A Study of Splashes (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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PRELIMINARY-METHODS OF OBSERVATION AND APPARATUS THERE wi1l be but few of my readers who have -not, in some heavy shower of rain, beguiled the tedium of enforced waiting by watching, perhaps half-unconsciously, the thousand little crystal fountains that start up from the surface of pool or river; noting now and then a surrounding coronet of lesser jets, or here and there a bubble that Hoats for a moment and then vanishes. I t is to this apparently insignificant transaction, which always has been and always will be so familiar, and to others of a like nature,.that I desire to call the attention of those who are interested. in natural phenomena; hoping to share with them some of the delight that I have myself felt, in contemplating the exquisite forms that the camera has revealed, and in watching the progress of a multitude of events, compressed indeed within the limits of a few hundredths of a second, but none the less orderly and i

Table of Contents

CHAPTER I; PRELIlIINARy--METHODS OF OBSERVATION AND ApPARATUS; CHAPTER II; THE SPLASH OF A DROP-Low FALL; CHAPTER III; PRINCIPLES INVOLVED; CHAPTER IV; THE SPLASH CONTINUED"; CHAPTER V; HIGHER FALLS-BuBBLE-I3UILDINl;; CHAPTER VI; BELOW THE SURFACE; CHAPTER VII; THE TWO K:INDS OF SPLASHES OF SOLIl> SPHERES; CHAPTER YIII; THE TRM";SITION FRO:I THE SlIOOTH OR "SHEATH" SPLASH; TO THE ROCl;H OR "BASKET" SPLASH; 32; 53; 73; 95; XII CONTENTS; CHAPTER IX; THE EXPLANATlO::-l OF THE CAUSE OF J)lFfER}<~NCE IlETlVI<:Jo:l'; TH8 TWO SPLASHES; CHAPTER X; COiCJUSIOX; CHAPTER Xl; (SUPPLK!E:,TARV); A NEW PHENOlIii:XOX THAT APPEAHS WITH Ai" lNCREAS1~ l~; THE VELOeITV OF EX1'lO,' OF A ROUGH SPHERE •

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