A text-book of physics, largely experimental. On the Harvard college "Descriptive list of elementary physical experiments." (1891)
Hall, Edwin Herbert, 1855-1938, Bergen, Joseph Y. (Joseph Young), 1851-1917 · New York, H. Holt and Company · leaf 439
The transference of a given note from one sounding bodythrough the air to another body of the same rate of vibra-tion is strikingly shown by the following experiment. EXPERIMENT 2. Place two tuning-forks of the same pitch, each mounted upon aresonance-box, some feet apart on a table, the mouths of… … FIG. 228. To make this experiment a complete success it may be necessaryto attune the forks. This can be done, if their difference is notgreat, by loading equally with wax both prongs of the higher fork. 333. Pitch.—The next characteristic of musical soundsto be considered is pitch. It is easy to…
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