Lectures on some recent advances in physical science with a special lecture on force (1876)
Tait, Peter Guthrie, 1831-1901 · London, Macmillan and co. · leaf 319
mmoniac, so that anything visiblewhiph escapes from the box is simply particles of salammoniac, which are so very small that they remainsuspended by fluid-friction, Hke smoke in the air. Nownotice the effect of a sudden blow applied to the end ofthe box opposite the hole. There you see a… … llllllllllllllllHlllllllllillilHIIIIIIil he at once formed his theory. You notice that whentwo vortex-rings impinge upon one another, they be-have like solid elastic rings. They vibrate vehementlyafter the shock, just as if they were solid rings of india-rubber. It is easy, as you see, to produce…
Force and energy · Matter · Heat · Spectrum analysis
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