 When a small obstacle, such as fishing-line, is moved forward slowly through still water, or (which, of course, comes to the same thing) is held stationary in moving water, the surface is covered with a beautiful wave-pattern, fixed relatively to the...  Hydrodynamics - Page 462by Sir Horace Lamb - 1916 - 708 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John William Strutt Baron Rayleigh - 1900 - 624 pages
...fully some interesting phenomena described by Scott Russell* and Thomsonf, and figured by the former. When a small obstacle, such as a fishing line, is...side the wave-length is short, and, as Thomson has shown, the force governing the vibrations is principally cohesion. On the d"wn-stream side the waves... | |
 | 1905 - 784 pages
...Russel and Kelvin, of which I have given a calculation*. "When a small obstacle, such as fishing-line, is moved forward slowly through still water, or (which,...side the wave-length is short, and, as Thomson has shown, the force governing the vibrations is principally cohesion. On the down-stream side the waves... | |
 | Robert Williams Wood - 1911 - 764 pages
...Russel and Kelvin, of which I have given a calculation.1 ' When a small obstacle, such as fishing-line, is moved forward slowly through still water, or (which,...side the wave-length is short, and, as Thomson has shown, the force governing the vibrations is principally cohesion. On the down-stream side the waves... | |
 | Desert Institute on the Mediterranean Littoral - 1957 - 628 pages
...fully some interesting phenomena described by Scott Russell* and Thomson-)-, and figured by the former. When a small obstacle, such as a fishing line, is...side the wave-length is short, and, as Thomson has shown, the force governing the vibrations is principally cohesion. On the down-stream side the waves... | |
 | 1955 - 650 pages
...Russel and Kelvin, of which I have given a calculation*. " When a small obstacle, such as tishing-line, is moved forward slowly through still water, or (which,...side the wave-length is short, and, as Thomson has shown, the force governing the vibrations is principally cohesion. On the downstream side the waves... | |
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