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Electrodynamics of a Magnet Moving through a Conducting Pipe
The popular demonstration involving a permanent magnet falling through a
conducting pipe is treated as an axially symmetric boundary value problem.
Specifically, Maxwell's equations are solved for an axially symmetric magnet
moving coaxially inside an infinitely long, conducting cylindrical shell of
arbitrary thickness at nonrelativistic speeds. Analytic solutions for the
fields are developed and used to derive the resulting drag force acting on the
magnet in integral form. This treatment represents a significant improvement
over existing models which idealize the problem as a point dipole moving slowly
inside a pipe of negligible thickness. It also provides a rigorous study of
eddy currents under a broad range of conditions, and can be used for precision
magnetic braking applications. The case of a uniformly magnetized cylindrical
magnet is considered in detail, and a comprehensive analytical and numerical
study of the properties of the drag force is presented for this geometry.
Various limiting cases of interest involving the shape and speed of the magnet
and the full range of conductivity and magnetic behavior of the pipe material
are investigated and corresponding asymptotic formulas are developed.Comment: 20 pages, 3 figures; computer program posted to
http://www.csus.edu/indiv/p/partovimh/magpipedrag.nb Submitted to the
Canadian Journal of Physic
StemNet: An Evolving Service for Knowledge Networking in the Life Sciences
Up until now, crucial life science information resources, whether bibliographic or factual databases, are isolated from each other. Moreover, semantic metadata intended to structure their contents is supplied in a manual form only. In the StemNet project we aim at developing a framework for semantic interoperability for these resources. This will facilitate the extraction of relevant information from textual sources and the generation of semantic metadata in a fully automatic manner. In this way, (from a computational perspective) unstructured life science documents are linked to structured biological fact databases, in particular to the identifiers of genes, proteins, etc. Thus, life scientists will be able to seamlessly access information from a homogeneous platform, despite the fact that the original information was unlinked and scattered over the whole variety of heterogeneous life science information resources and, therefore, almost inaccessible for integrated systematic search by academic, clinical, or industrial users
A nonlinear detection algorithm for periodic signals in gravitational wave detectors
We present an algorithm for the detection of periodic sources of
gravitational waves with interferometric detectors that is based on a special
symmetry of the problem: the contributions to the phase modulation of the
signal from the earth rotation are exactly equal and opposite at any two
instants of time separated by half a sidereal day; the corresponding is true
for the contributions from the earth orbital motion for half a sidereal year,
assuming a circular orbit. The addition of phases through multiplications of
the shifted time series gives a demodulated signal; specific attention is given
to the reduction of noise mixing resulting from these multiplications. We
discuss the statistics of this algorithm for all-sky searches (which include a
parameterization of the source spin-down), in particular its optimal
sensitivity as a function of required computational power. Two specific
examples of all-sky searches (broad-band and narrow-band) are explored
numerically, and their performances are compared with the stack-slide technique
(P. R. Brady, T. Creighton, Phys. Rev. D, 61, 082001).Comment: 9 pages, 3 figures, to appear in Phys. Rev.
Loopedia, a Database for Loop Integrals
Loopedia is a new database at loopedia.org for information on Feynman
integrals, intended to provide both bibliographic information as well as
results made available by the community. Its bibliometry is complementary to
that of SPIRES or arXiv in the sense that it admits searching for integrals by
graph-theoretical objects, e.g. its topology.Comment: 16 pages, lots of screenshot
Low Temperature Symmetry of Pyrochlore Oxide Cd2Re2O7
We report the X-ray study for the pyrochlore oxide Cd2Re2O7. Two
symmetry-lowering structural transitions were observed at Ts1=200K and
Ts2=120K. The former is of the second order from the ideal cubic pyrochlore
structure with space group Fd-3m to a tetragonally distorted structure with
I-4m2, while the latter is of the first order likely to another tetragonal
space group I4122. We discuss the feature of the lattice deformation.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figure
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