The theory of light / by Thomas Preston.

  • Preston, Thomas.
Date:
1901
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    Optic axes, thin plates specially oriented with respect to, 394, 398, 399 dispersion of, 406 in quartz, 443 Optical bench, 150 instruments, diffraction in, 288 Optics defined, 1 Orthorhombic system, 406 Oscillating discharge, 544 Oscillator, electric, 560 Overlapping of interference bands, 153 of grating spectra, 231, 246, 248 of colours of crystalline plates, 383 Paalzow, oscillating discharge, 547 Pardis, S. J., 23 Partial polarisation, 306, 419 Peirce, C. S., on measurement of wave lengths, 244 Periodic time, minor limit to, 57 Perrotin, on the velocity of light, 495 Phase, defined, 34 Phosphorescence, 484 Phosphoroscope, Becquerel's, 485 Pigments, mixture of, 472 Pile of plates, 87, 304 Pitch, 40 Plane of polarisation, 298 . polarised light reduced to circular, 440 Plates, colours of isotropic, Chap. VIII. of thin crystalline. Chap. XV. of thick isotropic, 197 of mixed, 207 crystalline, superposed, 383 quarter-wave, 383 application of, 415 Plato, theory of vision, 3 Pliny, on burning glasses, 2 Pliicker tubes as source of homogeneous light, 154 Poisson, multiple reflections from thin plates, 177 diffraction by circular disc, 2'J2 Polarisation of light. Chap. X. rotatory. Chap. XV11. leading to abandonment of emission theory, 23 of the ether, 32, 543 plane, 294, 416 by reflection, 297 angle of, 298 partial, 298, 306, 419 plane of, 298 Polarisation, by double refraction, 300 by refraction, 304 circular, 401, 404, 417 elliptical, 405, 413, 418, 436 rotatory, in quartz, MacCuUagh's theory, 463 of light in rainbow, 541 of skylight, 422 dispersion of planes of, 429 Polariscope, Biot's, 297 Savart's, 409 De Senarmont's, 462 Polarised light, reflection and refraction of. Chap. XIII. metallic reflection of, Chap. XIV. interference of, Chap. XV. study of. Chap. XVI. vibration of permanent type, 54 direction of vibration of plane, 299, 551 conditions for interference, 308, 382 detection of, 409, 416, 418 rotation of, 420 Polarity of light, a new, Brewster's experiment, 165 Pole of wave, 63 locus, 71 Porta, John Baptista, camera obscura, 8 Potter, interference experiment of, 163 on the rainbow, 530, 536 Pouillet, bi-prism, 145 Powell, Baden, on interference bands, 148 on displacement of fringes by a prism, 163 bands of, 166 on diffraction, 217 by circular disc, 222 on polarised light, 357 Poynting, analyser of, 460 Priestley's history referred to, 6 Principle of least time, 78, 95 Prism, refraction through, 96 method of crossed, 120, 479 Nicol's, 318 Foucault's, 320 Rochon's, 320 Wollaston's, 322 Jellett's, 456 Projection, apparatus for, 387 Provostaye and Desains, reflection from pile of plates, 87