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Reverted and reported. If it gets reverted again it wil be re-reverted again until it trips an automatic page lock.
And if you think you're going to block this IP for `vandalism' go ahead. They've been trying that one for years. I'll just hang up and get another one. There's thousands of computers in the faculty research lab and even more in the doctoral thesis center so you and anybody else who tries it will just be chasing ghosts. Thanks for playing.
I noticed that you edited out the comments about the external link "Bending Spacetime in the Basement" in the artical "Cavendish Experiment". User CronoDAS has added those comments back. I also feel that this experiment is flawed. The time stamp on the video shows that the weights are moving much too fast. Calculations based on the diameter and shear modulus of the nylon fishing line shows that it is too stiff by at least a factor of 40 to bend under the force of gravity in that experiment.
Prof. Norman Scheinberg, City College of New York, Electrical Eng. Dept., scheinberg@ccny.cuny.edu
Supercool temperatures are an integral part of superconductivity, so a link relating to conditions containing them is perfectly approriate. I am sorry if I missed an important point in the article. Thank you for telling me about you edit, though.-- Schrodingers rabbit ( talk) 19:25, 27 May 2009 (UTC)
Hi! I really like your rewrite of balance wheel. One problem: the second picture (alarm clock balance wheel) seems to be missing. Could you check the spelling of the Image reference? Paul Koning 14:58, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
I have reluctantly failed Cavendish experiment, which you nominated, as a Good Article candidate. After a thorough review I noted a number of issues which led me to believe the article was unlikely to be able to achieve GA status in the short term.
I have left detailed comments on the article talk page; please feel free to contact me if you have any questions etc regarding the review. Regards, EyeSerene TALK 12:28, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
Took the liberty of expanding your excellent additions to the "remontoire" page. Feel free to review my additions or correct minor mistakes (I am a horrible speller) I would welcome your comments to my additions
Fortunat Mueller-Maerki, Sussex NJ email: horology@horology.com wikipedia: horology Horology ( talk) 21:10, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
The picture was too bright on my monitor. It sort of looked like the colors were gonna jump out of the screen and cause a seizure. I'm sure you meant well, but keeping it in its natural brightness and contrast would serve best for those with different computers.-- The Scourge ( talk) 22:12, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
Good work in the Dynamo´s section "Modern uses". Regards.-- Mac ( talk) 09:49, 23 July 2008 (UTC)
Does WP have to join in viral promotion?
I certainly hope not.
But the sum of modern life (or what passes for it) is one big viral promotion, baby. Um I mean: Verifiably, this is a sleb-obsessed world. I suppose those people obsessed by slebs will be obsessed with the brands of what are strapped onto those slebs. (Curiously, though, the only hit for "watch" in the article on Queen Angelina is "Watch this page".)
And of course there's also the argument that now the cheapest watch has a degree of accuracy that could only have been dreamed of forty years ago, it's the branding, promotion, etc that matter, presumably, and the gubbins inside the case are of minor importance.
If I were autocrat of Wikipedia, I'd be tempted to limit articles on wristwatch companies to the point where affordable, reliable quartz watches came out, and outlaw coverage of what follows as the percentage of silliness and trivia is just too high. (This would go together with other summary edicts banning articles on people until ten years after their deaths, articles on anything related to Starwarstrek, etc etc etc.) But don't worry, there's little chance that I'll become autocrat of Wikipedia. -- Hoary (whose wrist is itching in the heat and who thus is wearing nothing whatever in the customary place) 09:23, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi Chetvorno. On June 6 you may this edit on the "frequency" article, see this diff: diff:
Which I changed, since the dimensions of the error in the frequency have the wrong dimension, and the random error has a maximum of one count, but is in between 0 and 1 count. So I changed it to this:
For which you now ask a reference, which I do not have. The whole thing is just simple statistics: in a fixed time T there are counted N events, and the frequency is simply computed as fA=N/T. But by using integer counting a fraction of the last cycle may be missing in the count, somewhere in between 0 and 1. On average the error is half a cycle. A better estimate would be fB=(N+½)/T. Taking fB to be the better estimate, the bias is fB - fA =½ / T = ½ fB / (N+½).
So, since I can not produce a reference for this, you can remove it as OR. Or you can remove the {fact} template. If you leave it as is, this {fact} template may be there for ages. I leave it up to you. Best regards, -- Crowsnest ( talk) 19:35, 14 August 2008. (UTC)
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Regarding your recent edits to the 'Displacement Current' article, are you aware that Maxwell's reasons for introducing displacement current were not connected with the capacitor? It is a common myth to believe so. The displacement current which Maxwell derived from equation (105) in his 1861 paper, and which relates to wireless telegraphy, is not exactly the same concept as the modern displacement current term which relates to equation (138) in that same Maxwell paper. The latter is the one that is relevant to capacitors and cable telegraphy, and there is nothing that necessarily links it to Ampère's circuital law. Hence, the necessity that you are talking about may not exist at all. David Tombe ( talk) 06:27, 22 November 2008 (UTC)
Dear Chris Burk, The Wikipedia article "Displacement Current" is no. 1 hit on Google out of 200,000. My published article "Displacement Current" http://www.electromagnetism.demon.co.uk/z001.htm is no. 2. Please explain to me how I put in a hyperlink to my article in the Wikipedia article for "Displacement Current". That would open up a window for readers to all the work I have done and published on the subject for 50 years. http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/x311.htm . Ivor Catt icatt@btinternet.com . — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.164.171.64 ( talk) 09:07, 4 March 2014 (UTC)
Thanks for signing up at Wikipedia:Peer review/volunteers and for your work doing reviews. It is now just over a year since the last peer review was archived with no repsonse after 14 (or more) days, something we all can be proud of. There is a new Peer review user box to track the backlog (peer reviews at least 4 days old with no substantial response), which can be found here. To include it on your user or talk page, please add {{Wikipedia:Peer review/PRbox}} . Thanks again, and keep up the good work, Ruhrfisch ><>°° 04:21, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for your post on the atomic clock talk page -- I've posted a reply there. Terry0051 ( talk) 02:17, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
Hey, I saw your name on Wikipedia:PRV, and noticed that you are interested in electrical engineering. I was wondering if you would be up for copyediting Stella Power Station, as it is currently a FAC and a comment which has came up is that it needs a thorough copyediting. I look forward to heading back, Fintan264 ( talk) 14:38, 14 March 2009 (UTC)
Here is a link to a rewrite I have started.[ [1]] It only concerns the material to be explained up to and including Heisenberg. It's still a little rough, and I would fix a couple of things except that I have to deliver somebody to an airport 45 minutes away and the lady wants me on her doorstep within the next two hours. (It's now 2:15 a.m.)
I would like to add one graphic element for each of the mysteries, starting with a helium light tube delivering (what appears to be) red light, a prism, and the bright line spectrum.
I wrote this all from memory, so I need to do some fact checking. When I wrote it a couple days ago I thought it looked pretty flat. Maybe it is not quite as leaden as I thought. Anyway, that is a question of style and editing for "snap." It is the ideas that were driving people like Heisenberg nuts in the early 1920s that we have to get across.
