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Individual and Collective Behavior of Small Vibrating Motors Interacting Through a Resonant Plate
We report on experiments of many small motors -- cell phone vibrators --
glued to and interacting through a resonant plate. We find that individual
motors interacting with the plate demonstrate hysteresis in their steady-state
frequency due to interactions with plate resonances. For multiple motors
running simultaneously, the degree of synchronization between motors increases
when the motors' frequencies are near a resonance of the plate, and the
frequency at which the motors synchronize shows a history dependence.Comment: 7 pages, 8 figure
An Ultrasonic analog for a laser
We report measurements on ultrasonic systems analogous to random lasers. One
system entails unstable ultrasonic feedback between distinct transducers,
another involves a piezoelectric device that emits spontaneously and by
stimulation. Both systems are found to exhibit behaviors similar to those of
lasers. Over a wide range of parameters we observe narrow single emission
lines, sensitivity to linear cavity properties, complex multi-mode emissions,
and line narrowing
Entrainment and stimulated emission of auto-oscillators in an acoustic cavity
We report theory, measurements and numerical simulations on nonlinear
piezoelectric ultrasonic devices with stable limit cycles. The devices are
shown to exhibit behavior familiar from the theory of coupled auto-oscillators.
Frequency of auto-oscillation is affected by the presence of an acoustic cavity
as these spontaneously emitting devices adjust their frequency to the spectrum
of the acoustic cavity. Also, the auto-oscillation is shown to be entrained by
an applied field; the oscillator synchronizes to an incident wave at a
frequency close to the natural frequency of the limit cycle. It is further
shown that synchronization occurs here with a phase that can, depending on
details, correspond to stimulated emission: the power emission from the
oscillator is augmented by the incident field. These behaviors are essential to
eventual design of an ultrasonic system that would consist of a number of such
devices entrained to their mutual field, a system that would be an analog to a
laser. A prototype laser is constructed
Coherent backscattering of ultrasound without a source
Coherent backscattering is due to constructive interferences of reciprocal
paths and leads to an enhancement of the intensity of a multiply scattered
field near its source. To observe this enhancement an array of receivers is
conventionally placed close to the source. Our approach here is different. In a
first experiment, we recover the coherent backscattering effect (CBE) within an
array of sources and a distant receiver using time correlation of diffuse
fields. The enhancement cone has an excellent spatial resolution. The dynamics
of the enhancement factor is studied in a second experiment using correlation
of thermal phonons at the same ultrasonic frequencies, without any active
source
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CHANGING STATUS OF MOUNTAIN LION IN CALIFORNIA AND LIVESTOCK DEPREDATION PROBLEMS
The California Department of Fish and Game studied depredation by mountain lions on livestock from 1971 through 1977 to determine the scope of the problem. Information was needed on the physical characteristics of a stock killer, the frequency and trend of predation, the livestock types preyed upon, and the geographic distribution of incidents. Department of Fish and Game verified 134 incidents of mountain lion predation on livestock which occurred between April 1971 and December 1977. Forty-five mountain lions (28 males and 17 females) were killed on depredation during this time. Approximately 42 percent of the predation incidents involved sheep, 22 percent goats and 16 percent cattle, with horses, pigs, poultry and pets composing most of the remaining prey. California\u27s south coast region from Santa Clara to Ventura County reported 44 percent of the predation incidents, 28 percent from the Sierra Nevada, 20 percent from the north coast from Napa and Sonoma counties to Humboldt County and nearly 8 percent from southern California. There does not appear to be a stock-killer profile of common sex, age or health factors. Present depredation policy appears adequate to handle the problem, but efficiency could be increased by coordinating incident verification investigations and available depredation resources, such as U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and county predator control agents
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