Fluidic Flight Controls: Future Aviation Where Rolling and Pitching without Any Control Surfaces

By Fouad Sabry

What Is Fluidic Flight Controls

The use of a fluid to carry out analog or digital operations in a manner analogous to that which is carried out with electrical devices is known as fluidics or fluidic logic.

How You Will Benefit

(I) Insights, and validations about the following topics:

Chapter 1: Fluidics

Chapter 2: Electronics

Chapter 3: Electronic oscillator

Chapter 4: Amplifier

Chapter 5: Feedback

Chapter 6: Transistor

Chapter 7: Vacuum tube

Chapter 8: Transistor-transistor logic

Chapter 9: Tetrode

Chapter 10: Pneumatics

Chapter 11: Ventilator

Chapter 12: List of Nikola Tesla patents

Chapter 13: Hartley oscillator

Chapter 14: Check valve

Chapter 15: Aircraft flight control system

Chapter 16: Hydraulic machinery

Chapter 17: Electronic component

Chapter 18: Electronic circuit

Chapter 19: Tesla valve

Chapter 20: Electronic engineering

Chapter 21: Glossary of electrical and electronics engineering

(II) Answering the public top questions about fluidic flight controls.

(III) Real world examples for the usage of fluidic flight controls in many fields.

(IV) 17 appendices to explain, briefly, 266 emerging technologies in each industry to have 360-degree full understanding of fluidic flight controls' technologies.

Who This Book Is For

Professionals, undergraduate and graduate students, enthusiasts, hobbyists, and those who want to go beyond basic knowledge or information for any kind of fluidic flight controls.

• Language: English
• Publisher: One Billion Knowledgeable
• Release date: Oct 25, 2022

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Copyright

Fluidic Flight Controls Copyright © 2022 by Fouad Sabry. All Rights Reserved.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means including information storage and retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the author. The only exception is by a reviewer, who may quote short excerpts in a review.

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This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

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Preface

Why did I write this book?

The story of writing this book started on 1989, when I was a student in the Secondary School of Advanced Students.

It is remarkably like the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) Schools, which are now available in many advanced countries.

STEM is a curriculum based on the idea of educating students in four specific disciplines — science, technology, engineering, and mathematics — in an interdisciplinary and applied approach. This term is typically used to address an education policy or a curriculum choice in schools. It has implications for workforce development, national security concerns and immigration policy.

There was a weekly class in the library, where each student is free to choose any book and read for 1 hour. The objective of the class is to encourage the students to read subjects other than the educational curriculum.

In the library, while I was looking at the books on the shelves, I noticed huge books, total of 5,000 pages in 5 parts. The books name is The Encyclopedia of Technology, which describes everything around us, from absolute zero to semiconductors, almost every technology, at that time, was explained with colorful illustrations and simple words. I started to read the encyclopedia, and of course, I was not able to finish it in the 1-hour weekly class.

So, I convinced my father to buy the encyclopedia. My father bought all the technology tools for me in the beginning of my life, the first computer and the first technology encyclopedia, and both have a great impact on myself and my career.

I have finished the entire encyclopedia in the same summer vacation of this year, and then I started to see how the universe works and to how to apply that knowledge to everyday problems.

My passion to the technology started mor than 30 years ago and still the journey goes on.

This book is part of The Encyclopedia of Emerging Technologies which is my attempt to give the readers the same amazing experience I had when I was in high school, but instead of 20th century technologies, I am more interested in the 21st century emerging technologies, applications, and industry solutions.

The Encyclopedia of Emerging Technologies will consist of 365 books, each book will be focused on one single emerging technology. You can read the list of emerging technologies and their categorization by industry in the part of Coming Soon, at the end of the book.

365 books to give the readers the chance to increase their knowledge on one single emerging technology every day within the course of one year period.

Introduction

How did I write this book?

In every book of The Encyclopedia of Emerging Technologies, I am trying to get instant, raw search insights, direct from the minds of the people, trying to answer their questions about the emerging technology.