Please give me your thoughts, criticisms, etc.
Thanks.
P0M ( talk) 06:36, 1 June 2009 (UTC)
P.S. After the above saved I noticed something about your being interested in electrical engineering! Maybe you can help. Heisenberg's matrix mechanics has had me stalled at that point in the article for the last couple of years. There is actually something beautiful in his theoretical expression, but it may previously have been seen only in his mind. Most people complain that they do not understand his article of 1925. Aitchison's article has been the most help, but he was writing for people at the top of his field and he left some gaps that are too big to jump over. For my own purposes in understanding what Heisenberg was doing, I need to understand the matrices. Aitchison's article makes it clear that the matrices other people have been making up are not the matrices that would have flowed from the equations he used. I could see that there was a problem with the way others were doing it, but it took a visit the local QM guru to straighten me out.
It is obvious that Heisenberg had all the theory-derived data he would have needed to fill out matrices for frequency of photons, energies, of photons. What he did not have, in the beginning, was a way to calculate the transition amplitudes. One way he could have obtained these amplitudes would have been to take the square roots of empirical measurements -- but then he would have a "theory" that just fed the original measurements back to him. He goes through a great deal of math, complete with old-fashioned German letters, constants that everybody recognizes but me, etc. He takes classical equations and turns them into difference equations. And in the middle of getting to where he would need to get to be able to calculate these amplitudes (much the same way that the speed of light can come out of electrical equations that on the surface would seem to have nothing to do with measuring the speed of light), he seems to see that he knows how to do that, and that everybody who is going to read his article will know how to do that. So he jumps to saying that he now can see how to calculate the quantum theoretical equivalent of the square of the amplitudes, and all of the complications on both sides of a hairy equation drop away leaving something beautifully simple -- if you somehow know what the numerical value of the amplitudes are.
Since people with far, far better qualifications than I have found the whole article rather incomprehensible, I am not worried that I do not see how he did his math. But I would like to be able to generate the same numbers, or actually part of them (it's an infinite set, after all), and plug them into their own matrix to see whether they would give reasonable intensity values. One of the problems that I just identified is that there are several different things that get called "amplitudes" in quantum mechanics as it is taught today.
I think that I can explain what he needed to calculate. If BBC is operating a shortwave station at a certain broadcasting frequency, one can sometimes hear the programming at some multiple of the anticipated frequency. That means that the transmitting antenna is putting out energy at multiples of its fundamental frequency. Surely people who design antennas can calculate the amplitudes of not only the fundamental frequency but also of the harmonics. Ideally I would like a formula that gives the peak amplitude broadcast at any frequency given the fundamental frequency and the broadcast wattage of the transmitter. What I need are peak values, because with the hydrogen bright-line spectrum the intensities of each line is constant over time. Thanks. P0M ( talk) 07:26, 1 June 2009 (UTC)
No problem; I'm having a hard time figuring out where to put that info on sand into the article. So don't think I'm forgetting about it; I think I'll just have to edit a few articles to make it work together well. Also, if you have any random questions on sediment, feel free to drop a message on my talk. Awickert ( talk) 03:34, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
Hi. I see you've done a lot of good work on the pendulum article and seem to be a knowledgeable contributor. I have a question about the animation near the top of the article, which shows the acceleration vector pointing straight up at the midpoint of the pendulum. How is this possible? At the midpoint, the gravitational force pulling down and the tension force pulling up are balanced, and there should therefore be zero acceleration, not a large upwards acceleration. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 205.142.197.85 ( talk) 16:15, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
Heterodyning was first invented as a technique to receive Morse code radiotelegraph CW signals during the...
You seem to have an unfinished sentence. I thought at firt you might have meant WWI, but the date for its invention is 1901 so I cannot figure during what you intended. SpinningSpark 12:28, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
It is a nice diagram . . . but I can't take credit for it; it was at the bottom of the article in the "Gallery" and I just moved it up so it aligned with the text where it seemed to belong. It is a pretty cool diagram, isn't it? Bill Wvbailey ( talk) 04:28, 5 December 2009 (UTC)
I see that your name is on the peer review volunteers list. Any chance that you could take at look at distributed element filter? I have requested a peer review, but there have been no takers for a week. Thanks, SpinningSpark 18:06, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
I've tried a compromise wording about Ibn Yunus and the pendulum in the Pendulum article. Please let me know if you think there's a problem with what I've done. (I've added the same text to the Ibn Yunus article, where I had previously also just deleted the claim.)
All the best. – Syncategoremata ( talk) 22:26, 22 April 2010 (UTC)
I moved the section "Harmonic oscillator" (now "How it works") to the end in order to help resolve the Too Technical tag of balance spring by sorting the sections in order of increasing technical content. But you moved it back to the first section. Could the section be moved to the end again? Obankston ( talk) 04:23, 16 May 2010 (UTC)
Hello, and thank you for offering help. I'm brand new at this. I've put an article on my sandbox which I would like to have reviewed before submitting as an article. It's basicly a short bio but since the man is an inventor I'd like to see the article be placed on the inventors page. Thank you. (mike)michaeljamesadams Michaeljamesadams ( talk) 05:59, 5 June 2010 (UTC)
I don't necessarily disagree with your rewording but I just thought I would point out that the MoS does not instruct against the "author's we" of technical writing. It is the personal we that the MoS dictates against. SpinningSpark 19:42, 17 June 2010 (UTC)
You've been editing Litz wire. Although your intentions are right, you are making factual errors. Litz wire is not used at high frequency because the strands would be too thin. AF and RF are poor qualitative descriptors and misleading. I'm leaning toward undoing your last edit because I don't know of a clear fix. (I'm watching this page.) Glrx ( talk) 00:22, 3 July 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for your kind words on my Charge Conservation contribution, and thanks especially for catching my accidental deletion so promptly. David C Bailey ( talk) 02:51, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
Hi chris, could the following image be reworked ?: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/File:Mechanical_watch_workings.JPG
91.182.247.61 ( talk) 11:56, 17 March 2011 (UTC)
I gave user:216.210.45.12 a 24 hour block for the magnet and fuel cell vandalisms. Thank you for warning him. RJFJR ( talk) 16:44, 31 March 2011 (UTC)
Please see WP:NORN#Wien bridge oscillator Glrx ( talk) 19:36, 3 August 2011 (UTC)
Hello. This message is being sent to inform you that there is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is Circuit dreamer and his disruptive editing. Thank you. Glrx ( talk) 02:30, 11 August 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for the support. I honestly felt like I woke up and accidentally logged into Bizarro-Wikipedia.
The odd thing is that I'm very sympathetic to the concerns of editors like you who have to deal with him.
He's wrong, and I told him so, here and here.
