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IT is well known to mathematicians that a stretched cord, moving lengthwise with a velocity bearing a certain relation to its tension and weight, will retain any curvature which may be impressed upon it; and consequently would pass tnrough a crooked tube without pressure against its sides. That this may be the case, the velocity, V must equal being the tension, and M the weight of the cord per unit of length.
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PROCTER, H. A Case of Stationary Wave on a Moving Cord. Nature 5, 262–263 (1872). https://doi.org/10.1038/005262c0
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