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

Scott Stobbe scott.j.stobbe at gmail.com
Sun Jul 31 20:51:02 EDT 2016


An irreversible process would be a better description versus energy loss.
Like joule heating (resistance, friction).

On Sunday, 31 July 2016, Hal Murray <hmurray at megapathdsl.net> wrote:

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> time at radio.sent.com <javascript:;> said:
> > So loss effects frequency in one situation and amplitude in the other.
> How
> > can Q relate to both situations?
>
> It's energy loss in both cases.
>
> Is there a term other than Q that is used to describe the rate of energy
> loss
> for things that aren't oscillators?
>
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