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" Having given the radius of an arc of any colour in the secondary rainbow, find the ratio of the sine of incidence to the sine of refraction when rays of that colour pass out of air into water. "
Solutions of the Cambridge Problems, from 1800 to 1820 - Page 687
by John Martin Frederick Wright - 1836
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An Elementary Treatise on the Geometrical and Algebraical Investigation of ...

Daniel Cresswell - Euclid's Elements - 1817 - 454 pages
...a ray proceeding from the one, which shall be refracted in a direction passing through the other ; the ratio of the sine of incidence to the sine of refraction being also given. • (cxvi .) ' L . ' • * If a luminous point describe a circle, having its center...
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Calendar

University of Cambridge - 1818 - 360 pages
...kept constantly full. 7. Having given the radius of an arc of any colour in the secondary rainbow, find the ratio of the sine of incidence to the sine of refraction when rays of that colour pass out of air into water. 8. If a body revolve in an ellipse (whose major...
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New Series of The Mathematical Repository, Volume 4

Thomas Leybourn - Mathematics - 1819 - 430 pages
...kept constantly full. 7. Having given the radius of an arc of any colour in the secondary rainbow, find the ratio of the sine of incidence to the sine of refraction when rays of that colour pass out of air into water. 8. If a body revolve in an ellipse (whose major...
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Cambridge Problems: Being a Collection of the Printed Questions Proposed to ...

Mathematics - 1821 - 464 pages
...kept constantly full. 7. Having given the radius of an arc of any colour in the secondary rainbow, find the ratio of the sine of incidence to the sine of refraction when rays of that colour pass out of air into water. 8. If a body revolve in an ellipse (whose major...
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A System of Mechanical Philosophy, Volume 3

John Robison - Astronomy - 1822 - 852 pages
...formula for a, the radius of curvature for the anterior surface of a lens. — a 2 wi2+ TO 4 m + 4 1S the ratio of the sine of incidence to the sine of refraction, and r is the distance of the focus of incident rays, positive or negative, according as they converge...
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An Experimental Treatise on Optics: Comprehending the Leading ..., Volume 3

Optical instruments - 1826 - 406 pages
...space, supposing them acted upon by gravity alone. By resolving it we find that for the same substance the ratio of the sine of incidence to the sine of refraction, is constant under all possible inclinations, as experiment has shown us. We find also, that this ratio...
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Problems in the Different Branches of Philosophy: Adapted to the Course of ...

Miles Bland - Astronomy - 1830 - 394 pages
...perpendicular to its axis, (E) the angle of emergence, and (P) the vertical angle of the prism, 1 : n being the ratio of the sine of incidence to the sine of refraction out of the ambient medium into the prism ; then 6. If a ray of light pass through a prism of a denser medium,...
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An Introduction to Natural Philosophy: Designed as a Text Book ..., Volume 2

Denison Olmsted - Physics - 1832 - 378 pages
...thicknesses of the fluids at the places where the rings appeared, were nearly as 3 to 4, that is, in the ratio of the sine of incidence to the sine of refraction (Art. 881.) when the light passes from water into air. Newton imagined that this result might be extended...
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A Treatise on Optics

David Brewster, Alexander Dallas Bache - Light - 1833 - 674 pages
...surface. Then FL, FL', fig. M, would represent the incident rays, and LB, L'R the refracted rays, and the ratio of the sine of incidence to the sine of refraction would be represented by the fraction ; substituting this for m in (95) we have m u' — a = J_ (»'...
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Library of Useful Knowledge: Natural philosophy, Volume 3

1834 - 578 pages
...at the earth's surface is very small. According to the table given in the treatise on Optics, p. 6, the ratio of the sine of incidence to the sine of refraction is less than 1.0003 to 1. It follows, by a very easy computation, that the deflection increases very...
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