Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition/Tides
Chap. I.—On the Nature of Tides.
Chap. II.—Tide-Generating Forces.
Chap. III.—Dynamical Theory of Tides.
Chap. IV.—Harmonic Analysis.
Chap. V.—Synthetic Method.
Chap. VI.—Tidal Instruments and Tidal Prediction.
Chap. VII.—Progress of the Tide Wave over the Sea and the Tides of the British Seas.
Chap. VIII.—Tidal Deformation of the Solid Earth.
Chap. IX.—Tidal Friction.
Chap. X.—Cosmogonic Speculations founded on Tidal Friction.
Table of Contents.
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Chap. 1.—On the Nature of Tides. § 1. Definition of tide. § 2. General description of tidal phenomena. § 3. General explanation of the cause of tides. § 4. Historical sketch. Chap. II.—Tide-Generating Forces. § 5. Investigation of tide-generating potential and forces. § 6. Form of equilibrium. § 7. Development of tide-generating potential in terms of hour-angle and declination. § 8. Evaluation of tide-generating forces and lunar deflexion of gravity. § 9. Correction to equilibrium theory for continents. Chap. III.—Dynamical Theory of Tides. § 10. Historical explanation. § 11. Equations of motion. § 12. Adaptation to forced oscillations. § 13. Preparation for solution. § 14. Diurnal tide. |
§ 15. Semi-diurnal tide with variable depth. § 16. Semi-diurnal tide with uniform depth. § 17. Tides of long period; Laplace's argument from friction. § 18. Tides of long period in an ocean of uniform depth. § 19. Stability of the ocean. § 20. Precession and nutation. § 21. Some phenomena of tides in rivers. Chap. IV.—Harmonic Analysis. § 22. Methods of applying theory to practice. § 23. Development of equilibrium theory of tides in terms of the elements of the orbits. § 24. Meteorological tides, over-tides, and compound tides. § 25. On the form of presentation of results of tidal observation. § 26. Numerical harmonic analysis for tides of short period. § 27. Harmonic analysis for tides of long period. |
Chap. V.—Synthetic Method. § 28. On the method and notation. § 29. Semi-diurnal tides. § 30. Synthesis of solar and of lunar portions of the semi-diurnal tide. § 31. Synthesis of lunar and solar semi diurnal tides. § 32. Diurnal tides. § 33. Explanation of tidal terms in common use; datum levels. § 34. On reduction of observations of high and low water. Chap. VI.—Tidal Instruments and Tidal Prediction. § 35. General remarks. § 36. The tide gauge. § 37. The harmonic analyser. § 38. The tide-predicting instrument. § 39. Numerical harmonic analysis and prediction. Chap. VII.—Progress of the Tide Wave over the Sea and the Tides of the British Seas. § 40. Meaning of cotidal lines. |
§ 41. Cotidal lines of the world. § 42. Cotidal lines of the British seas. Chap. VIII.—Tidal Deformation of the Solid Earth. § 43. Elastic tides. § 44. Rigidity of the earth. § 45. Viscous and elastico-viscous tides. Chap. IX.—Tidal Friction. § 46. General explanation. § 47. Exact investigation of the secular effects of tidal friction. § 48. Amount of tidal retardation of earth's rotation. § 49. Effects of tidal friction on the elements of the moon's orbit and on the earth's rotation. Chap. X.—Cosmogonic Speculations founded on Tidal Friction. § 50. History of the earth and moon. § 51. The other planetary sub-systems. § 52. Influence of tidal friction on the evolution of the solar system. |