Elementary treatise on physics experimental and applied for the use of colleges and schools (1890)
Ganot, A. (Adolphe), 1804-1887, Atkinson, E. (Edmund) · New York : W. Wood · leaf 533
f at S. In our climate the atmospheric refraction does notraise the stars when on the horizon more than half a degree. The effect of refraction is that objects at a distance appear higher thanihcy are in reality; our horizon is thereby widened. When individual layersof air refract more strongly… … Fig. 435- 540. Total reflection. Critical angrle.—When a ray of light passesfrom one medium into another which is less refracting, as from water intoair, it has beenseen that theangle of inci-dence is lessthan the angleof refraction.Hence, whenlight is propa-gated in a massof water from Sto O (fig.…
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