DocumentCode
1378447
Title
Comment on “The Case of Absence of Transverse Doppler Effect”
Author
Sfarti, A.
Author_Institution
Univ. of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
Volume
59
Issue
2
fYear
2010
Firstpage
494
Lastpage
495
Abstract
In the above paper, an extraordinary claim of experimental absence of the transverse Doppler effect is made. As stated in the abstract, "An experiment... showing that a 33-GHz microwave signal received by rotating antennas is not exhibiting the frequency shift ("transverse Doppler effect") predicted by the relativistic Doppler formula." In this comment, we will reanalyze the experiment and show that the correct application of special relativity predicts exactly a zero effect, in perfect coincidence with the observed result.
Keywords
Doppler effect; microwave antennas; frequency 33 GHz; frequency shift; microwave signal; rotating antennas; transverse Doppler effect; Doppler effect; Doppler shift; Electromagnetic scattering; Equations; Frequency; Genetic expression; Light sources; Microwave antennas; Receiving antennas; Virtual colonoscopy; Relativistic Doppler effect; rotating antennas; transverse Doppler effect;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Instrumentation and Measurement, IEEE Transactions on
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0018-9456
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/TIM.2009.2034324
Filename
5374026
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