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  2. Mechanical resonance - Wikipedia

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    Resonance Rings exhibit at California Science Center. Various examples of mechanical resonance include: Musical instruments (acoustic resonance). Most clocks keep time by mechanical resonance in a balance wheel, pendulum, or quartz crystal. Tidal resonance of the Bay of Fundy. Orbital resonance, as in some moons of the Solar System's giant planets.

  3. Resonator - Wikipedia

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    A resonator is a device or system that exhibits resonance or resonant behavior. That is, it naturally oscillates with greater amplitude at some frequencies, called resonant frequencies, than at other frequencies. The oscillations in a resonator can be either electromagnetic or mechanical (including acoustic). Resonators are used to either ...

  4. Resonance - Wikipedia

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    Like mechanical resonance, acoustic resonance can result in catastrophic failure of the object at resonance. The classic example of this is breaking a wine glass with sound at the precise resonant frequency of the glass, although this is difficult in practice.

  5. Normal mode - Wikipedia

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    Typical examples include: In a mechanical dynamical system, a vibrating rope is the most clear example of a mode, in which the rope is the medium, the stress on the rope is the excitation, and the displacement of the rope with respect to its static state is the modal variable.

  6. Q factor - Wikipedia

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    The Q factor is a parameter that describes the resonance behavior of an underdamped harmonic oscillator (resonator). Sinusoidally driven resonators having higher Q factors resonate with greater amplitudes (at the resonant frequency) but have a smaller range of frequencies around that frequency for which they resonate; the range of frequencies for which the oscillator resonates is called the ...

  7. Vibrations of a circular membrane - Wikipedia

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    Due to the phenomenon of resonance, at certain vibration frequencies, its resonant frequencies, the membrane can store vibrational energy, the surface moving in a characteristic pattern of standing waves. This is called a normal mode.

  8. Harmonic oscillator - Wikipedia

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    For example, the Optical parametric oscillator converts an input laser wave into two output waves of lower frequency (,). Parametric resonance occurs in a mechanical system when a system is parametrically excited and oscillates at one of its resonant frequencies.

  9. Electromagnetically induced acoustic noise - Wikipedia

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    As an example a resonance with the elliptical modal shape of the stator can occur if the force wavenumber is 2. Under resonance conditions, the maxima of the electromagnetic excitation along the airgap and the maxima of the modal shape displacement are in phase.