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[Jan, 18, 
Results of Wave Interferences. 
By Purny EARLE Cuass, LL.D., 
PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY IN HAVERFORD COLLEGE. 
(Read before the American Philosophical Society September 21 and October 
19, 1877, and January 18, 1878.) 
The combined influences of action and reaction, elasticity, density, and 
fundamental velocity, in the arrangement of the solar system, are shown 
by the symmetrical formula, 
eb 
Dei: 
Py 
fat Pe 
Pit p 
= (1.) 
£ 
| , 
in which » = mass of Sun ; », = mass of Jupiter ; , = average velocity of 
complete solar dissociation = 214.86 » =~ 497.825 = velocity of light; 
A= 279 p =2 X velocity of incipient solar dissociation = mean 
radial velocity of complete solar dissociation = 
4 x (214.86)? x p 
No. seconds in 1 year’ 
p: = Jupiter’s projectile radius or mean perihelion distance from Sun ; 
p= Sun’s equatorial radius. 
Substituting the values {= » = 2.317; 
A= p> 344.15 5 p, = 1069.62 ; p =1; the equation reduces to 
(‘ a “) 1.0029 ‘5 can a 
My 
U- =F Py 
p- 1 
= 1049.24. 
Bessel’s estimate is 1048.88 ; the difference between the theoretical and 
the observed value being only 51, of 1 per cent. 
The velocity of light also appears as an important factor in the follow- 
ing equations, thus furnishing further evidence, both of the significance of 
Earth’s position, at the centre of the belt of greatest condensation, and of 
Jupiter’s influence : 
In these equations 7 / fr 
F a8 
(m7) Vv fr ona 
ps ( i yi 
Kiacee Ay x 
0 } 
ip om 
i, = ‘ x 
, => — ; 
A, 
Goi Bnd 7 
(2) 
92 (3) 
98 (4) 
1.061 days. (5) 
(6) 
= terrestrial dissociative velocity; »v. = 
