Sentence examples for deflection of light from inspiring English sources

In a similar way, Einstein predicted the gravitational deflection of light: in a gravitational field, light is deflected downward.

In Einstein's theory, space-time geodesics define the deflection of light and the orbits of planets.

Lorentz telegraphed me that the British expeditions have verified the deflection of light by the sun".

His papers aroused British interest in the theory and led directly to Arthur Eddington's 1919 expedition to observe a solar eclipse in order to measure the gravitational deflection of light rays passing near the Sun.

Einstein not only explained how gravitating bodies give this surface its properties that is, mass determines how the differential distances, or curvatures, in Riemann's geometry differ from those in Euclidean space but also successfully predicted the deflection of light, which has no mass, in the vicinity of a star or other massive body.

He summarizes: "…only the deflection of light and the red shift can furnish evidence for Einstein's relation between gravitation and the real metric…" (p. 170).

In a material with an index of, say, -1, the angle of deflection of the light ray would be equal to the angle of incidence, but in the opposite direction.

In a material with a refractive index of -1, the angle of deflection of the light ray would be equal to the angle of incidence but in the opposite direction.

At the opposite extreme may be cited the 1919 expedition of the English scientist-mathematician Arthur Stanley Eddington to measure the very small deflection of the light from a star as it passed close to the Sun a measurement that requires a total eclipse.

Eddington's results were not very accurate; subsequent observations of the deflection of the light of distant quasars by the Sun, which utilize highly accurate techniques of radio astronomy, have confirmed Eddington's results with significantly better precision (the first such measurements date from 1967, the most recent comprehensive analysis from 2004).

Importantly, the equation shows that the relationship between deflection of the light beam (subsequently defined as clot amplitude) and shear modulus is not linear.