 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1824 - 844 pages
...have a given ratio to one another.1 This amounts to the same with saying, that, in the case before us, the sine of the angle of incidence is to the sine of the angle of refraction in a given ratio. The explanation of the law of refraction thus given is so... | |
 | 1824 - 878 pages
...a given ratio to one another. 1 This amounts to the same with saying, that, in the case before us, the sine of the angle of incidence is to the sine of the angle of refraction in a given ratio. The explanation of the law of refraction thus given is so... | |
 | Peter Nicholson - Mathematics - 1825 - 1046 pages
...The angles of incidence and refraction are in the tame plane ; and, whilst the mediums e»r the same, the sine of the angle of incidence is to the sine of the angle of refraction, in a given ratio. Upon the surface of a hoard TV, (fiff. 3,) with the centreC... | |
 | Science - 1823 - 472 pages
...glass from the centre of the fifst surface of the small lens is to the radius, of the first surface ^ ^ the Sine of the angle of incidence is to the Sine of the angle of refraction. The aberration of the principal lens being almost removed by its polyzonal... | |
 | Physics - 1829 - 522 pages
...'.if incidence AGP, and EF the sine of the angle of refraction E С Q. Hence it follows, that in water the sine of the angle of incidence is to the sine of the angle of refraction as 1.336 to I, whatever be the position of the ray with respect to the surface... | |
 | Sir Daniel Keyte Sandford - Art - 1836 - 496 pages
...given ratio to each other. This amounts to the same thing with saying, that, in the case before us, the sine of the angle of incidence is to the sine of the angle of refraction in a given ratio. This explanation of the law of refraction is so satisfactory,... | |
 | 1841 - 488 pages
...refraction are in a plane perpendicular to the refracting surface ; and while the mediums are the same, the sine of the angle of incidence is to the sine of the angle of refraction, in a given ratio. Upon the plane surface of a board, T v, with the centre,... | |
 | 1838 - 556 pages
...CD is to CG as the sine of DGC, or LGC or HCF is to the sine of the angle CDG, or DCE, that is, as the sine of the angle of incidence is to the sine of the angle of refraction. In explaining this law of Snellius, Huygens has, we think, acted iincourteously... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1841 - 956 pages
...given ratio to each other. This •mounts to the same thing with saying, that, in the case before us, the sine of the angle of incidence is to the sine of the angle of refraction in a given ratio. This explanation of the law of refraction is so satisfactory,... | |
 | David Brewster - Light - 1841 - 432 pages
...RM, and bn, b' n' the sines of the angles of refraction b RN, b' R N. Hence it follows, that in water the sine of the angle of incidence is to the sine of the angle of refraction as 1-336 to 1, whatever be the position of the ray with respect to the surface... | |
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This amounts to the same with saying, that, in the case before us, the sine of the angle of incidence is to the sine of the angle of refraction in a given ratio. 
