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Referee'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

Reference number: RR/9/184

Date: 19 April 1883

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Recommended 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].

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RR/9/184
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19 April 1883
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Report on paper
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2 pages
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George Gabriel Stokes

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George Gabriel Stokes, Referee'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, 19 April 1883, RR/9/184, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_9_184/referees-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, accessed on 21 January 2025

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