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Old April 9th 07, 08:54 PM posted to rec.radio.amateur.antenna
john Wiener john Wiener is offline
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Default Not understanding some parts of wave refraction

Cecil Moore wrote:
Roy Lewallen wrote:
Using that nearly-universal definition, the speed of an EM wave in any
other medium is VF * c where VF is the "velocity factor".


If I remember correctly, at Texas A&M we used an
equation like:

c' = VF(c)

Writing c-prime like that told us that it wasn't
the speed of light in free space.

my recollection from optics is

c/c' = n, index of refraction for the c' medium, (c always used as the
constant in a vacuum).