APPLICATION OF THE GENERAL EQUATIONS.
expressed by the equation + =0.
167-170. If we consider the state of the plate at a very great distance from
the transverse edge, the ratio of the temperatures of two points whose
coordinates are x, y and x, y changes according as the value of y
increases; x1 and x, preserving their respective values. The ratio has
a limit to which it approaches more and more, and when y is infinite,
it is expressed by the product of a function of x and of a function of y.
This remark suffices to disclose the general form of v, namely,