Deschanel's Natural Philosophy (Part IV) Sound and Light

Cover has edge wear and wrinkles in cloth. Previous owners name and address on first end paper. 319 pages, title page reads - Elementary Treatise on Natural Philosophy Part IV. Sound and Light.Recast chapters on concave and convex mirrors and lenses, and refraction. Wave theory chapter enlarged by additions relating to interference, including the colours of thin films, and the fringes produced by Fresnel's mirrors or biprism, or by Young's two holds. Final chapter on plane of best reflection is suggested as an alternative name for plane of polarization; Huygens' construction is discussed inits application to internal reflection and to both internal and external conical refraction, as well as to the specially simple cases of refraction into uniaxal crystals, and a description is given of the biquartz analyser.

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Publisher: D. Appleton and Company

Year: 1898-01-01

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

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