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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 27, 1923)
Book Published by Prof. Milne Professor of Mathematics Solves Many Problems on Damped Vibration Theory A little book is being published by the University of Oregon Press which is causing the printers more trouble than anything they have ever before attempted to print but which, when fin ished, will be a tremendous boon to scientists and mechanical engineers. The title of the work is “Damped Vi brations.” In this book Professor W. E. Milne, of the mathematics department of the University, sets forth the solutions to many of the problems connected with the measuring of friction which here tofore have been merely approximated. To one who has gone no further in mathematics than geometry the book is nothing more than a complicated col lection of figures, both Arabic and Roman, Greek and Latin letters and mathematical symbols, with a little ex planatory matter. It was necessary for the University Press to order whole new magazines of characters for its lino type machines in order to set the copy. Professor Milne began at the very beginning when asked to tell what the book would accomplish. “A damped vi bration,” he said, “is any sort of vi bration that is retarded by friction. IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE Betsy Ross Bread University Bakery 14th and Mill Phone 71 For example the pendulum swings for a while and then comes to rest. The re tardation which brings it to rest is the damping.” Some of the most difficult mechanical problems arise through the necessity of measuring the relation between the speed of vibration and frictional re sistance. It is this problem which Pro fessor Milne has solved in his little book. “The amount of frictional resistance depends upon the speed of vibration,” the professor said. “In many cases the resistance increases directly with the velocity. In such instances the computing of the retardation of vibra tion is comparatively easy.” “In others the resistance increases as the square or other power of the speed of vibration,” he continued. In these the computation is much more difficult and has never before been solved mathematically. Mechanical en gineers have heretofore merely approxi mated the retardation, Professor Milne said. The book consists of four parts, the first dealing with general qualitative results, and the character of the motion which follows. It serves as an intro duction to the more detailed study which follows. The second division is given to a very minute study of the case in which the retaildlaljion varies according to |he square of the velocity of vibration. The third is the part in which en gineers will be most interested. It gives solutions for more complex cases important in the designing of hydraul ic surge chambers in which only approx imations have been used before. Num erical tables useful in actually working problems are given in the last part. Professor Milne began working on the problem in the summer of 1921. The suggestion came from a speech given at a meeting of the American Associa tion for the advancement of Science in Seattle. The summer of the following year ho was aided by an army eomputa tor from the ordnance deparment. Stu dents also have helped with the compu tation. Funds for these services were providod by the University research department. One of the interesting facts concern ing Professor Milne’s work is that it was accomplished entirely by mathema tics without mechanical experiment. Professor Van Zandt at California had previously performed experiments which check with Professor Milne’s solutions. 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The drive was under the direction of Charlotte Clark with Mildred LeCompte in charge of the program at the meet ing in the afternoon. Posters depict ing the members of the “Hump” family and others bringing out grewsome de ails of poor posture were prominently displayed about the Woman’s building during the meeting and a vote on the most effective one gave the honor to Frances- Habersham with Mildred Le Compte and Esther Pike inking second and third places respectively. Sports By Webster Jones TENTH INNING RALLY GIVES FROSH VICTORY IN HARD FOUGHT GAME Yesterday’s frosh-rook game was not lacking in critical moments, a last min ute climax, or a happy ending, the score being frosh 4, rooks 3. Fred Harrison, whose twirling held Book sluggers at bay in the first game of the series, played the part of the conquering hero in yesterday’s melee also. Coming to bat in the last half of the tenth inning with the baby Beavers holding a one run lead, Harri son slapped one of Coleman’s benders on the nose for two bases, scoring Slade and Hobson. Considering the fact that Coleman pitched for the Ag youngsters day be fore yesterday, the lanky boy deserves a lot of credit for his showing in yes terday’s struggle. He was nicked for eight hits during the ten innings, walk ed one man, hit two and sent 12 of the Lemon Yellow yearlings back to the bench via the strikeout route. “Fuzzy” Carson had a pretty good day in the box himselfyand although he passed four men and struck out but seven, he allowed the rooks but seven safeties and kept them well scattered. With the exception of a bobble in the tenth when he threw to catch a man going second when the man going first would have been an easy out, Carson pitched a heady game and crawled out of some bad holes without letting any runs across. Sigrist, the Aggie right fielder, copped off the hitting laurels for the day with three hits out of four times at bat, one of his swats going for four bags. That hit, incidentally, was one of the longest seen on the local damond for many moons. It sailed over Ter rel ’s head and by the time the speedy little left fielder could catch up with it, it had rolled around the corner of Susan Campbell hall. Terrell had a good day with the stick, bagging three singles out of five attempts. Bittner, Scriptures and Har rison each slugged out a two base hit. The only other extra base hit of the game was made by Coleman and went for three bases. Summary: 123 456 789 10—R II E Rooks . 