Outlines of experiments and inquiries respecting sound and light. By Thomas Young, M. D. F. R. S. In a letter to Edward Whitaker Gray, M. D. Sec. R. S
- 31 December 1832
- journal article
- Published by The Royal Society in Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London
- Vol. 1, 8-10
- https://doi.org/10.1098/rspl.1800.0006
Abstract
We are here presented with a numerous set of experiments and observations, which the author does not deliver as a series calculated to elucidate any particular object, but rather as the results of the first steps of an investigation; which being of considerable magnitude, and not to be accomplished in a short period of time, are here brought forward in a detached form, in order to preserve them from oblivion, should any unforeseen circumstances prevent his continuing the pursuit. They are classed under sixteen different heads, of which the following are the titles, and some of the principal inductions. 1. Of the Quantity of Air discharged through an Aperture .-—This was deduced from the quantity of pressure of water, on a body of air rushing through a small aperture at the end of a tube. The result was, that the quantity of air discharged by a given aperture is nearly in the subduplicate ratio of the pressure; and that the ratio of the expenditures by different apertures, with the same pressure, lies between the ratio of their diameters, and that of their areas.Keywords
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