INVESTIGATION OF THE INFLUENCE OF AN INTERMEDIATE BODY ON GRAVITATIONAL INTERACTION,

Abstract

The authors describe an experiment undertaken for the purpose of observing the influence of an intermediate body on the static gravitational interaction. The experiments were made with a torsion pendulum consisting of two identical masses (25 g each) and a tungsten wire. One mass served as a trial body and the other mass as part of a variable capacitor serving as a pickup for the oscillations. The torsion pendulum is kept in vacuum not worse than 0.0001 mm Hg. From the change in capacitance it was possible to deduce whether a third body changes the static gravitational force on the other body. The small changes in the oscillation amplitude were processed by means of a statistical method.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 21, 1968
Accession Number
AD0681638

Entities

People

  • V. B. Braginskii
  • V. K. Martynov

Organizations

  • National Air and Space Intelligence Center

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Amplitude
  • Capacitance
  • Capacitors
  • Electronic Components
  • Electronic Equipment
  • Oscillation
  • Passive Electronic Components
  • Pendulums
  • Tungsten
  • Variable Capacitors

Readers

  • Control Systems Engineering.
  • Electronics Engineering