Re: A few Q's

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Original poster: "Antonio Carlos M. de Queiroz by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <acmq-at-compuland-dot-com.br>

Tesla list wrote:
> 
> Original poster: "Terry Fritz" <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>

> High Q things have low losses while they oscillate and thus can oscillate
> for a long time.
> 
> As you can imagine, giant math equations can be tied to all this too...

An useful quantitative relation for Q: It is the number of oscillation
cycles observable before the oscillation is too small. (Too small here
is with 1/23 (1/e^pi) of the starting amplitude, to be more exact.)

Antonio Carlos M. de Queiroz