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RefNoRR/9/184
LevelItem
TitleReferee's report by George Gabriel Stokes on a paper 'An experimental investigation of the circumstances which determine whether the motion of water shall be direct or sinuous, and of the law of resistance in parallel channels' by Osborne Reynolds
Date19 April 1883
DescriptionRecommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions. It is 'valuable', as 'he shows for the first time that the distinction between regular and eddying motion depends on a relation between the dimensions of space and velocity'.

Subject: Physics

[Published in Philosophical Transactions, 1883].
Extent2p
FormatTypescript
PhysicalDescriptionReport on paper
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rstl.1883.0029
RelatedRecordRR/9/183
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA8283Stokes; Sir; George Gabriel (1819 - 1903)1819 - 1903
NA6993Reynolds; Osborne (1842 - 1912)1842 - 1912
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