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    The KennedyThorndike experiment, first conducted in 1932 by Roy J. Kennedy and Edward M. Thorndike, is a modified form of the Michelson–Morley experimental...
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    level. Together with the Ives–Stilwell and KennedyThorndike experiments, Michelson–Morley type experiments form one of the fundamental tests of special...
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  • inertial frames. The KennedyThorndike experiment was designed to do that, and was first performed in 1932 by Roy Kennedy and Edward Thorndike. They obtained...
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    Ives–Stilwell type experiments have been performed with increased precision. Together with the Michelson–Morley and KennedyThorndike experiments it forms one...
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    Laser Ranging Experiments have also been conducted as a variation of the Kennedy-Thorndike-experiment. Another type of isotropy experiments are the Mössbauer...
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    observer, due to the Doppler effect. See Michelson–Morley experiment and KennedyThorndike experiment, for example. Because neutrinos have a small but non-zero...
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  • character in the 1977 film High Anxiety Thorndike, Maine, a town in the United States KennedyThorndike experiment Thorndyke (TV series), a 1964 BBC television...
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  • accurate interferometer placed entirely in vacuum. 1932 – the KennedyThorndike experiment uses an interferometer with arms of different lengths and not...
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  • notable experiments in physics. The list includes only experiments with Wikipedia articles. For hypothetical experiments, see thought experiment. Bell tests...
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  • of special relativity such as the Michelson–Morley experiment and the KennedyThorndike experiment have shown within tight limits that in an inertial...
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    Hammar experiment of 1935 to refute Dayton Miller's claim of a positive result from repetitions of the Michelson-Morley experiment The KennedyThorndike experiment...
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    Modern searches for Lorentz violation (category Physics experiments)
    of bodies in motion is analyzed. Also modern variants of the KennedyThorndike experiment, by which the dependence of light speed on the velocity of the...
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  • subsequently also confirmed by the Trouton–Rankine experiment (1908) and the KennedyThorndike experiment (1932). History of special relativity Lord Rayleigh...
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  • experiment. Another type of interferometer experiment was the KennedyThorndike experiment in 1932, by which the independence of the speed of light from...
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    particle's half-life KennedyThorndike experiment – time dilation in accordance with Lorentz transformations Hughes–Drever experiment – testing isotropy...
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    famous experiment, that required the introduction of length contraction: the Michelson–Morley experiment (and later also the KennedyThorndike experiment)....
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    speed of light in all frames, the Michelson–Morley experiment and the KennedyThorndike experiment can not distinguish between the two transformations...
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    energy. 1932 – KennedyThorndike experiment confirms the Lorentz transformations in a new way, complementary to the Michelson–Morley experiment. These two...
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    Michelson–Morley experiment, the ratio between a ( v ) {\displaystyle a(v)} and b ( v ) {\displaystyle b(v)} is determined by the KennedyThorndike experiment, and...
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  • leader of the opposition British Labour Party. November 1 – The KennedyThorndike experiment is published, showing that measured time as well as length is...
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  • The positron is observed by Carl Anderson. November 1 – The KennedyThorndike experiment is published, showing that measured time as well as length is...
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  • velocity of the observer, as demonstrated by Michelson–Morley experiment, KennedyThorndike experiment, and many others (see luminiferous aether). Note that measurements...
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  • when the Ives–Stillwell experiment is considered together with the Michelson–Morley experiment and the KennedyThorndike experiment. Furthermore, quantum...
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  • Using this model, the Michelson–Morley experiment, KennedyThorndike experiment, and Ives–Stilwell experiment put sharp constraints on violations of Lorentz...
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  • \left(\beta -\delta -{\tfrac {1}{2}}\right)=(4\pm 8)\times 10^{-12}\,} KennedyThorndike experiment, testing the dependence of the speed of light on the velocity...
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  • Ken Pounds Ken Riley (physicist) Kendal Nezan Kender engine KennedyThorndike experiment Kenneth Allen (physicist) Kenneth Bainbridge Kenneth G. Libbrecht...
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    this physical interpretation of relativistic effects was shared by Kennedy and Thorndike in 1932 as they concluded that the interferometer's arm contracts...
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  • American Psychological Association. They were known for their 1940s experiments using dolls to study children's attitudes about race. The Clarks testified...
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    Brutus impressed an audience that included Lady Tree, the young Sybil Thorndike and Ellen Terry, who wrote in her diary, "The small boy who played Brutus...
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  • yet tax revenues actually went up significantly. Tax historian Joseph Thorndike argues that the tax cuts helped "bolster" growth but did not "cover the...
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