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标题：Zeeman en Einstein. Meeslepende metingen
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作者：Ad Maas ; Beto Pimentel
期刊名称：Studium
印刷版ISSN：1876-9055
电子版ISSN：2212-7283
出版年度：2016
卷号：9
期号：1-2
页码：96-110
DOI：10.18352/studium.10130
出版社：Erasmus Publishing BV
摘要：Zeeman and EinsteinThis article discusses an early example of interferometric, experimental research related to Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity. This research concerned two series of experiments on the velocity of light in moving media, conducted between 1914 and 1921 by the Amsterdam physicist Pieter Zeeman. With the first of these series, on the velocity of light in moving water, Zeeman obtained an important result that validated the so called ‘dispersion term’ of the formula for the velocity of light in moving media. Less clear is the scientific objective of the second series, in which Zeeman measured the velocity of light in moving solid media. It seems that Zeeman’s interest in this second series was triggered mainly by the technical challenges posed by these experiments. In this way, they reveal the increasing tendency of Zeeman’s later research to be led by technical and experimental challenges, rather than by the actual scientific developments.
关键词：Interference; History of Optics; Einstein; Zeeman; Theory of Special Relativity; Fizeau; Fresnel