Re: Changing Cycles 'till it Hertz

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Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <Mddeming-at-aol-dot-com>

In a message dated 4/13/02 12:26:17 AM Eastern Daylight Time, tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
writes:


>
> a 
> distinction between sinusoidal frequency and other cyclic waveforms. They 
> wanted 
> two new units. And the Germans wanted to honor one of their own. The Great
> Compromise :-)) was to be the new unit of the Hertz which they defined as 
> equal  
> to one cycle per second. No reference is made to the type of wave form, the 
> Germans got their representation, and we narrowly missed having to learn 
> another
> new unit.



Since all periodic waveforms can be represented by some series of sinusoids,
the bottom line (sum) is Hertz. ;-)
Matt D.