There are 3 billion Google searches every day, and 20% of those have never been seen before. They are like a direct line to the people thoughts.

Sometimes that’s ‘How do I remove paper jam’. Other times, it is the wrenching fears and secret hankerings they would only ever dare share with Google.

In my pursuit to discover an untapped goldmine of content ideas about Fluidic Flight Controls, I use many tools to listen into autocomplete data from search engines like Google, then quickly cranks out every useful phrase and question, the people are asking around the keyword Fluidic Flight Controls.

It is a goldmine of people insight, I can use to create fresh, ultra-useful content, products, and services. The kind people, like you, really want.

People searches are the most important dataset ever collected on the human psyche. Therefore, this book is a live product, and constantly updated by more and more answers for new questions about Fluidic Flight Controls, asked by people, just like you and me, wondering about this new emerging technology and would like to know more about it.

The approach for writing this book is to get a deeper level of understanding of how people search around Fluidic Flight Controls, revealing questions and queries which I would not necessarily think off the top of my head, and answering these questions in super easy and digestible words, and to navigate the book around in a straightforward way.

So, when it comes to writing this book, I have ensured that it is as optimized and targeted as possible. This book purpose is helping the people to further understand and grow their knowledge about Fluidic Flight Controls. I am trying to answer people’s questions as closely as possible and showing a lot more.

It is a fantastic, and beautiful way to explore questions and problems that the people have and answer them directly, and add insight, validation, and creativity to the content of the book – even pitches and proposals. The book uncovers rich, less crowded, and sometimes surprising areas of research demand I would not otherwise reach. There is no doubt that, it is expected to increase the knowledge of the potential readers’ minds, after reading the book using this approach.

I have applied a unique approach to make the content of this book always fresh. This approach depends on listening to the people minds, by using the search listening tools. This approach helped me to:

Meet the readers exactly where they are, so I can create relevant content that strikes a chord and drives more understanding to the topic.

Keep my finger firmly on the pulse, so I can get updates when people talk about this emerging technology in new ways, and monitor trends over time.

Uncover hidden treasures of questions need answers about the emerging technology to discover unexpected insights and hidden niches that boost the relevancy of the content and give it a winning edge.

The building block for writing this book include the following:

(1) I have stopped wasting the time on gutfeel and guesswork about the content wanted by the readers, filled the book content with what the people need and said goodbye to the endless content ideas based on speculations.

(2) I have made solid decisions, and taken fewer risks, to get front row seats to what people want to read and want to know — in real time — and use search data to make bold decisions, about which topics to include and which topics to exclude.

(3) I have streamlined my content production to identify content ideas without manually having to sift through individual opinions to save days and even weeks of time.

It is wonderful to help the people to increase their knowledge in a straightforward way by just answering their questions.

I think the approach of writing of this book is unique as it collates, and tracks the important questions being asked by the readers on search engines.

Acknowledgments

Writing a book is harder than I thought and more rewarding than I could have ever imagined. None of this would have been possible without the work completed by prestigious researchers, and I would like to acknowledge their efforts to increase the knowledge of the public about this emerging technology.

Dedication

To the enlightened, the ones who see things differently, and want the world to be better -- they are not fond of the status quo or the existing state. You can disagree with them too much, and you can argue with them even more, but you cannot ignore them, and you cannot underestimate them, because they always change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones or amateur, others see genius and innovators, because the ones who are enlightened enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do, and lead the people to the enlightenment.

Epigraph

The use of a fluid to carry out analog or digital operations in a manner analogous to that which is carried out with electrical devices is known as fluidics or fluidic logic.

