The Wave and Ballistic Theories of Light
Author | : Richard Arthur Waldron |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 201 |
Release | : 1977 |
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Author | : Richard Arthur Waldron |
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Total Pages | : 201 |
Release | : 1977 |
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Author | : Richard Arthur Waldron |
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Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Science |
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Author | : Henry Crew |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 1900 |
Genre | : Science |
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Author | : Jed Z. Buchwald |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 498 |
Release | : 1989-03-15 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0226078868 |
"No one interested in the history of optics, the history of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century physics, or the general phenomenon of theory change in science can afford to ignore Jed Buchwald's well-structured, highly detailed, and scrupulously researched book. . . . Buchwald's analysis will surely constitute the essential starting point for further work on this important and hitherto relatively neglected episode of theory change."—John Worrall, Isis
Author | : Sir Edmund Whittaker |
Publisher | : Courier Dover Publications |
Total Pages | : 785 |
Release | : 1989-01-01 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0486261263 |
Accessible treatment offers highly detailed accounts concerning development of ideas and theories about the nature of electricity and space (aether), focusing on period from Descartes to Lorentz, Einstein, and Minkowski. 1960 edition.
Author | : Humphrey Lloyd |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 1841 |
Genre | : Light, Wave theory of |
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Author | : Humphrey LLOYD (Provost of Trinity College, Dublin.) |
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Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 1841 |
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Author | : Christiaan Huygens |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Physical optics |
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Author | : Humphrey Lloyd |
Publisher | : Theclassics.Us |
Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 2013-09 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781230369501 |
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1841 edition. Excerpt: ... LECTURE III. POLARIZATION OF LIGHT. Gentlemen, --Having examined the principal phenomena of polarized light, and their laws--so far as these laws can be detected by experiment--we may now proceed to consider their connexion with the physical theory. On a former occasion, when considering the phenomena of unpolarized light, I discussed their bearing upon the two theories--the theory of Newton and that of Huygens; and it appeared, on an examination of the facts then considered, that the weight of probability was altogether in favour of the latter. Of the phenomena which we have been lately considering, and of those which still remain to be unfolded, the explanations afforded by the Newtonian theory are, comparatively speaking, so scanty and incomplete, that we shall best consult our own progress in this interesting branch of science, by confining our attention in what follows to the wave-theory. It is strange that the department of optics in which the wave-theory now stands unrivalled, should be the very same which Newton selected as affording the most decisive evidence against it. "Are not," says he, "all hypotheses erroneous, in which light is supposed to consist in pressure, or motion, propagated through a fluid medium ?" . . . . "for pressures, or motions, propagated from a shining body through an uniform medium, must be on all sides alike; whereas it appears that the rays of light have different properties in their different sides." In this objection Newton seems to have had his thoughts fixed upon that species of undulatory propagation, whose laws he himself had so sagaciously unfolded. When sound is propagated through air, or water, or any other uniform medium, the vibrations of the particles of the air, or water, are performed in...
Author | : Edward Peake Rouse |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 30 |
Release | : 1868 |
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