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    • Spinning Earth and its Coriolis effect on the circuital light beams: Verification of the special relativity theory

      SANKAR HAJRA

      Regular Volume 87 Issue 5 November 2016 Article ID 0071

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    • Keywords

       

      Spinning Earth; circuital light beams; Michelson–Gale experiment; experiment of Bilger et al; Coriolis effect; Sagnac effect.

    • Abstract

       

      Bilger et al (1995), Anderson et al (1994) and Michelson–Gale assisted by Pearson (1925) measure/mention Sagnac effect on the circuital light/laser beams on the spinning Earth. But from the consideration of classical electrodynamics, the effect measured/mentioned by those experimenters is the Coriolis effect, not theSagnac effect. A simple experiment is suggested here that can easily settle the problem.

    • Author Affiliations

       

      SANKAR HAJRA1

      1. Indian Physical Society, 2A & 2B Raja S.C. Mullick Road, Kolkata 700 032, India

    • Dates

       
      Published
      16 November 2016
      Manuscript received
      11 April 2015
      Manuscript revised
      3 January 2016
      Accepted
      7 March 2016
      Early published
      6 October 2016

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