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    The Sagnac effect, also called Sagnac interference, named after French physicist Georges Sagnac, is a phenomenon encountered in interferometry that is...
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  • Georges Sagnac (French pronunciation: [ʒɔʁʒ saɲak]; 14 October 1869 – 26 February 1928) was a French physicist who lent his name to the Sagnac effect, a phenomenon...
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    phase is used to detect rotation. It operates on the principle of the Sagnac effect which shifts the nulls of the internal standing wave pattern in response...
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  • version of the Michelson–Morley experiment and the Sagnac-Interferometer. It measured the Sagnac effect due to Earth's rotation, and thus tests the theories...
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    counterclockwise travel times. This is known as the Sagnac effect. It is evidently a global effect. We wish to compare the appearance of null geodesics...
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  • (astronomy) (physical cosmology) Sagnac effect (optics) (relativity) Sailing Ship Effect (business) (economics) Samba effect (Brazil) (economy of Brazil)...
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  • thick-walled pipe plugged with lead, while the other arm was free. The Sagnac effect showed that aether wind caused by earth drag cannot be demonstrated...
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    found a "systematic bias" in the data, which later turned out to be the Sagnac effect. Since then, many experiments have been conducted measuring such dragging...
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  • beam and sample beams travel along the same path. Examples include the Sagnac interferometer, Zernike phase-contrast interferometer, and the point diffraction...
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    The Sagnac effect can be considered a manifestation of the relativity of simultaneity. Since relativity of simultaneity is a first order effect in v...
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