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Re: 2 questions on resonance (fwd)
In a message dated 4/17/99 3:06:40 AM Mountain Daylight Time,
tesla-at-pupman-dot-com writes:
>
> >I appreciate we store energy in the primary cap and release this over a
> >much shorter time interval, however in terms of power calculations should
> >we not be averaging this over time to give J/s, and I still can't see how
> >J/s out can be > J/s in over time.
> >
> >mark
> >
Mark,
Your thoughts are indeed correct. The AVERAGE power cannot be
increased. It is the instantaneous power that is magnified and then followed
by a relatively long period of no power which over time averages to the same
power(not counting the resistance losses etc) as put into the system.