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May 23, 2007

WHAT IS RESONANCE?

By James Wren, Application Engineer, Prosig

ResonanceFirst, in order to explain resonance we have to explain the terms we will use.
• A resonance is a particular frequency.
• A period is the amount of time it takes to complete one cycle
• The number of cycles in one second is the frequency of an oscillation.
• Frequency is measured in Hertz, named after the 19th-century German physicist Heinrich Rudolf Hertz
• A single Hertz is equal to one cycle per second.
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