CP The French physicist Armand Fizeau was the first to measure the speed of light accurately. He also found experimentally that the speed, relative to the lab frame, of light traveling in a tank of water that is itself moving at a speed V relative to the lab frame is υ = c n + k V where n = 1.333 is the index of refraction of water. Fizeau called k the dragging coefficient and obtained an experimental of k = 0.44. What value of k do you calculate from relativistic transformations?
CP The French physicist Armand Fizeau was the first to measure the speed of light accurately. He also found experimentally that the speed, relative to the lab frame, of light traveling in a tank of water that is itself moving at a speed V relative to the lab frame is υ = c n + k V where n = 1.333 is the index of refraction of water. Fizeau called k the dragging coefficient and obtained an experimental of k = 0.44. What value of k do you calculate from relativistic transformations?
CP The French physicist Armand Fizeau was the first to measure the speed of light accurately. He also found experimentally that the speed, relative to the lab frame, of light traveling in a tank of water that is itself moving at a speed V relative to the lab frame is
υ
=
c
n
+
k
V
where n = 1.333 is the index of refraction of water. Fizeau called k the dragging coefficient and obtained an experimental of k = 0.44. What value of k do you calculate from relativistic transformations?
Definition Definition Rate at which light travels, measured in a vacuum. The speed of light is a universal physical constant used in many areas of physics, most commonly denoted by the letter c . The value of the speed of light c = 299,792,458 m/s, but for most of the calculations, the value of the speed of light is approximated as c = 3 x 10 8 m/s.
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m
2πkT
) 3/2
Calculate the integral (v) = f vƒ (v)dv. The function f(v) describing the actual distribution of molecular speeds is called the Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution,
=
ƒ(v) = 4π (· v²e-mv²/2kT
. (Hint: Make the change of variable v² =x and use the tabulated integral foxne
integer and a is a positive constant.)
Express your answer in terms of the variables T, m, and appropriate constants.
-ax dx
n!
-
an+1
where n is a positive
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