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Torque prediction using the flux-MMF diagram in AC, DC, and reluctance motors
This paper uses the flux-MMF diagram to compare and contrast the torque production mechanism in seven common types of electric motor. The flux-MMF diagram is a generalized version of the flux-linkage versus current (Ï-i) diagram for switched-reluctance motors. It is illustrated for switched-reluctance, synchronous-reluctance, induction, brushless AC, brushless DC, interior PM and commutator motors. The calculated flux-MMF diagrams for motors with the same electromagnetic volume, airgap, slotfill, and total copper loss are shown and are used to compare the low-speed torque and torque ripple performance. The motor designs used were reasonably optimized using a combination of commercially available motor CAD packages and finite-element analysis
Dimensional effects in photoelectron spectra of Ag deposits on GaAs(110) surfaces
It is shown that the peak structure observed in angle-resolved photoelectron
spectra of metallic deposits can only be unambiguously associated to single
electronic states if the deposit has a two dimensional character (finite along
one spatial direction). In one and zero dimensions the density of states shows
peaks related to bunches of single electron states (the finer structure
associated to the latter may not always be experimentally resolved). The
characteristics of the peak structure strongly depend on the band dispersion in
the energy region where they appear. Results for the density of states and
photoemission yield for Ag crystallites on GaAs(110) are presented and compared
with experimental photoelectron spectra.Comment: Uuencoded gz-compressed postcript file including text and three
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Self-generated magnetic flux in YBaCuO grain boundaries
Grain boundaries in YBaCuO superconducting films are
considered as Josephson junctions with a critical current density
alternating along the junction. A self-generated magnetic flux is treated both
analytically and numerically for an almost periodic distribution of .
We obtained a magnetic flux-pattern similar to the one which was recently
observed experimentally.Comment: 7 pages, 3 figure
Comment on ``Phase ordering in chaotic map lattices with conserved dynamics''
Angelini, Pellicoro, and Stramaglia [Phys. Rev. E {\bf 60}, R5021 (1999),
cond-mat/9907149] (APS) claim that the phase ordering of two-dimensional
systems of sequentially-updated chaotic maps with conserved ``order parameter''
does not belong, for large regions of parameter space, to the expected
universality class. We show here that these results are due to a slow crossover
and that a careful treatment of the data yields normal dynamical scaling.
Moreover, we construct better models, i.e. synchronously-updated coupled map
lattices, which are exempt from these crossover effects, and allow for the
first precise estimates of persistence exponents in this case.Comment: 3 pages, to be published in Phys. Rev.
CHANDRA Observations of X-ray Jet Structure on kpc to Mpc Scales
With its exquisite spatial resolution of better than 0.5 arcsecond, the
Chandra observatory is uniquely capable of resolving and studying the spatial
structure of extragalactic X-ray jets on scales of a few to a few hundred
kilo-parsec. Our analyses of four recent Chandra images of quasar jets
interpret the X-ray emission as inverse Compton scattering of high energy
electrons on the cosmic microwave background. We infer that these jets are in
bulk relativistic motion, carrying kinetic powers upwards of 10^46 ergs/s to
distances of hundreds of kpc, with very high efficiency.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures, to be published in the proceedings of the Bologna
jet workshop, "The Physics of Relativistic Jets in the CHANDRA and XMM Era.
Arrival time and magnitude of airborne fission products from the Fukushima, Japan, reactor incident as measured in Seattle, WA, USA
We report results of air monitoring started due to the recent natural
catastrophe on 11 March 2011 in Japan and the severe ensuing damage to the
Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear reactor complex. On 17-18 March 2011, we registered
the first arrival of the airborne fission products 131-I, 132-I, 132-Te,
134-Cs, and 137-Cs in Seattle, WA, USA, by identifying their characteristic
gamma rays using a germanium detector. We measured the evolution of the
activities over a period of 23 days at the end of which the activities had
mostly fallen below our detection limit. The highest detected activity amounted
to 4.4 +/- 1.3 mBq/m^3 of 131-I on 19-20 March.Comment: 7 pages, 5 figures, published in Journal of Environmental
Radioactivit
Development and Assessment of a Patient-Centered Care Curriculum
The purpose of this paper is to chronicle the development and implementation of a pilot offering of the patient-centered care (PCC) curriculum sponsored by a partnership of schools of allied health and nursing and a local health care system. The objective of this interdisciplinary track is to increase the competency of allied health and nursing graduates to function in health care teams in both PCC and non-PCC hospital environments, thus improving the effectiveness of patient care. The elective track consists of two courses; a third course is under consideration. Students and faculty participating in the elective track were surveyed to assess their attitudes toward change and patient-centered care. Generally, participants believed that they could work well together but were not convinced of the viability of the PCC. Although the curriculum is still in its implementation stage and the nursing participation became minimal, this study aids in understanding opinions of nursing and allied health faculty and students regarding a new PCC curriculum
Critical currents in Josephson junctions, with unconventional pairing symmetry: versus
Phenomenological Ginzburg-Landau theory is used to calculate the possible
spontaneous vortex states that may exist at corner junctions of
-wave, (where or ) and s-wave superconductors.
We study the magnetic flux and the critical current modulation with the
junction orientation angle , the magnitude of the order parameter, and
the magnetic field . It is seen that the critical current versus the
magnetic flux relation is symmetric / asymmetric for when
the orientation is exactly such that the lobes of the dominant
-wave order parameter points towards the two junctions, which are
at right angles for the corner junction. The conclusion is that a measurement
of the relation may distinguish which symmetry ( or
) the order parameter has.Comment: 11 pages with 11 figures, Changed conten
Nuclear Spin-Isospin Correlations, Parity Violation, and the Problem
The strong interaction effects of isospin- and spin-dependent nucleon-nucleon
correlations observed in many-body calculations are interpreted in terms of a
one-pion exchange mechanism. Including such effects in computations of nuclear
parity violating effects leads to enhancements of about 10%. A larger effect
arises from the one-boson exchange nature of the parity non-conserving nucleon-
nucleon interaction, which depends on both weak and strong meson-nucleon
coupling constants. Using values of the latter that are constrained by
nucleon-nucleon phase shifts leads to enhancements of parity violation by
factors close to two. Thus much of previously noticed discrepancies between
weak coupling constants extracted from different experiments can be removed.Comment: 8 pages 2 figures there should have been two figures in v
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