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    Waterbath Design Equipped with Temperature Distribution Monitor

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    Waterbath is a device used to create a constant temperature. This tool is used to incubates in microbiology analysis. Temperature is maintained according to the desired range. The heating element is controlled by the heater driver. This module is created by using Arduino Atmega 328 as a minimum system and time controller, Using a PID controller as temperature control, and using a DS18B20 sensor as a temperature sensor. The design of this study uses pre-experimental methods after only design research. The measurement results are done by comparing the module with a standard measurement instrument that produces the biggest % error in setting temperature of 37 ËšC which is equal to 1.21%, it is related to the boundary between water temperature and temperature setting too short which is affected by the DS18B20 temperature sensor reader that need time, to get a stable temperature reading. The minimum % error located at 60 ËšC, because to reach the temperature setting needs a long time so that DS18B20 the sensor reading is stable of setting temperature which is equal to 0.11%. The value % error of the timer is 3.4 % which the amount of the error is affected by the number of DS18B20 which is used and the delay from the microcontroller. Based on the results obtained this module can be used properly because still on the maximum limit error value less than 5%

    Temperature distribution in magnetized neutron star crusts

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    We investigate the influence of different magnetic field configurations on the temperature distribution in neutron star crusts. We consider axisymmetric dipolar fields which are either restricted to the stellar crust, ``crustal fields'', or allowed to penetrate the core, ``core fields''. By integrating the two-dimensional heat transport equation in the crust, taking into account the classical (Larmor) anisotropy of the heat conductivity, we obtain the crustal temperature distribution, assuming an isothermal core. Including quantum magnetic field effects in the envelope as a boundary condition, we deduce the corresponding surface temperature distributions. We find that core fields result in practically isothermal crusts unless the surface field strength is well above 101510^{15} G while for crustal fields with surface strength above a few times 101210^{12} G significant deviations from isothermality occur at core temperatures inferior or equal to 10810^8 K. At the stellar surface, the cold equatorial region produced by the quantum suppression of heat transport perpendicular to the field in the envelope, present for both core and crustal fields, is significantly extended by the classical suppression at higher densities in the case of crustal fields. This can result, for crustal fields, in two small warm polar regions which will have observational consequences: the neutron star has a small effective thermally emitting area and the X-ray pulse profiles are expected to have a distinctively different shape compared to the case of a neutron star with a core field. These features, when compared with X-ray data on thermal emission of young cooling neutron stars, will open a way to provide observational evidence in favor, or against, the two radically different configurations of crustal or core magnetic fields.Comment: 10 pages, 10 figures, submitted to A&

    The dust temperature distribution in prestellar cores

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    We have computed the dust temperature distribution to be expected in a pre-protostellar core in the phase prior to the onset of gravitational instability. We have done this in the approximation that the heating of the dust grains is solely due to the attenuated external radiation field and that the core is optically thin to its own radiation. This permits us to consider non spherically symmetric geometries. We predict the intensity distributions of our model cores at millimeter and sub-millimeter wavelengths and compare with observations of the well studied object L1544. We have also developed an analytical approximation for the temperature at the center of spherically symmetric cores and we compare this with the numerical calculations. Our results show (in agreement with Evans et al. 2001) that the temperatures in the nuclei of cores of high visual extinction (> 30 magnitudes) are reduced to values of below ~8 K or roughly half of the surface temperature. This has the consequence that maps at wavelengths shortward of 1.3 mm see predominantly the low density exterior of pre-protostellar cores. It is extremely difficult to deduce the true density distribution from such maps alone. We have computed the intensity distribution expected on the basis of the models of Ciolek & Basu (2000) and compared with the observations of L1544. The agreement is good with a preference for higher inclinations (37 degrees instead of 16) than that adopted by Ciolek & Basu (2000). We find that a simple extension of the analytic approximation allows a reasonably accurate calculation of the dust temperature as a function of radius in cores with density distributions approximating those expected for Bonnor-Ebert spheres and suggest that this may be a useful tool for future calculations of the gas temperature in such cores.Comment: 14 latex pages, 10 ps figures, A&A accepte

    Technique for predicting temperature distribution in gases

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    Simple algebraic equations enable calculation of the temperature distribution throughout a heat generating, radiation gas. They apply over the entire range of opacities, for any heat flux, for a temperature dependent absorption coefficient, and for a non-uniform distribution of volumetric heat sources

    Momentum distribution of confined bosons: temperature dependence

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    The momentum distribution function of a parabolically confined gas of bosons with harmonic interparticle interactions is derived. In the Bose-Einstein condensation region, this momentum distribution substantially deviates from a Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution. It is argued that the determination of the temperature of the boson gas from the Bose-Einstein momentum distribution function is more appropriate than the currently used fitting to the high momentum tail of the Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution.Comment: 5 REVTEX pages + 2 postscript figures. Accepted in Phys. Rev.
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