AN ANALOG OF THE MICHELSON-MORLEY EXPERIMENT--GALILEAN RELATIVITY AND THE VIBRATING MEMBRANE,

Abstract

By placing moving boundary conditions on the wave equation for a vibrating membrane, we have obtained sets of velocity dependent standing waves. The vibrational modes and model patterns of the moving system were derived for a rectangular boundary frame. The system is shown to be a mechanical model of the Michelson-Morley experiment. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 02, 1968
Accession Number
AD0837426

Entities

People

  • Bernard Brown
  • Louis Libelo

Organizations

  • Naval Ordnance Laboratory

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Boundaries
  • Differential Equations
  • Equations
  • Mathematics
  • Membranes
  • Partial Differential Equations
  • Standing Waves
  • Wave Equations
  • Waves

Readers

  • Electromagnetic Wave Scattering and Antenna Radiation Engineering
  • Materials Science.
  • Structural Dynamics.