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- From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
- Subject: Re: How to kill chickens with your computer...
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.203131.26026@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com>
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
- References: <cline.722101647@plum.cs.scarolina.edu>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 20:31:31 GMT
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- cline@cs.scarolina.edu (Ernest Cline) writes:
- : |:
- : |There is no way that 7 hz would be the resonate frequency. Assume that sound
- : |travels at 900 ft/second - in the air. That means that a 7Hz sound has a
- : |wavelength of over 125 feet. Even for 1/125th wave resonance, this comes to
- : |a value over 1 foot. I have never seen any chickens with heads that large.
- : |
- : |Such fractional wavelength resonances simply do not have any power in them.
- :
- : On the other claw, considering the way that chicken barns are built, 7Hz
- : might have been the resonant frequency of the hen house, leading to a huge
- : power build up and thus shaking the chickens to death!
-
- Nope. For the power to build up - you would need a feedback circuit to the
- generating source - and that is not present.
-
- Otherwise, the system is overdamped, meaning (in the way I am using the
- term) that the losses through absorbtion/vibration etc are greater than
- the possible signal input.
-
- Bill
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