[time-nuts] Q/noise of Earth as an oscillator

[Bob Camp]

Hi


> On Jul 27, 2016, at 12:57 PM, Ron Ott <ronott at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 
> There might be two Qs: one relating to the axil rotation and another concerning the volume behavior of the earth as a giant bowl of Jello.  But you'd have to figure out how to really slam the planet to excite the entire volume. Earthquakes are probably too wimpy.

Run into a bit smaller Earth with an object somewhat larger than the moon?
Give us all a bit of a warning before you run the experiment so we can book 
that flight to Mars ...

Bob

> Ron
> 
> 
>      From: Chris Caudle <chris at chriscaudle.org>
> To: time-nuts at febo.com 
> Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2016 8:50 AM
> Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Q/noise of Earth as an oscillator
> 
> On Wed, July 27, 2016 10:33 am, Chris Caudle wrote:
>> Does that imply that this value is not constant:
>>>> And if you take the classic definition
>>>> Q = 2 pi * total energy /energy lost per cycle
>>>> then it would seem earth has a Q factor.
> 
> After re-reading "The Story of Q" I agree that Q of a rotating body could
> be non-constant, but also consistent with the original definition of Q as
> the ratio of reactance to resistance of an inductor, which of course would
> vary almost completely linearly over a wide frequency range where the
> resistive dissipation was not frequency dependent (i.e. where skin effect
> was negligible).
> 
> Perhaps a more useful question is whether that is still a useful
> definition compared to how the term is more typically used now to refer to
> resonance bandwidth.
> 
> -- 
> Chris Caudle
> 
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