 | Lord William Thomson Kelvin - 1904 - 732 pages
...virtue of its inertia. [In Lectures XIX. and XX. we have seen reason to believe that this is true.] length, than that it is infinitely homogeneous and...have different velocities according as their motions are round in one direction (the same as the nominal direction of the galvanic current in the magnetizing... | |
 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1908 - 640 pages
...cause either a right-handed or a left-handed rotation of ordinary light (the wave-length being 1/40000 of an inch for homogeneous yellow). " But the magnetic...have different velocities according as their motions are round in one direction (the same as the nominal direction of the galvanic current in the magnetising... | |
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The magnetic influence on light discovered by Faraday depends on the direction of motion of moving particles. For instance, in a medium possessing it, particles in a straight line parallel to the lines of magnetic force, displaced to a helix round this... 
