MOTM

Maybe that explains the confusion in terminology, why different sources
insist on different uses for the terms.

Thanks!


 -----Original Message-----
From: 	Tony Allgood [mailto:oakley@...] 
Sent:	Wednesday, 22 March, 2000 5:04 PM
To:	motm@onelist.com
Subject:	Re: [motm] Pushing Partials Around



In the UK the fundamental is the first harmonic, the second harmonic is
twice the fundamental and so on. We use the term overtone to describe
the higher orders. That is, the first overtone is the second harmonic,
the second overtone is the third harmonic, etc. Thus n in Fourier
equations, and mechanical resonance, is indeed the harmonic number.