Bernstein, Aaron, Naturwissenschaftliche Volksbücher, Bd. 1/5, 1897

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            oben genannten Naturerſcheinungen erklären zu können. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s110" xml:space="preserve">Sehen
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            wir zu, wie dies möglich iſt, indem wir zunächſt erforſchen
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            wollen, was der
              <emph style="sp">Schall</emph>
            iſt, deſſen Weſen am einfachſten zu
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            verſtehen und am beſten erforſcht iſt.</s>
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            <emph style="bf">1. Der Schall.</emph>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s112" xml:space="preserve">Genau ähnlich wie dem Waſſer durch eine Erſchütterung
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            eine gleichförmige Wellenbewegung mitgeteilt wird, laſſen ſich
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            auch in der Luft Wellen erzeugen, die uns aber, da ja die Luft vollkommen durchſichtig iſt, unſichtbar bleiben. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s113" xml:space="preserve">Dennoch
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            können wir ſie aber wahrnehmen, und zwar nicht mit den
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            Augen, ſondern mit dem Gehör. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s114" xml:space="preserve">Alles, was wir als Schall
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            bezeichnen, Töne, Klänge, Geräuſche aller Art, ſind nichts
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            anderes als wellenförmige Schwingungen der Luft. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s115" xml:space="preserve">Während
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            nun aber die Waſſerwellen ſich nur auf der Oberfläche des
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            Waſſers zeigen, pflanzen ſich die Luftwellen in allen Rich-
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            tungen des Raumes fort, nach oben, nach unten und nach
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            allen Seiten. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s116" xml:space="preserve">Wir hören den Schall ja ſtets, mag er kommen von
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            wo er will. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s117" xml:space="preserve">Wir hören ihn auch, wenn die eigentliche “Schall-
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            quelle” durch dicke Wände von uns getrennt iſt, wir wiſſen
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            alle, daß man es ſtets — oft zu großem Ärger — hört, wenn
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            in der Wohnung über oder unter uns Klavier geſpielt wird.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s118" xml:space="preserve">Dadurch unterſcheidet ſich der Schall vom Licht. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s119" xml:space="preserve">Bekanntlich
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            nehmen wir von einer in der Nebenwohnung angezündeten
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            Lampe nicht den geringſten Schimmer wahr: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s120" xml:space="preserve">der Schall wird
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            eben durch jede Wand “geleitet”, das Licht dagegen vermag
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            nur durch ſehr wenig Subſtanzen (z. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s121" xml:space="preserve">B. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s122" xml:space="preserve">Glas) ungehindert
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            hindurchzugehen. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s123" xml:space="preserve">Wir können ſchon daraus ſchließen, daß die
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              <note symbol="*)" position="foot" xlink:label="note-017-01" xlink:href="note-017-01a" xml:space="preserve">Es muß an dieſer Stelle bemerkt werden, daß der Phyſiker den
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              Begriff der Welle weiter faßt, als er oben beſchrieben wurde, er unter-
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              ſcheidet zwiſchen “longitudinalen” und “transverſalen” Wellenſchwingungen.
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              Doch wurde,
                <emph style="sp">um die Einfachheit der Darſtellung zu wahren</emph>
              ,
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              die obige, nicht ganz genaue Beſchreibung der Schallwellen gewählt.</note>
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