Open AccessVI. On the transformation of optical wave-surfaces by homogeneous strain
Author(s) -
Oliver Heaviside
Publication year - 1894
Publication title -
proceedings of the royal society of london
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2053-9126
pISSN - 0370-1662
DOI - 10.1098/rspl.1894.0008
Subject(s) - physics , refraction , homogeneous , displacement (psychology) , classical mechanics , rest (music) , kinetic energy , electromagnetic radiation , transformation (genetics) , transmission (telecommunications) , condensed matter physics , optics , chemistry , acoustics , computer science , thermodynamics , telecommunications , biochemistry , gene , psychology , psychotherapist
1. All explanations of double refraction (proximate, not ultimate) rest upon the hypothesis that the medium in which it occurs is so structured as to impart eolotropy to one of the two properties, associated with potential and kinetic energy, with which the ether is endowed in order to account for the transmission of waves through it in the simplest manner. It may be elastic eolotropy, or it may be something equivalent to eolotropy as regards the density. In Maxwell’s electromagnetic theory the two properties are those connecting the electric force with the displacement, and the magnetic force with the induction, say the permittivity and the inductivity, orc andμ .
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