I won't be surprised if he ends up with an indef ban, but I think he deserves fair warning. I'm troubled that I've been unable to make that point effectively.-- SPhilbrick T 12:52, 12 August 2011 (UTC)
The problem is that there are two sections with the same name - Examples and Examples of resonance. Circuit dreamer ( talk, contribs, email) 19:58, 24 August 2011 (UTC)
I believe you acted a bit too hastily in reverting my 25 edits. I believe that you and I disagree only in the definition "a simple machine transforms the direction and magnitude of a force," yet you reverted many other edits that had nothing to do with this sentence. Furthermore, I did not delete this sentence I simply moved it to a later section. You ask for citations regarding the ways modern machines are analyzed however I never addressed that in this article. I maintained the historical perspective that simple machines are combined to form complex machines. The fact that elementary schools and high schools teach the six simple machines is not justification for ignoring the fact that during the Industrial Revolution the number of simple machines grew to over 800. The citations for this are in the article, which are the page from the 1728 Encyclopedia of Technology and the Reuleaux collection of simple machines. Prof McCarthy ( talk) 05:20, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
Chetvorno, is there any chance you will reconsider the elimination of my edits that had no impact on the sentence "simple machine transforms the magnitude and direction of a force." You can keep this because you feel the many references to it in elementary school webpages makes it important. However, the remaining edits to not touch on this issue. Please reinstate these edits. Prof McCarthy ( talk) 06:29, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
I have asked in several different ways for you to reconsider you mass elimination of my edits to the article on simple machines, when you only seem to value the particular phrase "a simple machine transforms the magnitude and direction of a force." All I did was move it to a later section, and you reverted all 25 of my edits to get it back into the lead. However, I have yet to hear from you. I would like to interpret your silence as agreement with me adding the non-controversial edits back into the article and leave this sentence alone. I cannot find any other issue in your comments on my edits. Prof McCarthy ( talk) 01:34, 2 December 2011 (UTC)
Chetvorno, a far as I can tell you wrote the section on self-locking in simple machines. It seems that this is applies most directly to the inclined plane, wedge, and screw. A direct analysis of these systems shows that the derivation provided in the references is overly simplified. It is possible to use the derivation of the mechanical advantage of these devices in the presence of friction directly. I propose to delete this section from the article on simple machines and add the derivations to the articles on the inclined plane, wedge and screw. If you disagree, please let me know. Prof McCarthy ( talk) 17:44, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
Chetvorno, I read with interest your comment of 10 Feb 2012, related to an earlier edit of mine on the Electronic Oscillator page: "That was a controversial edit added by a disruptive editor who has been blocked several times." Can you please explain this comment? Trevithj ( talk) 20:18, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi Chris, super article. I built several neat crystal sets in Milwaukee, in 1956 and luckily didn't electrocute myself with some of my poor choices. But they worked super. My dad bought me a 1n34a diode at a tv store for 75 cents (the cost of 25 rolls of lifesavers at the time) Now, 58 years later, I took a neat pair of 1930's headphones and a diode from radio shack, Two for $1.49 (or about the cost of 2 rolls of lifesavers now), took the "radio" to a local 580 Mhz 2 Kw station WTAG Worcester MA, but heard nothing parked, illegally, 100' from the antenna. I suspect the diode. Do you have a suggestion for a next historical experiment? I want cheap solid state between the clip leads. No galena deposits in central Massachusetts. Thanks Bradshaw amateur radio K1TE, ex WA1RBB and WN2IVF.
Picture of my failed experimental crystal radio. 64.30.89.26 ( talk) 22:39, 3 February 2014 (UTC) bradshaw@lupton.us kite@arrl.net
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Hi Chetvorno,
No I, don't mind your clarification at all, it's helpful. Do you have an opinion about merging the two pages? GyroMagician ( talk) 09:57, 8 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi there Chetvorno,
I saw that you've listed your name over at WP:PRV. I've been enthusiastically editing pretty extensively on Folding@home, and achieved GA status early last month. It's an article about a powerful distributed computing project which simulates protein folding for disease research, so I thought you might be interested. I'd like to improve the article as much as I can, and perhaps even reach FA status, so if you have a moment, I'd sure appreciate any advice or suggestions you may have. I've opened a peer review. Thank you for your time, Jesse V. ( talk) 21:35, 14 May 2012 (UTC)
I noticed you recent edits there. Why do you regard "gun-type device" as being misleading? It seems a good description of the design of the Hiroshima package. -- John ( talk) 11:43, 5 July 2012 (UTC)
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Phased array TV antennas are commonly used in Europe and Australia for wideband UHF reception
AP369 Alcad phased array specifications
Thanks for keeping the TV Antennas wiki clean =] Dezmonditoz ( talk) 13:37, 1 September 2012 (UTC)
Do you have a source for the statement you added to Radio frequency? I don't doubt it is true, but I would sure like to read more about determining that to be the mechanism. — EncMstr ( talk) 18:49, 14 September 2012 (UTC)
Also see Electrosurgery, a common, practical application of this principle. -- AJim ( talk) 02:16, 18 November 2012 (UTC)
Is there a particular reason you removed the citation template for the Colpitts patent? You used templates in other places. Glrx ( talk) 18:26, 29 December 2012 (UTC)
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Hi, I know this is going to sound exactly the same as the message above but you are the only peer review volunteer that falls under the roller coaster category. Anyways, I was wondering if you would be able to give a peer review for the SheiKra article as I plan to nominate for FA status in the near future. If you don't want to review it, that is fine.-- Dom497 ( talk) 00:44, 5 March 2013 (UTC)
I have requested a peer review for the article Edward Manville. Would you be interested in doing the review? I asked you because Manville was an electrical engineer and, as chairman of the Birmingham Small Arms Company and its subsidiary, the Daimler Company, he was also involved in "other branches of engineering".
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Hi there! I spent a while today working on rewriting the floating ground article. I think the result is significantly clearer and more helpful (but then, I would!). If you have a chance to swing by, it'd be great to get some feedback. I don't think I've said anything too stupid, but it wouldn't be the first time! Rswarbrick ( talk) 18:16, 14 September 2013 (UTC)
Hi Chetvorno,
The lede of energy says
When measuring energy, the general reader may might not think of it as measuring state variables and calculating energy from them. To the general reader, this may be a fine distinction and isn't stated elsewhere in the article.
What do you think about removing the part after the comma? It can still be stated and explained elsewhere in the article.
DavRosen ( talk) 14:50, 15 October 2013 (UTC)
Hi,
I'm putting this here to try to keep from starting anything else started on the double-slit article. I think the article is good enough for now. One of my college era housemates teaches physics and writes good books on the subject. I once showed him an article, which was deleted from Wikipedia on the grounds that it wasn't important enough, and his reaction was something like this: "First you have the math, and then you have people trying to explain in words what the math means. The article is one interpretation." (I guess I should dig his email up, but that was at least my take-away.) I think the author's way of putting things in ordinary language is very helpful, so I'll give you a link to the edited and preserved article here.
http://www.china-learn.info/Science/Event-probability%20interpretation.html
I would add one quotation from Niels Bohr's Atomic Physics and Human Knowledge, p. 7:
Just as the general concept of relativity expresses the essential dependence of any phenomenon on the frame of reference used for its coordination in space and time, the notion of complementarity serves to symbolize the fundamental limitation, met with in atomic physics, of the objective existence of phenomena independent of the means of their observation.