Table of Contents

Copyright

Bonus

Preface

Introduction

Acknowledgments

Dedication

Epigraph

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Fluidics

Chapter 2: Electronics

Chapter 3: Electronic oscillator

Chapter 4: Amplifier

Chapter 5: Feedback

Chapter 6: Transistor

Chapter 7: Vacuum tube

Chapter 8: Transistor–transistor logic

Chapter 9: Tetrode

Chapter 10: Pneumatics

Chapter 11: Ventilator

Chapter 12: List of Nikola Tesla patents

Chapter 13: Hartley oscillator

Chapter 14: Check valve

Chapter 15: Aircraft flight control system

Chapter 16: Hydraulic machinery

Chapter 17: Atomic battery

Chapter 18: Electronic circuit

Chapter 19: Tesla valve

Chapter 20: Electronic engineering

Chapter 21: Glossary of electrical and electronics engineering

Epilogue

About the Author

Coming Soon

Appendices: Emerging Technologies in Each Industry

Chapter 1: Fluidics

The use of a fluid to conduct analog or digital operations in a manner analogous to that which is achieved with electronics is known as fluidics, sometimes known as fluidic logic.

Pneumatics and hydraulics provide the theoretical groundwork for fluid dynamics, which in turn serves as the basis for fluidics' physical foundation. Fluidics is a word that is often reserved for situations in which the device in question does not have any moving parts; hence, common hydraulic components such as spool valves and hydraulic cylinders are not recognized or referred to as fluidic devices.

If a smaller jet of fluid strikes a larger jet of fluid from the side, the larger jet may be deflected. This results in nonlinear amplification, which is analogous to the function of the transistor in electronic digital logic. The majority of applications for this kind of logic include settings in which electronic digital logic would be unstable, such as in systems that are subjected to high amounts of electromagnetic interference or ionizing radiation.

Fluidics is one of the instruments that nanotechnology believes to be one of its tools. In this field, the effects of interface forces between fluids and solids as well as fluids and fluids are often quite substantial. The military has also made use of fluidics in a variety of applications.

Nikola Tesla received a patent for a valvular conduit, sometimes known as a Tesla valve, in the year 1920. This valve functions as a fluidic diode. It is a leaky diode, which means that the reverse flow is not zero for any pressure difference that is supplied to it. The Tesla valve also exhibits a non-linear response, due to the fact that the diodicity of the valve depends on the frequency. In fluid circuits, such as a full-wave rectifier, it might be utilized to convert alternating current to direct current. When Billy M. Horton of the Harry Diamond Laboratories (which later became a part of the Army Research Laboratory) realized that he could redirect the direction of flue gases using a small bellows, he had the initial idea for the fluidic amplifier in 1957. Billy M. Horton is credited with being the inventor of the fluidic amplifier.

It is possible to construct logic gates whose gating function is powered by water rather than by electricity.

These only function properly when placed in a certain orientation, which must be maintained at all times.

Simply connecting two separate streams together is what an OR gate does, and a NOT gate (inverter) consists of A deflecting a supply stream to produce Ā.

The figure includes a rough drawing of both the AND gate and the XOR gate.

The XOR gate might also be used to build an inverter, if desired, as A XOR 1 = Ā.

In a fluidic amplifier, a fluid supply, it may just be air, water, or hydraulic fluid, reaches the top from the bottom.

Pressure applied to the control ports C1 or C2 deflects the stream, so that it exits via either port O1 or O2.

It's possible that the flow that's being deflected is significantly stronger than the flow that's entering the control ports, Therefore, the apparatus has gain.

This fundamental apparatus may be put to use in the construction of further fluidic logic components, as well as oscillators for fluidic circuits that function in a manner akin to that of flip flops. Therefore, simple digital logic systems are capable of being constructed.

Fluidic amplifiers often have bandwidths in the low kilohertz region, which results in the systems that are created from them being rather sluggish in comparison to electrical devices.

Fluid diodes, a fluid oscillator, and a variety of hydraulic circuits, including one that does not have an electrical equivalent, have also been produced. The fluidic triode, an amplification device that employs a fluid to transport the signal, is another one of the inventions that has been made.

Since the MONIAC Computer, which was created in 1949 and used for teaching economic concepts, was a fluid-based analogue computer, it was able to replicate complicated simulations in a way that digital computers could not at the time. Approximately twelve to fourteen were constructed, and corporations and educational institutions bought them.

