DOC. 42 SPECIAL AND
GENERAL RELATIVITY
387
The
Experimental
Confirmation
of
the
General
Theory
of
Relativity
147
tained
during
the
eclipse
and
the
comparison photographs
amounted
to
a
few
hundredths of
a
millimetre
only.
Thus
great accuracy
was
necessary
in
making
the
adjustments
re- [92]
quired
for
the
taking
of
the
photographs,
and in their subse-
quent measurement.
The
results
of
the
measurements
confirmed the
theory
in
a
thoroughly satisfactory manner.
The
rectangular components
of
the
observed
and of
the calculated deviations
of
the
stars
(in
seconds
of
arc) are
set
forth
in the
following
table
of results:
[93]
First Co-ordinate. Second Co-ordinate.
Number of the
Star.
Observed. Calculated. Observed. Calculated.
11
-0.19 -0.22
+0.16 +0.02
5
+0.29 +0.31
-0.46 -0.43
4 +0.11 +0.10 +0.83 +0.74
3 +0.20 +0.12 +1.00 +0.87
6 +0.10 +0.04 +0.57 +0.40
10
-0.08
+0.09 +0.35 +0.32
2 +0.95 +0.85
-0.27 -0.09
(C) DISPLACEMENT
OF
SPECTRAL LINES
TOWARDS
THE RED
In Section
23
it
has
been shown that in
a
system
K' which
is
in rotation with
regard to
a
Galileian
system
K,
clocks
of
identical
construction,
and which
are
considered
at rest
with
respect to
the
rotating reference-body,
go
at rates
which
are
dependent
on
the
positions
of
the
clocks. We shall
now
ex-
amine this
dependence
quantitatively.
A
clock,
which
is
situ-
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DOC. 42 SPECIAL AND
GENERAL RELATIVITY
387
The
Experimental
Confirmation
of
the
General
Theory
of
Relativity
147
tained
during
the
eclipse
and
the
comparison photographs
amounted
to
a
few
hundredths of
a
millimetre
only.
Thus
great accuracy
was
necessary
in
making
the
adjustments
re- [92]
quired
for
the
taking
of
the
photographs,
and in their subse-
quent measurement.
The
results
of
the
measurements
confirmed the
theory
in
a
thoroughly satisfactory manner.
The
rectangular components
of
the
observed
and of
the calculated deviations
of
the
stars
(in
seconds
of
arc) are
set
forth
in the
following
table
of results:
[93]
First Co-ordinate. Second Co-ordinate.
Number of the
Star.
Observed. Calculated. Observed. Calculated.
11
-0.19 -0.22
+0.16 +0.02
5
+0.29 +0.31
-0.46 -0.43
4 +0.11 +0.10 +0.83 +0.74
3 +0.20 +0.12 +1.00 +0.87
6 +0.10 +0.04 +0.57 +0.40
10
-0.08
+0.09 +0.35 +0.32
2 +0.95 +0.85
-0.27 -0.09
(C) DISPLACEMENT
OF
SPECTRAL LINES
TOWARDS
THE RED
In Section
23
it
has
been shown that in
a
system
K' which
is
in rotation with
regard to
a
Galileian
system
K,
clocks
of
identical
construction,
and which
are
considered
at rest
with
respect to
the
rotating reference-body,
go
at rates
which
are
dependent
on
the
positions
of
the
clocks. We shall
now
ex-
amine this
dependence
quantitatively.
A
clock,
which
is
situ-

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