Open AccessOn the total reflexion of light
Author(s) -
Arthur Schuster
Publication year - 1925
Publication title -
proceedings of the royal society of london. series a, containing papers of a mathematical and physical character
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2053-9150
pISSN - 0950-1207
DOI - 10.1098/rspa.1925.0002
Subject(s) - disturbance (geology) , energy (signal processing) , total energy , visual disturbance , total internal reflection , physics , computer science , optics , psychology , medicine , geology , quantum mechanics , psychoanalysis , surgery , paleontology , displacement (psychology)
1. The theory of so-called total reflexion deserves greater attention than it has hitherto received, and this applies more particularly to the oscillating disturbance which penetrates into the optically lighter medium at or beyond the critical angle. In the generally accepted equations, this disturbance appears as a progressive wave propagated parallel to the interface, and it is not clear how this wave is connected with the incident light from which it must ultimately derive its energy.