MECHANICS OF THE INNER EAR 



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It is, of course, in a periodical function, entirely irrelevant for 

 the mechanical theory what point we regard as the beginning 

 of the period. The accompanying table contains the pairs of 

 corresponding coordinate values of all the maxima and min- 

 ima of the curve. These values are found by computing a 

 large number of pairs of values and selecting from them 



Interval 4:9, Equal Amplitudes 



those which have the highest and lowest ordinate values. 

 This computation is a very slow process, but has no limit of 

 accuracy. Figure 23 shows the positions of the partition be- 

 longing to the maxima and minima of figure 22. We see that 

 at A the initial forty sections of the partition are in their 



