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Fizeau experiment
The Fizeau experiment was carried out by Hippolyte Fizeau in 1851 to measure the relative speeds of light in moving water. Fizeau used a special interferometer arrangement to measure the effect of movement of a medium upon the speed of light.
According to the theories prevailing at the time, light traveling through a moving medium would be dragged along by the medium, so that the measured speed of the light would be a simple sum of its speed "through" the medium plus the speed "of" the medium.
Fissile
- Fission Product Pilot Plant
- Fission products (by element)
- FitzHugh–Nagumo model
- Fixed-focus lens
- Fixed-pattern noise
- Fixture unit
- Fizeau experiment
- Fizeau–Foucault apparatus
- Fizz keeper
- Flack parameter
- Flame
- Flame detector
- Flammability
- Flammability limit
- Flap (aircraft)
- Flap back
- Flare spray
- Flash evaporation
- Flash freezing
- Flash point
- Flat-field