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Scientific Paper
TitleThe Fizeau Experiment
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Author(s)Declan Traill
Keywords{{{keywords}}}
Published2008
JournalGeneral Science Journal
No. of pages3

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Abstract

According to the reference paper (see reference (3) at the end of this paper for a URL) the phase shift seen in the Fizeau experiment is due to two effects occurring simultaneously:
# Different optical path lengths due to the moving water.
  1. Two waves of unequal wavelength entering a tube in phase will arrive at the end of the tube out of phase.