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THE property, enunciated by Dr. Johnstone Stoney, according to which any wave motion can be regarded as built up of a combination of plane waves, may be used with advantage for a verification of the formulæ for the solutions of Bessel's equation in the form of definite integrals.
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BRYAN, G. Wave Motion and Bessel's Functions. Nature 80, 309 (1909). https://doi.org/10.1038/080309a0
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