On Thursday, 12 March, 2015 13:11:10 Keller, Jacob wrote:
> >If projects a middle-C-tone into a piano, do all of the lower notes resonate
> >as well, according to the Kramers-Kronig relation?
> If you press the right pedal the harmonics of the note you play will
> resonate. My piano teachers never mentioned to me the Kramers-Kronig
> relation but that's a long time ago, perhaps they do these days.
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> Right, I always understood that it was just the harmonics which would
> resonate. But according to Kramers-Kronig, wouldn't there be resonance on all
> strings, just as there's anomalous scattering at all higher energies above
> the edge? Each string of lower frequency would be analogous to an anomalous
> scatterer with an edge at a lower energy than the incident radiation. Hmm,
> maybe it really does happen?
The better-known example is the precaution of having
soldiers break step when crossing a bridge. The higher-frequency
input from march-tempo footsteps can excite a lower frequency
resonance in the bridge structure with possible bad consequence.
But yes, it works for pianos too.
Ethan
> A different question: do the real and imaginary components of anomalous
> scattering arise from different processes, or are they simply a way to
> represent the phase of the anomalous scattering?
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> Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2015 6:57 PM
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> Subject: [ccp4bb] Basic Anomalous Scattering Theory
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> Dear Crystallographers,
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> I have had only a vague understanding of what specific things are happening
> with shell electrons at anomalous edges. Specifically, for example, to what
> energy of electron-transition does the x-ray k-edge correspond in terms of
> orbitals, and is that transition energy actually equal to the energy of the
> photon, suggesting that the photon is absorbed (or disappears?) in elevating
> the electron? I don't think we say it is absorbed, so how does the energy
> come back out, from the electron's falling back down, right? So then there's
> a new photon created, or the same one comes back out? Where was it?
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> Further, I also have heard that the emerging anomalous/resonance photons are
> of the same wavelength as the incident radiation, but usually there is
> something lost in transitions (even non-fluorescence ones) I thought? Has it
> ever been definitively shown that the anomalous photons are of the same
> energy as the incident radiation?
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> In the case of L-edges, why are there three separate edges? Further, if the
> resonance occurs when the energies are equal, why does resonance occur at
> energies greater than the edge? I don't think this happens in other resonance
> phenomena, or does it? If projects a middle-C-tone into a piano, do all of
> the lower notes resonate as well, according to the Kramers-Kronig relation? I
> think it may actually happen in the mammalian cochlea's travelling wave, but
> is it completely general to resonance phenomena?
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> Just interested, and have wondered these things for a long time in the
> background of my mind...
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> Jacob Keller
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Ethan A Merritt
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