Six Lectures on Light: Delivered In The United States In 1872-1873Tyndall, John
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Six Lectures on Light: Delivered In The United States In 1872-1873
Tyndall, John
Light
Relation of Theories to Experience
Origin of the Notion of the Attraction of Gravitation
Notion of Polarity, how generated
Atomic Polarity
Structural Arrangements due to Polarity
Architecture of Crystals considered as an Introduction to their
Action upon Light
Notion of Atomic Polarity applied to Crystalline Structure
Experimental Illustrations
Crystallization of Water
Expansion by Heat and by Cold
Deportment of Water considered and explained
Bearings of Crystallization on Optical Phenomena
Refraction
Double Refraction
Polarization
Action of Tourmaline
Character of the Beams emergent from Iceland Spar
Polarization by ordinary Refraction and Reflection
Depolarization.
LECTURE IV.
Chromatic Phenomena produced by Crystals in Polarized Light
The Nicol Prism
Polarizer and Analyzer
Action of Thick and Thin Plates of Selenite
Colours dependent on Thickness
Resolution of Polarized Beam into two others by the Selenite
One of them more retarded than the other
Recompounding of the two Systems of Waves by the Analyzer
Interference thus rendered possible
Consequent Production of Colours
Action of Bodies mechanically strained or pressed
Action of Sonorous Vibrations
Action of Glass strained or pressed by Heat
Circular Polarization
Chromatic Phenomena produced by Quartz
The Magnetization of Light
Rings surrounding the Axes of Crystals
Biaxal and Uniaxal Crystals
Grasp of the Undulatory Theory
The Colour and Polarization of Sky-light
Generation of Artificial Skies.
LECTURE V.
Range of Vision not commensurate with Range of Radiation
The Ultra-violet Rays
Fluorescence
The rendering of invisible Rays visible
Vision not the only Sense appealed to by the Solar and Electric Beam
Heat of Beam
Combustion by Total Beam at the Foci of Mirrors and Lenses
Combustion through Ice-lens
Ignition of Diamond
Search for the Rays here effective
Sir William Herschel's Discovery of dark Solar Rays
Invisible Rays the Basis of the Visible
Detachment by a Ray-filter of the Invisible Rays from the Visible
Combustion at Dark Foci
Conversion of Heat-rays into Light-rays
Calorescence
Part played in Nature by Dark Rays
Identity of Light and Radiant Heat
Invisible Images
Reflection, Refraction, Plane Polarization, Depolarization,
Circular Polarization, Double Refraction, and Magnetization of
Radiant Heat
LECTURE VI.
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