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Sagnac effect [′sän·yäk i‚fekt] (optics) The shift in interference fringes from two coherent light beams traveling in opposite directions around a ring when the ring is rotated about an axis perpendicular to the ring. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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The synchronization problem is partly a result of the Sagnac effect, a phenomenon that causes clocks in a rotating system (in this case, the earth) to be out of sync with one another when viewed from a stationary frame. This is the Sagnac effect, a piece of physics so obscure that it does not even have an index entry in the 15-volume McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology. |
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