1964 saw the construction of the FLODAC Computer, which served as a proof of concept for a fluid digital computer.

Some hydraulic and pneumatic systems, like some types of automatic gearboxes in automobiles, both include and make use of fluidic components. The importance of fluidics in industrial control has diminished as a result of the growing prevalence of digital logic in the field of industrial control.

In the consumer market, fluidically controlled devices are growing in popularity and presence. These products are being installed in a wider variety of products, from toy spray guns to shower heads and hot tub jets; they all deliver oscillating or pulsing streams of air or water.

The use of fluid logic allows for the creation of a valve that does not have any moving components, such as those seen in some anesthetic machines. For applications like these, fluidics is desirable due to its lower mass, cost (up to 50 percent less), drag (up to 15 percent less during use), inertia (for faster, stronger control response), complexity (mechanically simpler, fewer or no moving parts or surfaces, less maintenance), and radar cross section for stealth. These benefits all add up to make fluidics an attractive choice. This is likely going to be used in a great deal of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), fighter aircraft of the 6th generation, and ships.

Two fluidically controlled unmanned aircraft have been put through testing by BAE Systems, the first of which began in 2010 and was given the moniker Demon,

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Chapter 2: Electronics

The study of the emission, behavior, and consequences of electrons via the use of electronic devices is the focus of the discipline of electronics, which is a subfield of both physics and electrical engineering. In contrast to traditional electrical engineering, which relies solely on passive effects such as resistance, capacitance, and inductance to regulate the flow of electric current, electronics makes use of active devices to control electron flow through amplification and rectification. This sets it apart from the field of electrical engineering known as classical..

The invention of electronics had a significant impact on the growth of contemporary civilization. The discovery of the electron in 1897 and the following development of the vacuum tube, which had the ability to amplify and correct weak electrical impulses, marked the beginning of the field of electronics and the electron era. In the early 1900s, Ambrose Fleming and Lee De Forest invented the diode and the triode, respectively. These inventions made it possible for a non-mechanical device to detect minute electrical voltages, such as radio signals emanating from a radio antenna. This paved the way for the beginning of practical applications.

They enabled the construction of equipment that used current amplification and rectification, which gave us radio, television, radar, long-distance telephony, and a great deal more. Vacuum tubes, also known as thermoonic valves, were the first active electronic components. They controlled current flow by influencing the flow of individual electrons. In the 1920s, commercial radio broadcasting and communications were becoming widespread, and electronic amplifiers were being used in such diverse applications as long distance telephony and the music recording industry. The early growth of electronics was rapid, and by the 1920s, commercial radio broadcasting and communications were becoming widespread.

The subsequent significant advance in technology did not take place for some decades, and it was not until 1947 that John Bardeen and Walter Houser Brattain of Bell Labs created the first operational point-contact transistor. Nevertheless, up until the middle of the 1980s, vacuum tubes were the dominant technology in the fields of microwave and high power transmission as well as television receivers. This was the case in both of these fields. Since then, products using solid-state technology have almost totally taken over the market. Some specialized applications, such as high power RF amplifiers, cathode ray tubes, specialized audio equipment, guitar amplifiers, and some microwave devices, continue to make use of vacuum tubes.

It is thought that the IBM 608, which was released in April 1955, was the first all-transistorized calculator to be built for sale on the commercial market. The IBM 608 was the first device created by IBM to employ transistor circuits instead of vacuum tubes. This issue was resolved when Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce developed the integrated circuit. In their design, the chip and all of the electronic components were fabricated from a single block (or monolith) of semiconductor material. Both the size of the circuits and the manufacturing process might be reduced, allowing for the possibility of automation. This resulted in the concept of integrating all of the components onto a single-crystal silicon wafer, which in turn led to the development of small-scale integration (SSI) in the early 1960s, followed by medium-scale integration (MSI) in the late 1960s, and finally very large scale integration (VLSI). 2008 was the year when billion-transistor processors were available for commercial use.

