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On 5/8/2011 5:07 PM, Bernard Cleyet wrote:
It's amusing to suppose that the maker of the World's most accurateIs this what you were hoping for?
Nope. What I hoped was a discussion on the general relationship of Q
and amplitude of a driven harmonic oscillator at resonance.
Both mechanical and electric (RCL).
Hint: Does increasing the Q result in increased amplitude, always?
bc has given up and given it away.
p.s. for pendula, horologists have known (experimentally) the answer
to this for centuries.
The answer is obvious from the particular solution of the inhomogenous
diff. eq.
chronometer design of its day, or the maker of the World's most accurate
observatory pendulum clock design of its day would have considered
differential equations in the design of their respective
masterworks.
Amusing, but inaccurate.
But getting back to bc's puzzlement: one can provide increased amplitude
for a mechanical or electrical oscillator with higher, same or lower Q
than before.
Is that plain enough? :-)
Brian W