Essential University Physics (3rd Edition)
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Author: Richard Wolfson
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Chapter 33, Problem 28P
You’re designing a Michelson interferometer in which a speed-of-light difference of 100m/s in two perpendicular directions is supposed to shift the interference pattern so a bright fringe of 550-nm light ends up where the adjacent dark fringe would be in the absence of a speed difference. How long should you make the interferometer’s arms?
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