If they enter the channel in such a manner that the elevations of one series coincide with those of the other, they must together produce a series of greater joint elevations ; but if the elevations of one series are so situated as to correspond to the... Light - Page 138by Richard Cockburn Maclaurin - 1909 - 251 pagesFull view - About this book
| George Peacock - 1855 - 544 pages
...in force to that which exists for the theory of gravitation. b Supra, p. 71. Works, vol. i., p. 132. then another similar cause to have excited another...call the general law of the interference of light" * The law itself is enunciated in the following form, in the first of the three Memoirs which we are... | |
| 1855 - 900 pages
...must exactly fill up those depressions, and the surface of the water must remain smooth ; at least 1 can discover no alternative, either from theory or...call the general law of the interference of light." — (Life, p. 142-3.) The Theory of Undulations had been not only broached by Huygens, but applied... | |
| 1855 - 454 pages
...np those depressions, and the surface of the water must remain smooth ; at least I can discover 110 alternative, either from theory or from experiment....two portions of light are thus mixed ; and this I cull the general law of the interference of light." — (Life, p. 142-3.) The Theory of Undulations... | |
| Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1856 - 516 pages
...their effects will be combined : if they enter the channel in such a manner that the elevations of the one series coincide with those of the other, they...call the general law of the interference of light."* A slight reflection on such an analogy will suffice to generalise it, so as to convey a tolerably exact... | |
| François Arago - 1859 - 508 pages
...their effects will be combined; if they enter the channel in such a manner that the elevations of the one series coincide with those of the other, they...whenever two portions of light are thus mixed ; and this 1 call the general law of the interference of light." 1 — Translator. For the sake of many readers,... | |
| Bence Jones - 1871 - 486 pages
...the lake ; suppose, then, another similar cause to have existed, another equal series of waves will arrive at the same channel with the same velocity,...call the general law of the interference of light. Within three months he became Professor at the Royal Institution. In 1801, on the 6th of July, Count... | |
| Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1871 - 444 pages
...other, they must together produce a series of greater joint elevations; but if the elevations of cue series are so situated as to correspond to the depressions...call the general law of the interference of light." — THANSLATOB. For the sake of many readers it may not be superfluous or useless here briefly to illustrate... | |
| Bence Jones - 1871 - 450 pages
...to correspond to the depressions of the other, they must exactly fill up those depressions, and tho surface of the water must remain smooth ; at least...call the general law of the interference of light. Within three months he became Professor at the Royal Institution. In 1801, on the 6th of July, Count... | |
| Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1871 - 448 pages
...must exactly till up those depressions, and the surface of the water must remain smooth ; at least, 1 can discover no alternative, either from theory or...portions of light are thus mixed, and this I call the geueral law of the interference of light."— TRANSLATOR. For the sake of many readers it may not be... | |
| Robert Routledge - 1881 - 748 pages
...their effects will be combined. If they enter the channel in such a manner that the elevations of the one series coincide with those of the other, they...call the general law of the interference of light." It is in these terms that Young first unfolded his beautiful discovery of the interference of light,... | |
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