interferometer
29 26058 A Michelson-Morley Inticipated Results
30 27819 A Michelson Morley Actual Results
31 28698 H Michelson In Study
32 30053 E Michelson With Apparatus
33 31643 H Michelson At Conference
34 32132 A Fitzgerald's Length Contraction Hypothesis
35 32952 H Lorentz Transformation
36 33617 H Poincare's Principle Of Relativity
37* 34567 A Galileo's Notion Of Inertia
38 35837 H Galileo In Study
39 36195 H Michelson's Work
40* 37291 A Relative Velocities
41 39211 H Lorentz's Electron Theory
42 39911 H Young Albert Einstein
43 40501 E Michelson With Apparatus
44 41085 H Michelson Speaks About His Work
45 41580 H Michelson's Nobel Prize
46 42135 H Michelson Painting
47 43988 G Michelson's Lack Of Influence On Einstein
46970 credits
pretty good discussion of Michelson-Morley experiment
Chs 37 and 40 introduce Albert Einstein and H A Lorentz on rail cars - Lorentz as pitcher for the Brooklynn Dodgers. Good stuff.
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Prepared by Jeff Rudd, 1999
Revised by Laura Schmidt, 2007