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Volume 62, Issue 11
November 1994
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Papers | November 01 1994
‘‘Sagnac’’ effect: A century of Earth‐rotated interferometers
R. Anderson ;
H. R. Bilger ;
G. E. Stedman
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Am. J. Phys. 62, 975–985 (1994)
https://doi.org/10.1119/1.17656
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The earliest prediction of the Sagnac effect, and of the possibility of detecting the Earth’s rotation with an interferometer of square kilometer area, is by Lodge (1893, 1897). We illustrate the extraordinary range of theoretical motivations for the experimental study of the Sagnac effect, starting with previously unpublished correspondence between Lodge and Larmor, and ending with present (and planned) ring interferometer experiments whose sensitivity to the Earth’s rotation is of the order of parts per million (billion, respectively).
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Inertial guidance systems , Geodesy , Interferometry
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