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On the Penetration of Waves and their Rays into a Medium of Gradually Varying Properties
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 October 2008
Extract
The question has frequently been raised, whether the laws of ordinary Geometrical Optics, especially with regard to the reflexion and refraction at the confines of two media, are equally applicable when the transition is accomplished in a gradual manner. The problem has an important bearing on physical phenomena of a widely varying character, such as the propagation of sound and light in the atmosphere, with occurrence of mirage or zones of silence, the transmission of seismic disturbances through the earth, tidal waves in a canal of varying cross-section, and others.
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- Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 22 , Issue 2 , May 1924 , pp. 124 - 131
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- Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1924