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In the mid-19th century, French physicist Foucault made the most accurate measurement of the speed of light using a laboratory-sized apparatus consisting of rotating and fixed mirrors. Consider a source of light emitting a beam which bounces off a rotating mirror and then reflects off a small fixed mirror. By the time it reaches back to the rotating mirror, the mirror has rotated by a small angle. This rotation will deflect the beam through a small angle (30 minute of an arc) from its original path. If the mirror rotates with a frequency f((5/3)×104Hz) and the speed of light is given as 3×108m/sec, the value of D (Where D is distance between rotating mirror and fixed mirror) is (54α)m then the value of α is

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Let frequency of rotating mirror be f.

2Dv×2πf=θ2D=254m

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