Download or read book The Theory of Sound written by John William Strutt Baron Rayleigh and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1945-01-01 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nobel Laureate's classic sums up all research in the field prior to 1877, then presents Rayleigh's own original contributions. Volume Two covers aerial vibrations, vibrations in tubes, reflection and refraction of plane waves, general equations, theory of resonators, Laplace's functions and acoustics, spherical sheets of air, vibration of solid bodies, and facts and theories of audition.