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Unpublished paper, 'On the main crests of ship-waves, and on waves in deep water due to the motion of submerged bodies' by George Green

Reference number: AP/79/10

Date: 1916

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The paper is divided into six sections: 'General treatment of problem of a moving pressure'; 'The main crests of ship-waves'; 'Optical bearing of methods used in [section 2]'; 'Method of solution for problems of wave-motion due to the motion of submerged bodies'; 'Wave motion due to the motion of a submerged cylinder'; and 'Wave motion due to the motion of a submerged sphere'.

Annotations in pencil and ink throughout.

Subject: Hydraulics / Marine engineering

Received 26 January 1916. Read 23 March 1916. Communicated by Joseph Larmor.

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AP/79/10
Earliest possible date
1916
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Ink and graphite pencil on paper
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27 pages
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Manuscript

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Arthur George Green

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Arthur George Green, Unpublished paper, 'On the main crests of ship-waves, and on waves in deep water due to the motion of submerged bodies' by George Green, 1916, AP/79/10, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_79_10/unpublished-paper-on-the-main-crests-of-ship-waves-and-on-waves-in-deep-water-due-to-the-motion-of-submerged-bodies-by-george-green, accessed on 24 May 2025

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