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natural frequency
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natural frequency

Frequency at which a mechanical system will vibrate freely. A pendulum, for example, always oscillates at the same frequency when set in motion. More complicated systems, such as bridges, also vibrate with a fixed natural frequency. If a varying force with a frequency equal to the natural frequency is applied to such an object the vibrations can become violent, a phenomenon known as resonance.



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Many speech sounds and animal vocalizations, for instance, contain components, commonly referred to as complex tones, which consist of a fundamental frequency (f0) and higher harmonics.
Furthermore, the fundamental frequency and the intensity of vowels were averaged over each vowel as determined from the duration measurement.
subharmonic of a signal of fundamental frequency F would be a signal with frequency F/n.
 
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