 | Henry E. Kyburg Jr. - Science - 1990 - 296 pages
...problem under consideration. To use an elementary example, one can infer SnelFs law (the ratio between the sine of the angle of incidence and the sine of the angle of refraction is constant for a given pair of media) from quite abstract conservation principles, subject to the... | |
 | Pierre Maurice Marie Duhem - Science - 1991 - 392 pages
...Météores, to which the Discours de la méthode served as a preface. Based on the constant relation between the sine of the angle of incidence and the sine of the angle of refraction, his theory arranges in a very clear order the properties of lenses of diverse shapes and of optical... | |
 | Peter Achinstein - Philosophy - 1991 - 346 pages
...on by a force directed perpendicular to either medium, the body will be refracted in such a way that the sine of the angle of incidence and the sine of the angle of refraction will be "in a given ratio." 33 At this point Newton seems content simply to note an analogy between... | |
 | Colin D Gribble - Science - 2003 - 313 pages
...in isotropic media the ratio between the velocities of the two media is equal to the ratio between the sine of the angle of incidence and the sine of the angle of refraction (Snell's Law). The refractive index (usually denoted by the letter n or abbreviated to RI) is a constant... | |
 | Lemony Snicket - Juvenile Fiction - 2009 - 278 pages
...that a ray of light passing from one uniform medium to another produces an identical ratio between the sine of the angle of incidence and the sine of the angle of refraction, which Klaus already knew. There was a file on the inventor of the sneaker, whom Violet admired very... | |
 | Walter Benenson, John W. Harris, Horst Stöcker, Holger Lutz - Science - 2006 - 1183 pages
...law, describes the relation between the angles of incidence and refraction (Fig. 11.10): The ratio of the sine of the angle of incidence and the sine of the angle of refraction is a constant that depends only on the material properties of both media. The incident ray, the perpendicular,... | |
 | Richard Chapman - Science - 2002 - 180 pages
...refracted wave speed for light passing from a vacuum into a denser medium. It is also the ratio of the sine of the angle of incidence and the sine of the angle of refraction: c\ sin / n = — = - — . cr sin r However, the amount of refraction, and so the refractive index,... | |
 | Leonhard Euler - Mathematics - 2004 - 624 pages
...it follows the path that requires the shortest time. With the aid of these principles he showed that the sine of the angle of incidence and the sine of the angle of refraction are in inverse proportion to the densities of the media, hence directly as the velocities with which... | |
 | John Enderle, Joseph Bronzino, Susan M. Blanchard - Medical - 2005 - 1142 pages
...these two interfaces as shown in Figure 17.4 is based on two basic laws: the angle of reflection equals the angle of incidence, and the sine of the angle of refraction bears a constant ratio to the sine of the angle of incidence (Snell's law). It should be noted that... | |
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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. 
