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anything that can't decide where to stop, so it just keeps swinging past.
means a system or circuit that produces a repeating, periodic signal by continuously converting energy back and forth between two states.
from from latin oscillare, to swing, originally describing the toy oscillum masks the romans hung from trees to twist in the wind — the name jumped from garden decor to physics once people started studying pendulums.
quartz watchcrystal vibrates 32768 times per second exactly
first electronic1913 vacuum tube feedback circuit by meissner
your heartis a relaxation oscillator, not a metronome
universe itselfsome cosmologists model it as one big oscillator
for instance
quartz crystal oscillator — keeps every wristwatch and computer clock in sync since the 1970s
wien bridge oscillator — hp's first product in 1939, built by hewlett himself
pendulum clock — huygens 1656 design, accurate to seconds per day
cardiac pacemaker — electrically forces a stalled heart back into rhythm