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eötvös experiment

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Eötvös experiment

[uht-vuhsh, et-; Hung. œt-vœsh]
–noun Physics.
an experiment to confirm that all materials respond equally to gravity and that gravitational mass and inertial mass are equivalent.


Origin:
named after Roland Eötvös (1848–1919), Hungarian physicist, who first performed the experiment
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