Re: Tesla Coil Operation - was "Harmonics"

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Subject: Re: Tesla Coil Operation - was "Harmonics"
From: "John H. Couture" <COUTUREJH-at-worldnet.att-dot-net> (by way of Terry Fritz <twf-at-verinet-dot-com>)
Date: Sat, 06 Feb 1999 07:04:33 -0700
Approved: twf-at-verinet-dot-com


  John -

  I think that Shannon should have made up his own name for his Information
Entropy instead of plagiarizing Clausius's unique term. Shannon should have
used something like Mesatropy for "message entropy". Shannon should get a
laugh out of this. Also, how about Teslatropy for "Tesla coil entropy"?

   Teslatropy = S1 = Energy in/power in 
   Teslatropy = S2 = Energy out/power out

  The Teslatropy change = S1-S2

  With the Tesla coil process there will always be a net increase in
Teslatropy.

  John Couture

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At 02:18 AM 2/4/99 -0700, you wrote:
>Original Poster: "John W. Gudenas,Ph.D." <jgudenas-at-admin.aurora.edu> 
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>I concur.
>There are many expressions of entropic functions
>from Kolmogorov to Shannon's Information Entropy to
>Clausius and classical thermodynamic systems. 
>Magnetic circuits certainly can involve complexity expressions
>that map to entropic distributions.
>It may be such (I am not sure) that a more complete model
>of a spark gap would involve fractal and chaotic behavior
>thus representing more of natures complexity.
>John G.
>
>John W. Gudenas, Ph.D.                       Aurora University
>Department Chair of Computer Science and Mathematics
>347 S. Gladstone Ave.                          Aurora, IL  60506
>630-844-5539
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>Date: Wednesday, February 03, 1999 4:08 PM
>Subject: Re: Tesla Coil Operation - was "Harmonics"
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>>Original Poster: W Y Liu <eenwyl-at-sun.leeds.ac.uk> 
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>>(snip) 
>>> Another TC operation that may be impossible to model is the
>>> operating spark gap. This involves thermodynamics and entropy. Magnetic
>>> circuits do not involve temperature or entropy.
>>> 
>>It is unlikely that these statement(s) will lead to anywhere, if everyone
>>trusts that this is impossible.  I can say that there are people who have
>>experience of characterising something similar. 
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