MadSci Network: Physics
Query:

Re: How can the speed of light be experimentally determined?

Date: Sun Feb 3 21:16:46 2002
Posted By: Katie Pilypas, Undergraduate, Physics, Maths, Flinders University of South Australia
Area of science: Physics
ID: 1010888396.Ph
Message:

Hi Summer,
Here are some web pages I found which contain either historical or current 
experiments for determining the speed of light.  However without very good 
quality equipment you will not get the precise figure but an estimate.  I 
hope these help.

Katie Pilypas

How is the speed of light measured?
 http://www.public.iastate.edu/~physics/sci.physics/faq/measure_c.html

Measuring the Speed of Light
 http://www.picot
ech.com/experiments/speed_of_light/

Measuring the Speed of Light
 http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/waves_particles/lightspeed_e
vidence.html


Speed of Light
 http://hype
rphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/c.html#ctroub

Experiment 2
 http://polaris.phys.ualberta.ca/users/austen/Phys29x/Manual/2Sp
eedofLight97.pdf





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