Re: R.A. Ford (book)?

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Original poster: "ebyng by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <ebyng-at-netlimit-dot-com>

Wow, thanks!
huh, and I was going to run down to Seattle to get it.....

Either one works in Excel, but I have excel 97.
Thanks!
S
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Original Message
From: "Tesla list"<tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
Subject: Re: R.A. Ford (book)?
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 11:52:19 -0700

>Original poster: "Jim Lux by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>"
<jimlux-at-earthlink-dot-net>
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>> Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>"
><Mddeming-at-aol-dot-com>
>>
>> In a message dated 3/14/01 12:49:47 AM Eastern Standard Time,
>> tesla-at-pupman-dot-com writes:
>> >
>> > Anyway. I would love to get my hands on that table, to see if that
>works.
>> > He's calculating a coil to run on a specific frequency in that chapter.
>> >
>> > If anyone has that book or that table, could I get a scan. copy. email
>> > whatever of it??
>> >
>>
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>>
>> CRC 34th Ed. is from 1952. In the 36th edition (1954) the table is on
>pages
>> 2973-75. By 1974 the table had been dropped from the handbook since by
>then
>> any 5-function calculator could reproduce the data. The table does not
>give
>> specific values for L  and C, but only for the product ( L x C) You can
>> generate this table in any spreadsheet using the same formula they did:
>> wavelength=1884 x sqrt(LC)   freq=300,000,000/wavelength (in meters), L
in
>> microhenries, C in microfarads.
>>
>
>Just to be a bit picky.. If you are using Excel, you can get better
>computational precision (and what's more important, eliminate some "magic
>constants") by doing:
>
>Frequency = 1/( 2 * PI() * sqrt(L * C))
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