Reflection Mechanisms, Doppler Effect, and Special Relativity

Dan Censor

doi:10.1109/PROC.1977.10518

Reflection Mechanisms, Doppler Effect, and Special Relativity

Dan Censor

Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering

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Recently, Ashworth and Davies concluded that the theory of special relativity cannot be tested by reflection of light from a mirror moving parallel to itself. It is now shown that the corner reflector, which is already implemented in the space vehicle LAGEOS, is equally inadequate. However, the corner reflector does produce a second-order transverse Doppler effect, as already noted by Dashchuk. This provides a method for monitoring transverse motion. It is suggested that this be tested in the experiment of Davies and Jennison.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	572
Number of pages	1
Journal	Proceedings of the IEEE
Volume	65
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/PROC.1977.10518
State	Published - 1 Jan 1977

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