Open AccessXI. On the dependence of the refractive index of gases on temperature
Author(s) -
George W. Walker
Publication year - 1903
Publication title -
philosophical transactions of the royal society of london. series a, containing papers of a mathematical or physical character
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2053-9258
pISSN - 0264-3952
DOI - 10.1098/rsta.1903.0021
Subject(s) - property (philosophy) , refractive index , index (typography) , physical property , refraction , thermodynamics , mathematics , materials science , theoretical physics , physics , optics , quantum mechanics , philosophy , epistemology , computer science , world wide web
The importance of this question was first impressed on me in the course of some theoretical investigations on refraction in gases and the closely related property of electric susceptibility. A comparison of the actual temperature effect on a property of a body, with a theoretical formula professing to explain the property, is a very severe test, and one which has proved fatal to many theories.