THE LIFE AND TIMES OF ALBERT ABRAHAM MICHELSON Misty Lemoine DUE DATE

TABLE OF CONTENT  Life  Scientific Discovery  Impact

LIFE  Albet Abraham Michelson  Born: December 19, 1952  Place: Strelnzo, Poland  Parents:  Rosalie Przlubska  Samuel Michelson

SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY  The Michelson-Morley Experiment  Founded by Albert Abraham Michelson Edward William Morley  Explanation of aberration

THE MICHELSON-MORLEY EXPERIMENT Suppose we have a river of width w (say, 100 feet), and two swimmers who both swim at the same speed v feet per second (say, 5 feet per second). The river is flowing at a steady rate, say 3 feet per second. The swimmers race in the following way: they both start at the same point on one bank. One swims directly across the river to the closest point on the opposite bank, then turns around and swims back. The other stays on one side of the river, swimming upstream a distance (measured along the bank) exactly equal to the width of the river, then swims back to the start. Who wins?

IMPACT  First tested by Michelson  Changed in 1920 More precise More accurate instrument (interferometer)

WORK CITED Michelson, Albert Abraham and Edward Williams Morley. "The Michelson- Morley Experiment." The Michelson-Morley Experiment. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, World Book Advanced. Web. 2 May Staley, Richard. "Michelson, Albert Abraham." World Book Advanced. World Book, Web. 2 May Fowler, Michael. "The Michelson-Morley Experiment." The Michelson-Morley Experiment. N.p., 15 Sept Web. 05 May 2014.