Text-book of general physics, for the use of colleges and scientific schools (1899)
Hastings, Charles Sheldon · Boston: Ginn & company · leaf 529
mav be obtainedby the geometric addition of the individual displacementsof each particle. For instance, let afi^ (Fig. 336) and 518 WAVES. a.2b.2c2 be two waves which are simultaneously traversingthe row of particles abc. Then the displacement aa, bb\ cc\of the resultant wave may be found by taking… … FlG. 337. placement of any particle, a (Fig. 337). in the resultant wave,due to the addition of the displacements aa^ and aa.2. will beexactly repeated at every other point, g. which is distant oneor more wave-lengths from a. 2°. Two waves of the same period and amplitude, but
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