A dictionary of electrical words, terms and phrases (1898)
Houston, Edwin J. (Edwin James), 1847-1914 · New York, The W. J. Johnston company · leaf 475
der certain circumstances, all theether particles may be caused to move in planesthat are parallel to one another. Such a beam oflight is called a plane polarized beam. A plane polarized beam of light, when passedthrough many transparent substances, will haveits ether particles vibrating in the… … Fig. 496. Magneto-Optic Rotation. or to the left. This property is called respec-tively right-handed rotary polarization, and left-handed rotary polarization. Many substances that ordinarily possess nopower of rotary polarization acquire this powerwhen placed in a magnetic field. This propertyof a…
Electricity · Electrical engineering
Internet Archive · Library of Congress · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.
![An illustration from [Electric engineering.] (1902)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-electricengineer01inte-26-5.webp)
