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" ... same refrangibility which traverse it, seems readily to admit of a dynamical illustration borrowed from sound. We know that a stretched string which on being struck gives out a certain note (suppose its fundamental note) is capable of being thrown... "
Mathematical and Physical Papers - Page 130
by George Gabriel Stokes - 1904
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The Year-book of Facts in Science and Art

1861 - 328 pages
...Magazine, No. 126, observes : — The remarkable phenomenon discovered by Foucault, and re- discovered and extended by Kirchhoff, that a body may be at the...a great number of such stretched strings, forming thns the analogue of a "medium." It is evident that such a medinm on being agitated would give out...
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Report of the Annual Meeting

British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1862 - 804 pages
...which traverse it, seems readily to admit of a dynamical illustration borrowed from sound. We know thul a stretched string which on being struck gives out...a great number of such stretched strings, forming thue the analogue of a ' medium.' It is evident that such a medium on being agitated would give out...
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Report of the Annual Meeting, Volume 31

British Association for the Advancement of Science. Meeting - 1862 - 776 pages
...from sound. We know that a stretched string which on being struck gives out a certain note (suppose ts fundamental note) is capable of being thrown into the same state of vibra- . t\on by aerial vibrations corresponding to the same note. Suppose now a portion of space to...
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Physical Optics

Richard Glazebrook, Sir Richard Glazebrook - 1883 - 460 pages
...a stretched string, which on being struck gives out a certain note (its fundamental note suppose), is capable of being thrown into the same state of...portion of space to contain a great number of such strings, forming thus the analogue of a medium. It is evident that such a medium, on being agitated,...
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Handbuch der Spectroscopie, Volume 2

Heinrich Kayser - 1902 - 740 pages
...on being struck gives out a certain note (suppose its fundamental note) is capable of being throwii into the same state of Vibration by aerial vibrations...give out the note above mentioned, while on the other band, if that note were sounded iu air at a distance, the incident vibrations would themselves be gradually...
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A History of European Thought in the Nineteenth Century, Volume 2

John Theodore Merz - 1903 - 832 pages
...illustration borrowed from sound. We know that a stretched string which on being struck gives out a certain note, is capable of being thrown into the same state...stretched strings, forming thus the analogue of a ' medinm.' It is evident that such a medinm, on being agitated, would give out the note above mentioned,...
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Baltimore Lectures on Molecular Dynamics and the Wave Theory of Light

William Thomson Baron Kelvin - 1904 - 848 pages
...light giving out rays of a definite refrangibility, and an absorbing medium extinguishing rays of the same refrangibility which traverse it, seems readily...number of such stretched strings forming thus the What I have read thus far is with reference not to the Molar, origin of spectrum analysis, but to the...
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Baltimore Lectures on Molecular Dynamics and the Wave Theory of Light ...

William Thomson Baron Kelvin - 1904 - 734 pages
...on being struck gives out a certain note (suppose its fundamental note) is capable of being tin own into the same state of vibration by aerial vibrations...number of such stretched strings forming thus the SELLMKIEK'S DYNAMICS OF ANOMALOUS DISPERSION. 103 What I have read thus far is with reference not to...
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Physical Optics

Richard Glazebrook - 1907 - 518 pages
...certain note (its fundamental note suppose), is c of being thrown into the same state of vibration by vibrations corresponding to the same note. Suppose...portion of space to contain a great number of such strings, forming thus the analogue of a medium. It is evident that such a medium, on being agitated,...
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Physical Optics: Textbooks of Science

Glazebrook - 2002 - 456 pages
...a stretched string, which on being struck gives out a certain note (its fundamental note suppose), is capable of being thrown into the same state of vibration by aerial CHAP. IX.] Spectrum Analysis. 261 vibrations corresponding to the same note. Suppose now a portion...
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