[time-nuts] "Q for dummies"

[Andy Talbot]

You could mention it is roughly equivalent to the number of swings you get
for a weight on a rope before it stops swinging.  Or something like that.

Andy
www.g4jnt.com



On Tue, 26 Jan 2021 at 13:14, Ole Petter Ronningen <opronningen at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi, All
>
> I am going to give a presentation to non-nuts, and in one of the slides I
> touch on Q - not wanting to spend more than a sentence or two on the
> subject, I wonder if the following analogy works:
>
> "A quality long-stemmed, thin-walled wine glass will ring for a long time
> after we give it a little tap - this is high Q. A thick-walled, stubby milk
> glass will barely ring at all, just a dull "plink" - this is low Q. The
> energy we put in dies out very quickly."
>
> As I am sure is embarrassingly evident, I have a rather tentative grip on
> the subject myself..
>
> Ole
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