BOOKS FOR FURTHER READING
J. H. Poynting, The Pressure of Light.
E. Edser, Heat for Advanced Students: the chapters on Radiation.
E. Edser, Light for Advanced Students: the chapters on the Spectrum.
B. W. Wood, Physical Optics: the chapters on Fluorescence and Phosphorescence, Laws of Radiation, Nature of White Light, and Absorption of Light.
INDEX
ABSORBING power, [37] — and radiating power, [38] Absorption, spectra, [34] — by glass and quartz, [77] — by air, [78] Addition of waves, [25] Amplitude, [23]
BALMAIN, luminous paint, [59] Boltzmann, laws of radiation, [48]
CONVECTION currents, [67] Corpuscular theory, [10] — reflection and refraction by, [11] Crookes' radiometer, [67]
DEWAR, temperature and phosphorescence, [62] Diffraction grating, [72] — dispersion by, [75] — wire grating, [77] Dispersion, [29], [75] Doppler effect, [69]
EFFICIENCY in lighting, [52] Elastic solid theory, [17] Electric field, [18] Electric charges within the atom, [21] Electric oscillations, [19], [83] Electrification, positive and negative, [18] Electromagnetic induction, [80] Electromagnetic waves, [17], [84] Electrons, [30] Energy in simple wave, [25] Energy—wave-length curve, [27]
FLUORESCENCE, [58] — theory of, [60] Foucault, speed of light in different media, [17] Fourier's series of waves, [26], [30] Fraunhöfer lines, [35] Full radiator and absorber, [44], [45]
GASES as radiators, [42]
HUYGHENS' wave theory, [13] Hertz, experiments on electric waves, [85] — reflection, [86] — refraction, [87] — wave-length by stationary waves, [88]
INFRA-RED rays, [32] Interference, [13]
KIRCHOFF'S law, [40]
LANGLEY, Bolometer, [32], [48], [49], [77] Lebedew, pressure of light, [65] Lummer and Pringsheim, law of radiation, [48], [50]
MAGNETIC oscillations, [20] Maxwell, electromagnetic theory, [17] — pressure of light, [64] Momentum of moving electric field, [81]
NEWTON, dispersion, [29] — corpuscular theory, [12] — law of cooling, [46] Nichols, Rubens and, Rest-strahlen, [79] Nicholls and Hull, pressure of light, [64], [68]
PFLÜGER, emission from tourmaline, [43] Phase, [22] Phosphorescence, [59] — chemical theory of, [61] — temperature and phosphorescence, [62] Planck, energy and wave-length, [51] Polarised light, emission from tourmaline, [42] Pressure of light, prediction of by Maxwell, [64] — measurement by Lebedew, [65] — measurement by Nicholls and Hull, [64], [68] — on the earth, [68] — on fine dust, [69] — on comets' tails, [69] — three effects of in astronomy, [70] Prévost, Theory of Exchanges, [46]
RADIATING power, [38] Radiometer action, [67] Reflection, corpuscular theory, [11] — of electric waves, [87] Refraction, corpuscular theory, [11] — of electric waves, [87] Resonance, [30] Rest-strahlen or residual rays, [79] Ripples on mercury, [13] Ritchie, radiating and absorbing powers, [38] Rowland, gratings, [73] Rubens and Kurlbaum, proof of Planck's law, [51] Rubens and Nichols, Rest-strahlen, [79]
SCHUMANN waves, [78] Simple harmonic motion, simple periodic motion, [24] Spark discharge, [84] Spectrometer, [76] — reflecting, [78] Spectrum, [29] — the whole, [32] — incandescent solid or liquid, [33] — incandescent gas, [33] — analysis, [34] — emission and absorption, [34] — sun, [35] — stars and nebulæ, [36] — and temperature, [48] Stationary waves, [88] Stefan, law of radiation, [47]
TEMPERATURE, absolute, [56] — of planets, [54] — of space, [55] — of sun, [53]
ULTRAVIOLET rays, [32], [77]
WAVE form, [24] Wave-length, [22] — range of, [80] — of electric waves, [90] Wave theory, rectilinear propagation, [13] Wien, Law of Radiation, [50]
YOUNG, interference, [16]