Longitudinal Waves

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Original poster: "Terry Fritz" <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>

Hi Malcolm,

At 03:21 PM 2/9/2002 +1300, you wrote:
>Hi all longitudinal coilers, I see in the website paper a suggestion 
>that the dampened waves in a ringing tuned circuit is due to energy 
>dispersion by longitudinal radiation. Is that correct or have I 
>misunderstood the text? My next question/comment hinges on this 
>point. 
>
>Regards,
>Malcolm
>
>

As far as I know, the linear decrement damped waveform from a typical
disruptive coil is from non-linear gap losses (acts like a back to back
zener diode).

Cheers,

	Terry