Research Catalog
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.
Available Online
Details
- 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
- 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. ; 3Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO): Science, Technology, and Medicine: 1780-1925Decennial 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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