 | American Academy of Arts and Sciences - Humanities - 1874 - 392 pages
...twelve to twentyfour laminae ; and the character of the resulting plate, whether left or right handed, was found to depend on the order of the spiral arrangement....an angle of 60° in the direction of the motion of the bands of a watch, the result corresponds to left-handed quartz if turned in the reverse direction... | |
 | Jabez Hogg - Physics - 1861 - 594 pages
...substance, rotate the plane of polarization in contrary directions. When the rotation takes place in the direction of the motion of the hands of a watch, the medium is said to have right-handed polarization. Some organic products turn the plane of polarization... | |
 | Charles Philippe de Kerhallet - Pacific Ocean - 1861 - 256 pages
...until the barometer rises, and then run free. " 2d. If the wind changes gradually to the right, or in the direction of the motion of the hands of a watch, the vessel is on the right of the central path, in the manageable semicircle of the storm ; she should... | |
 | Science - 1874 - 1060 pages
...the familiar system of rings as perfectly as could be expected. The best results were obtained from plates consisting of from twelve to twenty-four laminae...corresponds to left-handed quartz, if turned in the reverse direc tion to right-handed, and on superposing two dissimilar plates thus prepared I obtained again... | |
 | Humanities - 1874 - 386 pages
...twelve to twentyfour laminas ; and the character of the resulting plate, whether left or right handed, was found to depend on the order of the spiral arrangement....left-handed quartz if turned in the reverse direction to right-handed, and on superposing two dissimilar plates thus prepared I obtained again the spirals of... | |
 | Walter Proctor Jenney - Black Hills (S.D. and Wyo.) - 1876 - 88 pages
...it could not be referred to any particular flash. The wind shifted nearly all around the compass in the direction of the motion of the hands of a watch. The storm passed by in half an hour, the last rain coming from the southeast. The sun shone brightly once... | |
 | The Month A Cathoplic Magazine and Review VOL.XLVIII May-August ,1883 - 1883 - 622 pages
...gradients are less steep and its winds are light, and circulate round the central area of high pressure in the direction of the motion of the hands of a watch, the reverse to that in which they move in a cyclone, and they draw out from the centre instead of in towards... | |
 | Robert Henry Thurston - Indicators for steam-engines - 1890 - 540 pages
...turned so as to bring the reading to zero, and the tracer is then moved over the line of the diagram in the direction of the motion of the hands of a watch. The tracer is then moved along the edge of the clamp till the reading is again made to F1G. 86.— COFF1N... | |
 | Edward John Routh - Elastic rods and wires - 1892 - 244 pages
...the perpendiculars are determined by the following rule. If the point Q travel round the perimeter in the direction of the motion of the hands of a watch, the perpendicular p is positive or negative according as the origin N lies on the right or left hand side... | |
 | Astronomy - 1892 - 1552 pages
...start of the discharge; and that then one-half of them were gradually and almost uniformly displaced in the direction of the motion of the hands of a watch, the other half in the opposite direction. The peculiar curvature of some of these streamers indicates the... | |
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... was found to depend on the order of the spiral arrangement. If in building up the pile the marked side of each successive lamina is turned through an angle of 60°... 
