Abstract
In the construction of the seismological tables it has been found that the times of several pulses at a given distance show a well-marked maximum frequency for each, about which the bulk of the observations are spread with a standard deviation of 1·5−3 sec. For others there was only a vague concentration, spread over about half a minute (Jeffreys and Bullen, 1936–40). The theoretical times of the latter type could all be calculated from those of the former by using the principle of stationary time for small variations of the path, and the observed times might be either shorter or longer than the theoretical ones. There was a complete association between the type of distribution of the residuals and the nature of the path. Whenever the time as calculated was a minimum for all small variations of the path, the distribution of residuals was of the former type; when it was stationary without being either a true minimum or a maximum it was of the latter.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Reference2 articles.
1. Jeffreys H. and Bullen K. E. Mon. Not. Roy. Astr. Soc., Geophys. Suppl. (several papers) (1936–1940).
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