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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 September 2014
1. The oscillations of a viscous wire exhibiting set are simple harmonic with regard to the position of set throughout the whole range of the in-motion and a considerable part of the out-motion. In the remainder of the out-motion the deviation from the simple harmonic condition is great.
2. The period of in-motion to the zero is distinctly greater than that of the out-motion from it.
3. A theoretical deduction of these results, and of the law of loss of energy per oscillation, can be founded on the assumption that that loss is due to the rupture of strained molecular (which may be finite crystalline) groups.
4. A sudden change in the oscillation parameters when the decreasing maxima pass through a definite magnitude is explainable by the existence of a dominant type of groups which cease to rupture when the decreasing strain reaches a definite value; and the known peculiar temperature and stress effects are explainable as depending on well-recognised conditions of structural changes.
page 227 note * The cost of the chronograph and motor was defrayed by part of a grant given by the Trustees of the Carnegie Fund.
page 231 note * Viscosity is here used merely to indicate internal resistance to relative motion of the parts.