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Light waves and their uses / by A.A. Michelson.
LIBRA 535.1 M583
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Michelson, Albert A. (Albert Abraham), 1852-1931.
- Series:
- Chicago. University.. Decennial publications ; 2d series, v. 3.
- Decennial publications ; 2d series, v. 3
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Light.
- Optical instruments.
- Standards of length.
- Magnetooptics.
- Ether (Space).
- Physical Description:
- 166 pages : illustrations (including) 3 color plates ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago press, 1903.
- Contents:
- Wave motion and interference
- Comparison of the efficiency of the microscope, telescope, and interferometer
- Application of interference methods to measurements of distances and angles
- Application of interference methods to spectroscopy
- Light waves as standards of length
- Analysis of the action of magnetism on light waves by the interferometer and the echelon
- Application of interference methods to astronomy
- The ether.
- Notes:
- "This series of eight lectures ... was delivered in the spring of 1899 at the Lowell Institute."--Pref.
- OCLC:
- 944615
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