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	Podcast:		Engineerguy videos & audio
	Episode:		How a quartz watch works
	Category:		Education
	Duration:		00:03:34
	Publish Date:		2010-12-14 07:40:45
	Description:		The amazing everyday wristwatch: We never think about it, but only because engineers have made it so reliable and durable that we don't need to. At its heart lies a tiny tuning fork made of the mineral quartz. In this video Bill takes apart a cheap watch and shows extreme close-ups of the actually tunings fork. He explains how the piezoelectric effect of quartz lies at the heart of the watch's operation.
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