An attempt to account for the discrepancy between the actual velocity of sound in air or vapour, and that resulting from theory
Sir Isaac Newton determined from theory that the velocity of the undulations of an elastic medium generally is equal to that which a heavy body acquires in falling by the action of gravity through half the height of a homogeneous atmosphere of that medium; but the actual velocity of sound in atmosph...
| Published in: | Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London |
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English |
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The Royal Society
1837
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspl.1830.0276 https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rspl.1830.0276 |