If the aether was dragged by mass then this experiment would have been able to detect the drag caused by the lead, but again the null result was found.

If the Earth is traveling through an aether medium, a beam reflecting back and forth parallel to the flow of aether would take longer than a beam reflecting perpendicular to the aether because the time gained from traveling downwind is less than that lost traveling upwind.

If the apparatus is motionless with respect to the hypothetical aether, the difference in time that it takes light to traverse the longitudinal and transverse arms is given by:

If the aether theory were correct, the change in Maxwell's equations due to the Earth's motion through the aether would lead to a torque causing the plates to align perpendicular to the motion.

If aether is dragged then the droplet would be traveling with the train when it is dropped and would hit the center of bucket at the bottom.

If the aether is completely dragged by the Earth's gravitational field, a negative result has to be expected-but the result was positive.

He illustrated ( like Joseph Larmor in the same year ) this transformation by using rods and clocks: If they are at rest in the aether, they indicate the true length and time, and if they are moving, they indicate contracted and dilated values.

If you were a man '' --

If she, Pamela, were being held responsible for his crimes, then hers must be the final act of expiation.

If someone were to drop a match in here, this place would go up like a haystack ''.

If the other pilots were worried, they did not show it.

If it were the enemy, tactically his position was correct.

If it were not for an old professor who made me read the classics I would have been stymied on what to do, and now I understand why they are classics ; ;

If it were not that I knew who it was I could have mistaken it for my Aunt so well did her clothes fit him.

If an automobile were approaching him, he would know what was required of him, even though he might not be able to act quickly enough.

If there were only darkness, all would be clear.

If there were only the mess, all would be clear ; ;

If these people were denied a voice ( do they have a moral right to a voice??

If we were creating a wholly new society, we could insist that our social, political, economic and philosophic institutions foster rather than hamper man ; ;

If living Jews were unavailable for study, the Bible was at hand.

If his scholarship and formal musicianship were not all they might have been, Mercer demonstrated at an early age that he was gifted with a remarkable ear for rhythm and dialect.

If she were not at home, Mama would see to it that a fresh white rose was there.

If the Stearns were not there, grace would be omitted.

If anything, the conservative Democrats were more opposed to Hearst than the Republicans.

If the hardships of the winter at Valley Forge were trying for healthy men, they were, of course, much more so for those not in good health.

If his circumspection in regard to Philip's sensibilities went so far that he even refused to grant a dispensation for the marriage of Amadee's daughter, Agnes, to the son of the dauphin of Vienne -- a truly peacemaking move according to thirteenth-century ideas, for Savoy and Dauphine were as usual fighting on opposite sides -- for fear that he might seem to be favoring the anti-French coalition, he would certainly never take the far more drastic step of ordering the return of Gascony to Edward, even though, as he admitted to the English ambassadors, he had been advised that the original cession was invalid.

If there were no West Berlin problem, imperialist quarters would have invented an excuse for stepping up the armaments race to try to solve the internal and external problems besetting the United States and its NATO partners.

If the new Soviet series has followed the general pattern of previous Russian tests, the shots were roughly half fission and half fusion, meaning a fission yield of 30 to 40 megatons thus far.

If the Hessian troops sent here willy-nilly by the Hessian Government to fight for England in the 1770's were mercenaries, what shall we call the UN troops sent to the Congo willy-nilly by their governments to fight for the United Nations??

If the UN troops are not mercenaries then the Hessians were not mercenaries either.

If he were to go with White, he would be out there two days, not just listening in the dark at some point between here and Papa-san, but moving ever deeper into enemy land -- behind Papa-san -- itself.

If there is one particular coordinate change that leads to a decrease in the total energy in both directions, the stationary point is a transition structure and the coordinate is the reaction coordinate.

If the eigenvalues are all positive, then the frequencies are all real and the stationary point is a local minimum.

If one eigenvalue is negative ( i. e., an imaginary frequency ), then the stationary point is a transition structure.

If more than one eigenvalue is negative, then the stationary point is a more complex one, and is usually of little interest.

If the spheres only appear to rotate ( that is, we are watching stationary spheres from a rotating frame ), the zero tension in the string is accounted for by observing that the centripetal force is supplied by the centrifugal and Coriolis forces in combination, so no tension is needed.

If the ranges of the morphisms of the inverse system of abelian groups ( A < sub > i </ sub >, f < sub > ij </ sub >) are stationary, that is, for every k there exists j ≥ k such that for all i ≥ j: one says that the system satisfies the Mittag-Leffler condition.

If the current is sufficiently small, the vortices are stationary, and the resistivity vanishes.

< p > If the stationary organism is a man and the traveling one is his twin, then the traveler returns home to find his twin brother much aged compared to himself.

If the room is not at negative pressure, the smoke will be blown outward or will stay stationary.

If f is a differentiable function on R ( or an open interval ) and x is a local maximum or a local minimum of f, then the derivative of f at x is zero ; points where are called critical points or stationary points ( and the value of f at x is called a critical value ).

The statcoulomb is defined as follows: If two stationary objects each carry a charge of 1 statC and are 1 cm apart, they will electrically repel each other with a force of 1 dyne.

If it is, then Ψ is a stationary state, and the proportionality constant, E, is the energy of the state Ψ.

If L ′ is of finite height, or at least verifies the ascending chain condition ( all ascending sequences are ultimately stationary ), then such an x ′ may be obtained as the stationary limit of the ascending sequence x ′< sub > n </ sub > defined by induction as follows: x ′< sub > 0 </ sub >=⊥ ( the least element of L ′) and x ′< sub > n + 1 </ sub >= f ′( x ′< sub > n </ sub >).

If the shear line becomes active with thunderstorms, it may support formation of a tropical storm or a regeneration of the feature back into a stationary front.

If there is a nonzero probability for any two paths to reach the same point at the same time, this stationary distribution does not depend on the initial conditions.

If the camera is fixed to the vehicle, the enforcement vehicle does not necessarily have to be stationary, and can be moved either with or against the flow of traffic.

Translating this analogy into space, then, a " stationary " observer sees a planet moving left at speed U and a spaceship moving right at speed v. If the spaceship has the proper trajectory, it will pass close to the planet, moving at speed U + v relative to the planet's surface because the planet is moving in the opposite direction at speed U. When the spaceship leaves orbit, it is still moving at U + v relative to the planet's surface but in the opposite direction ( to the left ).

If is a maximum of for the original constrained problem, then there exists such that is a stationary point for the Lagrange function ( stationary points are those points where the partial derivatives of are zero, i. e. ).

If the observational record is long enough and conditions are stationary ( i. e. there is no significant long-term trend ), a meaningful annual cycle will result that can be used to calculate an anomaly time series.

If this happens in the middle of a performance, the guitar is not going to be of much use to a guitarist who would like to sound " in-tune ", which is perhaps most users of the Floyd-Rose ( since the main advantage of the system is to achieve pitch-bends without losing intonation when the whammy bar returns to its stationary position ).

If the signal is not wide-sense stationary, or strictly stationary, then the autocorrelation function must be a function of two variables.