ON TROUTON-NOBLE EXPERIMENT

被引：14

作者：

BUTLER, JW

机构：

[1] U. S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington 25, D. C.

来源：

AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICS | 1968年 / 36卷 / 11P1期

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D O I：

10.1119/1.1974358

中图分类号：

G40 [教育学];

学科分类号：

040101 ; 120403 ;

摘要：

The experiment of F. T. Trouton and H. R. Noble to detect the motion of the earth through the ether by means of electromagnetic torque on a charged, suspended, parallel-plate capacitor is reexamined. No previous explanation of the null result appears to be satisfactory because, as is shown herein, conventional relativistic electrodynamics predicts that the total electromagnetic field energy of the capacitor is different in the two orientations. Therefore, this combination predicts that the result should not be null. A new explanation of the null result is offered, based on a new equation for the energy density [formula omitted] in the electric [formula omitted] and magnetic [formula omitted] fields of a classical macroscopic charged body with a uniform speed [formula omitted] in units of the speed of light. This new equation [formula omitted], in Gaussian units in vacuo, predicts that the total electromagnetic field energy of the capacitor is independent of its orientation in agreement with the null result of Trouton and Noble. © 1968, American Association of Physics Teachers. All rights reserved.

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