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Nondestructive spot test method for magnesium and magnesium alloys
A method for spot test identification of magnesium and various magnesium alloys commonly used in aerospace applications is described. The spot test identification involves color codes obtained when several drops of 3 M hydrochloric acid are placed on the surface to be tested. After approximately thirty seconds, two drops of this reacted acid is transferred to each of two depressions in a spot plate for additions of other chemicals with subsequent color changes indicating magnesium or its alloy
Nondestructive spot tests allow rapid identification of metals
Ordered qualitative test sequence, presented in flow chart form, permits identification of all common metallurgical elements and many high-temperature, stainless, high and low carbon, and tool steels within about 30 minutes. Identification is made from colors or specific reactions produced by the addition of standard chemical reagents
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Person-centred advocacy: Some ethical issues
In the second of two articles on advocacy for people with dementia Mike Fox with Lesley Wilson considers some of the ethical issues arising from advocacy work within a residential home that was due to close
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Person-centred advocacy for people with dementia - a personal account
In the first of two articles on advocacy for people with dementia, Mike Fox and Lesley Wilson describe an advocacy project based in a residential home and consider the issues and themes that arose
Critical superfluid velocity in a trapped dipolar gas
We investigate the superfluid properties of a dipolar Bose-Einstein
condensate (BEC) in a fully three-dimensional trap. Specifically, we calculate
a superfluid critical velocity for this system by applying the Landau criterion
to its discrete quasiparticle spectrum. We test this critical velocity by
direct numerical simulation of condensate depletion as a blue-detuned laser
moves through the condensate. In both cases, the presence of the roton in the
spectrum serves to lower the critical velocity beyond a critical particle
number. Since the shape of the dispersion, and hence the roton minimum, is
tunable as a function of particle number, we thereby propose an experiment that
can simultaneously measure the Landau critical velocity of a dipolar BEC and
demonstrate the presence of the roton in this system.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figures, version accepted to PR
Density-Dependent Response of an Ultracold Plasma to Few-Cycle Radio-Frequency Pulses
Ultracold neutral plasmas exhibit a density-dependent resonant response to
applied radio-frequency (RF) fields in the frequency range of several MHz to
hundreds of MHz for achievable densities. We have conducted measurements where
short bursts of RF were applied to these plasmas, with pulse durations as short
as two cycles. We still observed a density-dependent resonant response to these
short pulses. However, the too rapid timescale of the response, the dependence
of the response on the sign of the driving field, the response as the number of
pulses was increased, and the difference in plasma response to radial and
axially applied RF fields are inconsistent with the plasma response being due
to local resonant heating of electrons in the plasma. Instead, our results are
consistent with rapid energy transfer from collective motion of the entire
electron cloud to electrons in high-energy orbits. In addition to providing a
potentially more robust way to measure ultracold neutral plasma densities,
these measurements demonstrate the importance of collective motion in the
energy transport in these systems.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figure
Wide-angle flat field telescope
Described is an unobscured three mirror wide angle telescopic imaging system comprised of an input baffle which provides a 20 deg (Y axis) x 30 deg (X axis) field of view, a primary mirror having a convex spherical surface, a secondary mirror having a concave ellipsoidal reflecting surface, a tertiary mirror having a concave spherical reflecting surface. The mirrors comprise mirror elements which are offset segments of parent mirrors whose axes and vertices commonly lie on the system's optical axis. An iris diaphragm forming an aperture stop is located between the secondary and tertiary mirror with its center also being coincident with the optical axis and being further located at the beam waist of input light beams reflected from the primary and secondary mirror surfaces. At the system focus following the tertiary mirror is located a flat detector which may be, for example, a TV imaging tube or a photographic film. When desirable, a spectral transmission filter is placed in front of the detector in close proximity thereto
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