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Mechanical Effects Of Acoustic Transients On Tobacco Mosaic Virus, Philip Edward Hamrick
Mechanical Effects Of Acoustic Transients On Tobacco Mosaic Virus, Philip Edward Hamrick
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The mechanical breakage of tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) due to the action of acoustic transients has been investigated. The acoustic transients were produced by transient heating of a Prussian blue dye solution (attenuation coefficient of 1000 per cm) when a ruby laser light (20 x 106 watts) was incident on the dye surface. A quartz piezoelectric transducer was used to determine the amplitude and form of the acoustic wave. The production of acoustic waves by transient heating is discussed, and the theoretical form of the acoustic wave determined for various boundary and initial conditions are compared to the experimentally …