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’Twas the night before Christmas when all through the house
No electrons were flowing through even my mouse.
All devices were plugged by the chimney with care
With the hope that St. Nikola Tesla would share.
H. A. Larson, I. A. Engen
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Investigation of the dynamic character of EBR-II has been done with rod-drop and rotary rod-oscillator experiments. Both of these experiments provide linear feedback transfer functions in the complex domain; the rod-oscillator experiment gives this information directly, whereas modeling procedures must be done for the rod-drop experiment. Comparisons of results show good qualitative agreement. Quantitatively, the rod-drop experiment appears to predict less feedback than the rod-oscillator experiment.