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Homework Statement
I was reading up on an experiment,The Michelson Morley experiment, in preparation for Physics lab. Then there was this problem. The textbook stated that the velocity of the light ray that was traveling perpendicularly to the ether wind was \root{c^2-v^2}. Shouldn't it have been \root{c^2+v^2} since the light ray was supposed to be directed perpendicularly to the ether wind? Also, shouldn't the velocity in this case \root{c^2+v^2} have been subjected to changes since the ether wind was now also blowing against it?