000 101 000 1—3 7 3 Frosh . 000 002 000 2—4 8 4 OREGON TEAM LOSES DUAL TRACK MEET IN NORTH; SCORE IS 80-45 University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, May 26.—(Special to the Emerald)—The University of Oregon lost the dual track meet this afternoon to the University of Washington by total score of SO to 45. Cold wind and rain prevented the showing up of Ore gon ’s best men. Larson was off and failed to place in either race—the century or the 220. Spearow, Oregon pole vaulter split points in his events, on account of the cold, without jump ing. v Oregon got tlftee firsts: Jaek Hunt, CLASSIFIED ADS Minimum charge, 1 time, 25c; 2 timet. 46c; 6 times, $1. Must be limited to 6 lines, over this limit, 6c per line. Fhone 961, or leave copy with Business office of Emkrald, in University Press. Payment im advance. Office hours, 1 to 4 p. m. Gowns and Remodeling. ..Seasonable prices. Holly Moore Liubarger, 875 E. 13th St. Phone 1367-J. 286-MS-tf. i WANTED—Typing to do at home, j by experienced stenographer. Phone j 396 between S a. in., and 5 p. m., or Springfield 124-R evenings. 315 M27-J2. LOST—Gold Eversharp pencil and fountain pen between McClure hall and the Alpha Xi Delta house. Finder please call 569 and receive reward. 313-M26-27 WORLD WIDE TOURIST BAG GAGE POLICY—Insure vour baggage when you travel, with a reliable com pany. Geo. O. Goodall, all kinds of insurance. Telephone 836R. 312M25-27 COLLEGE STUDENTS—Let us help you earn enough money to put you through college next year. Our stu dents made from $6 to $10 per day dur ing vacation. Write 501 Pittoek Block, Portland, Oregon. 314 M-27 taking first in the high hurdles. Three places were garnered in the quarter and the relay was won by the Oregon team. Hurley, Washington sprint ace, was high point man of the meet, with 15 marks to his credit. * * * OREGON DEFEATED BY WASHINGTON’S TENNIS TEAM IN TOURNAMENT _ I The University of Wasrington tenuis; team easily defeated the varsity by a i score of 7 to 0 in the tournament played yesterday afternoon on the varsity ten nis courts. Every match except one was lost to the Washington team by two straight sets out of three. The last match of the meet was hotly con tested by both teams and three sets were played in order to determine the winner. Hesketh’s brilliant net play ing and Marion’s service were the de ciding factors in this set. The winning Washington team was composed of some of the best intercol legiate players on the coast. Hesketh won the singles in the Paci fic Coast conference meet at Seattle on May 11 and 12, while Langley and Hesketh won the doubles in the meet. Three teams were entered—University of Washington, Oregon Agricultural College, and University of Oregon, and Washington won the meet. The Oregon team was composed of Capt. Steve iWlliams, Leon Culbert son, Hugh Starkweather, Frank Bice and Harry Meyers. Bice and Meyers are new men on the team this year. Bice played in the Beed College meet and the O. A. C. meet and Meyers also played in the O. A. C. meet. The next tennis meet will be with O. A. C. at Cor vallis on June 2. Summary of meet: Doubles: Langley and Livengood of Washington defeated Starkweather and Bice of Oregon 6-4 and 6-2. Hesketh and Marion of Washington defeated Williams and Culbertson of Oregon 7-5, 4-6 and 6-1. Singles: Marion of Washington de feated Bice of Oregon 6-4 and 6-2. John son of Washington defeated Meyers of Oregon 6-1 and 6-1. Livengood of Washington defeated Starkweather of Oregon 6-1 and 6-1. Langley of Wash ington defeated Culbertson of Oregon 6-1 and 6-0. Hesketh of Washington de feated Williams of Oregon 6-0 and 6-3. VANDAL PLAYERS WIN SERIES FROM VARSITY University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho, May 26.—(Special to the Emerald)— The University of Oregon baseball team lost the second game-mf the two game series this afternoon to the Uni versity of Idaho by a score of 12 to 8. Latham, the versatile athlete, pitched the last seven innings of the game and allowed only two hits in that time. Latham has played almost every posi tion on the squad—from first base to outfield and infield and now he has pitched a creditable game to round out his experience. Batteries: University of Idaho, Gol den and Guiernela. University of Ore gon, Brooks, Latham and Cook. Summary: It H E Oregon . 8 12 5 Idaho . 12 11 1 WOMEN TENNIS TEAMS LOSE TO 0. A. C. CO-EDS Playing under threatening skies and with a breeze to fight the Oregon and O. A. C. women played off the interclass intercollegiate single and double matches in tennis yesterday. Oregon took junior doubles; soph singles and frosh singles and doubles. 0. A. 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