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speakspokespoktoday at 3:19 AM3 repliesview on HN

With a crystal of the right dimensions and correct input voltage could one feel the crystal vibrating?


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s0rcetoday at 4:25 AM

There are piezo actuators you could certainly feel but not sure they are made of quartz, maybe PZT.

Isamutoday at 3:22 AM

You mean could you get it down to a low enough frequency? Hmm I guess you can get down into audio frequency but maybe the amplitude will be tiny, you probably want a piezo mechanism that will give you more of a rumble.

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gosub100today at 5:13 PM

And a similar question: if you took a normal magnet and rotated it very quickly, say 10k rpm, would it emit an RF signal at (10k/60) hz? I'm 95% sure the answer is yes but I've never seen this demonstrated.