On Sun, 17 Nov 2002 16:11:32 -0800, David Weinshenker
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>> Total amplitude should be the same, though, right?
>
>Good question... sampling a signal with components of higher frequency
>than half the sample rate introduces weird "alias" artifacts; the answer 
>to your question then becomes "maybe, but you really can't trust it even 
>that far." A vibration with a frequency that's an exact multiple of the
>sample rate might cancel out completely, or appear as a steady high or low
>level, for example, depending on the relative phase of the signal frequency 
>and sample rate.

The chug frequency wasn't constant; we heard it changing pitch.  I
think for reduction purposes we can assume the relationship between
the sampling frequency and the oscillation frequency is variable.
Given that assumption, aren't the amplitudes pretty much the same over
a ~100 msec time scale?

-R

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