What happens then to the molecules of air which are adjacent to the vibrating string?
It means that the vibratingstring which makes the neighboring molecules of air behave as shown in Fig.
To give you enough of an answer for your study of radio-telephony I am going to tell you first about vibrating strings for they are easier to picture than membranes like the vocal cords.
The result is that the listener hears a note of twice the frequency that he did when the string was vibrating as a whole.
She rose now to her feet, leaned over the table and spoke to him in slow, measured accents vibrating with malice: "Well, pious one!
McCoy and the mate tried it, and felt the line thrumming and vibrating savagely to the grip of the tidal stream.
He smiled at them with simple and gracious benevolence, and, somehow, the exalted goodness of him seemed to penetrate to their dark and somber souls, shaming them, and from very shame stilling the curses vibrating in their throats.
They have a more or less bell-shaped body with a circle of vibrating cilia around the oral disk.
Time had enjoyed its little whirligig with that great painter of vibrating light and water, but Monet blandly refused the long-protracted honour.
Music plucked down from the vibrating skies and made visible to the senses.
He is a Valencian, was born in 1863 of poor parents, and by reason of his native genius and stubborn will power he became what he is--the painter of vibrating sunshine without equal.
In the company of Michel Angelo and Balzac or Richard Wagner he would be their equal for torrential energy and vibrating humanity.
There was a moment's silence, during which the old man's vibrating accents seemed to echo through the rooms.
A succession of horrible oaths drowned his sentence, and the father went on, in a voicevibrating with anger-- "You know she will give you anything.
They were yet vibrating in the air of that stuffy hotel-room, terrific, disturbing, impossible to get rid of, when the door opened and Flora de Barral entered.
I had to raise my voice in the dull vibrating noise of the roadway.
Yet still, with an heart vibratingfrom the recent convulsion of its most powerful feelings, he remained irresolute even in his resolution.
Arago had discovered, in 1824, that a disk of non-magnetic metal had the power of bringing a vibrating magnetic needle suspended over it rapidly to rest; and that on causing the disk to rotate the magnetic needle rotated along with it.
In the same year he published a paper on Vibrating Surfaces, in which he solved an acoustical problem which, though of extreme simplicity when solved, appears to have baffled many eminent men.
The problem was to account for the fact that light bodies, such as the seed of lycopodium, collected at the vibrating parts of sounding plates, while sand ran to the nodal lines.
I have heard him say that this paper on vibrating surfaces was too heavily laden with experiments.
The telephone is so placed that the vibratingdiaphragm is in a horizontal plane, and upon it are laid a few shot or particles of metal, and these are boxed in.
The intensity is due to the extent or amplitude of the vibrations; and the quality or timbre, to the form of the undulations made by the vibrating particles of the atmosphere.
The complex mechanism by which this was effected was contrived upon the principles of the human organs of speech, as the machine possessed an india-rubber tongue and lips, and an artificial larynx, made out of a thin vibrating tube of ivory.
Jérôme Fandor had risen, his eyes shining, his body vibrating with excitement.
So decisive was his tone, so great the sympathy vibrating through his words, that Elizabeth Dollon, once more convinced that Fandor was not speaking at random, bent her head and shed tears of deepest grief and bitter disappointment.
With an evil look on her face, such as I have never seen before, and with vibrating nostrils, Elaine exclaimed in a hard voice: "To think that such a monster was not sent to the guillotine!
Will her refined, delicate, vibrating nature bend to the painful submission of the initial embrace; will she not rebel against that ardent attack that wounds and pains?
He had not dreamed of the fact that an active, living and vibrating man grows weary of everything as soon as he understands the stupid reality, unless, indeed, he becomes so brutalized that he understands nothing whatever.
But how sensitive, how vibratingthe heart is at such moments!
He uttered trills and roulades, and then loud, vibrating notes that filled the air and seemed to lose themselves on the horizon, across the level country, through that burning silence which weighed upon the whole landscape.
I lived imprisoned in my thoughts, and vibrating with my eternal sensitiveness.
He had often felt their tenderness directed toward himself, and though he knew that he was invulnerable, he grew angry at this need of love that is always vibrating in them.
I was nothing better now than a suffering, vibrating machine, a human being who had, as it were, been flayed alive; my soul was like an open wound.
When suddenly disturbed, he throws himself into a coil, and warns the aggressor by rapidly vibrating his rattles, which, however, can scarcely be heard beyond the distance of a few yards.
Without changing their position, they, by means of their arms and legs, threw themselves into a vibrating motion, and by this means the last on the string soon seized upon another pupunha, and also detached its fruit.
Darrell exclaimed, each word vibrating with anguish; "is there no hope--no chance of escape for you from such a fate?
It then commenced as regular a hunt as ever hound did after fox; making short semicircular casts, and all the time rapidly vibrating its wings and antennae.
Their shape is oval, and contracted in the middle by a ring of vibrating curved ciliae.
Whenever I saw these little creatures buzzing round a flower, with their wings vibrating so rapidly as to be scarcely visible, I was reminded of the sphinx moths: their movements and habits are indeed in many respects very similar.
The limp, scattered sleepers were still there as before, but in one corner a man was choking in his breathing, and near the anchor another was vibrating in his sleep in one long, continuous shudder.
They were huddled forward, a squalid, rancid, and coloured group, their eyes wistfully set upon a black potvibrating upon a fire of small sticks.
He swirled the boat's nose around till it pointed at the upper end of the corral, then bent down to mad toil, slapping the water in vibrating rhythm.
The little body was vibrating in exquisite torture and cold beads of sweat were welling up on the stoical Malay face.
At last the brazen day melted into the purple evening and night came, with a trembling crescent of moon in the sky and a horizon vibrating in sheet lightning.
The still, warm air that a few minutes before had seemed instinct with prayer was nowvibrating to the howls and taunts and curses of the mob.
