Eötvös experiment

Eötvös experiment
/ut"vush, et"-/; Hung. /uet"vuesh/, Physics.
an experiment to confirm that all materials respond equally to gravity and that gravitational mass and inertial mass are equivalent. Cf. equivalence principle.
[named after Roland Eötvös (1848-1919), Hungarian physicist, who first performed the experiment]

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