 | William Thomas Brande, George William Cox - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1867 - 1090 pages
...is at the present time by no means perfect. The index of refraction of any transparent substance is the ratio of the sine of incidence to the sine of refraction, when light passes index refraction is 3 ; hence in the equation sin i — n sin r, all the values of... | |
 | Physics - 1827 - 528 pages
...of incidence, and its ellipticity, or the ratio of its semiaxis major to its eccentricity, equal to the ratio of the sine of incidence to the sine of refraction ,• and let it be made to have a contact of the second order with the refracting curve in any point... | |
 | Physics - 1839 - 1198 pages
...of the light parallel to that surface. Thus U Sifl ¿ = U Sin and sin ¿ sin ¿ U that is, in words, the ratio of the sine of incidence to the sine of refraction is equal to the ratio of the velocity of the F- — — 284 Mr. Ivory on the Theory ofthe AstronomicaiR,J,t¿MI¿... | |
 | Paul B. Scheurer, G. Debrock - History - 1988 - 406 pages
...region, while the vertical component increases. It is shown that, for an arbitrary angle of incidence, the ratio of the sine of incidence to the sine of refraction is constant. fraction and the path of the moving particle in his imaginary mathematical model. It should... | |
 | Jed Z. Buchwald - Science - 1989 - 498 pages
...of the angles of the prism brought a difference of only 0.00026 (twenty-six hundred-thousandths) in the ratio of the sine of incidence to the sine of refraction, and that a similar error in the observation of the angles of the broken ray in the same element a difference... | |
 | Dale Jacquette - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1996 - 322 pages
...passes P through transparent 7"noncrystalline C medium x. The consequent of the conditional states that the ratio of the sine of incidence to the sine of refraction of j through x is constant. & (3ç)(7ç & Q & Pysflx If the complex antecedent is abbreviated F, and... | |
 | Jed Z. Buchwald, A. Franklin - Science - 2005 - 248 pages
...Refraction of one and the same sort of Rays out of one Medium into another, is composed of the Proportion of the Sine of Incidence to the Sine of Refraction out of the first Medium into any third Medium, and of the Proportion of the Sine of Incidence to the Sine... | |
 | Cambridge Philosophical Society - Philosophy - 1827 - 522 pages
...following articles we shall always consider the radii of convex surfaces as positive. We shall denote by n the ratio of the sine of incidence to the sine of refraction out of air into glass for mean rays, and by 8n the variation of this ratio arising from unequal refrangibility.... | |
 | University of Cambridge - Universities and colleges - 1818 - 362 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... | |
 | University of Cambridge - Universities and colleges - 1828 - 454 pages
...north polar distance. 10. If a small pencil of parallel homogeneal rays be refracted into a sphere, and the ratio of the sine of incidence to the sine of refraction be known, to find at what angle the rays must be incident, that they may emerge parallel after any... | |
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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. 
