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Fringe Shift in Michelson-Morley Experiment by castrojp is a document available to read on EtoBox.
1) The document derives an expression for the fringe shift in a Michelson-Morley interferometer as a function of the rotational position of the apparatus. 2) It considers the different travel times for light to reach mirrors M1 and M2 as the apparatus rotates through the stationary ether. 3) The resulting expression for fringe shift shows it occurs as a second harmonic of the rotational angle, with the number of fringes shifted proportional to the square of the drift velocity through the ether.
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- castrojp
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- EN