Question

1. What was the Michelson-Morley experiment designed to do?2. When was the Michelson-Morley experiment done?3. What was the ether?4. What does the speed of a wave depend on?5. How many light beams are used in Michelson’s interferometer?6. What sort of problems did Michelson have with his first interferometer?7. How many times more sensitive was Michelson’s second interferometer?8. What did the new interferometer float on?9. What was the surprising outcome of the Michelson-Morley experiment?10. What were the implications of the experiment?11. What is the principle behind relativity?12. Who became the first American to win the Nobel Prize?13. Did Einstein base his Theory of Relativity on the Michelson-Morley experiment?

Answer 1

Answer:

1) designed to measure the difference in speed of light in different directions , 1887

Explanation:

1) This experiment was designed to measure the difference in speed of light in different directions and therefore find the speed of the ether.

2) was made in 1887

3) At that time it was assumed that it was the medium in which light traveled and it is everywhere

4) the speed of the wave depends on the characteristics of the medium where it travels,

for the one in a string depends on the tension and density

for an electromagnetic wave of the permittivity and permeability of the vacuum

5) In this type of interferometer the beam is divided into two rays

6) In his interrupter, he had to accurately measure the displacement of the fringes in a telescope, for which he had to minimize vibrations, he had problems in the movement of one of the arms, changes in temperature

7) In Michelsom's second experiment, the apparatus could measure 0.01 fringes by increasing the length of the arms by 11 m

8) The new interferometer floated on a bed of mercury

9) Couldn't measure any difference in speed of light in different directions

10) Physics was forced to eliminate the concept of ETHER

11) One of the principles of relativities that the speed of light is constant in all inertial efficiency systems

12) Michelson in 1907

13) It seems that Einstein did not know the results of this experiment