Spencer Heath Archives

Item 83

Pencil by Heath on notepad paper

29 September 1949

Original envelope includes 84

     A wave is mass m times distance d (oscillating or transverse) times interval i. The energy of a wave is  m x d = e. The action of a wave is  m x d x i = h/h  in which h is the least perceptible quantity of action, and n is the number of waves necessary to constitute h. Then, although m x d is the energy of the single wave (any wave), n(m x d) is the energy necessary to constitute h during the particular interval (l/frequency) of the given kind of wave. And, Velocity (of radial propagation)? is necessarily maxi­mum and constant when m (mass in the wave) is minimum. Hence wave action is the action of energy having least (ultimate) mass units — protons (?).