. Carnegie Institution of Washington publication. 40 THE TIDAL PROBLEM. Relative to the question whether the lost energy, in the present con- figuration of the earth-moon system, must come wholly from the rotation of the earth or in part from the revolution of the moon, Dr. Moulton finds. Fig. 5. that the loss would be derived partitively in the ratio of from the rotation of the earth to 1 from the revolution of the moon.^ * The eeneral relations here involved are shown grapliically by Sir George Darwin in Thomson and Tait's Nat. Phil., II, p. 511. These are developed in much detail and w
. Carnegie Institution of Washington publication. 40 THE TIDAL PROBLEM. Relative to the question whether the lost energy, in the present con- figuration of the earth-moon system, must come wholly from the rotation of the earth or in part from the revolution of the moon, Dr. Moulton finds. Fig. 5. that the loss would be derived partitively in the ratio of from the rotation of the earth to 1 from the revolution of the moon.^ * The eeneral relations here involved are shown grapliically by Sir George Darwin in Thomson and Tait's Nat. Phil., II, p. 511. These are developed in much detail and with many applications in the paper of Dr. Moulton in this series, some of the details and appU-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Carnegie Institution of Washington. Washington, Carnegie Institution of Washington
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