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IN his memoir1 on the ether drift experiment, Dayton C. Miller mentions that harmonic analysis of the curves of the displacements of the fringes, obtained by a complete rotation of the interferometer, puts in evidence in all cases the existence of a full period effect which accompanies the Michelson half-period effect, utilised in the elaboration of the results of the experiment. The amplitude of the full period effect is of the same order of magnitude as the Michelson effect ; it is, however, proportional to the number of visible fringes in the field of view and—in the most favourable conditions for the experiment, with six visible fringes—perceptibly less than the amplitude of the half-period effect.
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VALLE, G. Full Period Effect in Miller's Ether Drift Experiment. Nature 133, 758–759 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133758b0
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