- 1Title page
- 2Preface to the Third Edition
- 3Preface to the First Edition
- 4Chapter I
- 5§ 1 — Introduction: Character of Sonorous Motion. Experimental Illu…
- 6§ 2 — Experiments in Vacuo, in Hydrogen, and on Mountains
- 7§ 3 — Intensity of Sound. Law of Inverse Squares
- 8§ 4 — Confinement of Sound-waves in Tubes
- 9§ 5 — The Reflection of Sound. Resemblances to Light
- 10§ 6 — Refraction of Sound
- 11§ 7 — Diffraction of Sound: Illustrations Offered by Great Explosions
- 12§ 8 — Velocity of Sound: Relation to Density and Elasticity of Air
- 13§ 9 — Theoretic Velocity Calculated by Newton Laplace’s Correction
- 14§ 10 — Ratio of Specific Heats of Air Deduced From Velocity of Sound
- 15§ 11 — Mechanical Equivalent of Heat Deduced From Velocity of Sound
- 16§ 12 — Absence of Radiative Power of Air Deduced From Velocity of S…
- 17§ 13 — Velocity of Sound Through Gases, Liquids, and Solids
- 18§ 14 — Hooke’s Anticipation of the Stethoscope
- 19Note on the Diffraction of Sound
- 20Chapter I
- 21Chapter II
- 22§ 2 — Musical Sounds Produced by Taps
- 23§ 3 — Musical Sounds Produced by Puffs
- 24§ 4 — Musical Sounds Produced by a Tuning-fork
- 25§ 5 — The Waves of Sound
- 26§ 6 — Definition of Pitch: Determination of Rates of Vibration
- 27§ 7 — The Siren: Analysis of the Instrument
- 28§ 8 — Determination of Wave-lengths: Time of Vibration
- 29§ 9 — Definition of an Octave
- 30§ 10 — Limits of the Ear; and of Musical Sounds
- 31§ 11 — Drum of the Ear. the Eustachian Tube
- 32§ 12 — Helmholtz’s Double Siren
- 33§ 13 — Transmission of Musical Sounds by Liquids and Solids
- 34Chapter II
- 35Chapter III
- 36§ 1 — Vibrations of Strings: Use of Sound-Boards
- 37§ 2 — Laws of Vibrating Strings
- 38§ 3 — Mechanical Illustrations of Vibrations. Progressive and Stati…
- 39§ 4 — Mechanical Illustrations of Damping Various Points of Vibrati…
- 40§ 5 — Stationary Water-waves
- 41§ 6 — Application of Mechanical Illustrations to Musical Strings
- 42§ 7 — Melde’s Experiments
- 43§ 8 — New Mode of Determining the Laws of Vibration
- 44Harmonic Sounds or Overtones
- 45§ 10 — Mingling of Overtones With Fundamental. The Æolian Harp
- 46§ 11 — Young’s Optical Illustrations
- 47Chapter III
- 48Chapter IV
- 49§ 1 — Transverse Vibrations of a Rod Fixed at Both Ends
- 50§ 2 — Transverse Vibrations of a Rod Fixed at One End
- 51§ 3 — Chladni’s Tonometer: The Iron Fiddle, Musical Box, and the Ka…
- 52§ 4 — Transverse Vibrations of a Rod Free at Both Ends. The Claque-…
- 53§ 5 — Vibrations of a Tuning-fork
- 54§ 6 — Chladni’s Figures
- 55§ 7 — Vibrations of Square Plates: Nodal Lines
- 56§ 8 — Wheatstone’s Analysis of the Vibrations of Square Plates
- 57§ 9 — Vibrations of Circular Plates
- 58§ 10 — Strehlke and Faraday’s Experiments: Deportment of Light Powders
- 59§ 11 — Vibration of Bells: Means of Rendering Them Visible
- 60Chapter IV
- 61Chapter V
- 62§ 1 — Longitudinal Vibrations of Wires and Rods: Conversion of Long…
- 63§ 2 — Longitudinal Pulses in Iron and Brass: Their Relative Velocit…
- 64§ 3 — Longitudinal Vibrations of Rods Fixed at One End: Musical Ins…
- 65§ 4 — Vibrations of Rods Free at Both Ends
- 66§ 5 — Fracture of Glass Tube by Sonorous Vibrations
- 67§ 6 — Action of Sonorous Vibrations on Polarized Light
- 68§ 7 — Vibrations of Rods of Wood: Determination of Relative Velocit…
- 69Resonance
- 70§ 9 — Reinforcement of Bell by Resonance
- 71§ 10 — Expenditure of Motion in Resonance
- 72§ 11 — Resonators of Helmholtz
- 73Organ-Pipes
- 74§ 13 — Vibrations of Stopped Pipes: Modes of Division: Overtones
- 75§ 14 — Vibrations of Open Pipes: Modes of Division: Overtones
- 76§ 15 — Velocity of Sound in Gases, Liquids, and Solids Determined b…
- 77Reeds and Reed-Pipes
- 78§ 16 — The Voice
- 79§ 17 — Vowel Sounds
- 80§ 18 — Kundt’s Experiments: New Modes of Determining Velocity of Sound
- 81§ 19 — Explanation of a Difficulty
- 82Addendum Regarding Resonance
- 83Chapter V
- 84Chapter VI
- 85§ 1 — Rhythm of Friction: Musical Flow of a Liquid Through a Small…
- 86§ 2 — Musical Flames
- 87§ 3 — Experimental Analysis of Musical Flame
- 88§ 4 — Rate of Vibration of Flame: Toepler’s Experiment
- 89§ 5 — Harmonic Sounds of Flame
- 90§ 6 — Action of Extraneous Sounds on Flame: Experiments of Schaffgo…
- 91Sensitive Naked Flames
- 92§ 8 — Experiments on Fish-tail and Bat’s-wing Flames
- 93§ 9 — Experiments on Flames From Circular Apertures
- 94§ 10 — Seat of Sensitiveness
- 95§ 11 — Influence of Pitch
- 96§ 12 — The Vowel-flame
- 97§ 13 — Mr. Philip Harry’s Sensitive Flame
- 98§ 14 — Sensitive Smoke-jets
- 99§ 15 — Constitution of Liquid Veins: Sensitive Water-jets
- 100Chapter VI
- 101Naked Flames
- 102Chapter VII — Part I — Researches on the Acoustic Transparency of t…
- 103Part II — Investigation of the Causes Which Have Hitherto Been Supp…
- 104Chapter VII
- 105Chapter VIII
- 106§ 1 — Interference of Water-Waves
- 107§ 2 — Interference of Sound
- 108§ 3 — Experimental Illustrations
- 109§ 4 — Interference of Waves From Organ-pipes
- 110§ 5 — Lissajous’s Illustration of Beats of Two Tuning-forks
- 111§ 6 — Interference of Waves From a Vibrating Disk. Hopkins’s and Li…
- 112§ 7 — Quenching the Sound of One Prong of a Tuning-fork by That of…
- 113Resultant Tones
- 114Chapter VIII
- 115Chapter IX
- 116§ 1 — The Facts of Musical Consonance
- 117§ 2 — The Theory of Musical Consonance. Pythagoras and Euler
- 118§ 3 — Sympathetic Vibrations
- 119§ 4 — Sympathetic Vibration in Relation to the Human Ear
- 120§ 5 — Consonant Intervals in Relation to the Human Ear
- 121§ 6 — Graphic Representation of Consonance and Dissonance
- 122§ 7 — Composition of Vibrations
- 123Chapter IX
- 124Appendices
- 125Appendix II
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