 ... becomes posterior. If the rate of alternation o'f the body's motion be taken greater and greater, or, in other words, the periodic time less and less, the condensation and rarefaction of the gas, which in the first instance was utterly insensible,...  The Theory of Sound - Page 240by John William Strutt Baron Rayleigh - 1896 - 504 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Physics - 1868 - 1022 pages
...merely local reciprocating flow ; the air is sensibly compressed and rarefied, and a sensible sound-wave (or wave of the same nature, in case 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... | |
 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - Electronic journals - 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... | |
 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - Electronic journals - 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... | |
 | Philosophy - 1884 - 400 pages
...merely local reciprocating flow; the air is sensibly compressed and rarefied, and a sensible sound-wave (or wave of the same nature, in case the periodic...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... | |
 | George Gabriel Stokes - Hydrodynamics - 1904 - 391 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... | |
 | Sir Horace Lamb - Sound - 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,... | |
 | Sir Horace Lamb - Acoustical engineering - 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,... | |
 | English periodicals - 1868 - 524 pages
...merely local reciprocating flow ; the air is sensibly compressed and rarefied, and a sensible sound-wave (or wave of the same nature, in case 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... | |
 | Electronic journals - 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... | |
 | 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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