Proceedings of the Royal Society of London: Containing papers of a mathematical and physical character. Series A

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Harrison and Son, 1913
Publishes research papers in the mathematical and physical sciences. Continued by: Proceedings. Mathematical and physical sciences; and, Proceedings. Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences.
 

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Page 494 - ... to a greater or less extent, according to the nature of the occupying substance.
Page 146 - The author wishes to acknowledge his indebtedness to the Government Grant Committee of the Royal Society for the means of purchasing some of the apparatus used in these experiments.
Page 104 - It may be remarked by the way that the above analogy throws light upon the question under what circumstances electric waves are guided by conductors. Some high authorities, it would seem, regard such guidance as ensuing in all cases as a consequence of the boundary condition fixing the direction of the electric force. But in Acoustics, though a similar condition holds good, there is no guidance of aerial waves round convex surfaces, and it follows that there is none in the two-dimensional electric...
Page 307 - ... :2'84. In mv experiments the thin-walled tubes were of glass, the ends being ground to a plane, and carefully levelled. Ten drops, following one another at intervals of about 50 seconds, •were usually weighed together. As to the interval, sufficient time must be allowed for the normal formation of the drop, but the fact that evaporation is usually in progress forbids too great a prolongation.
Page 504 - The added weight of magnitude w produces elongation denoted by Y. At the observed elongation, the spring exerts an upward restoring force F on the suspended body; this force is equal in magnitude and opposite in direction to the weight of the body, since the suspended body is in equilibrium. We shall call this force F the elastic force, since it is exerted by the elastic spring by virtue of its deformation. By adding different weights and noting the elongation, we obtain data Fig. 1. The force of...
Page xxi - ... credit which he assigned to them in cases of cooperation. Somewhat reserved in serious or personal matters, and occasionally combative and tenacious in debate, he was in the ordinary relations of life the most kindly and genial of companions. He had a keen sense of humour, and delighted in startling paradoxes, which he would maintain, half seriously and half playfully, with astonishing ingenuity and resource. The illness which at length compelled his retirement was felt as a grievous personal...
Page 330 - If the field of force about a molecule be not symmetrical, that is to say, if the equipotential surfaces do not form spheres about the centre of mass, the arrangement of the molecules of a pure fluid must be different at the surface from the purely random distribution which obtains on the average in the interior. The inwardly directed attractive force along the normal to the surface will orientate the molecules there. The' surface film must therefore have a characteristic molecular architecture,...
Page 330 - The surface film must therefore have a characteristic molecular architecture, and the condition of minimal potential involves two terms — one relating to the variation in density, the other to the orientation of the fields of force.
Page xxi - ... descriptive of rural scenery — the rugged hill, the rocky glen, the wimpling burn, the shaggy wood, with feathery warblers adding their chorus to the hymn of universal nature ; while his warm heart melts in tender sympathy when he

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