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 315
ty which a refractive medium possesses ofdecomposing and scattering solar light, is called its disper-sive power, and the phenomenon is called dispersion. The phenomenon of dispersion is shown in Fig. 205. Abeam of lip-lit entering a hole in the shutter of a darkened JTow are all points of the… … Fig. 205. room falls upon a horizontal prism, having its refractingangle turned downwards. The whole beam is bent upwards,and at the same time is separated into seven distinctlycolored beams, as may be seen by interposing a screen atthe distance of several feet to receive them. The elongated image…
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