 | James Mitchell - Mathematics - 1823 - 666 pages
...sines proportional to the angles, the sine of the angle of deviation, is as the difference between the sine of the angle of incidence and the sine of the angle of refraction, that is us 3 — 2, or I, whence the sine of incidence is to the sine of the angle of deviation as... | |
 | Child rearing - 1836 - 422 pages
...more than oil. But, on whatever medium a ray of light may fall, there is a constant relation between the sine of the angle of incidence and the sine of the angle of refraction. This law may be otherwise expressed in the following manner ; when any two rays of light fall upon... | |
 | William Mullinger Higgins - Earth (Planet) - 1836 - 514 pages
...oil. But, on whatever medium a ray of light may fall, there is a constant relation between the sme of the angle of incidence and the sine of the angle of refraction. This law may be otherwise expressed in the following -manner ; when any two rays of light fall upon... | |
 | Edward Turner - 1837 - 436 pages
...incident and refracted ray is always in a plane perpendicular to the surface common to the media. 2. The sine of the angle of incidence and the sine of the angle of refraction are in a constant report for the same media. The first law is similar to the first law of reflection... | |
 | William Mullinger Higgins - Geology - 1838 - 426 pages
...more than oil. But, on whatever medium a ray of light may fall, there is a constant relation between the sine of the angle of incidence and the sine of the angle of refraction. This law may be otherwise expressed in the following manner; when any two rays of light fall upon the... | |
 | Edward Turner - Chemistry - 1840 - 696 pages
...incident- and refracted ray is always in a piano perpendicular to the surface common to the media. F 2. The sine of the angle of incidence and the sine of the angle of retraction are in a constant report for the same media. The first law is similar to the first law of... | |
 | John Johnston - Chemistry - 1843 - 586 pages
...incident and refracted ray is always in a plane perpendicular to the surface common to the media. 2. The sine of the angle of incidence and the sine of the angle of refraction are in a constant ratio for the same media. The first law is similar to the first law of reflection... | |
 | John Johnston - Chemistry - 1846 - 496 pages
...governed by the two following laws, discovered in 1618, by Snell, though usually ascribed to Descartes. 2. The sine of the angle of incidence and the sine of the angle of refraction are in a constant ratio for the same media. 1. The direction of the incident and refracted ray is always... | |
 | Mrs. Frances Emily Awdry - Light - 1880 - 198 pages
...air or any other refracting medium. Thus, when a ray is passing from vacuum into water or vice versa, the sine of the angle of incidence and the sine of the angle of refraction are to each other in the proportion of nearly 3 to 4, or exactly as i is to i. 335. Hence, this number,... | |
 | William Barlow (of Muswell Hill.) - 1885 - 422 pages
...surface between the two media. The following, it is submitted, accounts for the fact of the ratio between the sine of the angle of incidence and the sine of the angle of refraction being constant in the case of any two given media — a property first discovered by experiment by... | |
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... the ratio between the sine of the angle of incidence and the sine of the angle of refraction is a constant, depending only upon the nature of the two media. 
