Fig. 41 shows, for example, a series of modifications of the curveof the ratio 1, 2, in which the more rapid oscillation is in advance 88 KINEMATICS. [CHAP. by periods which successively differ from one another by one-quarter of the period of the more rapid oscillation. A S.H.M. in a third… … Composition of non-commensurable S.H.M.s.—The periodsin all the cases already considered have been commensurable, v.] COMPOSITION OF SIMPLE HARMONIC MOTIONS. 89 i.e., they have borne to one another ratios expressible in wholenumbers, and consequently, after a certain number of oscillations,the…
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