The science of light . LONDON: T. C. & E. C. JACK67 LONG ACRE, , AND EDINBURGHNEW YORK: DODGE PUBLISHING CO. ^^ CONTENTS CHAP. PAGE INTRODUCTION 7 I. THE RECTILINEAR PROPAGATION OF LIGHT . 12 H. THE REFLECTION AND REFRACTION OF LIGHT 20 III. DISPERSION . 34 IV. INTERFERENCE OF LIGHT .... 44V. DIFFRACTION 60 VI. POLARISATION 72 VII. THE ELECTROMAGNETIC NATURE OF LIGHT WAVES 78 VIH. THE NATURE OF WHITE LIGHT ... 85 INDEX 91 THE SCIENCE OF LIGHT INTRODUCTION This book is intended as a companion to that onRadiation previously published in this same series, andthe first three chapters in that b
The science of light . LONDON: T. C. & E. C. JACK67 LONG ACRE, , AND EDINBURGHNEW YORK: DODGE PUBLISHING CO. ^^ CONTENTS CHAP. PAGE INTRODUCTION 7 I. THE RECTILINEAR PROPAGATION OF LIGHT . 12 H. THE REFLECTION AND REFRACTION OF LIGHT 20 III. DISPERSION . 34 IV. INTERFERENCE OF LIGHT .... 44V. DIFFRACTION 60 VI. POLARISATION 72 VII. THE ELECTROMAGNETIC NATURE OF LIGHT WAVES 78 VIH. THE NATURE OF WHITE LIGHT ... 85 INDEX 91 THE SCIENCE OF LIGHT INTRODUCTION This book is intended as a companion to that onRadiation previously published in this same series, andthe first three chapters in that book should be readbefore commencing this. light plays such an important part in the life of manthat it is only natural that speculation as to its natureand investigation of its laws should have begun veryearly. But although this is true, yet the ancients seemto have been exceedingly slow in the invention andconstruction of optical instruments, and to have beencompletely innocent of any reasonable optical
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