The following is a list of the main subfields of electronics in 2022::

Digital electronics

Analogue electronics

Microelectronics

Circuit design

Integrated circuits

Power electronics

Optoelectronics

Semiconductor devices

Embedded systems

Audio electronics

Telecommunications

Nanoelectronics

Bioelectronics

Any part of an electronic system, whether it's active or passive, may be considered a component of the electronic system. To produce an electronic circuit that is capable of performing a certain task, its individual components must first be joined together. This is often accomplished by soldering the components to a printed circuit board (PCB). Individual components may be packed, or they can be packaged together in more complicated groupings to form integrated circuits. Electronic components such as capacitors, inductors, and resistors are examples of passive components. Active electronic components, on the other hand, include semiconductor devices such as transistors and thyristors, which regulate the flow of current at the electron level.

Analog and digital are the two categories that may be used to categorize the functionality of an electronic circuit. One or both of these forms of circuitry may be included in a single device, or the device may consist of a combination of the two. As more of its operations are converted to digital formats, analog circuits are finding less and less use in modern electronics.

The vast majority of electronic devices that use analog signals, such as radio receivers, are assembled using many permutations of only a few kinds of fundamental circuits. In contrast to digital circuits, which use discrete amounts of voltage or current, analog circuits make use of a continuous spectrum of these quantities.

Because a circuit may be defined as anything from a single component to systems including thousands of components, the number of various analog circuits that have been invented to this point is quite high.

Even though various non-linear effects are utilized in analog circuits, such as mixers, modulators, and other similar components, analog circuits are frequently referred to as linear circuits. Amplifiers built using vacuum tubes and transistors, as well as operational amplifiers and oscillators, are all excellent examples of analog circuits.

In today's world, analog circuitry may make use of digital or even microprocessor technology to increase its performance. Completely analog circuits are somewhat uncommon in today's technological world. In place of the terms analog or digital, the term mixed signal is often used to refer to this kind of circuit.

Because linear and non-linear modes of operation are present in both analog and digital circuits, it is not always easy to tell the difference between the two types of circuits. Comparators are a kind of analog-to-digital converters that take in a continuous voltage range but only output one of two values, similar to how digital circuits work. In a similar vein, an overdriven transistor amplifier may take on the properties of a controlled switch with basically two levels of output. These features include: In point of fact, many digital circuits are really implemented as variants of analog circuits similar to this example. Considering that the majority of characteristics of the real physical world are analog, digital effects can only be achieved by restricting the behavior of analog components.

Digital circuits are electric circuits based on a number of discrete voltage values. The most common physical representation of Boolean algebra is called a digital circuit, and digital circuits serve as the foundation for all modern digital computers. When discussing digital circuits, the phrases digital circuit, digital system, and logic are, in the minds of the vast majority of engineers, synonymous concepts. The vast majority of digital circuits implement a binary system, which consists of two voltage levels denoted as 0 and 1. The logic value 0 will often have a lower voltage and will be referred to as Low, while the logic value 1 will be referred to as High. On the other hand, some systems operate on a current basis, while others utilize a definition in which 0 represents High. In many cases, the logic designer will flip these definitions from one circuit to the next as they go through the design process in order to make things easier on themselves. There is no rhyme or reason to how the levels are defined as 0 or 1..

Threefold (with three states) Research has been done on logic, and prototypes of computers have been developed.

Digital circuits are the building blocks for electronic devices such as computers, electronic clocks, and programmable logic controllers, which are used to regulate various industrial processes. Another illustration of this would be digital signal processors.