Best,
Pat
P0M ( talk) 15:59, 28 October 2013 (UTC)
Back again. A contributor/editor has recently reopened the question covered above. Or at least I think he has reopened the same question. I'm having a little difficulty following his prose. I suspect that he is correct on one point: There is no published experiment designed to show that if a detector is added at one slit or the other then a photon goes through one slit or the other. I haven't been able to find such an experiment; to the contrary I find some indications that it is meaningless to ask what the path of the photon is. All that can be said is that with a detector in place a photon shows up either at the end of the left path or the right path. I'm not even finding a clear assertion of that presumed fact.
The new editor is probably going to do something to the article, so I'd like to resolve this question in a proper way. Do you have anything to contribute?
Thanks. P0M ( talk) 01:40, 28 December 2013 (UTC)
Hi. Could you do a peer review of this article, Ense3. It was translated from the french article. Thanks in advance for your time. Emekadavid ( talk) 19:23, 6 January 2014 (UTC)
I didn't understand what you were referring to with "see Talk page". I reverted mainly because your revert was malformed, but I'd like to understand the point of the rest, too. Probably taking it to the article talk page is a good idea. Dicklyon ( talk) 06:37, 16 January 2014 (UTC)
Your reverted an edit of mine on temperature compensated balance wheels. I noted in my edit that the compensation doesn't cause the balance to turn faster or slower and you replied "Yes, it does. Lower moment of inertia = higher acceleration = higher angular velocity = higher freq, compensating for freq lowering effect of spring."
I understand what you mean, but the balance can't actually be allowed (by the designer) to oscillate at a higher frequency to compensate for the frequency lowering effect of spring, because if it did, then the watch would not keep accurate time. The objective of the designer of the watch is to keep the balance oscillating, as nearly as possible, at the *same* frequency all the time, whatever the temperature.
What actually happens is that as the higher temperature causes the spring to become weaker, the moment of inertia of the balance is reduced by the curving in of the bimetallic arms of the balance. These two effects happen together, and the reduction in the moment of inertia of the balance is designed to keep in step with (to "compensate" for) the reduced strength of the balance spring, so that as the spring becomes weaker it can still accelerate the balance at the same rate as before, and the balance then oscillates at the same frequency, preserving the timekeeping of the watch.
I hope this clarifies things and the reason for my edit. I don't want to get into a to and fro reverting each others edits so I hope we can reach an agreement that we are both happy with.
David.Boettcher 18:15, 19 January 2014 (UTC)
I don't think that the ice skater analogy is appropriate in the context of a balance wheel, and in fact it could lead to the misunderstanding that the balance wheel speeds up in the same way that the skater does. However, I agree that the wording could be a bit challenging for some readers so I have expanded it to make it easier to understand. I have also linked to the moment of inertia page where the ice skater analogy is well used. David.Boettcher 11:10, 21 January 2014 (UTC)
Of course that would be fine. David.Boettcher 11:10, 21 January 2014 (UTC)
"These early balance wheels were crude timekeepers because they lacked the other essential element: the balance spring. Early balance wheels rotated freely in each direction until the escapement pushed it back the other way. In such an "inertial' wheel, the acceleration is proportional to the drive force. This made the timekeeping strongly dependent on the force applied by the escapement, so the watch slowed down as the mainspring unwound and lost force during its running period."
I don't think this explanation is really "inproved" at all. Aside from the illogicality of the first sentence (what does "crude" mean? And if the balance spring is "essential" why don't quartz watches have them?) the balance wheel did not "rotate freely" until pushed back by the escapement. The swinging balance pushes the escapement, train and mainspring backwards, until the point is reached at which the force exerted by the mainspring through the train overcomes the inertia of the balance, halting and then reversing it, accelerating it in the opposite direction until the escapement "escapes" and the force acting on the swinging balance is reversed. So couldn't it be said that the balance and mainspring are coupled together by the escapement and train act as an harmonic oscillator? And if not, why not?
The statement that "the acceleration is proportional to the drive force" is simply Newtons second law, but it doesn't necessarily follow that this made the timekeeping strongly dependent on the force applied by the escapement. If the balance and mainspring were acting as an harmonic oscillator, then the large oscillations with the spring fully wound and the smaller ones as it ran down should be iscochronous, i.e. bigger force, faster acceleration, larger arcs vs. smaller force, less acceleration and smaller arcs - but of the same period.
I hesitate to rewrite this section because I don't think I can explain it any better myself at the moment, but I am sure that it is not correct as it stands.
Thoughts?
David.Boettcher 15:37, 6 May 2014 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by David.Boettcher ( talk • contribs)
Please take that extra second to merge changes instead of RVing a single character spelling issue. Maury Markowitz ( talk) 13:30, 4 February 2014 (UTC)
Hi Chris, the page Asymptotic analysis could do with your skills.
David.Boettcher 15:46, 21 February 2014 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by David.Boettcher ( talk • contribs)
Do you find it strange that internet wasn't listed as an application of UHF?-- Wyn.junior ( talk) 15:22, 24 February 2014 (UTC)
Your ] inserted a reference to a GE manual and linked to an online copy of it. The manual is dated 1965 and has a copyright notice, so its copyright term would be 95 years. Do you have any information that indicates the website has permission to republish? If not, then it would be a WP:COPYLINK violation. Glrx ( talk) 22:51, 25 April 2014 (UTC)
Can you do me a favour and take a look at this reversion of my edits to the article? I don't understand the person's point (I think he is just failing to read what he wrote) and the discussion is getting a bit bad-tempered. Spinning Spark 19:24, 17 May 2014 (UTC)
The "radius of oscillation" of a physical pendulum is the length of a simple pendulum with the same period. The "radius of gyration" of any rigid body with mass M and moment of inertia I (for a specified pivot point) is defined as the square root of I/M. Accordingly, the radius of gyration of a pendulum is the geometric mean of the radius of oscillation and the distance from the pivot to the center of mass. The relationship between the radius of oscillation and the radius of gyration has been known for nearly two centuries, if not longer. The radius of gyration is correctly defined in the Wikipedia article bearing that name and in the "Moment of Inertia" article as well. In modern times the radius of oscillation of a physical pendulum is usually called the "equivalent length" of a hypothetical simple pendulum. The older terminology is preferable, in my opinion, and should be preserved for historical authenticity if for no other reason. Thomas Jefferson was familiar with the fact that a thin uniform rigid rod suspended at one end has a radius of oscillation of two-thirds its actual length. This is neither the time or the place to revise traditional nomenclature in a well-established branch of physics. The period of a compound pendulum is already derived in the relevant section of the companion Wikipedia article: Pendulum (mathematics). The parallel axis theorem is not used in that derivation, and the radius of gyration is basically superfluous insofar as the formula for the pendulum period is concerned.
