Waves and ripples in water, air, and æther : $b Being a course of Christmas lectures delivered at the Royal Institution of Great BritainFleming, J. A. (John Ambrose), Sir
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Waves and ripples in water, air, and æther : $b Being a course of Christmas lectures delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain
Fleming, J. A. (John Ambrose), Sir
Electric waves; Sound; Waves
Page 56 – “sea-side” changed to “seaside” (At the seaside)
Page 56 – “sea-side” changed to “seaside” (study of seaside pools)
Page 136 – “sound ray” changed to “sound-ray” in Fig. 51 caption
Page 145 – “limelight” changed to “lime-light” (lime-light lantern)
Page 156 – “over-tones” changed to “overtones” (accompanied by the
harmonics or overtones)
Page 162 – “key-board” changed to “keyboard” (keyboard of a piano)
Page 176 – “aërial” changed to “aerial” (stationary aerial oscillation)
Page 177 – “horse-hair” changed to “horsehair” (bow made of horsehair)
Page 274 - “Full Stop — — — — — —” changed to
“Full Stop — ——— — ——— — ———”
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Footnotes have been re-indexed using numbers and placed before the Index.
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Large bracketing is not available to surround built-up fractions in
displayed equations and expressions so ordinary bracketing and the
solidus (/) is used to represent them instead. Thus the built-up
x + 1
fraction ————— is rendered in this text in the conventional manner
2
as (x + 1)/2. If the sin of that expression is required it would be
rendered unambiguously as sin((x + 1)/2). For consistency this also
means that a simple sin function that would normally be displayed as
‘sin x’ will instead be rendered as ‘sin(x)’.
A large radical (√) symbol is not available either so in order to make
the radicand expression unambiguous a similar approach to the above is
used.
x + 1
Thus the square root of the fraction ————— is rendered in this text as
2
√((x + 1)/2). Again this means that, for consistency, the simple square
root of, say, the natural number 5, which would normally be displayed
as ‘√5’ will instead be rendered as ‘√(5)’.
In other expressions and equations some additional bracketing may have
been added to make the meaning clear and unambiguous or consistent with
bracketing as used in immediately surrounding equations and expressions.
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