 | 1834 - 578 pages
...small refract ions within 45° of zenith distance. The important discovery of Willebrord Snell, that when a ray of light passes from one medium to another, the sine of the angle of incidence bears a constant ratio to the sine of the angle of the refraction, enabled... | |
 | Physics - 1834 - 574 pages
...small refractions within 45° of zenith distance. The important discovery of Willebrord Snell, that when a ray of light passes from one medium to another, the sine of the angle of incidence bears a constant ratio to the sine of the angle of the refraction, enabled... | |
 | David Ames Wells - Physics - 1857 - 492 pages
...according to the length of the lines forming the angle. The general law of refraction is as follows:— , When a ray of light passes from one medium to another, the sine of the angle of incidence is in a constant ratio to the sine of the angle of refraction. The proportion... | |
 | David Ames Wells - 1858 - 466 pages
...according to the length of the lines forming the angle. The general law of refraction is as follows: — When a ray of light passes from one medium to another, the sine of the angle of incidence is in a constant ratio to the sine of the angle of refraction. What... | |
 | David Ames Wells - 1871 - 462 pages
...according to the length of the lines forming the angla. The general law of refraction is as follows:— When a ray of light passes from one medium to another, the sine of the angle of incidence is in a constant ratio to the sine of the angle of refraction. What... | |
 | David Ames Wells - Physics - 1875 - 464 pages
...according to the length of the lines forming the angle. The general law of refraction is as follows:— When a ray of light passes from one medium to another, the sine of the angle of incidence is in a constant ratio to the sine of the anglo of refraction. What... | |
 | William Steadman Aldis - Geometrical optics - 1888 - 232 pages
...therefore ~ ; 2t (h ~ rf>' whence 0 increases with <£. 2! But ^> ~ ^>' is evidently the deviation. Hence when a ray of light passes from one medium to another, the deviation increases as the angle of incidence increases. This proposition can also be proved geometrically.... | |
 | Charles Josiah Woodward - Electricity - 1890 - 228 pages
...the arrow to an eye placed at Refraction of homogeneous light through a prism of small angle, (i.) When a ray of light passes from one medium to another, the deviation is greater as the angle of incidence is greater, though not in direct proportion to it. Thus... | |
 | William Watson - Physics - 1920 - 590 pages
...search-lights and the like. CHAPTER II KEFRACTION 111. Refraction at a Plane Surface. — In general when a ray of light passes from one medium to another the direction of the ray changes at the surface of separation between the media. In addition to the light... | |
 | Alexander Ebenezer McLean Geddes - Meteorology - 1921 - 460 pages
...twilight, and the purple light. (a) PHENOMENA DUE TO THE GASES OF THE ATMOSPHERE ALONE Refraction. — When a ray of light passes from one medium to another, the densities of the two media being different, the ray, unless it be normal to the dividing surface, is... | |
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When a ray of light passes from one medium to another, the sine of the angle of incidence is in a constant ratio to the sine of the anglo of refraction. 
