Introductory course of natural philosophy for the use of schools and academies. Ed. from Ganot's popular physics. By William G. Peck (1869)
Ganot, Adolphe, 1804-1887, Peck, William Guy, 1820-1892 · New York A.S. Barnes · leaf 290
Fig. 174 Some effects of Refraction. 289. One of the effects of refraction was explained in the lastarticle. The principle has numerous applications. To a personstanding on the shore, a fish in the water appears higher than his … real position, as is shown in Fig. 175. The ray, in emerging from ( 289.) Why does a flxh seem higher in the water than he realty in f 288 roruLAR physics. the water at a, is refracted from the perpendicular, and the eyereferring the object in the direction of the refracted ray, it appearsthrown…
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