I will soon make another attempt to correct the rather serious conceptual blunder that has prevailed for much too long. Hopefully my post will not be automatically reverted without attempting some kind of meaningful dialogue. 2001:558:6004:B:48A5:65FB:18FE:4B37 ( talk) 18:12, 24 June 2014 (UTC)
2001:558:6004:B:F49E:BFA0:BAC6:2340 ( talk) 07:01, 23 June 2014 (UTC) 2001:558:6004:B:48A5:65FB:18FE:4B37 ( talk) 22:12, 23 June 2014 (UTC) 2001:558:6004:B:48A5:65FB:18FE:4B37 ( talk) 08:37, 24 June 2014 (UTC)
It's unclear if your excellent electrostatic field and induced charge diagram http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrostatics#mediaviewer/File:Electrostatic_induction.svg is an actual simulation or just an "artist's interpretation". If it is the output from a simulation or tool, what is that tool? I ask this because the diagram is well done, clear, and qualitatively correct, and I'd love to make similar figures for my own electrostatic examples! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.102.117.236 ( talk) 04:27, 17 August 2014 (UTC)
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Reverted and reported. If it gets reverted again it wil be re-reverted again until it trips an automatic page lock.
And if you think you're going to block this IP for `vandalism' go ahead. They've been trying that one for years. I'll just hang up and get another one. There's thousands of computers in the faculty research lab and even more in the doctoral thesis center so you and anybody else who tries it will just be chasing ghosts. Thanks for playing.
I noticed that you edited out the comments about the external link "Bending Spacetime in the Basement" in the artical "Cavendish Experiment". User CronoDAS has added those comments back. I also feel that this experiment is flawed. The time stamp on the video shows that the weights are moving much too fast. Calculations based on the diameter and shear modulus of the nylon fishing line shows that it is too stiff by at least a factor of 40 to bend under the force of gravity in that experiment.
Prof. Norman Scheinberg, City College of New York, Electrical Eng. Dept., scheinberg@ccny.cuny.edu
Supercool temperatures are an integral part of superconductivity, so a link relating to conditions containing them is perfectly approriate. I am sorry if I missed an important point in the article. Thank you for telling me about you edit, though.-- Schrodingers rabbit ( talk) 19:25, 27 May 2009 (UTC)
Hi! I really like your rewrite of balance wheel. One problem: the second picture (alarm clock balance wheel) seems to be missing. Could you check the spelling of the Image reference? Paul Koning 14:58, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
I have reluctantly failed Cavendish experiment, which you nominated, as a Good Article candidate. After a thorough review I noted a number of issues which led me to believe the article was unlikely to be able to achieve GA status in the short term.
I have left detailed comments on the article talk page; please feel free to contact me if you have any questions etc regarding the review. Regards, EyeSerene TALK 12:28, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
Took the liberty of expanding your excellent additions to the "remontoire" page. Feel free to review my additions or correct minor mistakes (I am a horrible speller) I would welcome your comments to my additions
Fortunat Mueller-Maerki, Sussex NJ email: horology@horology.com wikipedia: horology Horology ( talk) 21:10, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
The picture was too bright on my monitor. It sort of looked like the colors were gonna jump out of the screen and cause a seizure. I'm sure you meant well, but keeping it in its natural brightness and contrast would serve best for those with different computers.-- The Scourge ( talk) 22:12, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
Good work in the Dynamo´s section "Modern uses". Regards.-- Mac ( talk) 09:49, 23 July 2008 (UTC)
Does WP have to join in viral promotion?
I certainly hope not.
But the sum of modern life (or what passes for it) is one big viral promotion, baby. Um I mean: Verifiably, this is a sleb-obsessed world. I suppose those people obsessed by slebs will be obsessed with the brands of what are strapped onto those slebs. (Curiously, though, the only hit for "watch" in the article on Queen Angelina is "Watch this page".)
And of course there's also the argument that now the cheapest watch has a degree of accuracy that could only have been dreamed of forty years ago, it's the branding, promotion, etc that matter, presumably, and the gubbins inside the case are of minor importance.
If I were autocrat of Wikipedia, I'd be tempted to limit articles on wristwatch companies to the point where affordable, reliable quartz watches came out, and outlaw coverage of what follows as the percentage of silliness and trivia is just too high. (This would go together with other summary edicts banning articles on people until ten years after their deaths, articles on anything related to Starwarstrek, etc etc etc.) But don't worry, there's little chance that I'll become autocrat of Wikipedia. -- Hoary (whose wrist is itching in the heat and who thus is wearing nothing whatever in the customary place) 09:23, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi Chetvorno. On June 6 you may this edit on the "frequency" article, see this diff: diff:
Which I changed, since the dimensions of the error in the frequency have the wrong dimension, and the random error has a maximum of one count, but is in between 0 and 1 count. So I changed it to this:
For which you now ask a reference, which I do not have. The whole thing is just simple statistics: in a fixed time T there are counted N events, and the frequency is simply computed as fA=N/T. But by using integer counting a fraction of the last cycle may be missing in the count, somewhere in between 0 and 1. On average the error is half a cycle. A better estimate would be fB=(N+½)/T. Taking fB to be the better estimate, the bias is fB - fA =½ / T = ½ fB / (N+½).
So, since I can not produce a reference for this, you can remove it as OR. Or you can remove the {fact} template. If you leave it as is, this {fact} template may be there for ages. I leave it up to you. Best regards, -- Crowsnest ( talk) 19:35, 14 August 2008. (UTC)
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Regarding your recent edits to the 'Displacement Current' article, are you aware that Maxwell's reasons for introducing displacement current were not connected with the capacitor? It is a common myth to believe so. The displacement current which Maxwell derived from equation (105) in his 1861 paper, and which relates to wireless telegraphy, is not exactly the same concept as the modern displacement current term which relates to equation (138) in that same Maxwell paper. The latter is the one that is relevant to capacitors and cable telegraphy, and there is nothing that necessarily links it to Ampère's circuital law. Hence, the necessity that you are talking about may not exist at all. David Tombe ( talk) 06:27, 22 November 2008 (UTC)
Dear Chris Burk, The Wikipedia article "Displacement Current" is no. 1 hit on Google out of 200,000. My published article "Displacement Current" http://www.electromagnetism.demon.co.uk/z001.htm is no. 2. Please explain to me how I put in a hyperlink to my article in the Wikipedia article for "Displacement Current". That would open up a window for readers to all the work I have done and published on the subject for 50 years. http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/x311.htm . Ivor Catt icatt@btinternet.com . — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.164.171.64 ( talk) 09:07, 4 March 2014 (UTC)
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Thanks for your post on the atomic clock talk page -- I've posted a reply there. Terry0051 ( talk) 02:17, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
Hey, I saw your name on Wikipedia:PRV, and noticed that you are interested in electrical engineering. I was wondering if you would be up for copyediting Stella Power Station, as it is currently a FAC and a comment which has came up is that it needs a thorough copyediting. I look forward to heading back, Fintan264 ( talk) 14:38, 14 March 2009 (UTC)
Here is a link to a rewrite I have started.[ [1]] It only concerns the material to be explained up to and including Heisenberg. It's still a little rough, and I would fix a couple of things except that I have to deliver somebody to an airport 45 minutes away and the lady wants me on her doorstep within the next two hours. (It's now 2:15 a.m.)
I would like to add one graphic element for each of the mysteries, starting with a helium light tube delivering (what appears to be) red light, a prism, and the bright line spectrum.
I wrote this all from memory, so I need to do some fact checking. When I wrote it a couple days ago I thought it looked pretty flat. Maybe it is not quite as leaden as I thought. Anyway, that is a question of style and editing for "snap." It is the ideas that were driving people like Heisenberg nuts in the early 1920s that we have to get across.
