 | Silas Ellsworth Coleman - Physics - 1908 - 284 pages
...figure), the angles of incidence and refraction will simply be interchanged. We shall then have as the ratio of the sine of the angle of incidence to the sine of the angle of refraction PJP{, P^/Pl, and /y/V for the three cases, respectively, and we have learned that these... | |
 | George Arthur Hoadley - Physics - 1908 - 474 pages
...the normal DE; then these lines are the sines of the angles of incidence and refraction respectively. The ratio of the sine of the angle of incidence to the sine of the angle of refraction is called the index of refraction. In FQFig. 421 the index of refraction is -77- . This... | |
 | Benjamin Warner Snow - Physics - 1909 - 810 pages
...light in air to the velocity of light in that medium, and this constant ratio is numerically equal to the ratio of the sine of the angle of incidence to the sine of the angle of refraction. As the angle of incidence is made to vary, the angle of refraction will also vary, but... | |
 | Robert Wallace Stewart - Light - 1909 - 160 pages
...reflected line of disturbance are in the same plane. Similarly, for the laws ot refraction we have — (i) The ratio of the sine of the angle of incidence to the sine of the angle of refraction is constant for all corresponding values of these angles. (ii) The incident line of disturbance,... | |
 | A. P. W. Williamson - Nautical astronomy - 1909 - 410 pages
...and incidence are in the same plane, which plane contains the normal to the refracting surface. (2) The ratio of the sine of the angle of incidence to the sine of the angle of refraction is a constant quantity for the same medium. Let m = the mean refraction in seconds r = the... | |
 | Robert Wallace Stewart - Light - 1909 - 236 pages
...Wlien light is refracted from one medium into another, then, for any two given media, the ratio of thf sine of the angle of incidence to the sine of the angle of refraction is constant for all values of these angles. This relation between the angles of incidence... | |
 | Charles Elijah Linebarger - Physics - 1910 - 492 pages
...angle i(sin z) and RB is the sine of the angle r(sin r). With the adoption of these terms Snell's law is : The ratio of the sine of the angle of incidence to the sine of the angle of refraction has a constant value, provided the media remain the same : sin i , .,. —r— = n (a constant).... | |
 | Henry Newell Martin - Physiology - 1910 - 576 pages
...84). The the first. r • j 4. • j amount of bending is determined by the law of refraction which is : the ratio of the sine of the angle of incidence to that of the angle of refraction is always constant for the same two media and for light of the same... | |
 | George Senter - Chemistry, Physical - 1911 - 456 pages
...refracted ray) and i\ and v% the respective velocities of light in the two media, it can be shown that the ratio of the sine of the angle of incidence to the sine of the angle of refraction is constant, and is equal to the ratio of the velocity of light in the two media. The ratio... | |
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When a ray of light passes from one medium to another, it is refracted so that the ratio of the sine of the angle of incidence to the sine of the angle of refraction is equal to the ratio of the velocities in the two media. 
