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Light waves and their uses

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

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Description
1 online resource ([8], 166 p., [3] leaves of plates (col.)) : ill.
Series Statement
  • University of Chicago. Decennial Publications. 2nd Ser. ; 3
  • Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO): Science, Technology, and Medicine: 1780-1925
Uniform Title
  • Decennial publications (University of Chicago). 2nd series ; 3.
  • Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO): Science, Technology, and Medicine: 1780-1925.
Subject
  • Interference (Light)
  • Optical instruments
  • Standards of length
  • Magnetooptics
  • Ether (Space)
Note
  • "This series of eight lectures ... was delivered in the spring of 1899 at the Lowell Institute."--Pref.
  • Includes index.
  • Reproduction of the original from the Huntington Library.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
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.
OCLC
  • 866899653
  • NCCO2001253
Author
Michelson, Albert A. (Albert Abraham), 1852-1931.
Title
Light waves and their uses [electronic resource] / by A.A. Michelson.
Imprint
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1903.
Series
University of Chicago. Decennial Publications. 2nd Ser. ; 3
Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO): Science, Technology, and Medicine: 1780-1925
Decennial publications (University of Chicago). 2nd series ; 3.
Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO): Science, Technology, and Medicine: 1780-1925.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
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