Solution: In the last half of the 19th century, A.A. Michelson collected 100 experimental measurements of the speed of light through air. Modern day methods
Question:
In the last half of the 19th century, A.A. Michelson collected 100 experimental measurements of the speed of light through air. Modern day methods estimate the value Michelson should have observed to be 299,734.5 km/s (as opposed to the speed of light in a vacuum, which is accepted as 299,792.5 km/s.) Michelson's original measurements can be found by going to
http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/DASL/Datafiles/Michelson.html
. Note that 299,000 has been subtracted from each data point.
Formulate and conduct a hypothesis test that determines whether Michelson’s speed of light measurements were in the ballpark of the true value. That is, that the set of 100 measurements reflects a true value of 299,734.5 km/s with measurement error.
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