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 163
rsmixed up, the Newton tints will be produced by theoverlappings of all the different tints. This may be madeplainer by considering a diagram (Fig. 96) in which thevarious sizes of waves are represented to scale. Let the 142 LIGHT LECT. distances measured horizontally from the left side repre-sent… … proportion to the radius. Then if red light was theonly kind falling on the apparatus it would show asystem of red rings with a black centre, the distance ofeach successive red ring from the centre correspondingto the places where the crests of the red waves occur in POLARISATION OF LIGHT 143 in…
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