 | George Peacock - 1855 - 544 sider
...interesting phenomena than any other optical principle that has yet been made known. I shall endeavour to explain this law by a comparison : — Suppose...narrow channel leading out of the lake ; — suppose • "A doctrine" (the interference of light), says Sir John Herschel, " which we owe almost entirely... | |
 | 1856 - 560 sider
...interesting phenomena than any other optical principle that has yet been made known. I shall endeavour to explain this law by a comparison : Suppose a number...velocity, and to enter a narrow channel leading out of the-lake ; suppose, then, another similar cause to have excited another equal series of waves, which... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1856 - 516 sider
...phenomena than any other optical principle that has yet been made known. I shall endeavour to explair this law by a comparison : Suppose a number of equal...stagnant lake, with a certain constant velocity, and to cuter a narrow channel leading out of the lake ; suppose, then, another similar cause to have excited... | |
 | Bence Jones - 1871 - 486 sider
...account of his discovery of the general law of the interference of light : made known. I shall endeavour to explain this law by a comparison : — Suppose...lake ; suppose, then, another similar cause to have existed, another equal series of waves will arrive at the same channel with the same velocity, and... | |
 | Bence Jones - 1871 - 450 sider
...account of his discovery of the general law of the interference of light: mode known. I shall endeavour to explain this law by a comparison :—Suppose a...to move upon the surface of a stagnant lake, with a certaiu constant velocity, and to enter a narrow channel leading out of the lake ; suppose, then, another... | |
 | Robert Routledge - 1881 - 748 sider
...than any principle that had then been made known. What this principle was he explains by the following comparison : " Suppose a number of equal waves of...same velocity and at the same time with the first. One series of waves will not destroy the other, but their effects will be combined. If they enter the... | |
 | 1892 - 212 sider
...light-shadow, but a very slight sound-shadow. Dr. Young's own account of his discovery is as follows : — "It was in May, 1801,. that I discovered, by reflecting...lake ; suppose then, another similar cause to have existed, another equal series of waves will arrive at the same channel with the same velocity, and... | |
 | Edmund Taylor Whittaker - 1910 - 502 sider
...Young's own illustration of the principle is evidently suggested by Newton's. " Suppose," he says,§ " a number of equal waves of water to move upon the...same channel, with the same velocity, and at the same tune with the first. Neither series of waves will destroy the other, but their effects will be combined... | |
 | Alexander Wood - 1913 - 190 sider
...is propagated by some kind of wave motion. In one of his papers he thifs describes the phenomenon. " Suppose a number of equal waves of water to move upon the surface of a stagnant lake, with a certain velocity, and £o enter a narrow channel leading out of the lake. Suppose then another similar cause... | |
 | Peter Young - 2008 - 204 sider
...variety of interesting phenomena than any other optical principle that has yet been made known . . . Suppose a number of equal waves of water to move upon...same velocity, and at the same time with the first . . . their effects will be combined . . . if the elevations of one series are so situated as to correspond... | |
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I shall endeavor to explain this law by a comparison : Suppose a number of equal waves of water to move upon the surface, of a stagnant lake with a certain constant velocity, and to enter a narrow channel leading out of the lake. Suppose, then, another... 
