One of its namesakes performed a similar experiment wherein a Wheatstone bridge was setup to measure the resistance of a wire in a given orientation and finding the change in the resistance by rotating the setup because of Lorentz contraction along with A. O. Rankine.
One of its namesakes performed a similar experiment wherein a Wheatstone bridge was setup to measure the resistance of a wire in a given orientation and finding the change in the resistance by rotating the setup because of Lorentz contraction along with A. O. Rankine. This experiment also led to a paradox between Maxwellian Electrodynamics and Special relativity which is reconciled by accounting for the changing electromagnetic momentum. The idea for this experiment was proposed by George FitzGerald, whose calculations showed that a charged parallel plate capacitor that is freely suspended orients itself perpendicular to the motion of the earth. For 10 points, identify this experiment which, like the Michelson-Morley experiment, sought to study the motion of the earth flowing through the ether and obtained a null result, and was performed by an Irish scientist and his grad student.
One of its namesakes performed a similar experiment wherein a Wheatstone bridge was setup to measure the resistance of a wire in a given orientation and finding the change in the resistance by rotating the setup because of Lorentz contraction along with A. O. Rankine.
{Trouton-Noble} experiment [accept {Trouton Rankine} until “Rankine”]