[time-nuts] Non electrical time-nuttery
Hal Murray
hmurray at megapathdsl.net
Tue Jan 12 03:04:03 UTC 2010
djl at montana.com said:
> Also, according to some info I read on pendulum clocks, vacuum does
> not work because some viscous drag is needed to damp the free
> pendulum;
Why do I need damping?
I thought the general idea on oscillators was to get the highest Q (lowest
damping) that was reasonable. But now that I think about it, I'm not sure
why.
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