 | Josiah P. Cooke, Jr. - 1860 - 754 pages
...the distance from the source. If the rays of heat fall on a polished surface they are reflected, and the angle of reflection is always equal to the angle of incidence. If they enter a transparent medium they are refracted, and for the same substance the sine of the angle... | |
 | George Payn Quackenbos - 1862 - 468 pages
...same perpendicular, is called the Angle of Reflection. The great law of reflected motion is as follows :—The Angle of Reflection is always equal to the Angle of Incidence. CHAPIER V. MECHANICS (CONTINUED). 4 GRAVITY. 97. TERRESTRIAL GRAVITY.—When a stone is let go, we... | |
 | George Frederick Pardon - 1866 - 394 pages
...a poor chance against a cool and clear-headed player. The grand principle of Billiards is this — the angle of reflection is always equal to the angle of incidence. Though, at first sight, the sentence may look rather learned and abstruse, it is by no means difficult... | |
 | Robert William Fraser - 1866 - 346 pages
...at a loss to understand this law of reflection." " You must remember," continued the Doctor, " that the angle of reflection is always equal to the angle of incidence ; that is, if the ray falls from e, then the angle which it makes with the perpendicular from c, in... | |
 | Mary Ann Dwight - 1866 - 290 pages
...distorted, both in shape and Color. 577. One of the most simple laws, in regard to reflection, is, that the angle of reflection is always equal to the angle of incidence. Reflections are often incowectly represented. Their effect depends upon the height of the horizon-line,... | |
 | William James Rolfe - 1868 - 328 pages
...which they are moving, they are partially reflected and partially transmitted. In the reflected portion the angle of reflection is always equal to the angle of incidence. The transmitted portion is refracted, either away from or towards a perpendicular to the surface of... | |
 | William James Rolfe, Joseph Anthony Gillet - 1868 - 554 pages
...which they are moving, they are partially reflected and partially transmitted. In the reflected portion the angle of reflection is always equal to the angle of incidence. The transmitted portion is refracted, either away from or towards a perpendicular to the surface of... | |
 | P. Austin Nuttall - 1869 - 356 pages
...vision, which explains the laws and properties of reflection, chiefly founded upon this truth — that the angle of reflection is always equal to the angle of incidence ; and from thence deducing the magnitude, shapes, and situations of the appearances of objects seen... | |
 | EDMUND ROUTLEDGE - 1870 - 820 pages
...same line as they are projected against another and larger body; and following this law, in optics the angle of reflection is always equal to the angle of incidence— that is to say, rays falling obliquely on any"object are reflected in the opposite direction at an... | |
 | David Ames Wells - 1870 - 408 pages
...reflects an entire image of either luminary, but as the image can only be seen by reflected rays, and as the angle of reflection is always equal to the angle of incidence, the image from any point can Fig- 6S. be seen only in the reflected ray prolonged ; and so spectators... | |
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Whatever the reflecting surface may be, and however obliquely the light may fall upon it, the angle of reflection is always equal to the angle of incidence. 
