 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1835 - 766 pages
...expression obtained by Young and Poisson; and when the incidence is 90°, or the ray grazes the surface, the intensity of the reflected light is equal to that of the incident, or the whole of the light is reflected, whatever be the reflecting medium. The latter conclusion has... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1835 - 806 pages
...expression obtained by Young and Poisson ; and when the incidence is 90°, or the ray grazes the surface, the intensity of the reflected light is equal to that of the incident, or the whole of the light is reflected, whatever be the reflecting medium. The latter conclusion has... | |
 | Humphrey Lloyd - 1857 - 256 pages
...expression was first given by Young. On the other hand, when 0 = 90°, or when the ray grazes the surface, the intensity of the reflected light is equal to that of the incident ; or the whole of the light is reflected, whatever be the reflecting substance. (158) We have seen... | |
 | Paul Drude - 1901 - 584 pages
...of silver or gold upon the surface, the most favorable thickness of such a film being that for which the intensity of the reflected light is equal to that of the transmitted. But with the arrangement shown in Fig. ^55 it is not necessary to use two plates /*, and... | |
 | Edmund Taylor Whittaker - 1910 - 502 pages
...sin' t - j^*)* tan *o = : • /<i cos i Fresnel interpreted this expression to mean that the amplitude of the reflected light is equal to that of the incident, but that the two waves differ in phase by an amount 6. The ease of light polarized at right angles to the... | |
 | Owen Willans Richardson - 1914 - 632 pages
...and 6 will measure the difference of phase of the two beams under comparison. We have 2/3 . and Thus the intensity of the reflected light is equal to that of the incident light for all the imaginary values of m which intervene between + oo and 0. It is clear that the intensity... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science. Meeting - 1835 - 756 pages
...expression obtained by Young and Poisson; and when the incidence is 90°, or the ray grazes the surface, the intensity of the reflected light is equal to that of the incident, or the whole of the light is reflected, whatever be the reflecting medium. The latter conclusion has... | |
 | 684 pages
...intensities, and 6 will measure the difference of phase of the two beams under comparison. We have Thus the intensity of the reflected light is equal to that of the incident light for all the imaginary values of m which intervene between + oo and 0. It is clear that the intensity... | |
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... the quantities of polarized light in the reflected and refracted pencils are equal, whatever be the incidence. In the case of perpendicular incidence, these formulae are both reduced to the simple expression obtained by Young and Poisson; and when... 