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    Why does the base of the stapes (oval window) have a lower amplitude in the middle ear?

    I have found that this channel does a good job of explaining things. I watched this particular video a couple of years ago and it was pretty good.
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    Collection of Lame Jokes

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    Undergrad Ampère's mercury experiment and Aharonov-Bohm: same message?

    In the variant at the bottom of page 1, a 2-sphere capacitor drives the current. As a TLDR, does the 'displacement current' in this capacitor contribute anything to the forces on the wire elements?
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    Collection of Science Jokes P2

    Something to do with -1/12 ?
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    Collection of Science Jokes P2

    Separatrix : A dominatrix who separates clients from all their possessions.
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    Undergrad Chua's oscillator circuit -- Intuitive picture

    I have installed ngspice (RPi-5), but haven't got around to experimenting with it. However, it's possible to do thought experiments and refine one's ideas while doing other life stuff. This has led me to discard the idea that there should be a momentary increase in disspiation exactly while the...
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    Undergrad Chua's oscillator circuit -- Intuitive picture

    Yes, that is what I was vaguely trying to articulate. The waveform in baluncore's post is interesting because superficially it looks like a square wave with ringing after each rise/fall. However, the ringing is a growth rather than a decay. This has to mean either (a) the energy in that...
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    Undergrad Chua's oscillator circuit -- Intuitive picture

    Can you test the hypothesis that there should be a current spike in the positive resistance during the jump from one attractor to another?
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    Undergrad Chua's oscillator circuit -- Intuitive picture

    Re. the discussion about 'reality' of this simulation. If I understand correctly, the beauty of this class of systems is that it is very robust against what would usually be called simulation errors. Of course the quantitative behavior is in any case highly dependent on initial conditions. But...
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    Undergrad Chua's oscillator circuit -- Intuitive picture

    Is the energy dissipated, or is the energy transferred to another element than the one whose voltage is plotted?
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    Undergrad Chua's oscillator circuit -- Intuitive picture

    Dr Chua reminsces about the invention of his circuit: https://www.chaotic-circuits.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/THE-GENESIS-OF-CHUAS-CIRCUIT.pdf Page devoted to it (includes an interactive Javascript simulation page and how-to-build info): https://chuacircuits.com/
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    Undergrad Chua's oscillator circuit -- Intuitive picture

    Yes, I guess I was framing my question like, "Is a needle more like a burger or more like a soprano?" One could make a case for both by stretching each analogy enough. :smile:
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    Programming Jokes: Lame, Science & Math Jokes!

    Got the join right away; got the tables thing only the next day.
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    Undergrad Chua's oscillator circuit -- Intuitive picture

    I have been trying to understand intuitively why Chua's circuit should want to toggle between modes as it does. The aim is to internalize this concept the way a Steve Mould or a 3Blue1Brown might help me do :smile: Which is closer to the truth: (A) Rectification of the signal around one...
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    Undergrad Do vocal tract resonances assist a singer's pitch control?

    Thank you for taking the time to post a detailed reply. It's always good to have a sober, grounding antidote against AI's tendency to amplify one's own biases. ("Your brilliant intuition is spot on as usual" :smile:) This, despite sometimes pretending to the AI that I was merely "asking in order...