What Are the Minerals for Quartz Watches?
What Is A Quartz Watch? While certain varies of quartz can be very beautiful, the crystals in a “quartz watch” have nothing to do with aesthetics. Because of a physical phenomenon called the “piezoelectric effect,” the quartz crystals are actually contained within the watch’s electrical circuitry and used to measure time. What Is A Quartz Crystal Oscillator? According to the piezoelectric effect, when you apply electrical voltage to a quartz crystal, the atoms will temporarily absorb the electrical energy by shifting into a structure with high potential energy. After a brief period of time (thousandths of a second) the atoms will revert to their lower potential state, which will transfer the electrical energy back into the circuit. This shifting cycle registers in the circuit as a “pulse” in voltage levels. Under a constant amount of voltage, the entire shifting cycle will occur a constant number of times per second. By designing a circuit with the ability to count the voltage pulses c
