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  1. ... pencil of red light passed through a short-focus convex lens, L, Fig. 276 ; on intercepting it beyond Fig. 276. Diffraction. the focus of the lens, by means of an opaque ...
  2. ... a cylinder of lime be supported, as at L, Fig. 41, in the focus of the flame, its particles become heated to ...
  3. NLM Digital Collections - Chemistry, inorganic and organic : with experiments 
    Publication: Philadelphia : P. Blakiston, Son & Co., 1890
    ... a cylinder of lime be supported, as at L (fig. 41), in the focus of the flame, its particles become heated to ...
  4. ... a cylinder of lime be supported, as at L (fig. 41), in the focus of the flame, its particles become heated to ...
  5. ... are parallel to the axis, and form no focus (Fig. 59). Fig. 61. If L continues to approach the mirror (Fig. 61), it ... principal focal distance. In ordinary lenses the principal focus coincides very ... rays diverge from L (Fig. 77). The angle of incidence is here greater ...
  6. NLM Digital Collections - A dictionary of arts and sciences (Volume 2) 
    Publication: Philadelphia : Published by Isaac Peirce ..., 1815-1816
    ... double microscope, and is thus constructed: Let CD (fig. 12) represent a darkened chamber per- forated at L, where a convex lens is fixed, thecurvalure of whicli is such, that the focus of parallel rays falls upon the opposite wall. ...
  7. ... a point, F; which is the principal virtual focus. In the case in which the rays proceed from a point, L (fig. 390), on the axis, it is found by the same construction that a virtual focus is formed at /, which is between the principal ...
  8. ... This is explained by the diagram, fig. 78 ; l represents a convex lens of six Fig. 78. inches focus, upon which fall the two rays r r ...
  9. NLM Digital Collections - The microscope and its revelations 
    Publication: Philadelphia : Blakiston, 1891
    ... which this takes place will be understood by reference to fig. 26, where A B is an object placed beyond P, the principal focus of the aplanatic combination. From every point of ...
  10. ... on them, from each point of the object. Fig. 13, L represents a bi-convex lens; A B C, an arrow beyond 40 PHYSICAL OPTICS. the principal focus, with its point upwards. The rays A o ...
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