 | Edward Riddle - Nautical astronomy - 1824 - 572 pages
...from Table 7. When a ray of light passes obliquely from one medium into another of greater density, it is bent towards the perpendicular at the point at which it enters. This bending is called refraction. Now the strata of the atmosphere, through which the rays... | |
 | C. List - Physics - 1846 - 176 pages
...uniform density, such as it may possibly pass through in coming from the sun to our atmosphere. When it passes from a rarer to a denser medium, it is bent towards the perpendicular direction, except when it is moving perpendicularly. Such an effect of course cannot then take place;... | |
 | Miles M. Rodgers - Agriculture - 1850 - 312 pages
...the one in which it approached the surface ; thus the angles of reflection and incidence are equal. When a ray of light passes from a rarer to a denser medium, it is refracted, or turned out of its course : when it passes from a rare to a denser medium, as from the... | |
 | Dionysius Lardner - Astronomy - 1854 - 870 pages
...liquid matter composing the globe, decreases gradually in density in rising from the surface (719); that when a ray of light passes from a rarer to a denser transparent medium, it is deflected towards the perpendicular to their common surface ; and that the... | |
 | John James Reese - Anatomy - 1852 - 386 pages
...distance of over ninety six millions of miles. Light travels in straight lines, through a uniform medium. When a ray of light passes from a rarer to a denser medium, it is bent or refracted towards a perpendicular ; — when passing from a denser to a rarer medium, it is refracted... | |
 | Dionysius Lardner - Astronomy - 1858 - 912 pages
...liquid matter composing the globe, decreases gradually in density in rising from the surface (719); that when a ray of light passes from a rarer to a denser transparent medium, it is deflected towards the perpendicular to their common surface ; and that the... | |
 | John Purdue Bidlake - 1861 - 186 pages
...consent, as — of our ideas. 12. " There shall no — be given, but the — of the prophet Jonas." 13. When a ray of light passes from a rarer to a denser medium, the — of the angle of incidence is greater than the — of the angle of refraction. 14. " They sent... | |
 | Robert Mills Inskip - 1871 - 188 pages
...REFRACTION. Fig. 31When a ray of light passes obliquely from one medium to another of greater density it is bent towards the perpendicular at the point at which it enters. This bending is called refraction. Now the strata of the atmosphere through which the rays... | |
 | Balfour Stewart - Physics - 1873 - 394 pages
...incident on this plane at D, and let FDG be a perpendicular to the plane at the same point, then as the ray of light passes from a rarer to a denser medium, it will be bent towards the perpendicular, as we see in the figure. There are two laws which regulate... | |
 | Edward Richard Shaw - Examinations - 1887 - 360 pages
...Increases. 53. It is refracted. ;• 54. The angle of incidence is equal to the angle of reflection. 55. When a ray of light passes from a rarer to a denser medium, it is bent toward a perpendicular drawn to the surface of the denser medium. The opposite occurs when a ray passes... | |
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When a ray of light passes from a rarer to a denser medium, it is bent towards the perpendicular, at the point at which it entered. 
