Eötvös experiment

[uht-vuhsh, et-; Hungarian œt-vœsh]

noun Physics.

an experiment to confirm that all materials respond equally to gravity and that gravitational mass and inertial mass are equivalent.

Compare equivalence principle.

Origin of Eötvös experiment

named after Roland Eötvös (1848–1919), Hungarian physicist, who first performed the experiment

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