 | Parker Cleaveland - 1816 - 702 pages
...imbibition of water, and will be more fully explained. 5. Refraction. 102. It is well known, that, when a ray of light passes obliquely from one medium to another of different density, it is refracted, or bent from its original direction. Still the image of any object, seen through a... | |
 | Parker Cleaveland - 1822 - 886 pages
...imbibition of water, and will be more fully explained. 5. Refraction. 119. It is well known, that, when a ray of light passes obliquely from one medium to another of different density, it is refracted, or bent from its original direction. Still the image of any object, seen through a... | |
 | John Lee Comstock - 1832 - 364 pages
...the other arm will cut the degree on the graduated scale. , DOUBLE REFRACTION. It is well known that when a ray of light passes obliquely from one medium to another of a different density, it is refracted, or bent out of its original direction. Experiment shows that... | |
 | John Lee Comstock - 1832 - 362 pages
...the other arm will cut the degree on the graduated scale. DOUBLE REFRACTION. It is well known that when a ray of light passes obliquely from one medium to another of a different density, it is refracted, or bent out of its original direction. Experiment shows that... | |
 | John Gummere - 1837 - 506 pages
...action is called Astronomical Refraction, or simply Refraction. OF REFRACTION. 8. It is known that when a ray of light passes obliquely from one medium to another of different density, its direction is changed. Let FHGB, Fig. 2, be a vertical section of a vessel whose sides are opaque.... | |
 | John Johnston - 1846 - 314 pages
...from the perpendicular BA, and take the direction BC. When the ray Quest. 360. What will be the effect when a ray of light passes obliquely from one medium to another of different density ? Will the ray be refracted when it passes perpendicularly from one medium to the other ? When the... | |
 | Louis Agassiz - 1852 - 278 pages
...placed before it, and to bring them again to a point upon the retina. It is a well-known fact, that when a ray of light passes obliquely from one medium to another of different density, it will be refracted or turned out of its course more or less, according to the difference of this... | |
 | John Johnston - 1854 - 420 pages
...instead f continuing a straight course to D, will be bent downQtiESTioN 360. What will be the effect when a ray of light passes obliquely from one medium to another of different density ? Will the ray be refracted when it passes perpendicularly from one medium to the other ? When the... | |
 | Louis Agassiz, Augustus Addison Gould - 1857 - 254 pages
...placed before it, and to bring them again to a point upon the retina. It is a well-known fact, that when a ray of light passes obliquely from one medium to another of different density, it will be refracted or turned out of its course more or less, according to the difference of this... | |
 | Louis Agassiz, Augustus Addison Gould - 1859 - 276 pages
...placed before it, and to bring them again to a point upon the retina. It is a well-known fact, that when a ray of light passes obliquely from one medium to another of different density, it will be refracted or turned out of its course more or iess, according to the difference of this... | |
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When a ray of light passes obliquely from one medium to another of different density, it is refracted or bent out of its course. 
