| George Neil Stewart - 1895 - 842 pages
...direction, altered. It is said to be refracted. The first law of refraction is that the refracted ray ii in the same plane as the incident ray and the normal to the surface. The second law is that the sine of t ht angle of incidence has a constant ratio (for any given pair... | |
| Edmund Taylor Whittaker - Geometrical optics - 1907 - 90 pages
...the angle of reflexion. The last equation may be expressed by the statement that the reflected ray is in the same plane as the incident ray and the normal to the reflecting surface, and the angle of reflexion is equal to the angle of incidence. This is the law... | |
| Alfred Edwin Howard Tutton - Crystallography - 1922 - 732 pages
...with FIo. 596. the normal (the perpendicular to a surface) to the plate. The reflected ray also lies in the same plane as the incident ray and the normal to the surface. These two form the ordinary Laws of Reflection of light at a plane surface. Thus in Fig. 596, if 10... | |
| Roger Muncaster - Juvenile Nonfiction - 1993 - 964 pages
...magnification cannot be negative. 20 MIRRORS 20.1 THE LAWS OF REFLECTION Reflection (i) The reflected ray is in the same plane as the incident ray and the normal to the reflecting surface at the point of incidence. (ii) The angle of reflection is equal to the angle of... | |
| Max Born, Emil Wolf - Science - 2000 - 996 pages
...«2(n12 X s2) = «i(n12 X si), sin #2 = HI sin 6\. (18) (19) Eq. (18) implies that the refracted ray lies in the same plane as the incident ray and the normal to the surface (the plane of incidence) and (19) shows that the ratio of the sine of the angle of refraction to the... | |
| George F. Vander Voort - Technology & Engineering - 1999 - 770 pages
...semicoherent. The law of refraction, which was developed by Snell, states that a refracted ray will lie in the same plane as the incident ray and the normal to the plane of incidence and is described by the following equation: n sin <J> = n' sin <J>' (4-1) where... | |
| Kshudiram Saha - Science - 2008 - 374 pages
...be made to any standard text-book on optics): (i) The reflected and the refracted rays at a surface lie in the same plane as the incident ray and the normal to the surface; (ii) The angle of reflection is equal to the angle of incidence; and INTERFACE o „. . . _ , WATER... | |
| Henry Newell Martin - Physiology - 1894 - 684 pages
...equal to the angle ax C. normal which is equal to the angle of incidence; and the reflected ray lies in the same plane as the incident ray and the normal to the surface at x. The refracted ray lies also in the same plane as the normal and the incident ray, but does not... | |
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