Please give me your thoughts, criticisms, etc.
Thanks.
P0M ( talk) 06:36, 1 June 2009 (UTC)
P.S. After the above saved I noticed something about your being interested in electrical engineering! Maybe you can help. Heisenberg's matrix mechanics has had me stalled at that point in the article for the last couple of years. There is actually something beautiful in his theoretical expression, but it may previously have been seen only in his mind. Most people complain that they do not understand his article of 1925. Aitchison's article has been the most help, but he was writing for people at the top of his field and he left some gaps that are too big to jump over. For my own purposes in understanding what Heisenberg was doing, I need to understand the matrices. Aitchison's article makes it clear that the matrices other people have been making up are not the matrices that would have flowed from the equations he used. I could see that there was a problem with the way others were doing it, but it took a visit the local QM guru to straighten me out.
It is obvious that Heisenberg had all the theory-derived data he would have needed to fill out matrices for frequency of photons, energies, of photons. What he did not have, in the beginning, was a way to calculate the transition amplitudes. One way he could have obtained these amplitudes would have been to take the square roots of empirical measurements -- but then he would have a "theory" that just fed the original measurements back to him. He goes through a great deal of math, complete with old-fashioned German letters, constants that everybody recognizes but me, etc. He takes classical equations and turns them into difference equations. And in the middle of getting to where he would need to get to be able to calculate these amplitudes (much the same way that the speed of light can come out of electrical equations that on the surface would seem to have nothing to do with measuring the speed of light), he seems to see that he knows how to do that, and that everybody who is going to read his article will know how to do that. So he jumps to saying that he now can see how to calculate the quantum theoretical equivalent of the square of the amplitudes, and all of the complications on both sides of a hairy equation drop away leaving something beautifully simple -- if you somehow know what the numerical value of the amplitudes are.
Since people with far, far better qualifications than I have found the whole article rather incomprehensible, I am not worried that I do not see how he did his math. But I would like to be able to generate the same numbers, or actually part of them (it's an infinite set, after all), and plug them into their own matrix to see whether they would give reasonable intensity values. One of the problems that I just identified is that there are several different things that get called "amplitudes" in quantum mechanics as it is taught today.
I think that I can explain what he needed to calculate. If BBC is operating a shortwave station at a certain broadcasting frequency, one can sometimes hear the programming at some multiple of the anticipated frequency. That means that the transmitting antenna is putting out energy at multiples of its fundamental frequency. Surely people who design antennas can calculate the amplitudes of not only the fundamental frequency but also of the harmonics. Ideally I would like a formula that gives the peak amplitude broadcast at any frequency given the fundamental frequency and the broadcast wattage of the transmitter. What I need are peak values, because with the hydrogen bright-line spectrum the intensities of each line is constant over time. Thanks. P0M ( talk) 07:26, 1 June 2009 (UTC)
No problem; I'm having a hard time figuring out where to put that info on sand into the article. So don't think I'm forgetting about it; I think I'll just have to edit a few articles to make it work together well. Also, if you have any random questions on sediment, feel free to drop a message on my talk. Awickert ( talk) 03:34, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
Hi. I see you've done a lot of good work on the pendulum article and seem to be a knowledgeable contributor. I have a question about the animation near the top of the article, which shows the acceleration vector pointing straight up at the midpoint of the pendulum. How is this possible? At the midpoint, the gravitational force pulling down and the tension force pulling up are balanced, and there should therefore be zero acceleration, not a large upwards acceleration. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 205.142.197.85 ( talk) 16:15, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
Heterodyning was first invented as a technique to receive Morse code radiotelegraph CW signals during the...
You seem to have an unfinished sentence. I thought at firt you might have meant WWI, but the date for its invention is 1901 so I cannot figure during what you intended. SpinningSpark 12:28, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
It is a nice diagram . . . but I can't take credit for it; it was at the bottom of the article in the "Gallery" and I just moved it up so it aligned with the text where it seemed to belong. It is a pretty cool diagram, isn't it? Bill Wvbailey ( talk) 04:28, 5 December 2009 (UTC)
I see that your name is on the peer review volunteers list. Any chance that you could take at look at distributed element filter? I have requested a peer review, but there have been no takers for a week. Thanks, SpinningSpark 18:06, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
I've tried a compromise wording about Ibn Yunus and the pendulum in the Pendulum article. Please let me know if you think there's a problem with what I've done. (I've added the same text to the Ibn Yunus article, where I had previously also just deleted the claim.)
All the best. – Syncategoremata ( talk) 22:26, 22 April 2010 (UTC)
I moved the section "Harmonic oscillator" (now "How it works") to the end in order to help resolve the Too Technical tag of balance spring by sorting the sections in order of increasing technical content. But you moved it back to the first section. Could the section be moved to the end again? Obankston ( talk) 04:23, 16 May 2010 (UTC)
Hello, and thank you for offering help. I'm brand new at this. I've put an article on my sandbox which I would like to have reviewed before submitting as an article. It's basicly a short bio but since the man is an inventor I'd like to see the article be placed on the inventors page. Thank you. (mike)michaeljamesadams Michaeljamesadams ( talk) 05:59, 5 June 2010 (UTC)
I don't necessarily disagree with your rewording but I just thought I would point out that the MoS does not instruct against the "author's we" of technical writing. It is the personal we that the MoS dictates against. SpinningSpark 19:42, 17 June 2010 (UTC)
You've been editing Litz wire. Although your intentions are right, you are making factual errors. Litz wire is not used at high frequency because the strands would be too thin. AF and RF are poor qualitative descriptors and misleading. I'm leaning toward undoing your last edit because I don't know of a clear fix. (I'm watching this page.) Glrx ( talk) 00:22, 3 July 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for your kind words on my Charge Conservation contribution, and thanks especially for catching my accidental deletion so promptly. David C Bailey ( talk) 02:51, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
Hi chris, could the following image be reworked ?: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/File:Mechanical_watch_workings.JPG
91.182.247.61 ( talk) 11:56, 17 March 2011 (UTC)
I gave user:216.210.45.12 a 24 hour block for the magnet and fuel cell vandalisms. Thank you for warning him. RJFJR ( talk) 16:44, 31 March 2011 (UTC)
Please see WP:NORN#Wien bridge oscillator Glrx ( talk) 19:36, 3 August 2011 (UTC)
Hello. This message is being sent to inform you that there is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is Circuit dreamer and his disruptive editing. Thank you. Glrx ( talk) 02:30, 11 August 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for the support. I honestly felt like I woke up and accidentally logged into Bizarro-Wikipedia.
The odd thing is that I'm very sympathetic to the concerns of editors like you who have to deal with him.
He's wrong, and I told him so, here and here.
