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bebween V and ï than between W and , just because they are more used to i% |
that way. Thus, since Ï = đ@/đf# = iuậ, we can just substitute ƒ/26 for ậ and get |
Ÿ = („L+ R+ 1/iu@)Ê = ÔÏ. (23.19) |
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Another way is to rewrite Eq. (23.17), so that it looks more familiar; one often |
sees it written this way: |
Ld1/dt + RT + q/© ƒ T dt = V(t). (23.20) |
At any rate, we ñnd the relation (23.19) between voltage Ÿ and current Í which |
is Just the same as (23.18) except divided by 2œ, and that produces Ed. (23.19). |
The quantity #8 + /œÙ + 1/2 is a complex number, and is used so mụch in |
electrical engineering that it has a name: it is called the cornplez ứmpedance, |
2. Thus we can write Ÿ = 2Ÿ. The reason that the engineers like to do this |
1s that they learned something when they were young: V = ÏÏ for resistances, |
when they only knew about resistances and DƠ. Now they have become more |
educated and have AC circuits, so they want the equation to look the same. Thus |
they write Ÿ =ÊŸ, the only diference being that the resistance is replaced by a |
more complicated thing, a complex quantity. So they insist that they cannot use |
what everyone else in the world uses for imaginary numbers, they have to use a 7 |
for that; it is a miracle that they did not insist also that the letter Z be an ?#l |
(Then they get into trouble when they talk about current densities, for which |
they also use 7. 'The difficulties of science are to a large extent the dificulties of |
notations, the units, and all the other artificialities which are invented by man, |
not by nature.) |
23-4 Resonance in nature |
Although we have discussed the electrical case in detail, we could also bring |
up case after case in many fields, and show exactly how the resonance equation |
is the same. 'Phere are many circumstances in nature in which something is |
“oscillating” and in which the resonance phenomenon occurs. We said that in |
an earlier chapter; let us now demonstrate it. If we walk around our study, |
pulling books of the shelves and simply looking through them to ñnd an example |
of a curve that corresponds to Eig. 23-2 and comes from the same equation, |
what do we fnd? Just to demonstrate the wide range obtained by taking the |
smallest possible sample, it takes only five or six books to produce quite a series |
of phenomena which show resonances. |
The first two are from mechanics, the frst on a large scale: the atmosphere oŸ |
the whole earth. If the atmosphere, which we suppose surrounds the earth evenly |
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Cycles per day |
4a Ị a |
1aha2‡ tahoo, 1ohạo |
Fig. 23-6. Response of the atmosphere to external excitation. a Is |
the required response if the atmospheric Sa-tide is of gravitational origin; |
peak amplification ¡is 100 : 1. b ¡s derived from observed magnification |
and phase of M;-tide. [Munk and MacDonald, “Rotation of the Earth,” |
Cambridge University Press (1960)] |
on all sides, is pulled to one side by the moon or, rather, squashed prolate into a |
double tide, and if we could then let it go, it would go sloshing up and down; it is |
an oscillator. Thịs oscillator is đrZuen by the moon, which is eÑfectively revolving |
about the earth; any one component of the force, say in the z-direction, has a |
cosine component, and so the response of the earth's atmosphere to the tidal pull |
of the moon is that of an oscillator. The expected response of the atmosphere is |
shown in Eig. 23-6, curve Ö (curve ø is another theoretical curve under discussion |
in the book from which this is taken out of context). Now one might think |
that we only have one point on this resonance curve, since we only have the one |
frequency, corresponding to the rotation of the earth under the moon, which |
Occurs at a period of 12.42 hours——12 hours for the earth (the tide is a double |
bump), plus a little more because the moon is goïing around. But rom the size oŸ |
the atmospheric tides, and from the phase, the amount of delay, we can get both |
p and Ø. From those we can get œạ and +, and thus draw the entire curvel 'This is |
an example of very poor seience. From two numbers we obtain two numbers, and |
from those two numbers we draw a beautiful curve, which of course goes through |
the very point that determined the curvel Ït is of no use nÏess te can Tncasure |
sơmethzng else, and in the case of geophysics that is often very difcult. But in |
this particular case there is another thing which we can show theoretically must |
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have the same timing as the natural frequency œọ: that is, if someone disturbed |
the atmosphere, it would oscillate with the frequency œg. Now there +0øs such a |
sharp disturbance in 1883; the Krakatoa volcano exploded and half the island |
blew of, and ¡it made such a terrific explosion in the atmosphere that the period |
of oscillation of the atmosphere could be measured. It came out to 105 hours. |
'The œọ obtained from Eig. 23-6 comes out 10 hours and 20 minutes, so there we |
have at least one check on the reality of our understanding of the atmospheric |
tides. |
Next we go to the small scale of mechanical oscillation. This time we take a |
sodium chỉloride crystal, which has sodium ions and chlorine iIons next to each |
other, as we described in an early chapter. 'Phese ions are electrically charged, |
alternately plus and minus. Now there is an interesting oscillation possible. |
uppose that we could drive all the plus charges to the right and all the negative |
charges to the left, and let go; they would then oscillate back and forth, the |
sodium lattice against the chlorine lattice. How can we ever drive such a thing? |
'That is easy, for If we apply an electric fñeld on the crystal, it will push the plus |
charge one way and the minus charge the other wayl So, by having an external |
electric field we can perhaps get the crystal to oscillate. The frequency of the |
electric fñeld needed is so high, however, that it corresponds to ?nƒfrared radiatiom |
So we try to fnd a resonance curve by measuring the absorption of infrared light |
by sodium chloride. Such a curve is shown in Fig. 23-7. "The abscissa is not |
frequenecy, but is given in terms of wavelength, but that is just a technical matter, |
Of course, since for a wave there is a definite relation bebween Írequency and |
wavelength; so it is really a frequency scale, and a certain Írequency corresponds |
to the resonant frequency. |
But what about the width? What determines the width? There are many |
cases in which the width that is seen on the curve is not really the natural width + |
that one would have theoretically. There are two reasons why there can be a |
wider curve than the theoretical curve. If the objects do not all have the same |
frequency, as might happen ïf the crystal were strained in certain reglons, so that |
in those regions the oscillation frequency were slightly diferent than in other |
regions, then what we have is many resonance curves on top oŸ each other; so we |
apparently get a wider curve. The other kind of width is simply this: perhaps |
we cannot measure the frequency precisely enough-——if we open the slit of the |
spectrometer fairly wide, so although we thought we had only one Írequency, |
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