The theory of light / by Thomas Preston.

  • Preston, Thomas
Date:
1901
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    Ptolemy on optics, 5 Pythagoras, theory of vision, 2 Quarter-wave plate, 383, 415 Quartz, optical properties of, 443 MacCullagh's theory of, 463 oblique transmission through, 444, 450, 453 rotatory powers for, 426 Quetelet, on diffusion rings, 207 Radiation, electromagnetic, Chap. XXI. effect of temperature on, 468 from moving molecules, 476 transformations of, 481 of energy in the Hertzian oscillator, 568 Radiometer, Crooke's, 16 Rainbow, Chap. XX. historical, 4, 8 supernumerary, 536, 538 Miller's experiments on, 541 Ray velocity, 317, 342 Rayleigh, Lord, on intensity from num- ber of sources, 48; on progressive waves, 58 on regularity of vibration, 156 on the achromatism of interference bands, 167, 194 on colour of sky, 286 on polarisation of skylight, 424 on width of spectral lines, 476 on anomalous dispersion, 481 on the velocity of light, 514 Rays, 84 Rectilinear propagation, 59 Reflecting power, minimum, 367 Reflection of waves. Chap. IV, metallic. Chap. XIV. corpuscular, 16 regular and irregular, 73 laws of, 74, 76 illustration of, 75 curvature impressed by, 81 total, 92, 358 index of refraction by method of total, 129 multiple, for thin plates, 177 gratings, 236 for metals, 372 from magnet, 436 of Hertzian vibrations, 551 Refraction of waves. Chap. V. indices of. Chap. VI. Refraction, double, Chaps. XL, XII. corpuscular, 17 laws of, 89 through a prism, 96 curvature impressed by, 101 through a lens, 103 half-wave length lost at, 172, 178 double, 299 conical, 338, 340, 343 double, of quartz, 463 Refractometer, Jamin's, 199 Michelson and Morley's, 202 Relative motion of matter and ether, 516 Resolving power of telescope, 291 Resonance, principle of, applied to ab- sorption, 467 Retardation, relative, produced, by parallel plate, 99 Revolving mirror method for velocity of light, gOl, 504, 515 Reynolds, 0., group of waves, 58 Rhomb, Fresnel's, 361 Ring division, 63, 250 Rings, Newton's, of thin plates, 184 diffusion, 203 polarisation of the light, 362 with crystalline plates, 390, 405, 452 with white centre, 187 Rochon, prism of, 320 double image micrometer of, 322 Romer, Olaus, 11 Rotating Nicol, Dove's experiments, 421 and non-rotating crystals, 448 Rotation of plane of polarisation. Chap. XVIL produced by liquids and vapours, 426 in magnetic field, 431 Rotatory power, 428 and crystalline form, 430 Rowland, gratings of, 238 spectrum photographs, 240 Runge, dispersion of air, 137, 246 Rutherford gratings, 244 Saccharimeter, 427 Jellett's, 456 Laurent's, 457 Soleil's, 461 Savart, polariscope of, 409 Scale of colours, Newton's, 186 Schafli, diffusion rings, 204 Schuster, Arthur, regularity of vibration, 156
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