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X.—A New Way of Measuring the Velocity of Light

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 February 2012

R. A. Houstoun
R. A. Houstoun
Affiliation:
Natural Philosophy Department, University of Glasgow
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During the past four years I have been developing a new method of measuring the velocity of light. I had intended to defer publication until the method was perfected, but progress is becoming increasingly difficult owing to war conditions. So I give here an account of the progress already made. I am certain the method has a great future before it. There is a notice of it in a letter to Nature (Houstoun, 1938), but except for this no description of the method has yet been given.

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Research Article
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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Section A: Mathematics , Volume 61 , Issue 1 , 1941 , pp. 102 - 114
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1941

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