The theory of light / by Thomas Preston.

  • Preston, Thomas
Date:
1901
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    Thompsoii, S. P., on reflection and re- fraction, 80 Three mirror fringes, 148 Tint, change of, 392, 470 of passage, 429 producer of, 462 Total reflection, 92, 358 index of refraction by method of, 129 Tourmaline, property of, 302, 468 Transmission, selective, 466 coefficient of, 469 Triclinic system, 408 Trouton, F. T., Hertz's experiments, 551 Tyndall, John, on polarisation of sky- light, 423 on calorescence, 482 Ultra-violet spectrum, 484 Uniaxal crystals, double refraction in. Chap. XL, 389 Vector, line integral of, 554 Velocity of light, Chap. XIX. discovery of, 11 of group of waves, 58 test, emission and wave theory, 90 interference experiment, 158 wave and ray, 316 Biot's theorem of ray, 318 and wave length, 485 in different media, 512 wave and group, 514 by aberration method, 515 by toothed wheel method, 491, 495 by revolving mirror, 515 electromagnetic theory, 559 Verdet, on mixed j)lates, 209 on coloured rings produced hj aper- tures, 226 on diffraction in optical instruments, 291 constant of, 434 referred to, 280, 421, 427 Vibration, transverse, 23, 29, 31, 33, 382 Fourier, analysis of, 39 composition of, 46, 51 polj^gon, 49 curves, 49 Vibration, elliptic, 52 circular, 53 of permanent type, 54 spiral, 68, 250 direction of, in plane polarised light, 299, 551, 559 of ether, -Fresnel's hypotliesis, 326 at any point of wave front, 334 in conical refraction, 341 Vibrator, electric, 548 theory of, 560 Visual rays, doctrine of, 3 Vitellio, 7 Voigt, referred to, 325 Water, refractive index of, 133 Wave motion. Chap. II. theory of light, 15 special forms of, 31 length, 35 measurement of, 242 plane, 35 effect of, 66 spherical, 36 effect of, 70 front, defined, 36 secondary, 59 as an envelope, 59 surface in uniaxial crystals, 309 in biaxal crystals, 333 in quartz, 443 electromagnetic, 571 as an envelope, 325 generated by reciprocal ellipsoid^ 335 principal sections of, 336 drift, 520 electric, 543 Wheatstone, velocity of light, 500 Whewell on diffusion rings, 207 Wiedemann, rotatory polarisation, 426 Wire, narrow, 2] 6 AVollaston, method of total reflection,. 129 verification of Huygens's construc- tion, 311 prism of, 322 discoverer of Fraunhofer lines, 474 Wulner, anomalous dispersion, 488 Young, James, on the velocity of light,- 491, 498
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