A modern Fizeau experiment for education and outreach purposes
Atomic Physics
2015-05-20 v1 Optics
Abstract
On the occasion of the laser's 50th anniversary, we performed a modern Fizeau experiment, measuring the speed of light with a laser beam passing over the city centre of Marseille. For a round trip distance of almost five kilometers, the measurement has reached an uncertainty of about 10, mainly due to atmospheric fluctuations. We present the experimental and pedagogical challenges of this brilliant outreach experiment.
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@article{arxiv.1011.1770,
title = {A modern Fizeau experiment for education and outreach purposes},
author = {Olivier Morizot and Adrien Sellé and Sandrine Ferri and Didier Guyomarc'H and Jean-Marie Laugier and Martina Knoop},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1011.1770},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
accepted by Eur J Phys in november 2010