A Study of Splashes

BY THE SAME AUTHOR.
A FIRST COURSE OF PHYSICAL LABORATORY PRACTICE. Containing 264 Experiments. With Illustrations. Crown 8vo, 4s. 6d.
DYNAMICS OF ROTATION. An Elementary Introduction to Rigid Dynamics. Crown 8vo, 4s. 6d.
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C.B., M.A., F.R.S. HEADMASTER AND PROFESSOR OF PHYSICS AT THE ROYAL NAVAL ENGINEERING COLLEGE, DEVONPORT
LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO. 39 PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON NEW YORK, BOMBAY, AND CALCUTTA 1908
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DEDICATED TO THE NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF RUGBY SCHOOL AND ITS FORMER PRESIDENT ARTHUR SIDGWICK IN REMEMBRANCE OF THE ENCOURAGEMENT GIVEN TO THE EARLY OBSERVATIONS MADE IN BOYHOOD BY MY OLD SCHOOL-FRIEND H. F. NEWALL FROM WHICH THIS STUDY SPRANG.
If the present volume is so fortunate as to find many readers among the general public, as the author hopes it may, especially among the young whose eyes are still quick to observe, and whose minds are eager, it will be on account of admiration for the exquisite beauty of some of the forms assumed, of surprise at the revelation of so much where so little was expected, and because of the peculiar fascination that is always felt in following any gradually changing natural phenomenon, in which the sequence of events can, partly at any rate, be anticipated and understood.
For the sake of serious students of Physics who may be interested in unexpected phenomena of fluid motion, all references that seem necessary have been given in footnotes, and it may be mentioned that the later photographs of Series I and those of Series I a and III, have not been previously published, and afford new information on certain points.
In taking these photographs the author has been much helped by his friends Dr. G. B. Bryan and Mr. G. F. Page.