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Fizeau
[ fee-zoh ]
noun
- Ar·mande Hip·po·lyte Louis [a, r, -, mahn, ee-paw-, leet, lwee], 1819–96, French physicist.
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Wheatstone's device of the revolving mirror was afterwards employed by Foucault and Fizeau to measure the velocity of light.
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The velocity of light was experimentally found, in 1862, by Fizeau and Foucault, each using an independent method.
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Fizeau was unable to observe interference when the difference of path amounted to 50,000 wave lengths.
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I shall endeavor to make the principle of Fizeau's apparatus clear to you.
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The distinction was pointed out by Hippolyte Fizeau in 1848.
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