 | Jeremiah Joyce - 1815 - 468 pages
...will be the direction of the reflected ray ? Charles. Since cb is perpendicular to the glass at /', the angle of incidence is abc ; and as the angle of...I must make another angle, as cbm, equal to abc,* and then the line bm is that in which the incident ray will move after reflection. Tutor. Can you,... | |
 | James Smith - 1815 - 684 pages
...by which all (he phenomena of reflection are explained. The other law to which we allude, is, that the angle of reflection is always equal to the angle of incidence. In fig. 6, pi. I, a dis an incident ray, falling upon the surface ef, from which it is reflected in... | |
 | Thomas Thomson - 1817 - 596 pages
...made to strike obliquely Chap. I. against tbe floor. The ray is- then said to be reflected. v"~v-"'' The angle of reflection is always equal to the angle of incidence. When the surface of a medium is polished, as glass or mirrors, oblique rays do not enter them at all,... | |
 | Thomas Thomson - 1818 - 482 pages
...ball would do if made to strike obliquely against the floor. The ray is then said to be reflected. The angle of reflection is always equal to the angle of incidence. When the surface of a medium is polished, as glass or mirrors, oblique rays do not enter them at all,... | |
 | William Nicholson - 1819 - 412 pages
...vision, and explains the lairs and properties of reflection, chiefly founded upon this truth, that the angle of reflection is always equal to the angle of incidence ; and from thence deducing the magnitudes, shapes, and situations, of the appearances of objects seen... | |
 | William Nicholson - 1819 - 414 pages
...reflex vision, and explains the laws and properties of reflection, chiefly founded upon this truth, that the angle of reflection is always equal to the angle of incidence ; and from thence deducing the magnitudes, shapes, and situations, of the appearances of objects seen... | |
 | William Thomas Brande - 1821 - 506 pages
...obliquely the light falls upon the surface, the greater in general is the reflected portion. In these cases the angle of reflection is always equal to the angle of incidence. Let aa represent pencils of light falling upon the surface of a polished piece of glass B, the perpendicular... | |
 | Colin MacKenzie - 1821 - 724 pages
...gives oat heat, and excites the pulsations of light." they are immediately thrown back, or reflected. The angle of Reflection is always equal to the angle of Incidence. Radiation consists in the. progress of Calorific Raus, in straight lines, from heated or excited bodies.... | |
 | William Shepherd, Jeremiah Joyce, Lant Carpenter - 1822 - 638 pages
...perpendicular to it at the point A, and from what has been said, the angle MAC is the angle of incidence ; and as the angle of reflection is always equal to the angle of incidence, the angle CA x must be made equal to MAC, and the line Ar must be produced. Me C made with the ray... | |
 | Colin Mackenzie - 1822 - 774 pages
...gives oat beat, and excites the pulsations of light." t hey are immediately thrown back, or reflected. The angle of Reflection is always equal to the angle of Incidence. Radiation consists in the progress of Calorific Rayt, in straight lines, from heated or excited bodies.... | |
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... as the angle of reflection is always equal to the angle of incidence, the image for any point can be seen only in the reflected ray prolonged. 
