Sound : an elementary text-book for schools and colleges (1913)
Capstick, John Walton, 1858- · leaf 51
d path, and what passes on is a shape or arrangement ofthe particles. When waves are passing over the surface of water, floating bodies do not travel with them. A cork merely describes a small closed curve as the waves pass it, from which we see that -it is not the water itself which travels… … We shall represent the motion of any particle of the seriesas before by the motion of the foot of the perpendicular drawnfrom the end of a uniformly-rotating radius on a fixed diameterof a circle. In order to bring the equation into its mostusual form we shall measure the angle 6 from the…
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