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Definition of Rayleigh disk
1. Noun. An acoustic radiometer consisting of a light disk suspended from a quartz thread; when exposed to a progressive sound wave its torque can measure velocity.
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1. The Outlook for Research and Invention, with an Appendix of Problems by Nevil Monroe Hopkins (1919)
"... in which a rayleigh disk was suspended by a quartz fiber. Alternating currents
sent through the telephone receiver set up vibrations of the air in the ..."
2. The University of Iowa Studies in Psychology by University of Iowa (1897)
"The first experiments with the rayleigh disk were conducted on the living voice.
The observers were students of voice and singers from the University School ..."
3. Verhandlungen (1913)
"... relative sound intensities and a test of the rayleigh disk. Phys. Hev. (2) l,
309—316, 1913. O. Sizes. Sur lea Vibration» transversales des cordes. ..."
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