EÖTVÖS EXPERIMENT


Meaning of EÖTVÖS EXPERIMENT in English

/ut"vush, et"-/ ; Hung. /uet"vuesh/ , Physics.

an experiment to confirm that all materials respond equally to gravity and that gravitational mass and inertial mass are equivalent. Cf. equivalence principle .

[ named after Roland Eötvös (1848-1919), Hungarian physicist, who first performed the experiment ]

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .