Resonator with capacitor and inductor

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02:35:37

Close the swicth and then open it to see the resonator phenomenon

published 6 years ago

jpoulin0901

6 years ago

It does oscillate, I'll give you that. However this sort of circuit falls a bit short of being a useful oscillator. You see it's not enough for a circuit to pass energy back and forth between a pair of storage elements in a well defined way like this. Usually we call this sort of thing a resonator. Resonators are often used as part of oscillators but in order for an oscillator to be able to oscillate AND provide some sort of useful signal it needs a steady input of power. It needs an amplifier.

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