
Published online:
31 October 2023
Published in print:
07 September 1995
Online ISBN:
9781383029345
Print ISBN:
9780198565222
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Fifteen The enigma of flicker noise
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127–132
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Published:September 1995
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Woodward, Philip, 'The enigma of flicker noise', My Own Right Time: An Exploration of Clockwork Design (Oxford , 1995; online edn, Oxford Academic, 31 Oct. 2023), https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198565222.003.0015, accessed 28 Apr. 2025.
Abstract
Flicker noise presents applied scientists with a problem. It is a widely observed phenomenon by no means limited to clocks. Originally discovered in thermionic valves, it has turned up in many fields other than electronics - in physics generally, medicine, hydrography, the stock market, and even in modern music (a form of noise) - but it is strangely difficult to explain. A generic mechanism for it has been proposed (West and Shlesinger 1989, 1990), but through my own shortcomings, I have not yet succeeded in finding that explanation helpful.
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