An Elementary Treatise on Optics, Volume 1

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Taylor, 1851 - 198 pagina's
 

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Pagina 6 - surface at the point of incidence is called the angle of incidence The angle which the reflected ray makes with the same perpendicular is
Pagina 44 - It is found by experiment that if a ray of light passes through a series of plates of dense media, all the refracting surfaces being parallel planes, that the emergent ray is parallel to the incident ray.
Pagina 7 - the incident ray, the normal to the reflecting surface at the point of incidence, and the reflected ray,
Pagina 45 - ray in passing through any one of the plates is parallel to the course it would have taken if it had entered the plate directly.
Pagina 5 - the composition of the velocity of light with the velocity of the earth in its orbit
Pagina 3 - change in the direction of light, when it passes from one medium to another of different density,
Pagina 74 - of the spherical surfaces when both are curved ; and the line perpendicular to the plane surface which passes through the
Pagina 8 - refraction bears a constant ratio to the sine of the angle of
Pagina 113 - r and s be the radii of the first and second surfaces of the lens respectively,
Pagina 89 - the point where a line joining the extremities of two parallel radii of the

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