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Their Representation by Tensors and Matrices John Frederick Nye. 2. Optical activity and birefringence The treatment in the last section was restricted to isotropic materials , cubic ... OPTICAL ACTIVITY Optical activity and birefringence.
Their Representation by Tensors and Matrices John Frederick Nye. 2. Optical activity and birefringence The treatment in the last section was restricted to isotropic materials , cubic ... OPTICAL ACTIVITY Optical activity and birefringence.
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... optical activity , and 2p , which is the phase difference that would be given by a rotatory power p in the absence of ordinary FIG . 14.4 . Illustrating the birefringence . We see at once that optical principle of superposition for activity ...
... optical activity , and 2p , which is the phase difference that would be given by a rotatory power p in the absence of ordinary FIG . 14.4 . Illustrating the birefringence . We see at once that optical principle of superposition for activity ...
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... rotation . The sign of p depends on the hand of the reference axes . If the sense of the rotation is the same as the hand of the axes , p is positive ; if different , then negative . Optical activity in uniaxial and biaxial crystals in ...
... rotation . The sign of p depends on the hand of the reference axes . If the sense of the rotation is the same as the hand of the axes , p is positive ; if different , then negative . Optical activity in uniaxial and biaxial crystals in ...
Contents
THE GROUNDWORK OF CRYSTAL PHYSICS | 3 |
EQUILIBRIUM PROPERTIES | 51 |
ELECTRIC POLARIZATION | 68 |
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angle anisotropic applied axial vector centre of symmetry Chapter coefficients conductivity constant crystal classes crystal properties crystal symmetry cube cubic crystals defined denoted diad axis dielectric dijk direction cosines dummy suffix elastic electric field ellipsoid equation example force given grad H₁ H₂ heat flow Hence hexagonal homogeneous indicatrix isothermal isotropic k₁ magnetic magnitude matrix notation measured moduli monoclinic number of independent Onsager's Principle optical activity orientation orthorhombic Ox₁ P₁ parallel Peltier permittivity perpendicular photoelastic effect piezoelectric effect plane plate polarization principal axes produced pyroelectric pyroelectric effect quantities radius vector referred refractive index relation representation quadric represented right-handed rotation S₁ scalar second-rank tensor set of axes shear strain stress suffix notation surface susceptibility symmetry elements Table temperature gradient thermal expansion thermodynamics thermoelectric effects Thomson heat tion transformation law triclinic trigonal uniaxial values x₁ Young's Modulus zero