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We here describe the simple idea of the Michelson experiment as illustrated below. A source S emits a wave train which arrives at a semi silver-coated glass plate P. There the wave train is split into two coherent wave trains moving along the arms \(l_1\) and \(l_2\) of Michelson’s interferometer. The waves were reflected at the ends \(l_1\) and \(l_2\) by the mirrors \(M_1\) and \(M_2\) resp.
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Günther, H. (2020). The Michelson Experiment. In: Elementary Approach to Special Relativity. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-3168-2_24
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