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is used, and the image is observed through a direct vision spectroscope, interference bands are observed in the spectrum, which flit across it with the slightest rotation of the cylinder.
I give below the results obtained from determinations made on different days (temp. = 26°).
- (1) The larger apparatus was used for this experiment (diameter of the cylinder = 25 cm.), and the angle repeated fifteen times.
- (2) Experiment with the smaller apparatus (diameter of the cylinder = 14·4 cm.). Reading was only taken of two successive positions for total reflection with the air-film 'direct' and 'reverse.'
- (3) The same as above but with a different air-film.
- (1) Angle repeated fifteen times.
Direct. | Reverse. |
1459° | 1460° |
Mean value for
μ = 1·3321.
From (2) and (3), mean value of i obtained = 48° 40′.
μ = 1·3317.
The values of μ from the best determinations reduced to the temp. 26° are given below:—
Gladstone and Dale |
1·3315 |
Terquem and Trannin |
1·3329 |
The result obtained by me is thus seen to be practically the same as the above.
Having obtained the absolute value of the index of water for the D line and at the temperature of 26°, the
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