 | 1827 - 528 Seiten
...of incidence, and its ellipticity, or the ratio of its semiaxis major to its eccentricity, equal to the ratio of the sine of incidence to the sine of refraction ,• and let it be made to have a contact of the second order with the refracting curve in any point... | |
 | Paul B. Scheurer, G. Debrock - 1988 - 406 Seiten
...region, while the vertical component increases. It is shown that, for an arbitrary angle of incidence, the ratio of the sine of incidence to the sine of refraction is constant. fraction and the path of the moving particle in his imaginary mathematical model. It should... | |
 | Jed Z. Buchwald - 1989 - 498 Seiten
...determination of the angles of the prism brought a difference of only 0.00026 (twenty-six hundred-thousandths) in the ratio of the sine of incidence to the sine of refraction, and that a similar error in the observation of the angles of the broken ray in the same element a difference... | |
 | Dale Jacquette - 1996 - 322 Seiten
...passes P through transparent 7"noncrystalline C medium x. The consequent of the conditional states that the ratio of the sine of incidence to the sine of refraction of j through x is constant. & (3ç)(7ç & Q & Pysflx If the complex antecedent is abbreviated F, and... | |
 | University of Cambridge - 1828 - 454 Seiten
...north polar distance. 10. If a small pencil of parallel homogeneal rays be refracted into a sphere, and the ratio of the sine of incidence to the sine of refraction be known, to find at what angle the rays must be incident, that they may emerge parallel after any... | |
 | Cambridge Philosophical Society - 1827 - 522 Seiten
...following articles we shall always consider the radii of convex surfaces as positive. We shall denote by n the ratio of the sine of incidence to the sine of refraction out of air into glass for mean rays, and by 8n the variation of this ratio arising from unequal refrangibility.... | |
 | University of Cambridge - 1818 - 362 Seiten
...constantly full. 7. Having given the radius of an arc of any colour in the secondary rainbow, find the ratio of the sine of incidence to the sine of refraction when rays of that colour pass out of air into water. 8. If a body revolve in an ellipse (whose major... | |
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... nearly as 3 to 4 ; that is, in the ratio of the sine of incidence to the sine of refraction (Art. 749,) when flie light passes from water into air. 
