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Published 2006 | public
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Isotropy of inertia: A sensitive early experimental test

Abstract

An experimental test for anisotropy of inertia performed by a nuclear freeprecession experiment is described. The precession was observed in the Earth's magnetic field, in a countryside location in the open air. The experiment was exceptionally sensitive, and slightly unusual in other ways. Some of the background and other aspects are briefly discussed.

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© 2006 Springer-Verlag. I take this opportunity to acknowledge Philip I. Dee and John C. Gunn, both now deceased, who headed the Department of Natural Philosophy ofthe University of Glasgow at the time of this work. They gave me their enthusiastic and unstinted encouragement and support for this and my other research over many years, from which I benefited enormously.

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