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" Now conceive the periodic time of tlii' motion to be continually diminished. Gradually the alternation of movement becomes too rapid to permit of the full establishment of the merely local reciprocating flow ; the air is sensibly compressed and rarefied,... "
Mathematical and Physical Papers - Page 302
by George Gabriel Stokes - 1904
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The London, Edinburgh and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science

1868 - 1022 pages
...the excess of fluid in the front going to * Encyclopedia Mftropolitana, vol. iv. art. Sound, § 108. supply the deficiency behind. Now conceive the periodic...The same takes place in any gas ; and the more rapid the propagation of condensations and rarefactions in the gas, the more nearly will it approach, in...
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Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Volume 16

Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1868 - 662 pages
...in the first instance was utterly insensible, presently becomes sensible, and soundwaves (or waves of the same nature in case the periodic time be beyond the limits of audibility) are produced, and exist along with the local reciprocating flow. As the periodic time...
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Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Volume 16

Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1868 - 654 pages
...in the first instance was utterly insensible, presently becomes sensible, and soundr waves (or waves of the same nature in case the periodic time be beyond the limits of audibility) are produced, and exist along with the local reciprocating flow. As the periodic time...
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Wilford's Microcosm, Volume 4

1884 - 400 pages
...alternation increased]. Gradually the alternation of movement [no increase of velocity thought of] Incomes too rapid to permit of the full establishment of the...suitable to hearing) is propagated to a distance," etc. Here we have in a nutshell the entire ground of fallacy on which the wave-theory of sound | is...
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The Dynamical Theory of Sound

Sir Horace Lamb - 1910 - 334 pages
...in the first instance was utterly insensible, presently becomes sensible, and sound waves (or waves of the same nature in case the periodic time be beyond the limits of audibility) are produced, and exist along with the reciprocating flow. As the periodic time is diminished,...
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The Dynamical Theory of Sound

Sir Horace Lamb - 1910 - 324 pages
...in the first instance was utterly insensible, presently becomes sensible, and sound waves (or waves of the same nature in case the periodic time be beyond the limits of audibility) are produced, and exist along with the reciprocating flow. As the periodic time is diminished,...
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The London, Edinburgh and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science

1868 - 524 pages
...the excess of fluid in the front going to * Encyclopedia Metropolitana, vol. iv. art. Sound, § 108. supply the deficiency behind. Now conceive the periodic...The same takes place in any gas ; and the more rapid the propagation of condensations and rarefactions in the gas, the more nearly will it approach, in...
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Journal of the Franklin Institute, Volume 57; Volume 87

Franklin Institute (Philadelphia, Pa.) - 1869 - 508 pages
...in the first instance was utterly insensible, presently becomes sensible, and sound.waves (or waves of the same nature in case the periodic time be beyond the limits of audibility) are produced, and exist along with the local reciprocating flow. As the periodic time...
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The Franklin Journal, and American Mechanics' Magazine

1869 - 474 pages
...in the first instance was utterly insensible, presently becomes sensible, and sound-waves (or waves of the same nature in case the periodic time be beyond the limits of audibility) are produced, and exist along with the local reciprocating flow. As the periodic time...
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