 | Charles Hutton - Mathematics - 1831 - 662 pages
...plane in: at the point n, it will rebound from it in an angle equal to that in which it struck it ; or the angle of incidence will be equal to the angle of reflection ; namely, the angle ABD equal to the angle KHE. Let AB express the force of the body A in the direction... | |
 | Cambridge Philosophical Society - Science - 1835 - 466 pages
...of the fluid on one side with that on the other. The motion on each side will then be reflected, and the angle of incidence will be equal to the angle of reflection. 8. I propose now to adduce an application of the proposition above demonstrated (Art. 3.) respecting... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - Physics - 1838 - 266 pages
...Thus, a ray falling on a reflecting surface will be thrown off from that surface in such a manner that the angle of incidence will be equal to the angle of reflection.* This is the fundamental law of catoptrics or reflected light. 562. An incident ray is a ray proceeding... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1844 - 276 pages
...Thus, a ray falling on a reflecting surface will be thrown off from that surface in such a manner that the angle of incidence will be equal to the angle of reflection.* This is the fundamental law of catoptrics or reflected light. 562. An incident ray is a ray proceeding... | |
 | Perry Fairfax Nursey - Industrial arts - 1846 - 536 pages
...portion which is cut by the water line. Another palpable theoretical error which Captain Fishbourné has committed, occurs in his third Letter, where he...be similarly acted upon. In the first case, Captain Fishbourné has recognised the momentum of the ball or particle ; whilst in the second case, he has... | |
 | William Holms Chambers Bartlett - Astronomy - 1850 - 640 pages
...reflection. Whence we see, that when a perfectly elastic body is thrown against a smooth, hard, and fixed plane, the angle of incidence will be equal to the angle of reflection. 470 become n ' .MV+M'VT, v = (1 + e) -Jf-nr- - eV, case of direct impact; the same as Eqs. (194) and... | |
 | William Holms Chambers Bartlett - Mechanics - 1850 - 662 pages
...reflection. Whence we see, that when a perfectly elastic body is thrown against a smooth, hard, and fixed plane, the angle of incidence will be equal to the angle of reflection. 470 become , MV + M'V v v = (*- + e) — rf~, — STT — — e K, M -f- ;17 case of direct impact... | |
 | Dionysius Lardner - Astronomy - 1851 - 804 pages
...usually announced thus : When a perfectly elastic body strikes a hard surface and rebounds from it, the angle of incidence will be equal to the angle of reflection, and these angles will be in the same plane. By the angle of incidence is understood the angle which... | |
 | William Holms Chambers Bartlett - Mechanics, Analytic - 1853 - 462 pages
...reflection. Whence we see, that when a perfectly elastic body is thrown against a smooth, hard, and fixed plane, the angle of incidence will be equal to the angle of reflection. If the angles tp and 9' be zero, then will cos 9 := 1, cos 9' = 1, sin 9 = 0, sin <p' = 0 ; the impact... | |
 | William Holms Chambers Bartlett - Astronomy - 1855 - 646 pages
...reflection. Whence we see, that when a perfectly elastic body is thrown against a smooth, hard, and fixed plane, the angle of incidence will be equal to the angle of reflection. 470 become ^MV+M'V MV + M' V case of direct Impact ; the same as Eqs. (194) and (195); and passing... | |
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If it fall obliquely, it will be reflected obliquely in the opposite direction ; and in all cases the angle of incidence will be equal to the angle of reflection. This is the fundamental law of Catoptrics, or reflected light. 
