Re: Spirals needed

Kenneth Carrigan ( (no email) )
Fri, 13 Feb 1998 07:10:38 -0500

Jer,
>Brings up an interesting point....Keely used Chaldni type waveplates as
>DIAGNOSTIC tools, allowing him to see how frequencies could produce
>complex geometries when they interacted....I have long wondered how to
>make an oscilloscope that would use polar coordinates instead of the
>linear time stretching off the shelf scopes use....

Just put the oscope on 0 time span and use the x,y input in the
back of the oscope. Most all oscope come with this x,y input.
On 0 time, the axis is a focused on in the center screen. Any
x input controls the x axis, and similar with the y axis. Now you
can use polar coordinates as r^2 = x^2 + y^2... x=r*cos(phi)...
>
>It would be way cool to have multiple traces plotted instantly on a
>screen so you could see the interactions...I think it would open up all
>kinds of new insights into the reality of the universe...since these wave
>interactions are much closer to the reality than a normal scope trace...

The thing is that frequency is in cycles/second. So a scope will
essentually strip the /second so you end up with cycles. To see
two or three waves (added together) just press the add button
on the scope (two - three trace). The only thing the oscope does
is speeds up time - so you can see what the wave looks like.
Sort of like relativity.. have to be in the frame of reference.

(-:
v/r Ken Carrigan