Building blocks:

Field-effect transistor made of metal oxide and semiconductors (MOSFET)

Logic gates

Adders

Flip-flops

Counters

Registers

Multiplexers

Schmitt triggers

Highly integrated machinery and equipment:

Memory chip

Microprocessors

Microcontrollers

integrated circuit tailored to a particular application (ASIC)

Digital signal processor (DSP)

Field-programmable gate array (FPGA)

Field-programmable analog array (FPAA)

Embedded system on a chip (SOC)

It is necessary to remove the heat that is produced by electronic circuitry in order to avoid an instant failure and to increase long-term dependability. The majority of heat dissipation is accomplished via the use of passive conduction and convection. A larger dissipation may be accomplished by the use of heat sinks and fans for air cooling, as well as through the use of alternative types of computer cooling, such as water cooling. These methods make advantage of three different ways that heat energy may be transferred: convection, conduction, and radiation.

The term electronic noise refers to disruptions that are not desirable that are superimposed over a useful signal and have a tendency to obfuscate the information content of the signal. The signal distortion that may be created by a circuit is not the same thing as noise. There is always some level of noise present in electrical circuits. The working temperature of the circuit may be lowered to reduce the amount of noise that is produced, which may have been caused by electromagnetic or thermal activity. Other forms of noise, such as shot noise, are unable to be eliminated because of the constraints imposed by their underlying physical features.

The study of electronics requires the use of mathematical principles throughout. In order to get mastery in electronics, it is furthermore required to acquire mastery in the mathematics involved in circuit analysis.

The study of techniques for resolving linear systems with unknown variables, such as the voltage at a particular node or the current flowing through a particular branch of a network, is known as circuit analysis. The SPICE circuit simulator is a typical analytical tool for this particular purpose.

The study of and comprehension of electromagnetic field theory are also very significant for the subject of electronics.

Experiments conducted in laboratories are an essential component of the design process for electrical devices because of the intricate nature of the theory behind electronics. These experiments are carried out with the purpose of testing or verifying the engineer's design and locating any flaws that may have been made. Traditionally, electronics laboratories have been physical locations that house electrical devices and equipment. However, in more recent years, there has been a shift toward the use of simulation software for electronics labs. Some examples of this software are CircuitLogix, Multisim, and PSpice.

Electronics engineers of today have the capability of designing circuits with the use of prefabricated building blocks such as power supply, semiconductors (which refers to semiconductor devices such as transistors), and integrated circuits. Programs that are considered to fall under the category of electronic design automation software include programs for schematic capture and programs for printed circuit board design. The names NI Multisim, Cadence (ORCAD), EAGLE PCB and Schematic, Mentor (PADS PCB and LOGIC Schematic), Altium (Protel), LabCentre Electronics (Proteus), gEDA, KiCad, and many more are well-known in the field of electronic design automation (EDA) software.

Over the course of history, a wide variety of approaches of joining component parts have been used. For example, in the early days of electronics, point-to-point wiring was often employed to make circuits, and components were typically fastened to wooden breadboards. Construction using cordwood and wrapping objects with wire were two further approaches. The majority of today's electronics are constructed with printed circuit boards made of materials such as FR4, or the less expensive (but less durable) Synthetic Resin Bonded Paper (SRBP, also known as Paxoline/Paxolin (trade marks) and FR2), which can be identified by the brown color of its surface. In recent years, health and environmental risks related with electronic assembly have received an increasing amount of attention, particularly for items that are going to be sold in Europe.

The multi-disciplinary design challenges posed by sophisticated electronic devices and systems, such as mobile phones and computers, are the focus of the field of electronic systems design. The topic encompasses a wide range of topics, ranging from the design and development of an electronic system (new product development) through the assurance of its correct operation, service life, and disposal after its useful life. Therefore, the design of electronic systems is the process of defining and designing complicated electronic devices in order to fulfill the needs that are stated by the user.

The following are some of the most common methods for mounting electrical components::

a through-hole (also known as a Pin-Through-Hole) is a hole that allows pins to pass through it.

Surface mount

Chassis mount

Rack mount

LGA/BGA/PGA socket

There are several subindustries that make up the electronics industry. The semiconductor industry sector is the primary motivating factor behind the overall electronic industry,

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Chapter 3: Electronic oscillator

An electronic oscillator is a circuit that creates a periodic, oscillating electronic signal. This signal is most often a sine wave, although it may also be a square wave or a triangle wave.

