Text-book of general physics, for the use of colleges and scientific schools (1899)
Hastings, Charles Sheldon · Boston: Ginn & company · leaf 749
f the ray corresponding to any one of the infinite number ofplane waves which could be drawn tangent to the surface atP. Thus, if light were tofall upon the crystal in thedirection of any one of theelements of a certain cone, itwould be doubly refracted atthe surface, so that one ofthe rays would… … IXTEEFEEEXCE OF POLAEIZED LIGHT. 739 direction, forming a conical shell. To test this, a beam oflight, converging at the proper angle, was allowed tofall on- the piece of aragonite at 0 (Fig. 484), and emergethrough a small aperture, P, in a piece of tin foil, which cutoff all rays except those…
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