Mich1879 {GmooG}R Documentation

Measurements of the speed of light by Michelson in 1879

Description

Michelson included more details of each experiment in the table of results in his report.

Usage

data(Mich1879)

Format

A data frame with 100 observations on the following 4 variables.

Date

Day of the experiment (from 5 June to 2 July 1879)

Time

AM, PM or Elec (under electric light)

Value

estimate of the speed of light minus 299000, uncorrected for temperature and refraction

Temperature

temperature in degrees Fahrenheit, from 58 to 90

Details

This dataset and the dataset newcomb are both used in Chapter 5, "Measuring the speed of light".

Source

Michelson, Albert. 1880. "Experimental Determination of the Velocity of Light Made at the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis." Astronomical Papers 1: 109-45. https://books.google.de/books? id=343nAAAAMAAJ

Examples

data(Mich1879, package="GmooG")
with(Mich1879, summary(Temperature))

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