V. On the theory of resonance

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Although the theory of aërial vibrations has been treated by more than one generation of mathematicians and experimenters, comparatively little has been done towards obtaining a clear view of what goes on in any but the more simple cases. The extreme difficulty of any thing like a general deductive investigation of the question is no doubt one reason. On the other hand, experimenters on this, as on other subjects, have too often observed and measured blindly without taking sufficient care to simplify the conditions of their experiments, so as to attack as few difficulties as possible at a time. The result has been vast accumulations of isolated facts and measurements which lie as a sort of dead weight on the scientific stomach, and which must remain undigested until theory supplies a more powerful solvent than any now at our command. The motion of the air in cylindical organ-pipes was successfully investigated by Bernoulli and Euler, at least in its main features; but their treatment of the question of the open pipe was incomplete, or even erroneous, on account of the assumption that at the open end the air remains of invariable density during the vibration. Although attacked by many others, this difficulty was not finally overcome until Helmholtz , in a paper which I shall have repeated occasion to refer to, gave a solution of the problem under certain restrictions, free from any arbitrary assumptions as to what takes place at the open end. Poisson and Stores have solved the problem of the vibrations communicated to an infinite mass of air from the surface of a sphere or circular cylinder. The solution for the sphere is very instructive, because the vibrations outside any imaginary sphere enclosing vibrating bodies of any kind may be supposed to take their rise in the surface of the sphere itself. More important in its relation to the subject of the present paper is an investigation by Helmholtz of the air-vibrations in cavernous spaces ( Hohlraüme ), whose three dimensions are very small compared to the wave-length, and which communicate with the external atmosphere by small holes in their surfaces. If the opening be circular of area σ, and if S denote the volume, n the number of vibrations per second in the fundamental note, and a the velocity of sound, n = a σ ¼ /2 ½ π ¾ S ½ . Helmholtz’s theory is also applicable when there are more openings than one in the side of the vessel.

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The Royal Society

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General Medicine

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