transduction

=Transduction=

toc Read here about "transduction," an idea important to the study of scale because activity transpiring in scales inaccessible to our built-in biological receptors must be transduced into data that can be tuned-into by our built-in biological receptors.

=Usage=

The human sensory fabric receives markers bearing information about significant alterations in a system that is not an intrinsic part of a human body. The system usually features subsystems or components dedicated to changing its varying conditions to other matter-energy forms of a sort that can be detected by a human sensory fabric.

=Degrees Of Freedom= A system can only transduce the state of another system, or come into resonant sympathetic action in response to impinging forces, if it has a degree of freedom. Equations of motion for such systems include the logarithmic decrement method, which is the natural logarithm of the ratio of any two consecutive amplitudes (x) of free vibration.

One and two degree of freedom mechanical systems, (c) Prentice-Hall Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ.