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Quartz clock
by
Ciro Santilli
34
Updated
2024-12-15
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Created
1970-01-01
Video 1.
How a quartz watch works by
Steve Mould
(2017)
Source
. Mentions
feedback loop
loop with the
quartz
tuning fork
for the
piezoelectricity
and an
amplifier
. Also mentions the choice of 32768
Hertz
(
2
1
5
) as the first power of 2 that is outside of the
human hearing range
, and then how a
frequency divider
is used to reduce the frequency to get the
second
counter.
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