The speed of light perturbation in absolute gravimeters from the viewpoint of 'relativistic geometry'

Metrologia

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 324-329

  Shao, Cheng Gang ^a   Tan, Yu Jie ^a   Li, Jia ^a   Hu, Zhong Kun ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Absolute gravimeter; Doppler shift; Special relativity effect

Indexed keywords

DOPPLER EFFECT; GEOMETRY; LIGHT; LIGHT VELOCITY; RELATIVITY; TIME DELAY;

ABSOLUTE GRAVIMETER; CORNER CUBES; FREQUENCY SHIFT; GEOMETRICAL METHODS; LORENTZ TRANSFORMATIONS; SPECIAL RELATIVITY;

GRAVIMETERS;

EID: 84926483022     PISSN: 00261394     EISSN: 16817575     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0026-1394/52/2/324     Document Type: Article

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