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Page iii - ON SOUND AND ATMOSPHERIC VIBRATIONS. With the Mathematical Elements of Music. Designed for the Use of Students in the University.
Page 235 - God save our gracious Queen, Long live our noble Queen, God save the Queen: Send her victorious, Happy and glorious, Long to reign over us: God save the Queen.
Page 203 - In the section on open organ-pipes he says : — "It was found by Mr. Hopkins that the node next the open mouth of the pipe was somewhat less distant from it than that given by theory, or, which amounts to the same thing, that the place where the air has always the same density as the external air is not exactly at the pipe's mouth but somewhat exterior to it.
Page 23 - ... the particles at successive equal intervals of time, it is plain that we have states of condensation and states of rarefaction travelling on continually without limit, in one direction; while the motion of every individual particle is extremely small, and is alternately backwards and forwards. And this is the conception of a wave as depending on the...
Page 142 - Airy remarks that the acceleration arising from the greater displacement ef the particles could not possibly have amounted to 200 feet; and he seems to consider the phenomenon entirely physiological. Hu says that when a violent or sudden noise is heard, it is preceded by the perception of a shock throughout the bodily frame. This shock must have been mistaken for the sound itself.
Page 22 - The theory of the transmission of sound through the air (as well as through other bodies) is essentially founded upon the conception of the transmission of waves, in which the nature of the motion is such, that the movement...
Page 197 - Prof. Airy is as evidently dissatisfied with the state of theory and experiment, using such phrases as these : " the matter, however, demands more complete explanation;" "that obscure subject, the production of musical vibrations in a pipe by a simple blast of air;" " possibly when the mathematical calculus is farther advanced, this may be shown,
Page 38 - ... Plane Wave of three dimensions (Airy's Sound and Atmospheric Vibrations, p. 38). " If we have a great number of pipes side by side with waves of a similar character passing simultaneously through all, so that the collateral condensations and pressures of air in the adjacent pipes will be the same, there will be no tendency of the air in one pipe to press sideways into another pipe ; we may therefore remove the material boundaries of these pipes, and then we have air, extended in three dimensions...
Page 205 - On musical sounds, and the manner of producing them ; On the elements of musical harmony and melody, and of simple musical composition ; On instrumental music ; On the human organs of speech and hearing. A TREATISE OF MAGNETISM.
Page 137 - In the greatest part of the experiments, the observations have been those of the flash and the report of a distant cannon. The...