A New Confirmation of the Presence of Errors 1 and 2 in Michelson’s Analysis of His MMX, on the TPC Academic Website, for Riverboat Contest Calculation Contradicts the Solution in Physics Textbooks, Which Therefore Require Correction

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Abstract

Starting in 1996 we elaborated New Interpretation (NI96) of Michelson's analysis of experiments from 1881/87 (MMX), related to discovery of the existence of Errors 1 and 2 (ER12) in MMX analysis, including in its model of two swimmers/boats contest (TSC), whose equality outcome, contradicts current Physics textbooks (PTB) containing ER12. However we discovered on platform/website (TPC) tutorial for Physics teachers/students, recently appeared a numerical calculus for a particular situation (EX1) of the first crossing a river 80m wide, with speed 3m/s, by a motorboat (BO2) with speed 4m/s. EX1 respect the plane vector calculus, resulting correct crossing time t2a=20,0sec. But PTB indicates the time t2a=30.2s, resulting the total time for the round trip t2=60.4s. Notably, the time to travel the 80m along the current/river, PTB indicates the total time t1=91.4s>60.4s=t2, so the contest is won by agent 2. However, TCP did not continue the contest with the return path of BO2, and authors did not address the discrepancy between times t1/t2 from the two methods. However, TPC calculations correspond to NI96. Notably, for the BO2 return time NI96, give the time t2b=71.4s, and total time t2=91.4s, which coincides with the longitudinal time t1=91.4s. Therefore, according to NI96 the contest ends in a tie, and the light fringes in the MMX should not have moved, as happened. Therefore, the credible TPC website/platform, represents a support for the correctness of NI96, confirming ER12 presence in Michelson's analysis, so all PTBs require TSC’s result and MMX’s analysis to be corrected.

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