 | David Brewster, Alexander Dallas Bache - 1833 - 674 pages
...perpendicular being drawn, the refracted ray is connected with the incident, by the law (p. 29, text,) that the sine of the angle of refraction bears a constant ratio, for a given medium, to the sine of the angle of incidence. To represent this law analytically, suppose... | |
 | David Brewster - 1841 - 432 pages
...perpendicular being drawn, the refracted ray is connected with the incident, by the law (p. 29, text)) that the sine of the angle of refraction bears a constant ratio, for a given medium, to the sine of the angle of incidence. To represent this law analytically, suppose... | |
 | John Fry Heather - 1851 - 208 pages
...prismatic compass f, or for the mere purpose of convenient observation, as in the Newtonian telescope \. * The amount of refraction. when a ray of light passes...ratio to the sine of the angle of incidence. This nitio varies for each different medium, and is called the refracting power of the medium. The deviation... | |
 | Richard Potter - 1859 - 130 pages
...consider as given the fundamental properties of the ordinary refraction of transparent bodies ; namely, that the sine of the angle of refraction bears a constant ratio to the sine of the angle of incidence, and that the velocity of the luminiferous molecules in the refracting medium bears the same ratio to... | |
 | Richard Potter - 1859 - 132 pages
...consider as given the fundamental properties of the ordinary refraction of transparent bodies ; namely, that the sine of the angle of refraction bears a constant ratio to the sine of the angle of incidence, and that the velocity of the luminiferous molecules in the refracting medium bears the same ratio to... | |
 | Richard Potter - 1865 - 194 pages
...th_e refracting surface at the point of incidence, and the refracted ray lie all in one plane, and the sine of the angle of refraction bears a constant ratio to the sine of the angle of incidence; the ray in the dense medium lying nearer to the normal than in the rare medium. That the direction... | |
 | 1868 - 346 pages
...our present knowledge in regard to them. nation of the two surfaces to one another, but in such a way that the sine of the angle of refraction bears a constant ratio to the sine of \he angle of incidence; that this constant number, termed the index oT refraction, or /*, belongs only... | |
 | 1868 - 638 pages
...the two surfaces to one апо'Лег, but in such a way that the sine of the angle of refracticÄ bears a constant ratio to the sine of the angle of incidence ; that this constant number, termed the index of refraction, or ;t, belongs only to the one substance,... | |
 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1869 - 636 pages
...(refraction) varies with the amount of inclination of the two surfaces to one another, but in such a way that the sine of the angle of refraction bears a constant ratio to the sine of the angle of incidence ; that this constant number, termed the index of refraction, or fj., belongs only to the one substance,... | |
 | 1869 - 564 pages
...varies with the amount of inclination of the two substancies to each other, but in such a way tha^ tho sine of the angle of refraction bears a constant ratio to the sino of the angle of incidence ; and that this constant number, tormod the index of refraction, belongs... | |
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... that the sine of the angle of refraction bears a constant ratio to the sine of the angle of incidence... 
