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Light waves and their uses

Title: Light waves and their uses [microform] / A.A. Michelson.
Author: Michelson, Albert A. (Albert Abraham), 1852-1931.
Publication: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 1903.

Details

Description

166 p. : ill., 3 pl.

Series Statement

University of Chicago decennial publications ; 2d series, v. 3

Subject

Note

"This series of eight lectures ... was delivered in the spring of 1899 at the Lowell Institute."

Reproduction (note)

Microfiche.

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 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.

Call Number

*XMB-830

OCLC

11223199

Author

Michelson, Albert A. (Albert Abraham), 1852-1931.

Title

Light waves and their uses [microform] / A.A. Michelson.

Imprint

Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 1903.

Series

University of Chicago decennial publications ; 2d series, v. 3

Reproduction

Microfiche. Chicago : Library Resources, 1970. 1 microfiche ; 8 x 13 cm. (Library of American civilization ; LAC 12666)

Research Call Number

*XMB-830

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