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natural frequency

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noun

  1. physics the frequency at which a system vibrates when set in free vibration Compare forcing frequency

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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A planet and a swing both have a natural frequency.

From Salon Feb. 6, 2024

"The Helmholtz resonator has the unique ability to capture ambient sound waves precisely at its natural frequency and can be represented as cavities connected to their environment via a narrow neck," Sabat said.

From Science Daily Oct. 10, 2023

An ice sheet, like any solid, inherently vibrates at some natural frequency.

From Scientific American Aug. 31, 2022

But that window could shift as the natural frequency of fires unique to any given forest ecosystem is increasingly disrupted.

From Seattle Times Jul. 9, 2022

That’s all there is to tuning–adjusting the capacity and inductance of a circuit until it has the same natural frequency as some other circuit with which we want it to work.

From Letters of a Radio-Engineer to His Son by Mills, John

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