Part 86

17. (Pg. 183) What is the reason that objects are distorted, when seen through common window glass?

18. (Pg. 184) What is meant by a lens?

19. (Pg. 184) What are the five kinds called, represented at fig. 1, plate 20?

20. (Pg. 184) What is meant by the axis of a lens?

21. (Pg. 184) How are parallel rays, refracted by the double convex lens, fig. 6, plate 19?

22. (Pg. 184) What is meant by the focus of a lens?

23. (Pg. 184) What is the focal distance of parallel rays, from a double convex lens?

24. (Pg. 184) How are the rays refracted by a concave lens, fig. 7, plate 19?

25. (Pg. 185) What is the effect of one plane side in a lens?

26. (Pg. 185) How is the focus of the plano-convex lens situated, fig. 2, plate 20?

27. (Pg. 185) How does a convex lens magnify objects, fig. 6, plate 19?

28. (Pg. 185) What is the article denominated which is represented at fig. 3, plate 20?

29. (Pg. 185) How will a ray be refracted, which enters on one side of the prism, in the direction A B?

30. (Pg. 185) What effect is produced by this refraction, as represented in fig. 4, plate 20?

31. (Pg. 186) Of what are the rays of white light said to be composed?

32. (Pg. 186) What colours are produced?

33. (Pg. 186) By what property, in light, does refraction enable us to separate these different rays?

34. (Pg. 187) What experiment may be performed with a piece of card, so as to exemplify the compound nature of light?

35. (Pg. 187) How can the same be shown by a lens, fig. 5. plate 20?

36. (Pg. 187) Is it certain that there are seven primitive colours in the spectrum?

37. (Pg. 188) How is the rainbow produced, and what is necessary to its production?

38. (Pg. 188) How are the solar rays affected by a convex lens?

39. (Pg. 188) Why is such a lens, called a burning glass?

40. (Pg. 188) Why are bodies of a dark colour, more readily inflamed, than those which are white?

41. (Pg. 189) What is believed to be the reason, why some bodies absorb more rays than others?

42. (Pg. 189) What determines the colour of any particular body?

43. (Pg. 189) What exemplifications are given?

44. (Pg. 189) By what reasoning is it proved, that bodies do not retain their colours in the dark?