§ 2. Musical Flames
§ 3. Experimental Analysis of Musical Flame
§ 4. Rate of Vibration of Flame: Toepler’s Experiment
§ 6. Action of Extraneous Sounds on Flame: Experiments of Schaffgotsch and Tyndall
§ 7. Discovery of Sensitive Flames by Le Conte
§ 8. Experiments on Fish-tail and Bat’s-wing Flames
§ 9. Experiments on Flames from Circular Apertures
§ 13. Mr. Philip Harry’s Sensitive Flame
§ 15. Constitution of Liquid Veins: Sensitive Water-jets
§ 1. Interference of Water-Waves
§ 3. Experimental Illustrations
§ 4. Interference of Waves from Organ-pipes
§ 5. Lissajous’s Illustration of Beats of Two Tuning-forks
§ 6. Interference of Waves from a Vibrating Disk. Hopkins’s and Lissajous’s Illustrations
§ 7. Quenching the Sound of one Prong of a Tuning-fork by that of the other
§ 1. The Facts of Musical Consonance
§ 2. The Theory of Musical Consonance. Pythagoras and Euler
§ 4. Sympathetic Vibration in Relation to the Human Ear
§ 5. Consonant Intervals in Relation to the Human Ear
§ 6. Graphic Representation of Consonance and Dissonance
§ 7. Composition of Vibrations
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PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION
In preparing this new edition of “Sound,” I have
