 | University of Cambridge - 1841 - 546 pages
...mechanically composed thereof. ^ 18. Explain fully what is meant by the polarization of light, aad account for the polarization of the two rays in planes at right angles to each other, having first explained the separation of common light into two pencils, by double refracting... | |
 | sir George Biddell Airy - 1858 - 438 pages
...each other. PROP. 22. To explain the separation of common light into two pencils by doubly-refracting crystals : and to account for the polarization of...crystal, an arrangement similar to that described in AMT 22 (104), or at least possessing this property, that there are three directions* at. right angles... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - Discoveries in science - 1863 - 470 pages
...the elliptic section of the surface of elasticity made by the wave front. We have also the cause of the polarization of the two rays in planes at right angles to each other. This is so, because the two axes of the ellipse are in that relation. Since the two velocities... | |
 | Newton Horace Winchell, Alexander Newton Winchell - Mineralogy, Determinative - 1922 - 248 pages
...the two rays may be constructed by the same methods. The double refraction, relative velocities, and polarization of the two rays in planes at right angles to each other are shown in Fig. 122. , Seventh, if the plane of incidence is not parallel with the optic axis,... | |
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To explain the separation of common light into two pencils by doubly refracting crystals : and to account for the polarization of the two rays in planes at. right angles to each other. 