 ... months, and the computed curves of sines, was shown to be satisfactory. This comparison, made as before by averages of periods of a week combined into one general mean, has now been extended to the whole year, as shown in the subjoined table. By increasing...  Congressional Serial Set - Page 1021853Full view - About this book
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1852 - 514 pages
...year, as shown in the subjoined table. By increasing the maximum ordinate of the diurnal curve 0,02 of a foot, which will make the rise and fall agree...summing the square of the errors is little more than one-eighth of an inch. TABLE KO. I. Showing the comparison of iliurnnl and semidiurnal curves deduced... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1852 - 514 pages
...year, as shown in the subjoined table. By increasing the maximum ordinate of the diurnal curve 0,02 of a foot, which will make the rise and fall agree...as shown in No. 2, a resulting curve not differing iu any ordinate more than a quarter of an inch from observation, and in which the positive and negative... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1862 - 530 pages
...year, as shown in the subjoined table. By increasing the maximum ordinate of the diurnal curve 0,02 of a foot, which will make the rise and fall agree...summing the square of the errors is little more than one-eighth of an inch. TABLE NO. I. Showing the comparison of diurnal and semidiurnal curves deduced... | |
 | 1852 - 960 pages
...year, as shown in the subjoined table. By increasing the maximum ordinate of the diurnal curve 0'02 of a foot, which will make the rise and fall agree...summing the square of the errors is little more than one-eighth of an inch. * Read at the meeting of the American Association at Albany, and revised by... | |
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