[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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