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Automatic assembly design project 1968/9 :|breport of economic planning committee
Investigations into automatic assembly systems have
been carried out. The conclusions show the major
features to be considered by a company operating
the machine to assemble the contact block with regard
to machine output and financial aspects.
The machine system has been shown to be economically
viable for use under suitable conditions, but the
contact block is considered to be unsuitable for
automatic assembly.
Data for machine specification, reliability and
maintenance has been provided
Category-specific enhancement of retrieval due to field perspective
Two memory perspectives have been distinguished: A field perspective where events are re-experienced in the first person, and an observer perspective where events are witnessed in the third person. Two experiments examined the influence of memory perspective on objective memory performance. In both experiments participants were presented with a series of verbal passages, each of which contained several different categories of information. For four of these categories (pertaining to affective reactions, physical sensations, psychological states, and associated ideas), recall was significantly higher when a field perspective was adopted than when an observer perspective was adopted, but for the five other categories (pertaining to physical actions, personal appearance, fine details, spatial relations, and peripheral details) there was no significant effect of perspective upon recall. The study is examined in the context of mental models and imagined episodic events
Turning the Quantum Group Invariant XXZ Spin-Chain Hermitian: A Conjecture on the Invariant Product
This is a continuation of a previous joint work with Robert Weston on the
quantum group invariant XXZ spin-chain (math-ph/0703085). The previous results
on quasi-Hermiticity of this integrable model are briefly reviewed and then
connected with a new construction of an inner product with respect to which the
Hamiltonian and the representation of the Temperley-Lieb algebra become
Hermitian. The approach is purely algebraic, one starts with the definition of
a positive functional over the Temperley-Lieb algebra whose values can be
computed graphically. Employing the Gel'fand-Naimark-Segal (GNS) construction
for C*-algebras a self-adjoint representation of the Temperley-Lieb algebra is
constructed when the deformation parameter q lies in a special section of the
unit circle. The main conjecture of the paper is the unitary equivalence of
this GNS representation with the representation obtained in the previous paper
employing the ideas of PT-symmetry and quasi-Hermiticity. An explicit example
is presented.Comment: 12 page
Solitary Waves Under the Competition of Linear and Nonlinear Periodic Potentials
In this paper, we study the competition of linear and nonlinear lattices and
its effects on the stability and dynamics of bright solitary waves. We consider
both lattices in a perturbative framework, whereby the technique of Hamiltonian
perturbation theory can be used to obtain information about the existence of
solutions, and the same approach, as well as eigenvalue count considerations,
can be used to obtained detailed conditions about their linear stability. We
find that the analytical results are in very good agreement with our numerical
findings and can also be used to predict features of the dynamical evolution of
such solutions.Comment: 13 pages, 4 figure
Bose-Einstein condensates with attractive 1/r interaction: The case of self-trapping
Amplifying on a proposal by O'Dell et al. for the realization of
Bose-Einstein condensates of neutral atoms with attractive interaction,
we point out that the instance of self-trapping of the condensate, without
external trap potential, is physically best understood by introducing
appropriate "atomic" units. This reveals a remarkable scaling property: the
physics of the condensate depends only on the two parameters and
, where is the particle number, the scattering length,
the "Bohr" radius and the trap frequency in atomic units. We
calculate accurate numerical results for self-trapping wave functions and
potentials, for energies, sizes and peak densities, and compare with previous
variational results. As a novel feature we point out the existence of a second
solution of the extended Gross-Pitaevskii equation for negative scattering
lengths, with and without trapping potential, which is born together with the
ground state in a tangent bifurcation. This indicates the existence of an
unstable collectively excited state of the condensate for negative scattering
lengths.Comment: 7 pages, 7 figures, to appear in Phys. Rev.
Wakefield damping for the CLIC crab cavity
A crab cavity is required in the CLIC to allow effective head-on collision of
bunches at the IP. A high operating frequency is preferred as the deflection
voltage required for a given rotation angle and the RF phase tolerance for a
crab cavity are inversely proportional to the operating frequency. The short
bunch spacing of the CLIC scheme and the high sensitivity of the crab cavity to
dipole kicks demand very high damping of the inter-bunch wakes, the major
contributor to the luminosity loss of colliding bunches. This paper
investigates the nature of the wakefields in the CLIC crab cavity and the
possibility of using various damping schemes to suppress them effectively
Deducing radiation pressure on a submerged mirror from the Doppler shift
Radiation pressure on a flat mirror submerged in a transparent liquid,
depends not only on the refractive index n of the liquid, but also on the phase
angle psi_0 of the Fresnel reflection coefficient of the mirror, which could be
anywhere between 0^{\circ} and 180^{\circ}. Depending on the value of psi_0,
the momentum per incident photon picked up by the mirror covers the range
between the Abraham and Minkowski values, i.e., the interval
(2\hbarw_0/nc,2n\hbarw_0/c). Here \hbar is the reduced Planck constant, w_0 is
the frequency of the incident photon, and c is the speed of light in vacuum. We
argue that a simple experimental setup involving a dielectric slab of
refractive index n, a vibrating mirror placed a short distance behind the slab,
a collimated, monochromatic light beam illuminating the mirror through the
slab, and an interferometer to measure the phase of the reflected beam, is all
that is needed to deduce the precise magnitude of the radiation pressure on a
submerged mirror. In the proposed experiment, the transparent slab plays the
role of the submerging liquid (even though it remains detached from the mirror
at all times), and the adjustable gap between the mirror and the slab simulates
the variable phase-angle psi_0. The phase of the reflected beam, measured as a
function of time during one oscillation period of the mirror, then provides the
information needed to determine the gap-dependence of the reflected beam's
Doppler shift and, consequently, the radiation pressure experienced by the
mirror.Comment: 9 pages, 2 figures, 13 equation
Spitzer Observations of Transient, Extended Dust in Two Elliptical Galaxies: New Evidence of Recent Feedback Energy Release in Galactic Cores
Spitzer observations of extended dust in two optically normal elliptical
galaxies provide a new confirmation of buoyant feedback outflow in the hot gas
atmospheres around these galaxies. AGN feedback energy is required to prevent
wholesale cooling and star formation in these group-centered galaxies. In NGC
5044 we observe interstellar (presumably PAH) emission at 8 microns out to
about 5 kpc. Both NGC 5044 and 4636 have extended 70 microns emission from cold
dust exceeding that expected from stellar mass loss. The sputtering lifetime of
this extended dust in the ~1keV interstellar gas, ~10^7 yrs, establishes the
time when the dust first entered the hot gas. Evidently the extended dust
originated in dusty disks or clouds, commonly observed in elliptical galaxy
cores, that were disrupted, heated and buoyantly transported outward. The
surviving central dust in NGC 5044 and 4636 has been disrupted into many small
filaments. It is remarkable that the asymmetrically extended 8 micron emission
in NGC 5044 is spatially coincident with Halpha+[NII] emission from warm gas. A
calculation shows that dust-assisted cooling in buoyant hot gas moving out from
the galactic core can cool within a few kpc in about ~10^7 yrs, explaining the
optical line emission observed. The X-ray images of both galaxies are
disturbed. All timescales for transient activity - restoration of equilibrium
and buoyant transport in the hot gas, dynamics of surviving dust fragments, and
dust sputtering - are consistent with a central release of feedback energy in
both galaxies about 10^7 yrs ago.Comment: 13 pages. Accepted by ApJ; minor typos correcte
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