 ... begin with about an inch of amplitude, and a couple of inches long ; they enlarge as the velocity or duration of the wave increases; by and by conterminal waves unite; the ridges increase, and if the wind increase the waves become cusped, and are...  Hydrodynamics - Page 621by Sir Horace Lamb - 1916 - 708 pagesFull view - About this book
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1845 - 718 pages
...increase, and if the wind increase the waves become cusped, and are regular waves of the second order. They continue enlarging their dimensions, and the...extensively covered with waves of nearly uniform magnitude. How it is that waves of unequal magnitude should ever be produced may not seem at first sight very... | |
 | John Scott Russell - 1845 - 124 pages
...increase, and if the wind increase the waves become cusped, and are regular waves of the second order. They continue enlarging their dimensions, and the...extensively covered with waves of nearly uniform magnitude. How it is that waves of unequal magnitude should ever be produced may not seem at first sight very... | |
 | 1871 - 504 pages
...their dimensions ; and the " depth to which they produce the agitation increasing simulta" neously with their magnitude, the surface becomes extensively..." covered with waves of nearly uniform magnitude." The " Capillary waves " or " waves of the third order " referred to by Russell are what I, in ignorance... | |
 | John Scott Russell - 1885 - 356 pages
...increase, and if the wind increase the waves become cusped, and are regular waves of the second order. They continue enlarging their dimensions, and the...extensively covered with waves of nearly uniform magnitude. How it is that waves of unequal magnitude should ever be produced may not seem at first sight very... | |
 | Sir Horace Lamb - 1895 - 632 pages
...wind increase the waves become cusped, and are regular waves of the second order [gravity waves]*. They continue enlarging their dimensions, and the...insight into the incipient stages of wave-formation. No sufficient explanation appears however to have been as yet given of the origin of the regular processions... | |
 | William Thomson Baron Kelvin - 1904 - 734 pages
...wind increase the waves become "cusped, and are regular waves of the second order. They con" tinue enlarging their dimensions ; and the depth to which...covered with waves " of nearly uniform magnitude." The " Capillary waves " or " waves of the third order " referred to by Russell are what I, in ignorance... | |
 | William Thomson Baron Kelvin - 1910 - 588 pages
...increase, and if the wind increase the waves become cusped, and are regular waves of the second order. They continue enlarging their dimensions; and the...extensively covered with waves of nearly uniform magnitude." The " Capillary waves " or " waves of the third order " referred to by Russell are what I, in ignorance... | |
 | William Thomson Baron Kelvin - 1910 - 581 pages
...increase, and if the wind increase the waves become cusped, and are regular waves of the second order. They continue enlarging their dimensions; and the...extensively covered with waves of nearly uniform magnitude." The " Capillary waves " or " waves of the third order " referred to by Russell are what I, in ignorance... | |
 | William Thomson Baron Kelvin - 1910 - 588 pages
...increase, and if the wind increase the waves become cusped, and are regular waves of the second order. They continue enlarging their dimensions; and the...extensively covered with waves of nearly uniform magnitude." The " Capillary waves " or " waves of the third order " referred to by Russell are what I, in ignorance... | |
 | Sir Horace Lamb - 1916 - 732 pages
...wind increase the waves become cusped, and are regular waves of the second order [gravity waves]*. They continue enlarging their dimensions, and the...the extensions and contractions of the contaminated surfacef. The surface-tension of pure water is greater than the sum of the tensions of the surfaces... | |
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