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Re: To Kevin


From: 	DR.RESONANCE[SMTP:DR.RESONANCE-at-next-wave-dot-net]
Sent: 	Friday, September 12, 1997 5:09 PM
To: 	Tesla List
Subject: 	Re: To Kevin

to: Aperiodic

Common TC application is the computer & TV set.  The CRT's use a small high
frequency transformer called a "flyback" that generates the high voltage to
accelerate electrons down the tube to strike the screen.  Flybacks usually
run around 30 KHZ and are, in effect, small Tesla coils.  Tesla's main
contribution with the TC was the concept of tuned circuits, ie, the tuned
LC tank circuit in the primary and sec systems.  This formed the basic
building block of all radio transmitters and receivers from his time
forward.  He actually received the patent for radio in 1946, 3 years after
his death.  Hope this helps to enlighten the "bright people".

DR.RESONANCE-at-next-wave-dot-net


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> From: Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
> To: 'Tesla List' <tesla-at-poodle.pupman-dot-com>
> Subject: FW: To Kevin
> Date: Thursday,September 11,1997 5:52 PM
> 
> 
> From: 	Aperiodic-at-aol-dot-com[SMTP:Aperiodic-at-aol-dot-com]
> Sent: 	Thursday, September 11, 1997 11:50 AM
> To: 	tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
> Subject: 	To Kevin
> 
> One last thing.  I'm a senior in high school and last year, for the
> first time, a science fair sponsored by IBM was opened up to the
> highschool level.  (I did research on chaos thoery and won first place
> in the math catagory :-)  ).  Anyway, I was hoping I could enter my coil
> in the competition.  There's just one thing, and it seems to bother me. 
> The judges that they have aren't the brightest people in the world and
> for most of them the first thing they'll ask is, "what practical
> purposes does this serve?"  I've already been asked this by some people
> and it really frustrates me.  Maybe because I don't have anything that I
> can tell them or maybe it's just that I'm think, "hey, I spent three
> months building this thing, you don't know what it is, you've never seen
> one before, I think it's pretty darn cool, and you want to know what
> it's used for."  Personally, I loved making, I love running it, and I
> just amazed by my coil.  Sure I think they have a legitiment question,
> but I just don't know how to respond.  Anyone want to help?  
> 
> I could be of some help.  Seeing that you're already versed in chaos
theory,
> you're halfway there to explaining what you can do with a Tesla coil.
> The phenomena generated by these coils is inherently nonlinear in
> nature--i.e., the energy output is not necessarily derived solely from
power
> inputs (voltage and amperage values).
> A TC serves its greatest benefit when investigating Einstein's gravity
> complex; the theory that gravational waves are merely larger scalar
> components of "normal" EM waves can and have been demonstrated by Tesla
coil
> research.  Quite recently, such research is utilized while investigating
the
> properties of solitons leading to some possible discoveries of
superluminal
> particles/waves.
> The question you ask is quite sinewy and complex.  While I am only versed
in
> intermediate applications of relative nonlinear physics, I have more
> information if you are still curious.
> I also recommend this website <A
HREF="http://www.eskimo-dot-com/~billb/weird.html
> ">Weird Science / Construction Projects!!</A>.  It is a font of nouveux
ideas
> and fringe physics philosophies.
> 
> Good luck with your research.
> 
> Samuel Uncler
> 
>