 | William James Rolfe, Joseph Anthony Gillet - Physics - 1868 - 554 pages
...NCS, and the law of refraction may be thus stated : When light passes from one medium into another, the ratio which the sine of the angle of incidence bears to the sine of the angle of refraction is always the same for the same media. m IOI Fig. 66. It is found, however, that this ratio... | |
 | What - 1869 - 220 pages
...till proved by Snellius, that this refraction was subject to the following definite law : — That the ratio which the sine of the angle of incidence bears to the sine of the angle of refraction is constant, whatever the value of the angle of incidence, for the same two media, but it... | |
 | John Charles Buckmaster - Heat - 1871 - 210 pages
...perpendicular to the normal B C. Then will these lines bear the / same proportion to each other that f the sine of the angle of incidence ' bears to the sine of the angle of refraction, and we shall have, in the particular case of air and water, mn equal to / q multiplied... | |
 | William Lees - Heat - 1873 - 148 pages
...angle of incidence, and DG the sine of the angle of refraction ; hence, the law may be expressed thus: "the sine of the angle of incidence bears to the sine of the angle of refraction a constant ratio. " SE D LIGHT. respectively -J and f . In general, the greater the refractive... | |
 | William James Rolfe - Physics - 1874 - 550 pages
...NCS, and the law of refraction 'may be thus stated : When light passes from one medium into another, the ratio which the sine of the angle of incidence bears to the sine of the angle of refraction is always the same for the same media. Fig. 66. It is found, however, that this ratio varies... | |
 | William Lees - Heat - 1877 - 318 pages
...refracted rays are in the same plane. The laws of single refraction may therefore be stated thus : (1.) The sine of the angle of incidence bears to the sine of the angle of refraction a constant ratio for the same two media. (2.) The incident and refracted rays are in the... | |
 | Charles Leander Doolittle - Interpolation - 1883 - 666 pages
...takes place in accordance with the following laws : I. Whatever the obliquity of the incident ray, the ratio which the sine of the angle of incidence bears to the sine of the angle of refraction is always constant for the same two media, but varies with different media. II. The incident... | |
 | John Bradley Harbord - Naval art and science - 1883 - 472 pages
...normal (or perpendicular) to the surface at the point of incidence, and on opposite sides of it ; (2) The sine of the angle of incidence bears to the sine of the angle of refraction a ratio dependent only on the nature of the media between which the refraction takes place,... | |
 | Charles Leander Doolittle - Interpolation - 1885 - 666 pages
...accordance with the following laws : I. Whatever the obliquity of the incident ray, the ratio which tJif sine of the angle of incidence bears to the sine of the angle of refraction is always constant for tlie same two media, but varies with different media. II. The incident... | |
 | Sir Richard Gregory - Geomorphology - 1893 - 320 pages
...making the bottle appear as though it had been silvered. Refractive Indices. — We have said that the ratio which the sine of the angle of incidence bears to the sine of the angle of M ./L Fig. 6. Illustrating total reflection in a refractive medium. refraction is constant for any... | |
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The sine of the angle of incidence bears to the sine of the angle of refraction a ratio, which is always the same for the same two media and is called the index of refraction. 
