Text-book of general physics, for the use of colleges and scientific schools (1899)
Hastings, Charles Sheldon · Boston: Ginn & company · leaf 579
ly represented by thesine curve, but the quality of its tone, musically considered,lacks character. 507. Longitudinal Vibrations of Rods. — The existence oflongitudinal vibrations in rods may be rendered visible bymeans of the apparatus shown in Fig. 379. An ivory ballsuspended by two threads is… … Fig. 379. continued vigorously, theamplitude of the vibrationsmay be increased so as toimpart a considerable impulse to the ball, which is drivenaway as often as it touches the end of the rod. The frequencies of the different modes of vibration arerelated to each other as the natural series of…
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