calibcant/procedure.tex: Discuss 14kHz spike in fig:calibcant:vibration
authorW. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us>
Thu, 27 Jun 2013 20:39:37 +0000 (16:39 -0400)
committerW. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us>
Thu, 27 Jun 2013 20:39:37 +0000 (16:39 -0400)
src/calibcant/procedure.tex

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@@ -163,7 +163,11 @@ vibrations are configurable (with \hFconfig,
       (\cref{eq:peak-frequency}).  Only data in the blue region was
       used when computing the best fit.  This is the first vibration
       from the 2013-02-07T08-20-46 calibration, yielding a fitted
-      variance $\avg{V_p(t)^2}=96.90\pm0.99\U{mV$^2$}$.
+      variance $\avg{V_p(t)^2}=96.90\pm0.99\U{mV$^2$}$.  The narrow
+      spike around $14.3\U{kHz}$ is not due to the cantilever's
+      thermal vibration, and rejecting noise like this is the reason
+      we use a frequency-space fit to calculate the thermal deflection
+      variance.
       \label{fig:calibcant:vibration}}
   \end{center}
 \end{figure}