| Description | Cooper applies the principle announced in his paper on the Theory of Sound, namely, that of a continual transfer of state between the adjacent atoms of a medium, to the case of oscillating columns of fluid, constituting waves and tides. Marked by Peter Mark Roget as 'not to be printed'.
Subject: Physics / Hydrodynamics
Received 13 March 1835 by John George Children. Read 18 June 1835.
Written by Cooper at Bawlish, Shepton Mallet [Somerset, England].
Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 3 of Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society] as 'A theory of the tides, including a theory of the formation and propagation of waves'. |