I won't be surprised if he ends up with an indef ban, but I think he deserves fair warning. I'm troubled that I've been unable to make that point effectively.-- SPhilbrick T 12:52, 12 August 2011 (UTC)
The problem is that there are two sections with the same name - Examples and Examples of resonance. Circuit dreamer ( talk, contribs, email) 19:58, 24 August 2011 (UTC)
I believe you acted a bit too hastily in reverting my 25 edits. I believe that you and I disagree only in the definition "a simple machine transforms the direction and magnitude of a force," yet you reverted many other edits that had nothing to do with this sentence. Furthermore, I did not delete this sentence I simply moved it to a later section. You ask for citations regarding the ways modern machines are analyzed however I never addressed that in this article. I maintained the historical perspective that simple machines are combined to form complex machines. The fact that elementary schools and high schools teach the six simple machines is not justification for ignoring the fact that during the Industrial Revolution the number of simple machines grew to over 800. The citations for this are in the article, which are the page from the 1728 Encyclopedia of Technology and the Reuleaux collection of simple machines. Prof McCarthy ( talk) 05:20, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
Chetvorno, is there any chance you will reconsider the elimination of my edits that had no impact on the sentence "simple machine transforms the magnitude and direction of a force." You can keep this because you feel the many references to it in elementary school webpages makes it important. However, the remaining edits to not touch on this issue. Please reinstate these edits. Prof McCarthy ( talk) 06:29, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
I have asked in several different ways for you to reconsider you mass elimination of my edits to the article on simple machines, when you only seem to value the particular phrase "a simple machine transforms the magnitude and direction of a force." All I did was move it to a later section, and you reverted all 25 of my edits to get it back into the lead. However, I have yet to hear from you. I would like to interpret your silence as agreement with me adding the non-controversial edits back into the article and leave this sentence alone. I cannot find any other issue in your comments on my edits. Prof McCarthy ( talk) 01:34, 2 December 2011 (UTC)
Chetvorno, a far as I can tell you wrote the section on self-locking in simple machines. It seems that this is applies most directly to the inclined plane, wedge, and screw. A direct analysis of these systems shows that the derivation provided in the references is overly simplified. It is possible to use the derivation of the mechanical advantage of these devices in the presence of friction directly. I propose to delete this section from the article on simple machines and add the derivations to the articles on the inclined plane, wedge and screw. If you disagree, please let me know. Prof McCarthy ( talk) 17:44, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
Chetvorno, I read with interest your comment of 10 Feb 2012, related to an earlier edit of mine on the Electronic Oscillator page: "That was a controversial edit added by a disruptive editor who has been blocked several times." Can you please explain this comment? Trevithj ( talk) 20:18, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi Chris, super article. I built several neat crystal sets in Milwaukee, in 1956 and luckily didn't electrocute myself with some of my poor choices. But they worked super. My dad bought me a 1n34a diode at a tv store for 75 cents (the cost of 25 rolls of lifesavers at the time) Now, 58 years later, I took a neat pair of 1930's headphones and a diode from radio shack, Two for $1.49 (or about the cost of 2 rolls of lifesavers now), took the "radio" to a local 580 Mhz 2 Kw station WTAG Worcester MA, but heard nothing parked, illegally, 100' from the antenna. I suspect the diode. Do you have a suggestion for a next historical experiment? I want cheap solid state between the clip leads. No galena deposits in central Massachusetts. Thanks Bradshaw amateur radio K1TE, ex WA1RBB and WN2IVF.
Picture of my failed experimental crystal radio. 64.30.89.26 ( talk) 22:39, 3 February 2014 (UTC) bradshaw@lupton.us kite@arrl.net
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No I, don't mind your clarification at all, it's helpful. Do you have an opinion about merging the two pages? GyroMagician ( talk) 09:57, 8 March 2012 (UTC)
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I saw that you've listed your name over at WP:PRV. I've been enthusiastically editing pretty extensively on Folding@home, and achieved GA status early last month. It's an article about a powerful distributed computing project which simulates protein folding for disease research, so I thought you might be interested. I'd like to improve the article as much as I can, and perhaps even reach FA status, so if you have a moment, I'd sure appreciate any advice or suggestions you may have. I've opened a peer review. Thank you for your time, Jesse V. ( talk) 21:35, 14 May 2012 (UTC)
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Phased array TV antennas are commonly used in Europe and Australia for wideband UHF reception
AP369 Alcad phased array specifications
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Do you have a source for the statement you added to Radio frequency? I don't doubt it is true, but I would sure like to read more about determining that to be the mechanism. — EncMstr ( talk) 18:49, 14 September 2012 (UTC)
Also see Electrosurgery, a common, practical application of this principle. -- AJim ( talk) 02:16, 18 November 2012 (UTC)
Is there a particular reason you removed the citation template for the Colpitts patent? You used templates in other places. Glrx ( talk) 18:26, 29 December 2012 (UTC)
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Hi, I know this is going to sound exactly the same as the message above but you are the only peer review volunteer that falls under the roller coaster category. Anyways, I was wondering if you would be able to give a peer review for the SheiKra article as I plan to nominate for FA status in the near future. If you don't want to review it, that is fine.-- Dom497 ( talk) 00:44, 5 March 2013 (UTC)
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Hi there! I spent a while today working on rewriting the floating ground article. I think the result is significantly clearer and more helpful (but then, I would!). If you have a chance to swing by, it'd be great to get some feedback. I don't think I've said anything too stupid, but it wouldn't be the first time! Rswarbrick ( talk) 18:16, 14 September 2013 (UTC)
Hi Chetvorno,
The lede of energy says
When measuring energy, the general reader may might not think of it as measuring state variables and calculating energy from them. To the general reader, this may be a fine distinction and isn't stated elsewhere in the article.
What do you think about removing the part after the comma? It can still be stated and explained elsewhere in the article.
DavRosen ( talk) 14:50, 15 October 2013 (UTC)
Hi,
I'm putting this here to try to keep from starting anything else started on the double-slit article. I think the article is good enough for now. One of my college era housemates teaches physics and writes good books on the subject. I once showed him an article, which was deleted from Wikipedia on the grounds that it wasn't important enough, and his reaction was something like this: "First you have the math, and then you have people trying to explain in words what the math means. The article is one interpretation." (I guess I should dig his email up, but that was at least my take-away.) I think the author's way of putting things in ordinary language is very helpful, so I'll give you a link to the edited and preserved article here.
http://www.china-learn.info/Science/Event-probability%20interpretation.html
I would add one quotation from Niels Bohr's Atomic Physics and Human Knowledge, p. 7:
Just as the general concept of relativity expresses the essential dependence of any phenomenon on the frame of reference used for its coordination in space and time, the notion of complementarity serves to symbolize the fundamental limitation, met with in atomic physics, of the objective existence of phenomena independent of the means of their observation.
Best,
Pat
P0M ( talk) 15:59, 28 October 2013 (UTC)
Back again. A contributor/editor has recently reopened the question covered above. Or at least I think he has reopened the same question. I'm having a little difficulty following his prose. I suspect that he is correct on one point: There is no published experiment designed to show that if a detector is added at one slit or the other then a photon goes through one slit or the other. I haven't been able to find such an experiment; to the contrary I find some indications that it is meaningless to ask what the path of the photon is. All that can be said is that with a detector in place a photon shows up either at the end of the left path or the right path. I'm not even finding a clear assertion of that presumed fact.
The new editor is probably going to do something to the article, so I'd like to resolve this question in a proper way. Do you have anything to contribute?
