Laser measuring system for incremental assemblies

Wire-wrapped frame assemblies used in spark chambers and the like can be measured using a system which utilizes a laser, an interferometer, and a retroreflector to precisely measure distance. A light source and a photodetector are located adjacent the incremental assembly and mounted on a movable carriage. The interferometer is also mounted on the movable carriage, while the laser and retroreflector are positioned at either end of the carriage track. The carriage is moved along one edge of the incremental assembly between the retroreflector and the laser, and as the carriage is moved, the light from the light source to the photodetector is interrupted. This produces a trigger command to a control unit which in turn causes a distance measurement to be made. A printout is provided for each sampling trigger command to list such items as ideal position, actual position and amount of error

GSFC Venus atmosphere simulator

The design and preliminary testing of a Venus Atmosphere Simulation System are described. The system was designed for testing a quadrupole mass spectrometer proposed for the Pioneer-Venus Experiment. The system is capable of providing programmed temperature cycles up to 550 C, and manually controlled pressure up to 100 atmospheres

Laser measuring system for wire-wrapped frame assemblies

The laser measuring system is designed to automatically measure and record the distances between small diameter wires on a wire wrapped grid frame assembly to an accuracy of 0.00635 mm (0.00025 in.). The system utilizes a helium-neon gas laser beam as the measuring instrument with a remote interferometer and retroreflector, a light source and photodetector to detect the wire positions, in conjunction with recording, display and printout units. The laser measuring system is utilized to perform precise automatic measurements for wire application machines or as an automatic feedback device for positioning wires and/or to adjust them for out of tolerance conditions

Manufacturing and test procedures for Aerobee 350 burst diaphragms

Manufacturing and test procedures for fuel and oxidizer burst diaphragms for Aerobee 350 propellant start valve

Evaluation of meta-benzenedisulfonic acid as a stress-reducing additive in a Watts nickel electroplating bath

Internal stress and deposit hardness of nickel electrodeposited containing controlled quantities of meta-benzenedisulfonic aci

Areas of irregular, discontinuous patterns rapidly and accurately measured

Simple, rapid method measures the surface area of a pattern such as comprised by the conductors on a printed circuit board. A negative or positive film of the circuit layout is placed over a uniformly illuminated translucent surface and the proportion of light transmitted to silicon solar cells is determined

The Effects on Caffeine on Cycling Performance in College-Aged Males

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The Acute Effect of Exposure to Barefoot Running on VO2 Peak, Fatigue, and Time to Exhaustion in Recreational Runners

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Andreev reflection at QGP/CFL interface

In this letter we address the question of the phenomena of Andreev reflection between the cold quark-gluon plasma phase and CFL color superconductor. We show that there are two different types of reflections connected to the structure of the CFL phase. We also calculate the probability current at the interface and we show that it vanishes for energy of scattering quarks below the superconducting gap.Comment: 6 pages, 1 figure. Minor changes in the "Conclusions

Multidimensional Gaussian sums arising from distribution of Birkhoff sums in zero entropy dynamical systems

A duality formula, of the Hardy and Littlewood type for multidimensional Gaussian sums, is proved in order to estimate the asymptotic long time behavior of distribution of Birkhoff sums $S_n$ of a sequence generated by a skew product dynamical system on the $\mathbb{T}^2$ torus, with zero Lyapounov exponents. The sequence, taking the values $\pm 1$, is pairwise independent (but not independent) ergodic sequence with infinite range dependence. The model corresponds to the motion of a particle on an infinite cylinder, hopping backward and forward along its axis, with a transversal acceleration parameter $\alpha$. We show that when the parameter $\alpha /\pi$ is rational then all the moments of the normalized sums $E((S_n/\sqrt{n})^k)$, but the second, are unbounded with respect to n, while for irrational $\alpha /\pi$, with bounded continuous fraction representation, all these moments are finite and bounded with respect to n.Comment: To be published in J. Phys.