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> On Jul 27, 2016, at 12:57 PM, Ron Ott <ron...@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 <ch...@chriscaudle.org> > To: time-nuts@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 > > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > > > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