Thanks. P0M ( talk) 01:40, 28 December 2013 (UTC)
Hi. Could you do a peer review of this article, Ense3. It was translated from the french article. Thanks in advance for your time. Emekadavid ( talk) 19:23, 6 January 2014 (UTC)
I didn't understand what you were referring to with "see Talk page". I reverted mainly because your revert was malformed, but I'd like to understand the point of the rest, too. Probably taking it to the article talk page is a good idea. Dicklyon ( talk) 06:37, 16 January 2014 (UTC)
Your reverted an edit of mine on temperature compensated balance wheels. I noted in my edit that the compensation doesn't cause the balance to turn faster or slower and you replied "Yes, it does. Lower moment of inertia = higher acceleration = higher angular velocity = higher freq, compensating for freq lowering effect of spring."
I understand what you mean, but the balance can't actually be allowed (by the designer) to oscillate at a higher frequency to compensate for the frequency lowering effect of spring, because if it did, then the watch would not keep accurate time. The objective of the designer of the watch is to keep the balance oscillating, as nearly as possible, at the *same* frequency all the time, whatever the temperature.
What actually happens is that as the higher temperature causes the spring to become weaker, the moment of inertia of the balance is reduced by the curving in of the bimetallic arms of the balance. These two effects happen together, and the reduction in the moment of inertia of the balance is designed to keep in step with (to "compensate" for) the reduced strength of the balance spring, so that as the spring becomes weaker it can still accelerate the balance at the same rate as before, and the balance then oscillates at the same frequency, preserving the timekeeping of the watch.
I hope this clarifies things and the reason for my edit. I don't want to get into a to and fro reverting each others edits so I hope we can reach an agreement that we are both happy with.
David.Boettcher 18:15, 19 January 2014 (UTC)
I don't think that the ice skater analogy is appropriate in the context of a balance wheel, and in fact it could lead to the misunderstanding that the balance wheel speeds up in the same way that the skater does. However, I agree that the wording could be a bit challenging for some readers so I have expanded it to make it easier to understand. I have also linked to the moment of inertia page where the ice skater analogy is well used. David.Boettcher 11:10, 21 January 2014 (UTC)
Of course that would be fine. David.Boettcher 11:10, 21 January 2014 (UTC)
"These early balance wheels were crude timekeepers because they lacked the other essential element: the balance spring. Early balance wheels rotated freely in each direction until the escapement pushed it back the other way. In such an "inertial' wheel, the acceleration is proportional to the drive force. This made the timekeeping strongly dependent on the force applied by the escapement, so the watch slowed down as the mainspring unwound and lost force during its running period."
I don't think this explanation is really "inproved" at all. Aside from the illogicality of the first sentence (what does "crude" mean? And if the balance spring is "essential" why don't quartz watches have them?) the balance wheel did not "rotate freely" until pushed back by the escapement. The swinging balance pushes the escapement, train and mainspring backwards, until the point is reached at which the force exerted by the mainspring through the train overcomes the inertia of the balance, halting and then reversing it, accelerating it in the opposite direction until the escapement "escapes" and the force acting on the swinging balance is reversed. So couldn't it be said that the balance and mainspring are coupled together by the escapement and train act as an harmonic oscillator? And if not, why not?
The statement that "the acceleration is proportional to the drive force" is simply Newtons second law, but it doesn't necessarily follow that this made the timekeeping strongly dependent on the force applied by the escapement. If the balance and mainspring were acting as an harmonic oscillator, then the large oscillations with the spring fully wound and the smaller ones as it ran down should be iscochronous, i.e. bigger force, faster acceleration, larger arcs vs. smaller force, less acceleration and smaller arcs - but of the same period.
I hesitate to rewrite this section because I don't think I can explain it any better myself at the moment, but I am sure that it is not correct as it stands.
Thoughts?
David.Boettcher 15:37, 6 May 2014 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by David.Boettcher ( talk • contribs)
Please take that extra second to merge changes instead of RVing a single character spelling issue. Maury Markowitz ( talk) 13:30, 4 February 2014 (UTC)
Hi Chris, the page Asymptotic analysis could do with your skills.
David.Boettcher 15:46, 21 February 2014 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by David.Boettcher ( talk • contribs)
Do you find it strange that internet wasn't listed as an application of UHF?-- Wyn.junior ( talk) 15:22, 24 February 2014 (UTC)
Your ] inserted a reference to a GE manual and linked to an online copy of it. The manual is dated 1965 and has a copyright notice, so its copyright term would be 95 years. Do you have any information that indicates the website has permission to republish? If not, then it would be a WP:COPYLINK violation. Glrx ( talk) 22:51, 25 April 2014 (UTC)
Can you do me a favour and take a look at this reversion of my edits to the article? I don't understand the person's point (I think he is just failing to read what he wrote) and the discussion is getting a bit bad-tempered. Spinning Spark 19:24, 17 May 2014 (UTC)
The "radius of oscillation" of a physical pendulum is the length of a simple pendulum with the same period. The "radius of gyration" of any rigid body with mass M and moment of inertia I (for a specified pivot point) is defined as the square root of I/M. Accordingly, the radius of gyration of a pendulum is the geometric mean of the radius of oscillation and the distance from the pivot to the center of mass. The relationship between the radius of oscillation and the radius of gyration has been known for nearly two centuries, if not longer. The radius of gyration is correctly defined in the Wikipedia article bearing that name and in the "Moment of Inertia" article as well. In modern times the radius of oscillation of a physical pendulum is usually called the "equivalent length" of a hypothetical simple pendulum. The older terminology is preferable, in my opinion, and should be preserved for historical authenticity if for no other reason. Thomas Jefferson was familiar with the fact that a thin uniform rigid rod suspended at one end has a radius of oscillation of two-thirds its actual length. This is neither the time or the place to revise traditional nomenclature in a well-established branch of physics. The period of a compound pendulum is already derived in the relevant section of the companion Wikipedia article: Pendulum (mathematics). The parallel axis theorem is not used in that derivation, and the radius of gyration is basically superfluous insofar as the formula for the pendulum period is concerned.
I will soon make another attempt to correct the rather serious conceptual blunder that has prevailed for much too long. Hopefully my post will not be automatically reverted without attempting some kind of meaningful dialogue. 2001:558:6004:B:48A5:65FB:18FE:4B37 ( talk) 18:12, 24 June 2014 (UTC)
2001:558:6004:B:F49E:BFA0:BAC6:2340 ( talk) 07:01, 23 June 2014 (UTC) 2001:558:6004:B:48A5:65FB:18FE:4B37 ( talk) 22:12, 23 June 2014 (UTC) 2001:558:6004:B:48A5:65FB:18FE:4B37 ( talk) 08:37, 24 June 2014 (UTC)
It's unclear if your excellent electrostatic field and induced charge diagram http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrostatics#mediaviewer/File:Electrostatic_induction.svg is an actual simulation or just an "artist's interpretation". If it is the output from a simulation or tool, what is that tool? I ask this because the diagram is well done, clear, and qualitatively correct, and I'd love to make similar figures for my own electrostatic examples! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.102.117.236 ( talk) 04:27, 17 August 2014 (UTC)