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Highly linear, sensitive analog-to-digital converter
Analog-to-digital converter converts 10 volt full scale input signal into 13 bit digital output. Advantages include high sensitivity, linearity, low quantitizing error, high resistance to mechanical shock and vibration loads, and temporary data storage capabilities
The Effect of Combined Magnetic Geometries on Thermally Driven Winds I: Interaction of Dipolar and Quadrupolar Fields
Cool stars with outer convective envelopes are observed to have magnetic
fields with a variety of geometries, which on large scales are dominated by a
combination of the lowest order fields such as the dipole, quadrupole and
octupole modes. Magnetised stellar wind outflows are primarily responsible for
the loss of angular momentum from these objects during the main sequence.
Previous works have shown the reduced effectiveness of the stellar wind braking
mechanism with increasingly complex, but singular, magnetic field geometries.
In this paper, we quantify the impact of mixed dipolar and quadrupolar fields
on the spin-down torque using 50 MHD simulations with mixed field, along with
10 of each pure geometries. The simulated winds include a wide range of
magnetic field strength and reside in the slow-rotator regime. We find that the
stellar wind braking torque from our combined geometry cases are well described
by a broken power law behaviour, where the torque scaling with field strength
can be predicted by the dipole component alone or the quadrupolar scaling
utilising the total field strength. The simulation results can be scaled and
apply to all main-sequence cool stars. For Solar parameters, the lowest order
component of the field (dipole in this paper) is the most significant in
determining the angular momentum loss.Comment: 15 pages + 9 figures (main), 3 pages + 1 figure (appendix), accepted
for publication to Ap
Lasing in Strong Coupling
An almost ideal thresholdless laser can be realized in the strong-coupling
regime of light-matter interaction, with Poissonian fluctuations of the field
at all pumping powers and all intensities of the field. This ideal scenario is
thwarted by quantum nonlinearities when crossing from the linear to the
stimulated emission regime, resulting in a universal jump in the second order
coherence, which measurement could however be used to establish a standard of
lasing in strong coupling.Comment: 5 pages, 2 figure
The Extraction of Waxes and Wax Mixtures by Means of Common Organic Solvents
This work was performed with the intention of giving some information of the solubility of the more common waxes, by means of extraction with several commercial solvents. Besides the individual waxes, various mixtures of waxes were also used to determine the effect of the mixtures on the extractability.
Determinations are also made to find the extractable matter in a commercial furniture polish and shellac. The acid, saponification and iodine values of the polish and shellac are also found.
Very little work seems to have been done on the accurate determination of percentage of extractable matter in waxes and mixtures of waxes. For this reason the references made throughout the work concern waxes in general and not their extractability
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