Friday, May 8, 2020

Things That Equations Ignore

It's interesting that equations are devised only for things that are described by those equations. Equations are not interested in anything outside themselves. If x + y = z , then my equation is not interested in a or b or c and so on. This can be disastrous if an equation, algorithm, model should have been interested in a or b or c -- in some cases with global consequences.  Anyway, I am doing some unconventional electronic design. Normally, one seeks to avoid oscillator capture -- which goes by various names. This is when one oscillator (frequency) captures another -- like an alto in the choir getting confused and being captured by the soprano. But I am deliberately encouraging capture. I am therefore fairly much in no-man's-land with my experiments, which are interested in a and b and c, so to speak. OBSERVATION: But the experiments are going well.

POSTSCRIPT: Wikipedia states, with regard to injection locking: "High-speed logic signals and their harmonics are potential threats to an oscillator." But in my design, the threats are what I am using for my purposes.

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