Phys. Rev. D 40, 1735 - 1740 (1989)Testing the inverse-square law of gravity: Error and design with the upward continuation integral |
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J. Thomas
Norman Bridge Laboratory of Physics, 161-33, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125
Received 27 December 1988
It has been reported that the inverse-square law of gravity is violated over a range of a few hundred meters. I present a different method for the analysis of the data from that experiment. In this method, the experimental error can be evaluated analytically and I confirm the previous analysis but show that it is a 2σ effect. The method can also be used to design new experiments that will yield minimum errors for a fixed number of data points.
©1989 The American Physical Society
URL: http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRD/v40/p1735
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.40.1735
PACS: 04.90.+e, 91.10.-v, 93.85.+q
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