• DOI:10.1119/1.5000802
Corpus ID: 119503665

Measurement of gravitational time dilation: An undergraduate research project

@article{Burns2017MeasurementOG,
  title={Measurement of gravitational time dilation: An undergraduate research project},
  author={M. S. Burns and Michael D. Leveille and A. Dominguez and Brian B. Gebhard and S. E. Huestis and Jeffery Steele and B. Patterson and J. Sell and M. Serna and M. Gearba and R. Olesen and Patrick O'Shea and Jonathan Schiller},
  journal={American Journal of Physics},
  year={2017},
  volume={85},
  pages={757-762}
}

• M. S. Burns, Michael D. Leveille, +10 authors Jonathan Schiller
• Published 2017
• Physics
• American Journal of Physics

General relativity predicts that clocks run more slowly near massive objects. The effect is small—a clock at sea level lags behind one 1000 m above sea level by only 9.4 ns/day. Here, we demonstrate that a measurement of this effect can be done by undergraduate students. Our paper describes an experiment conducted by undergraduate researchers at Colorado College and the United States Air Force Academy to measure gravitational time dilation. The measurement was done by comparing the signals… Expand

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