Re: Theoretical understanding

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Original poster: Ed Phillips <evp-at-pacbell-dot-net> 

Tesla list wrote:
 >
 > Original poster: "Malcolm Watts" <m.j.watts-at-massey.ac.nz>
 >
 > Hi Ed,


 >  >  The "beat" phenomenon occurs whenever two sine waves of different
 >  > frequency are summed; peaks at times when both waves add up in phase,
 >  > minima when they add up out of phase.  The higher the coupling the
 >  > farther apart the peaks until, when the coupling coefficient is unity,
 >  > one peak frequency goes to 0 and the other to light!
 >
 > Actually, the lower one goes to Fs/SQRT(2).
 >
 >  >From Flo = Fs/SQRT(1+k)  I discussed this with Bert Hickman once and
 > I think we arrived at a concensus that what was basically happening
 > was that Cp transformed by the impedance ratio was appearing in
 > parallel across Cs (in fact transformed to the same value as Cs via
 > the tuning requirements).
 >
 > Malcolm

	Right you are and I don't know what I was thinking about.  I've never
see a DC transformer; have you?

Ed