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 153
ain atthe other side of the crystal one set of vibrations will 132 LIGHT LECT. have got a little behind the other. Hence the twocomponents as they emerge and recombine will notproduce, as their resultant, vibrations that are vertical.The resultant vibrations may be oblique, or evenelliptical; their… … Fig. 9; waves will no longer be polarised vertically ; the crystalslice will have so split up, retarded, and recombinedthe vibrations that they emerge vibrating in other direc-tions. Hence this emerging light when it falls upon theanalyser will possess some horizontal components, andthese will, as…
Light · X-rays
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