COUPLED PENDULUMS AS A MECHANICAL MODEL OF THE TESLA TRANSFORMER.

A resonant pulse transformer with shock excitation is compared with a system of coupled pendulums with different masses tuned to resonance. For the Tesla transformer and coupled pendulums, conditions for complete energy transfer during one-half of the beat cycle were obtained. The requirements for the system parameters and initial conditions necessary for complete transfer of energy in the case of two spring-coupled pendulums with different masses and of the same length were first determined theoretically and then verified experimentally. The dependence of the minimum time for complete transfer of energy from one pendulum to the other on the system parameters is obtained. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]