| John Tyndall - 1867 - 372 pages
...sound is passing ? Imagine one of the prongs of the vibrating fork swiftly advancing ; it compresses the air immediately in front of it, and when it retreats...partial vacuum behind, the process being repeated by every subsequent advance and retreat. The whole function of the tuning-fork is to carve the air... | |
| John Tyndall - 1867 - 364 pages
...front of it, and when it retreats it leaves a partial vacuum behind, the process being repeated by every subsequent advance and retreat. The whole function...the air into these condensations and rarefactions, and they, as they are formed, propagate themselves in succession through the air. A condensation with... | |
| John Tyndall - 1867 - 404 pages
...sound is passing ? Imagine one of the prongs of the vibrating fork swiftly advancing ; it compresses the air immediately in front of it, and when it retreats...partial vacuum behind, the process being repeated by every subsequent advance and retreat. The whole function of the tuning-fork is to carve the air... | |
| John Tyndall - 1875 - 466 pages
...obtain a beautiful interlacing of the two sinuous lines, fig. 24. Fio. 24. ยง 5. The Waves of Sound. / it retreats it leaves a partial vacuum behind, the process being repeated by every subsequent advance and retreat. The whole function of the tuning-fork is to carve the air... | |
| Alexander Wilford Hall - 1878 - 300 pages
...his language: โ "Imagine one of the prongs of the vibrating fork swiftly advancing; it compresses the air immediately in front of. it, and when it retreats it leaves a.parlial vacuum behind. " โ Lectures on Sound, p. 62. Of course, on the opposite side of the fork... | |
| Alexander Wilford Hall - 1883 - 552 pages
...siund is passing? Imagine one of the prongs of the vibrating fork swiftly advancing; it compresses the air immediately in front of it, and when it retreats...partial vacuum behind, the process being repeated by every subsequent advance and retreat. The whole function of the tuning-fork is to earve the air... | |
| Alexander Wilford Hall - 1877 - 546 pages
...mttsi\~-'' sound is passing? Imagine one of the prongs the vibrating fork swiftly advancing; it ecimfrti.. the air immediately in front of it, and when it retreats it leaves a partial vacuum behind, the pr cess being repeated by every subsequent advance and retreat. The whole function of the tuning-fed'... | |
| Alexander Wilford Hall - 1880 - 544 pages
...tuning-fork's performance, as he has described it! He tells us that when it advances it "compresses the air immediately in front of it, and when it retreats it leaves a partial vacuum behind." Now, this amounts to an unprovoked scientific slander on our atmosphere! With all its acknowledged... | |
| Alexander Wilford Hall - 1880 - 544 pages
...in this way : โ "Imagine one of the prongs of the vibrating fork swiftly advancing; it compresses the air immediately in front of it, and when it retreats it leave* a partial vacuum behind, the process being repeated at every subsequent advance and retreat.... | |
| John Broadhouse - 1881 - 456 pages
...sound is passing? Imagine one of the prongs of the vibrating fork swiftly advancing ; it compresses the air immediately in front of it, and when it retreats...partial vacuum behind, the process being repeated by every subsequent advance and retreat. The whole function of the tuning-fork is to carve the air... | |
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