An Elementary Treatise on Sound: Being the Second Volume of a Course of Natural Philosophy, Designed for the Use of High Schools and CollegesJ. Munroe and Company, 1836 - 220 páginas |
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... feet on Monte Rosa . The height , however , to which an atmosphere , or medium capable of conveying sound , extends , far exceeds any attainable on mountains , by balloons , or even by the lightest clouds . The great meteor of 1783 ...
... feet on Monte Rosa . The height , however , to which an atmosphere , or medium capable of conveying sound , extends , far exceeds any attainable on mountains , by balloons , or even by the lightest clouds . The great meteor of 1783 ...
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... feet per second , at the temperature of freezing , and this result does not probably differ more than a foot from the truth . It is , indeed , affected more or less by the state of the air through which the sound passes ; but the ...
... feet per second , at the temperature of freezing , and this result does not probably differ more than a foot from the truth . It is , indeed , affected more or less by the state of the air through which the sound passes ; but the ...
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... feet , the sound of a harquebuss arrived five seconds after the flash ; and repeating the experiment at half the distance , they found exactly half the time to be required . This gives , for the velocity of sound , 1148 feet per second ...
... feet , the sound of a harquebuss arrived five seconds after the flash ; and repeating the experiment at half the distance , they found exactly half the time to be required . This gives , for the velocity of sound , 1148 feet per second ...
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... Feet . Velocity in English Feet per second . Benzenberg ( Dusseldorff ) , . · 1809 29764 1093 Arago , Matthieu , Prony , Bouvard , Humboldt , 1822 61064 1086.1 Moll , Vanbeek , Kuytenbrouwer , 1823 57839 1089.42 various Gregory , 1823 ...
... Feet . Velocity in English Feet per second . Benzenberg ( Dusseldorff ) , . · 1809 29764 1093 Arago , Matthieu , Prony , Bouvard , Humboldt , 1822 61064 1086.1 Moll , Vanbeek , Kuytenbrouwer , 1823 57839 1089.42 various Gregory , 1823 ...
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... feet , or a 160th of the whole amount , and their mean ( 1089.7 ) agreeing almost precisely with the result of Moll , Vanbeek , & c .; 1090 feet may therefore be adopted without hesitation , as a whole number which does not differ more ...
... feet , or a 160th of the whole amount , and their mean ( 1089.7 ) agreeing almost precisely with the result of Moll , Vanbeek , & c .; 1090 feet may therefore be adopted without hesitation , as a whole number which does not differ more ...
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2g H Acad Auditu Berl BERNOULLI CAUCHY Chim CHLADNI CHORON Chym Comm Communication of Vibrations condensed cord corporum Corps Solides crispations d'une Verge DELEAU density direction disc distance echo Edinb elasticity elasticorum élémens élémentaire Encyc equal équations EULER Exerc experiments feet FÉTIS flexibilium fluid Harmony heaps heard Hist Human Voice hydrogen impulse Instit Journ L'Art l'Audition l'équilibre l'Harmonie l'Organe de l'Ouie LA SALETTE length Lettre Lond Math Mém membrane modes of vibration molecules motion Mouvement des Corps Musical Intervals Musique nodal lines nouvelle observed Organ of Hearing particles Petrop Phil Phys pipe Plain-chant plate POISSON Polytech Principes produced propagation of sound pulse quam RAMEAU Recherches Rozier SAUVEUR SAVART string Sur les Vibrations Temperament temperature Théorie tion Traité Trans velocity of sound Vibrations des Corps Vibrations of Systems VIDRON Voix wave wind
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Página 11 - ... feet. By a most unlucky coincidence, the precise focus of divergence at the former station was chosen for the place of the confessional. — Secrets never intended for the public ear thus became known, to the dismay of the...
Página 110 - Since there is nothing in the constitution of the atmosphere to prevent the existence of vibrations incomparably more frequent than any of which we are conscious, we may imagine that animals like the grylli, whose powers appear to commence nearly where ours...
Página 111 - ... them may be said to possess another sense, agreeing with our own solely in the medium by which it is excited...
Página 55 - ... of successive portions of the original impulse in its progress through the soil at the innumerable half-coherent surfaces composing it ; were the whole soil a mass of sand, these reflections would be so strong and frequent as to destroy the whole impulse in too short an interval to allow of a distinguishable after-sound. It is a case analogous to that of a strong light, with a milky medium or smoky atmosphere ; the whole medium appears to shine with a nebulous, undefined light.
Página xix - Considérations sur les divers Systèmes de la Musique ancienne et moderne , et sur le genre enharmonique des Grecs , avec une Dissertation préliminaire relative à l'Origine du Chant, de la Lyre et de la Flûte attribuée à Van; Paris, 1810, 2 vol. in-8°; — Lettre à M.
Página 15 - ... centre. Since the velocity of electricity is incomparably greater than that of sound, the thunder may be regarded as' originating at one and the same instant in every point of the course of either flash. But it will reach the ear under very different circumstances in the two cases. In that of the circular flash, the sound from every point will arrive at the same instant, and affect the ear as a simple explosion, with stunning loudness.
Página 11 - Sicily, the slightest whisper is borne with perfect distinctness from the great western door to the cornice behind the high altar, a distance of 250 feet. By a most unlucky coincidence, the precise focus of divergence at the former station was chosen for the place of the confessional. Secrets never intended for the public ear thus became known, to the dismay of the confessors and the scandal of the people, by the resort of the curious to the opposite point (which seems to have been discovered accidentally),...
Página 65 - In consequence, if a sudden and short impulse be repeated beyond a certain degree of quickness, the ear loses the intervals of silence and the sound appears continuous.
Página 58 - ... the pull, push, or blow will reach its point of action one second after the moment of its first emanation from the first mover. In all moderate distances, then, the interval is utterly insensible. But, were the sun and the earth connected by an iron bar, no less than...
Página 11 - Gallery of St. Paul's, London, the faintest sound is faithfully conveyed from one side to the other of the dome, but is not heard at any intermediate point. In the Manfroni Palace at Venice is a square room about 25 feet high, with a concave roof, in which a person standing in the centre, and stamping gently with his foot on the floor, hears the sound repeated a great many times; but as his position deviates from the centre the reflected sounds grow fainter, and at a short distance wholly cease.