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OSCAR RUSSELL OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY PITCH = WAVE SPEED If we threw a cork out on the waves of a pond, it would rise and fall as they passed under it. From the time it rode one crest until it dipped down and came up on top of the next, would represent one double vibration, and the number of such dips it had to make in a second would show the speed at which the wave was travelling and could be represented in d.v./sec. So, if it made 100 such dips in a second, we would say the waves were travelling at the rate of 100 d.v./sec. It is a well known fact that sound waves travel thru the air in much the same manner the waves on a pond are propagated when you throw a pebble into it; that is they radiate in all directions from the point of stimulus. But unlike the pond waves which are confined to one flat surface, they are transmitted up and down as well as along a horizontal plane. If we could see one at any given instant it would appear much like a series of progressively larger balls one inside the other, except that they would be made up of alternate layers of condensed and rarified air instead of rubber walls, and each would be spaced at an equal distance from the other. Of course in either case it is what the physicist calls the energy of the wave which travels, and not the medium itself. The cork out in the middle of the pond will bob up and down in the same place as the gently undulating waves pass under it; and the same particle of water will remain in the same place regardless of the dips which pass along, all providing that no other factor such as churning, friction, capillary attraction, etc. be involved. So in Speech. Consequently we must not lose sight of the fact that these vibrations we talk of are but energy vibrations. They are of the type of shocks we observe if we see an engine give a long string of freight cars a bump when the one farthest away is cut loose and not coupled on but merely resting against the string; the string stays where it is, but the last car goes shooting down the track in consequence of the |