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Re: aa-32 mod...(not REAL long!)....2nd harmonic theory....

Posted by BBeck (A) on July 1, 2006 at 18:08:42

In Reply to: aa-32 mod...(not REAL long!)....2nd harmonic theory.... posted by radiance on July 1, 2006 at 12:31:08:

You said: "electrons bounced off plate (by secondary emission from impact of incoming electrons) are caught up in the NEXT wave of incoming electrons - THIS would be 2nd harmonic! Now, electrons that are not caught up in the next wave, but are caught up in the wave after the next, are of course the cause of 3rd harmonic, and so on."

Why is this necessarily so? What exactly do you mean by "caught up"? What do you mean by "wave" in this case? By "wave", could you mean an increase or decrease in electron current density due to audio frequency modulation of the quiescent current density? Where do the second and third polynomial terms enter into your model here? Are you clear on the distinction between static non-linearity that is known to cause harmonic distortion and that which you seem to posit is due to transit time?

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