Equation 6 · Part 1 · Comparing the Main Approaches to Scientific Instruments and Metrology
Symbol h
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h is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.
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h is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.
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…in the microscopy sense. Ground-based gravitational-wave interferometers are the sharpest publicly documented example: designed to detect a fractional change in arm length, expressed as strain, as small as roughly h 5 10^{-22} — a distortion far smaller than a proton’s diameter integrated over a kilometers-long arm [ 10 ] . Reaching that sensitivity is a story about noise budgeting rather than a single dominant limitation: shot noise from the random arrival of photons in the laser beam limits…
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