a small tube about 0·2 mm. in diameter, which allowed a narrow bundle of rays to pass. The rays then struck a photographic plate enveloped in a thin layer of aluminium.
In the experiments the diaphragm was about 2 cms. from the active material and at the same distance from the photographic plate. When the whole apparatus was placed in a vacuum, a P.D. of from 2000 to 5000 volts could be applied between the plates without a spark. The rays were deflected in their passage through the electric field, and produced what may be termed an electric spectrum on the plate.
If a magnetic field is superimposed parallel to the electric field by means of an electromagnet, a magnetic spectrum is obtained perpendicular to the electric spectrum. The combination of the two spectra gives rise to a curved line on the plate. The double trace obtained on the photographic plate with reversal of the magnetic field is shown in Fig. 28. Disregarding some small corrections, it can readily be shown that if y and z are the electric and magnetic deviations respectively,
From these two equations, combined with (1), we obtain
where κ, κ1, κ2 are constants.
Equation (5) gives the