Light visible and invisible : a series of lectures delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, at Christmas, 1896 (1897)
Thompson, Silvanus Phillips, 1851-1916, Royal Institution of Great Britain · New York : Macmillan · leaf 133
ation, jostling against one another, andin jostling impart vibrations to the ether—setting up 1 Not as thrown on the screen. But the eye can be trained todetect the plane of polarisation, for example, of light from the bluesky, which is naturally polarised in directions at right angles to… … 112 LIGHT LECT. ether-waves. When any one particle gets a sudden joltit quivers, and gives out a vibration, which we may represent by the curve (Fig.68), with a lot of little wave-lets each like its fellow, per-haps several thousandsl ofthem before they die away.FlG68, Each such vibration would die…
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