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  2. Faraday effect - Wikipedia

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    Michael Faraday holding a piece of glass of the type he used to demonstrate the effect of magnetism on polarization of light, c. 1857.. By 1845, it was known through the work of Augustin-Jean Fresnel, Étienne-Louis Malus, and others that different materials are able to modify the direction of polarization of light when appropriately oriented, [4] making polarized light a very powerful tool to ...

  3. Listing's law - Wikipedia

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    Listing's law, named after German mathematician Johann Benedict Listing (1808–1882), describes the three-dimensional orientation of the eye and its axes of rotation. Listing's law has been shown to hold when the head is stationary and upright and gaze is directed toward far targets, i.e., when the eyes are either fixating, making saccades, or pursuing moving visual targets.

  4. Frame-dragging - Wikipedia

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    Relativistic jets may provide evidence for the reality of frame-dragging. Gravitomagnetic forces produced by the Lense–Thirring effect (frame dragging) within the ergosphere of rotating black holes [37] [38] combined with the energy extraction mechanism by Penrose [39] have been used to explain the observed properties of relativistic jets.

  5. Arago's rotations - Wikipedia

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    Arago remarked that it gave evidence of the presence of a force which only existed whilst there was relative motion between the magnet-needle and the mass of copper. He gave the phenomenon the name of magnetism of rotation. In 1825 he published a further experiment, in which, arguing from the principle of action and reaction, he produced a ...

  6. Michelson–Morley experiment - Wikipedia

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    Data of both groups collected between 2004 and 2006 are combined and further analyzed. Since the experiments are located at difference continents, at Berlin and Perth respectively, the effects of both the rotation of the devices themselves and the rotation of Earth could be studied. Eisele et al. [2] 2009

  7. Dynamo theory - Wikipedia

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    A simple argument can be based on consideration of net effects. To create the magnetic field, the net electric current must wrap around the axis of rotation of the planet. In that case, for the term to be positive, the net flow of conducting matter must be towards the axis of rotation. The diagram only shows a net flow from the poles to the ...

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  9. Modified Newtonian dynamics - Wikipedia

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    Modified Newtonian dynamics (MOND) is a theory that proposes a modification of Newton's second law to account for observed properties of galaxies.Its primary motivation is to explain galaxy rotation curves without invoking dark matter, and is one of the most well-known theories of this class.