An Elementary Handbook of PhysicsBlackwood, 1871 - 389 páginas |
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... transfer of mo- tion and not of matter , it might be enough to point out the many parallels in heat , light , and electricity , the exceeding probability that sound is a phenomenon of like nature , and the absence of any facts to ...
... transfer of mo- tion and not of matter , it might be enough to point out the many parallels in heat , light , and electricity , the exceeding probability that sound is a phenomenon of like nature , and the absence of any facts to ...
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... transfer of matter , the question must occur , What is it that is transferred ? I ring a bell in the middle of an empty room , so that there are present but the bell and the air . Any hypothesis that the blow of the hammer upon the bell ...
... transfer of matter , the question must occur , What is it that is transferred ? I ring a bell in the middle of an empty room , so that there are present but the bell and the air . Any hypothesis that the blow of the hammer upon the bell ...
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... transfer a sound from A to B ( fig . 23 ) , we can do so , using reflection as a means , by placing two curved ... transferred from A to B by refraction , just as heat or light may be . Fig . 23 . So that the general laws of reflection ...
... transfer a sound from A to B ( fig . 23 ) , we can do so , using reflection as a means , by placing two curved ... transferred from A to B by refraction , just as heat or light may be . Fig . 23 . So that the general laws of reflection ...
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... transfer from one side of C to the other . If the temperature of the whole body of air be raised or low- ered , the velocity of sound in it remains the same ; but if the amount of heat in the air be collected at intervals , the result ...
... transfer from one side of C to the other . If the temperature of the whole body of air be raised or low- ered , the velocity of sound in it remains the same ; but if the amount of heat in the air be collected at intervals , the result ...
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... transferred to the body with which it comes into contact . Thus a man running round the corner of a street is stopped by coming into contact with another man who is standing still . The force that he loses is transferred to the second ...
... transferred to the body with which it comes into contact . Thus a man running round the corner of a street is stopped by coming into contact with another man who is standing still . The force that he loses is transferred to the second ...
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Página 54 - ... the angle of reflection is always equal to the angle of incidence, the image for any point can be seen only in the reflected ray prolonged.
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Página 292 - ... before incidence. Hence the reflected rays, on being produced back, will meet at a point as far behind the reflector as the point of the object is in front of it.