خلاصه

توضیحMichelsonmorley-boxplot.svg	Boxplot representing Michelson's data on the speed of light. It consists of five experiments, each made of 20 consecutive runs.
تاریخ	‏۲۸ دسامبر ۲۰۰۶‏
منبع	اثر شخصی
پدیدآور	User:Schutz
SVG genesis InfoField	کد مبدأ این پروندهٔ گرافیک برداری مقیاس‌پذیر، معتبر.   این نمودار با R ساخته شده است

This data is not from the Michelson-Morley experiment but from Michelson's measurement of the speed of light. See MICHELSON, A. A. (1882). Experimental determination of the velocity of light made at the United States Naval Academy, Annapolis. Astronomic Papers 1 pp. 109-145 U.S. Nautical Almanac Office, or S. M. Stigler (1977) Do robust estimators work with real data? Annals of Statistics 5, 1055–1098.

Original upload by User:Schutz

Boxplot representing Michelson's data on the speed of light. It consists of five experiments, each made of 20 consecutive runs. Note that the oblique line is incorrect, and probably due to a bug in the Mediawiki software/SVG converter. The graphic was created by User:Schutz for Wikipedia on 28 December 2006, using the R statistical project. The program that generated the graphic is given below; the data and the idea are from the R help page for the morley dataset (see help(morley)). The graph was exported in postscript format, converted to SVG using the pstoedit command, and the layout was slightly modified using Inkscape before upload.

 
  data(morley)
  morley$Expt <- factor(morley$Expt)
  morley$Run <- factor(morley$Run)
  attach(morley)

  postscript("Michelsonmorley-boxplot.ps", paper="special", height=6, width=6,
             horizontal=F)
  par(las=1)
  par(mar=c(5.1, 5.1, 2.1, 2.1))
  par(font=2)
  par(font.axis=2)
  boxplot(Speed ~ Expt, xlab = "Experiment No.", ylab="Speed of light (km/s minus 299,000)")
  abline(h=792.458, lty=3)
  dev.off()
  

New upload by User:Mwtoews

Boxplot representing Michelson's data on the speed of light. It consists of five experiments, each made of 20 consecutive runs.

The graphic was originally created by User:Schutz for Wikipedia on 28 December 2006, using the R statistical project. The program that generated the graphic is given below; the data and the idea are from the R help page for the morley dataset (see help(morley)). The graph was exported in PDF format, converted to SVG using Adobe Illustrator, and the layout was slightly modified using Vim before upload.

data(morley)
morley$Expt <- factor(morley$Expt)

pdf("Michelsonmorley-boxplot.pdf", height=6, width=6)
par(las=1, mar=c(5.1, 5.1, 2.1, 2.1))
boxplot(Speed ~ Expt, morley, xlab = "Experiment No.",
        ylab="Speed of light (km/s minus 299,000)")
abline(h=792.458, col="red")
text(3,792.458,"true\nspeed")
dev.off()

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من، دارنده حق تکثیر این اثر، این اثر را به مالکیت عمومی منتشر می‌کنم. این قابل اجرا در تمام نقاط جهان است. در برخی از کشورها ممکن است به صورت قانونی این امکان‌پذیر نباشد؛ اگر چنین است: من اجازهٔ استفاده از این اثر را برای هر مقصودی، بدون هیچ‌گونه شرایطی می‌دهم، تا وقتی که این شرایط توسط قانون مستلزم نشده باشد.

The creator and uploader also believes that this graphic is a trivial work which does not qualify for copyright.

Reference

• A. J. Weekes (1986) A Genstat Primer. London: Edward Arnold.