The Theory of Sound, Vol. 1 of 2

by John William Strutt

Excerpt from The Theory of Sound

3. The passage of sound is not instantaneous. When a gun is fired at a distance, a very perceptible interval separates the.

498 pages, Paperback

First published August 8, 2015

About the author

John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, OM, PRS (/ˈreɪli/; 12 November 1842 – 30 June 1919) was an English physicist who, with William Ramsay, discovered argon, an achievement for which he earned the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1904. He also discovered the phenomenon now called Rayleigh scattering, explaining why the sky is blue, and predicted the existence of the surface waves now known as Rayleigh waves. Rayleigh's textbook, The Theory of Sound, is still referred to by acoustic engineers today.