IP: /. using ping to measure relativistic latency

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 12:29:10 +0100 (MET)
> From: Eugene Leitl <Eugene.Leitl () lrz uni-muenchen de>
> To: David Farber <dave () farber net>
>
>
> very elegant -- el
>
> http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/physics/0201053
>
> Physics, abstract
> physics/0201053
>
> From: michael crescimanno <mcrescim () cc ysu edu>
> Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 14:58:42 GMT   (183kb)
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>
> Speed of light measurement using ping
>
> Authors: Joel Lepak, M. Crescimanno
> Comments: 14 pages
> Report-no: YSU-CPIP/102-02
> Subj-class: Physics Education
>
> We report on a very simple and inexpensive method for determining the
> speed of an electrical wave in a transmission line. The method consists of
> analyzing the roundtrip time for ethernet packets between two computers.
> It involves minimal construction, straightforward mathematics and displays
> the usefulness of stochastic resonance in signal recovery. Using basic
> electrical properties of category-five cable students may use their
> measurements to determine the speed of light in the vacuum to within a few
> percent.

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