Oscillators are often classified according to the frequency of the signal that they send out:

An electronic oscillator is referred to as a low-frequency oscillator, or LFO for short. This kind of oscillator produces a frequency that is lower than around 20 Hz. This phrase is primarily used in the area of audio synthesis, and it is used to differentiate an audio frequency oscillator from a sound synthesis oscillator.

An audio oscillator generates frequencies in the audible spectrum, which spans from 16 hertz to 20 kilohertz.

An RF oscillator is a device that generates signals in the radio frequency (RF) spectrum, which spans around 100 kHz to 100 GHz. Despite the fact that the phrase is currently more often used to refer to DC-DC buck converters.

The linear or harmonic oscillator and the nonlinear or relaxation oscillator are the two primary varieties of oscillator that may be found in electrical devices.

Crystal oscillators are extremely common in contemporary electronics and can generate frequencies ranging from 32 kHz to over 150 MHz. Crystals with a frequency of 32 kHz are typically used for keeping time, whereas crystals with higher frequencies are typically used for clock generation and RF applications.

The sinusoidal output is produced by the harmonic or linear oscillator. There are two distinct varieties:

An electronic amplifier, such as a transistor or operational amplifier, coupled in a feedback loop is the most common kind of linear oscillator. This type of oscillator has its output fed back into its input via a frequency selective electronic filter to generate positive feedback. After turning on the power supply to the amplifier for the first time, electrical noise in the circuit will generate a signal that is not zero, which will cause oscillations to begin. The noise is amplified and filtered until it very rapidly converges on a sine wave at a single frequency as it makes its way around the loop.

The kind of frequency selective filter that is used in the feedback loop may be used to categorize feedback oscillator circuits:

The filter in a circuit containing an RC oscillator is made out of a network of resistors and capacitors. The majority of the time, RC oscillators are used to create lower frequencies, such as those found in the audible spectrum. The phase shift oscillator and the Wien bridge oscillator are both examples of common kinds of circuits that include RC oscillators. LR oscillators, which employ inductor and resistor filters, also exist; however, they are far less frequent owing to the size of an inductor that is necessary to reach a value that is suitable for usage at lower frequencies.

An inductor (L) and a capacitor (C) that are coupled to one another and functioning as a resonator constitute the tuned circuit that serves as the filter in an LC oscillator circuit. This kind of circuit is sometimes referred to as a tank circuit. in addition to Clapp circuits.

A piezoelectric crystal serves as the circuit's filter in an example of a crystal oscillator (commonly a quartz crystal).

Linear oscillators can be constructed using one-port (two terminal) devices with negative resistance, such as magnetron tubes, tunnel diodes, IMPATT diodes, and Gunn diodes. In addition to the feedback oscillators described above, which use two-port amplifying active elements such as transistors and operational amplifiers, linear oscillators can also be constructed using the feedback oscillators described above. At high frequencies, often in the microwave range and higher, feedback oscillators operate poorly owing to severe phase shift in the feedback circuit. This is why negative-resistance oscillators are typically employed instead of feedback oscillators at these frequencies.

A resonant circuit, such as an LC circuit, crystal, or cavity resonator, is linked across a device with negative differential resistance in order to create negative-resistance oscillators. Additionally, a DC bias voltage is added in order to give the necessary energy. If activated, a resonant circuit may store energy in the form of electronic oscillations; but, due to the presence of electrical resistance and other losses, the oscillations are damped and eventually die out to zero. A resonant circuit by itself is nearly an oscillator. The internal loss resistance of the resonator has a positive value, but the negative resistance of the active device cancels out that value, thereby generating a resonator with no damping and causing it to create spontaneous continuous oscillations at its resonant frequency.

The negative-resistance oscillator model is not restricted to one-port devices like diodes; feedback oscillator circuits with two-port amplifying devices like transistors and tubes also have negative resistance.