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The Catgut Acoustical Society Library |
| File #: | D8690 |
| Name: | Duhamel, Jean Marie Constant |
| Dates: | 1797-1872 |
| See also: |
| General Information: |
| A mathematician known to students of calculus and of heat who published a paper on the bowed string |
| in which he recognized the need to consider two parts of a period of vibration, sticking and slipping. He |
| derided the idea that the vibrations of the bowed string are caused by the plucking action of barbs on the |
| bow hair -- a concept that still plagues us. He failed to understand a fact later recognized by Helmholtz |
| that wave propagation along the string is not instantaneous, but occurs with finite velocity, thus freeing |
| the string from the bow not as a result of increase in stress between the two, but because the sharp kink |
| in the string has suddenly returned after reflection from the nut. |
| File Contents: |
| D8690 | -- | 101 |
| Tech paper (1) in French and translation of his 1841 memoire on the action of the bow on the string |
| abstract. See Tech Summary. Miscellaneous: Entry from Dictionary of Scientific Biography 1971. |
| Key Words: | Bowed string | Stick/slip action |
| D8690 | -- | 101 |
| Technical paper (1) in French and translation of his 1841 memoire on the action of the bow on the |
| string + abstract. See Tech Summary. Miscellaneous: Entry from Dictionary of Scientific Biography |
| 1971. |
| Key Words: | Bowed string | Stick/slip action |