Lectures on Polarized Light: Delivered Before the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, and in the Medical School of the London Hospital |
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... called the aberration of the fixed stars . The first method gives 192,500 - the second , 191,515 - miles per second . 2. Variation of Intensity . — The intensity of light decreases as the square of the distance increases . At twice the ...
... called the aberration of the fixed stars . The first method gives 192,500 - the second , 191,515 - miles per second . 2. Variation of Intensity . — The intensity of light decreases as the square of the distance increases . At twice the ...
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... called transparent bodies . Others , however , refuse to give passage to light , as the metals . The latter are termed opake bodies . But some substances , which in the mass are opake , become transparent when reduced to thin films ...
... called transparent bodies . Others , however , refuse to give passage to light , as the metals . The latter are termed opake bodies . But some substances , which in the mass are opake , become transparent when reduced to thin films ...
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... called a prism - the seven colours constituting the prismatic or solar spectrum . This mode of producing colours from white light is called the decomposition , the analysis , or the dispersion of light . If we allow the oxyhydrogen lime ...
... called a prism - the seven colours constituting the prismatic or solar spectrum . This mode of producing colours from white light is called the decomposition , the analysis , or the dispersion of light . If we allow the oxyhydrogen lime ...
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... called com- pound or heterogeneous light ; while the three colours , red , yellow , and blue , are termed simple or homogeneous lights . Each of these may be termed a monochromatic light . Orange , green , indigo , and violet , on the ...
... called com- pound or heterogeneous light ; while the three colours , red , yellow , and blue , are termed simple or homogeneous lights . Each of these may be termed a monochromatic light . Orange , green , indigo , and violet , on the ...
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... called Fraunhofer's lines of the spectrum . The best mode of seeing them is to examine the spectrum by a telescope * . The light ( as of a lamp , or that produced by throwing the oxyhydrogen flame on lime ) should be passed through a ...
... called Fraunhofer's lines of the spectrum . The best mode of seeing them is to examine the spectrum by a telescope * . The light ( as of a lamp , or that produced by throwing the oxyhydrogen flame on lime ) should be passed through a ...
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3d Edition annealed glasses apophyllite blue bodies Brewster called circular circularly polarized light cloth common light complementary compression depolarizing Dictionary dilatation direction double refracting prism double refraction doubly refracting crystal elasticity elliptical Encyclopædia Engravings equal ethereal molecules extraordinary ray films of selenite forces Fresnel's fringes glass plates heat History hypothesis Iceland spar Illustrations incident ray inclined J. C. LOUDON JOHN LINDLEY lectures left-handed luminiferous ether medium mica molecules oblique observe optic axes ordinary ray parallel perpendicular phenomena plane of polarization plate of tourmaline polariscope polarized rays position potash principal axis prismatic axis produced quartz rectangular rectilinearly rectilinearly polarized reflected refractive power refractor rhombic rhombohedric right angles rotating selenite Sir John Herschel spectrum square sugar supposed system of rings systems of waves thickness tints tion transmitted TREATISE unannealed glass undulation unequal vibrations Vignette Titles violet white light Woodcuts yellow
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