 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1869 - 636 páginas
...contrary, the vibrations are transversal ; that is to say, the individual particles of tether move to and fro across the direction in which the light is propagated. In this respect waves of light resemble ordinary water-waves, more than waves of sound. In the case of... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1871 - 436 páginas
...the contrary, the vibrations are transversal; that is to say, the individual particles of ether move to and fro across the direction in which the light is propagated. In this respect waves of light resemble ordinary water-waves, more than waves of sound. In 1 Herschel's... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1873 - 582 páginas
...the contrary, the vibrations are transversal ; that is, say, the individual particles of ether move to and fro across the direction in which the light is propagated. In this respect waves of light resemble ordinary water-waves more than waves of sound. In the case of... | |
 | Émile Saigey - 1873 - 302 páginas
...and there is no such result while it is in a state of repose. the individual particles of ether move to and fro across the direction in which the light is propagated. In this respect waves of light resemble ordinary water-waves more than waves of sound." — Tyndall, Fragments... | |
 | m. emile saigey - 1873 - 272 páginas
.... there is no such result while it is in a state of repose. the individual particles of ether move to and fro across the direction in which the light is propagated. In this respect waves of light resemble ordinary water-waves more than waves of sound." — Tyndallj Fragments... | |
 | Thomas Penyngton Kirkman - 1876 - 368 páginas
...the contrary, the vibrations are transversal ; that is to say, the individual particles of ether move to and fro across the direction in which the light is propagated. In this respect the waves of light resemble ordinary water waves more than waves of soiind.' Professor... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1878 - 218 páginas
...case of light, the ether particles oscillate to and fro across the direction in which the light ia propagated In scientific language the vibrations of...longitudinal, while the vibrations of light are transversal. ln fact the mechanical properties of the ether are rather those of a solid than of an air. 220. The... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1881 - 572 páginas
...the contrary, the vibrations are transversal ; that is, say, the individual particles of ether move to and fro across the direction in which the light is propagated. In this respect waves of light resemble ordinary water-waves more than waves of sound. In the case of... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1895 - 220 páginas
...space; it surrounds the atoms of bodies; it extends, without solution of continuity, through the humors of the eye. The molecules of luminous bodies are in...sound are longitudinal, while the vibrations of light ave transversal. In fact, the mechanical properties of the ether are rather those of a solid than of... | |
 | Franklin Hermann Heald - 1901 - 100 páginas
...just how fast it can go. In note 219, same work, Prof. Tyndall, speaking in favor of the theory, says: "In the case of light, the ether particles oscillate...transversal. In fact, the mechanical properties of ether are rather those of a solid than of air." 238 Then this ray of light, traveling by the wave theory,... | |
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In the case of sound, the vibration of the airparticles are executed in the direction in which the sound travels. They are therefore called longitudinal vibrations. In the case of light, on the contrary, the vibrations are transversal; that is... 