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Guided-ring Sagnac delay worked at angular velocity Omega R = 3c/5
Worked numerical instance of the conditional guided-ring Sagnac model for an ideal rigidly rotating ring, an adopted ideal circular guide and an ideal clock detector in flat classical spacetime. No optical fiber, medium, apparatus, interference phase, measurement, statistical or empirical claim is made, and all idealizations of pthm-sr-guided-ring-sagnac-delay are retained.
Example
Worked instance of The guided-ring Sagnac delay: return times and receiver proper-time difference for counter-propagating guided signals on a rotating ring. Let and , so that , and . Work in the inertial chart with and let the ring have its plane and let the emission event be , where the material point labelled has .
(a) Return times. The co-rotating guided signal has and the emitting material point has ; the signal meets that point when , i.e. (the co-rotating relative angular rate is ); the counter-rotating signal , , meets it when , i.e. , with signed relative angular rate and magnitude . The reception events are and , where the angle values use the parity, addition and Pythagorean identities for sine and cosine (Pi as twice the smallest positive zero of cosine, The addition formulas for sine and cosine, Parity and the Pythagorean identity for sine and cosine).
(b) Differences and the factor-2 holonomy check. The chart-time difference of the two reunions is , and the detector proper-time difference is . The ring rest-line chart-time holonomy of The guided-ring Sagnac delay: return times and receiver proper-time difference for counter-propagating guided signals on a rotating ring (iv) is , exactly half of , and the corresponding receiver proper-time holonomy is , exactly half of ; this verifies the factor-2 relation of that clause. The ambient rest distribution of the rotating congruence is nowhere integrable while the fixed-height-cylinder-restricted one-dimensional rest distribution is locally integrable with the nonzero global holonomy (Fermi-Walker transport preserves the metric, and explicit rigid and non-rigid observer congruences (c)).
(c) Inertial limit. For with the same the two return times are both and both differences vanish.
(d) Scope. Conditional model computation with the adopted ideal circular guide, ideal signals and the ideal clock detector of The guided-ring Sagnac delay: return times and receiver proper-time difference for counter-propagating guided signals on a rotating ring (ii); no interference phase, apparatus, medium, measurement, statistical or empirical claim is made, and the idealizations of that theorem are retained.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: , , , so and ; the inertial chart with ; the ring data, guided curves with plus the material label, and the ideal clock detector of The guided-ring Sagnac delay: return times and receiver proper-time difference for counter-propagating guided signals on a rotating ring clauses (ii)-(iv).
Guided-ring theorem: on the ring with , meets the worldline exactly at and exactly at , the smallest positive times being ; the chart-time difference is and the detector proper-time difference is that divided by ; the ring rest-line chart-time holonomy over one circuit is and the receiver proper-time holonomy is that divided by (The guided-ring Sagnac delay: return times and receiver proper-time difference for counter-propagating guided signals on a rotating ring (iii),(iv)).
Ring cylinder data: the material point at chart angle and radius has coordinates , and the induced metric on the cylinder is with (The guided-ring Sagnac delay: return times and receiver proper-time difference for counter-propagating guided signals on a rotating ring (i),(iv), Fermi-Walker transport preserves the metric, and explicit rigid and non-rigid observer congruences (c), Inertial frames and inertial charts of the affine Minkowski model, Oriented time-oriented affine Minkowski space (the spacetime primitives)).
Proper time of the ring clock satisfies , with the base constant free (The guided-ring Sagnac delay: return times and receiver proper-time difference for counter-propagating guided signals on a rotating ring (i), Proper time along a future timelike worldline, The proper-time function is a strictly increasing C^1 parametrization with C^1 inverse).
Trigonometric values: is twice the first positive zero of and the first positive zero of is ; addition, parity and Pythagorean identities; quarter-turn shifts, so that , and , with and (Pi as twice the smallest positive zero of cosine, Pi is the first positive zero of sine, The addition formulas for sine and cosine, Parity and the Pythagorean identity for sine and cosine, Quarter-turn values and shifts by pi/2 and pi).
Proof technique: direct.
Verification
(The numerical data and return times.) With one has and ; the theorem [L1] gives and , both positive; these are the reunion times of the two signals with the emitting material point, after one circuit relative to it.
(Clause (b): the integrability statement.) By [L1] and [L2] the ambient rest distribution of the rotating congruence is nowhere integrable for , while the fixed-height-cylinder rest distribution is locally integrable with nonvanishing global holonomy ; the return-time computation above used only the guided curves and the material worldline.
(The reception events.) At the material point's angular label is , so by [L4]; at , , so by [L4]. The guided angles and agree with the material angles modulo : and .
(Clause (b): differences and the factor-two relation.) By step 1.1, , and the theorem's formula gives , in agreement; the detector proper-time difference is by [L3], matching . The rest-line chart-time holonomy is , exactly half of , and the receiver proper-time holonomy is , exactly half of the detector proper-time difference.
(Clause (c): the inertial limit.) At the theorem's formulas give and vanishing chart-time difference, proper-time difference and holonomies; the rest lines are the circles.
(Clause (d): scope.) Every quantity is a conditional model computation for the adopted guide, signals and detector; no medium, apparatus, interference phase, measurement or empirical claim enters, and no choice principle was used.
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The guided-ring Sagnac delay: return times and receiver proper-time difference for counter-propagating guided signals on a rotating ring
Fermi-Walker transport preserves the metric, and explicit rigid and non-rigid observer congruences
Inertial frames and inertial charts of the affine Minkowski model
Oriented time-oriented affine Minkowski space (the spacetime primitives)
Proper time along a future timelike worldline
The proper-time function is a strictly increasing C^1 parametrization with C^1 inverse
Pi as twice the smallest positive zero of cosine
The addition formulas for sine and cosine
Parity and the Pythagorean identity for sine and cosine
Quarter-turn values and shifts by pi/2 and pi
Pi is the first positive zero of sine
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Sources
- Wikipedia, 'Sagnac effect': the basic circular case with t_1 = 2 pi R/(c - R omega) and t_2 = 2 pi R/(c + R omega), used with the exact rational velocity ratio 3/5
- B. Crowell, Special Relativity, revision 2020-12-10 (author-published undergraduate textbook, 246 PDF pages): Sections 8.1.1-8.1.3 pp. 165-166 (the closed-circuit synchronization discrepancy and the Sagnac effect of a rotating ring); signature (+---) converted to (-+++), c = 1 formulas restored to x^0 = c t