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cabate

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What, according to the modern view, was the reason Michelson's and Morley's experiment failed to observe motion relative the ether?
 a. The ether wind works very differently than they thought.
  b. Light does not require a medium to travel through.
  c. Their equipment was not sensitive enough to detect the ether wind.
  d. Their hypothesis was fine, but their experiment was badly flawed.
  e. Earth drags the ether with it.

Question 2

What made Maxwell's equations conflict with Galilean invariance while Newton's laws did not conflict?
 a. They depended on acceleration rather than velocity.
  b. They depended on velocity rather than acceleration.
  c. They dealt with non-inertial systems rather than inertial systems.
  d. They dealt with inertial systems rather than non-inertial systems.
  e. They dealt with electromagnetic effects rather than mechanics.



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meow1234

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Answer to Question 1

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Answer to Question 2

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cabate

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Reply 2 on: Jul 28, 2018
YES! Correct, THANKS for helping me on my review


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Reply 3 on: Yesterday
Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it

 

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