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The apparatus used in this experiment was built on a large sandstone block, floating in a circular trough of mercury. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this 1887 study that attempted to measure Earth's motion through the luminiferous aether by comparing the interference fringes of light-traveling along perpendicular arms.
ANSWER: Michelson-Morley experiment
[10e] The Michelson-Morley experiment contradicted the "Galilean" form of this concept. Albert Einstein later introduced both "special" and "general" forms of this concept.
ANSWER: relativity [accept Galilean relativity, special relativity, and general relativity]
[10h] The Sagnac effect, which was discovered in a follow-up to the Michelson-Morley experiment, underlies the “optical” type of these devices used in many navigation systems. The Gravity Probe B experiment used one of these devices with two gimbals to measure frame-dragging.
ANSWER: gyroscopes [accept optical gyroscopes]
<Science - Physics, Hariharan Ananthakrishnan> | VAULT II Packet 05

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