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| Anyone else annoyed by the 6mb animated GIF? While it is effective at demonstrating a point, isn't there something that can be done about such a massive bandwidth hog? ] 08:08, 19 August 2006 (UTC) (can't be bothered signing in) | Anyone else annoyed by the 6mb animated GIF? While it is effective at demonstrating a point, isn't there something that can be done about such a massive bandwidth hog? ] 08:08, 19 August 2006 (UTC) (can't be bothered signing in) | ||
| :'''To Canberra-based user in Australia who "can't be bothered" to sign in:''' (a not-to-effective way to get people interested in queueing up behind you on an issue). Anyway, no kidding on the 6 MB file size! I didn't want to visit this article or even ''link'' to it because it was so damn slow. Now fixed. I used two applications on a Mac to convert the file into a version that is 4.7% the size of the original, is indistinguishable from the original in visual appearance, and which loads ''much'' faster. This version also has an interframe delay of 40 ms (v.s. the original’s 100 ms). Including processing time for each frame, this new version advances from frame to frame |
:'''To Canberra-based user in Australia who "can't be bothered" to sign in:''' (a not-to-effective way to get people interested in queueing up behind you on an issue). Anyway, no kidding on the 6 MB file size! I didn't want to visit this article or even ''link'' to it because it was so damn slow. Now fixed. I used two applications on a Mac to convert the file into a version that is 4.7% the size of the original, is indistinguishable from the original in visual appearance, and which loads ''much'' faster. This version also has an interframe delay of 40 ms (v.s. the original’s 100 ms). Including processing time for each frame, this new version advances from frame to frame in 45–50 ms (a frame rate of about 20–22.5 Hz on a typical computer), which yields a more fluid motion. ] 14:28, 4 October 2006 (UTC) | ||
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Oversized .GIF
Anyone else annoyed by the 6mb animated GIF? While it is effective at demonstrating a point, isn't there something that can be done about such a massive bandwidth hog? 60.224.44.222 08:08, 19 August 2006 (UTC) (can't be bothered signing in)
- To Canberra-based user in Australia who "can't be bothered" to sign in: (a not-to-effective way to get people interested in queueing up behind you on an issue). Anyway, no kidding on the 6 MB file size! I didn't want to visit this article or even link to it because it was so damn slow. Now fixed. I used two applications on a Mac to convert the file into a version that is 4.7% the size of the original, is indistinguishable from the original in visual appearance, and which loads much faster. This version also has an interframe delay of 40 ms (v.s. the original’s 100 ms). Including processing time for each frame, this new version advances from frame to frame in 45–50 ms (a frame rate of about 20–22.5 Hz on a typical computer), which yields a more fluid motion. Greg L 14:28, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
Is this an error?
"There is no energy gap for phonons" (under Dispersion Relation) - but then what about Phononic Crystals which do have energy gaps? - h2g2bob 11/11/05
- I suspect you'll find they're photonic crystals... -- CYD
- There are both, though phononic and photonic crystals are very similar (phononic crystals have gaps in the acoustic (long wavelength) dispersion curve I believe) - h2g2bob 12/11/05
You should also note that several devices have gaps within there phonon spectrums such as silicon nanowires and nanodots (See Applied Physics Letters, Volume 87, Article 231906 (2005) ) - shepplestone 4-6-06
Please elaborate
I have read this article a few times and still only have a vague concept of phonons. Can we get some more detail (and layman's explanations) on these sections:
"According to a well-known result in classical mechanics, any vibration of a lattice can be decomposed into a superposition of normal modes of vibration."
Can we link to an article about this rule, or give a short explanation if none exist?
"Secondly, we treat the potentials V as harmonic potentials, which is permissible as long as the atoms remain close to their equilibrium positions. (Formally, this is done by Taylor expanding V about its equilibrium value.)"
The link to screened in the sentence above this one helps explain it, but the link to harmonic oscillator doesn't really explain to me what a "harmonic potential" is.
"As we shall see in the following sections, any wavelength shorter than this can be mapped onto a wavelength longer than a."
This seems similar to aliasing in discrete-time sampled signal processing. If the analogy is close enough, should it be mentioned? Also, analogies to vibrations in strings would help me in particular, but I don't know how close these analogies are, and if they would give the wrong idea.
I guess the rest I don't understand simply because I don't know quantum mechanics... - Omegatron 14:26, Jul 21, 2004 (UTC)
- I think some of these have been addressed, but the entry definitly still needs some work (I'll see what I can do ;-). I like the aliasing analogy, it's exactly right (the points where the atoms are placed act like the points (in time) where the analogue wave is detected in digital streams.) --H2g2bob 02:10, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
--- Would it be possible to add some stuff about non-equilibrium processes, like thermal conductivity??
Thermal conductivity has a seperate page within wiki
plasmon
correcting small erro
Shouldn't "k" be "k_sub_n" in the exponents of the two Fourier relations immediately following the "One-Dimensional Phonons" subheading? Marcusl 15:58, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
Phonons & sound
In my opinion the reference to the name of Phonons is wrong: Phonons do not give rise to sound in crystals, there is merely a resemblace in the process. Sound would assume frequencies at least remotely near the audable range, which is not the case with phonons (>8 orders of magnitude difference).
Billiard ball model of the atmosphere
If one models air and air molecules as a lot of billiard balls in constant chaotic motion, then how does sound propagate through air? Are phonons associated with nitrogen and oxygen molecules, as they are with metal molecules? It seems it would be sort of Rube Goldbergian (like the board game Mousetrap) for sound to be carried and transferred between so many billiard balls in constant chaotic motion, when one is speaking to someone across the room.
I have read that air molecules at room temperature move about as fast as a jetliner; and that the average path lenght of an air molecule at room temperature is less than a meter. User: McTrixie --71.124.219.87 17:20, 27 August 2006 (UTC)