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I have a question which I would like to know the answer to, I posted it before but don't think I was understood correctly, hopefully I can make myself clearer this time.
Every physical object in this universe has a natural or resonant frequency from an atom to a planet.
Attached is an image of a graph showing the increase in amplitude of oscillation as you approach resonance.
As you can see the system has a natural resonant frequency of 5.
Lets suppose the nucleus of an atom has a natural resonant frequency of 300hz, obviously being very small it would be much higher however let's just say its 300hz.
If we bombarded that atom with a frequency of 300hz it would go into resonance. If we were to then increase the bombarding frequency in harmonic steps of 400hz, 500hz and 600hz the nucleus would still absorb these frequency's as they are harmonics of its natural frequency however the amplitude would decrease. What I want to know is what would be the percentage of decrease in amplitude at each step. Let's assume that the amplitude of the bombarding wave is always the same and only the frequency changes. Also the bombarding wave is electromagnetic in nature not sound
Every physical object in this universe has a natural or resonant frequency from an atom to a planet.
Attached is an image of a graph showing the increase in amplitude of oscillation as you approach resonance.
As you can see the system has a natural resonant frequency of 5.
Lets suppose the nucleus of an atom has a natural resonant frequency of 300hz, obviously being very small it would be much higher however let's just say its 300hz.
If we bombarded that atom with a frequency of 300hz it would go into resonance. If we were to then increase the bombarding frequency in harmonic steps of 400hz, 500hz and 600hz the nucleus would still absorb these frequency's as they are harmonics of its natural frequency however the amplitude would decrease. What I want to know is what would be the percentage of decrease in amplitude at each step. Let's assume that the amplitude of the bombarding wave is always the same and only the frequency changes. Also the bombarding wave is electromagnetic in nature not sound
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