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Referee's report by Douglas Rayner Hartree, on a paper 'On the Hertzian impact of an elastic hammer on a damped pianoforte string' by M Ghosh

Reference number: RR/49/131

Date: April 1933

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Sectional Committee: Mathematics

Not recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. Reluctantly disagrees with the opinions of Horace Lamb. The paper only elaborates on a detail of an unimportant subject. The assumptions on which the work are based are not stated as such and without justification. Refers to Hooke's law.

[Not published]

Endorsed on verso as received 7 April 1933.

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RR/49/131
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April 1933
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Douglas Rayner Hartree, Referee's report by Douglas Rayner Hartree, on a paper 'On the Hertzian impact of an elastic hammer on a damped pianoforte string' by M Ghosh, April 1933, RR/49/131, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_49_131/referees-report-by-douglas-rayner-hartree-on-a-paper-on-the-hertzian-impact-of-an-elastic-hammer-on-a-damped-pianoforte-string-by-m-ghosh, accessed on 20 April 2025

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