Re: Resonant Systems

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

Tesla list wrote:
> 
> Original poster: "Ed Phillips by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
<evp-at-pacbell-dot-net>
> 
> > I have to side with dwp on this one.  A random forcing function
> > applied to a resonant system (eg noise into a filter, pendulum
> > blowing in the wind, road traffic rumbles into a gravity wave bar)
> > will excite the resonance, to an amplitude commensurate with the
> > amount of power available in the noise source across the bandwidth
> > of the resonator.
 
>         I was thinking of APPRECIABLE POWER.

	So was i.
	Nikola Tesla at Colorado Springs, Marconi on the coast
	of Wales, etc, come to mind...

	best
	dwp