It is to this rapid power of readjustment, this refusal, so to speak, to allow its atoms to be crowded together or to be drawn apart, that Professor Stokes, with admirable penetration, refers the damping power, first described by Sir John Leslie, of hydrogen... Proceedings of the Royal Society of London - Side 240av Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1878Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
| Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1878 - 656 sider
...which oscillates to and fro, and which therefore might be expected to generate corresponding pnlses in the air. When, for example, the bob moves to the...us that this flow may be intercepted by placing the * General Campbell assigns a true cause for this difference. The ring of the bronze gun represents... | |
| Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1879 - 696 sider
...penetration, refers the damping power, first described by Sir John Leslie, of hydrogen upon sound. A tuning-fork which executes 256 complete vibrations...note. It behaves to some extent like the pendulum bob just referred to. This feebleness is due to the prompt " reciprocating flow " of the air between the... | |
| John Tyndall - 1879 - 522 sider
...penetration, refers the damping power, first described by Sir John Leslie, of hydrogen upon sound. A tuning-fork which executes 256 complete vibrations...note. It behaves to some extent like the pendulum bob just referred to. This feebleness is due to the prompt ' reciprocating flow ' of the air between the... | |
| Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1879 - 698 sider
...penetration, refers the damping power, first described by Sir John Leslie, of hydrogen upon sound. A tuning-fork which executes 256 complete vibrations...note. It behaves to some extent like the pendulum bob just referred to. This feebleness is duo to the prompt " reciprocating flow " of the air between the... | |
| Royal institution of Great Britain - 1879 - 724 sider
...penetration, refers the damping power, first described by Sir John Leslie, of hydrogen upon sound. A tuning-fork which executes 256 complete vibrations...note. It behaves to some extent like the pendulum bob just referred to. This feebleness is due to the prompt " reciprocating flow " of the air between the... | |
| John Tyndall - 1897 - 448 sider
...penetration, refers the damping power, first described by Sir John Leslie, of hydrogen upon sound. A tuning-fork which executes 256 complete vibrations...note. It behaves to some extent like the pendulum bob just referred to. This feebleness is due to the prompt ' reciprocating flow ' of the air between the... | |
| Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1878 - 648 sider
...not into the mere mechanical translation of the shot, but into vibratory motion. We want pulses to bo formed which shall propagate themselves to vast distances...us that this flow may be intercepted by placing the * General Campbell assigns a true cause for this difference. The ring of the bronze gun represents... | |
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