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Eötvös experiment

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[uht-vuhsh, et-, œt-vœsh] / ˈʌt vʌʃ, ˈɛt-, ˈœt vœʃ /

noun

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


Etymology

Origin of Eötvös experiment

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


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