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The experimental determination of the response curves for forced vibration with velocity damping, using a moving-coil galvanometer, is described. The mechanism for producing a sinusoidal emf, of continuously variable frequency ranging from zero to 0.4 cy/sec, is described, together with a method for the determination of the phase angle between the driving force and the motion of the driven system. Experimental results, obtained with the apparatus, both for response curves and phase angle measurements, for various values of damping, are summarized in the paper.

ISSN:0002-9505    

DOI:10.1119/1.1934104

出版商:American Association of Physics Teachers    

年代:1955

数据来源: AIP

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In previous papers I have described experiments on the rocking of bodies. The rocking bodies have bearing surfaces which are plane, circular, or elliptical and they may rock on circular, elliptical, or plane surfaces.Lenses also furnish interesting examples of rocking bodies. Their surfaces may be spherical, cylindrical, or plane and these have the advantage that they are smooth and of good geometrical form. Their curvatures may be measured accurately with calipers and spherometer. To lenses may be added prisms and mirrors. Odd lenses, prisms, and mirrors usually abound in a well-stocked laboratory so that examples are not far to seek. The larger the specimens the more easily do they lend themselves to experimentation. The calculations of the period of rocking furnish, as in earlier papers, interesting examples of the applications of mechanics to vibrational problems, and the calculation of positions of centers of gravity and values of moments of inertia provide additional exercises. The experiments are eminently suitable for senior classes in the physical laboratory, giving interest to the student by their novelty and little trouble to the demonstrators in the matter of putting out the apparatus for the use of the class. Their number illustrates the variations possible with very little apparatus.

ISSN:0002-9505    

DOI:10.1119/1.1934105

出版商:American Association of Physics Teachers    

年代:1955

数据来源: AIP

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A treatment of some force and energy relations of electromagnetic theory is given, in which the energy density of the field is postulated as fundamental, and the force relations are derived by transformations of vector integrals. This focuses attention on the fields as the concepts of especial interest; the attention to interaction energies of fields offers interesting analogies to the methods used in wave mechanics.

ISSN:0002-9505    

DOI:10.1119/1.1934106

出版商:American Association of Physics Teachers    

年代:1955

数据来源: AIP

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A method is given for the calculation of the spin resonance equations based on solving for the spin vector expectation value subject to several external conditions. The value of the method is limited to the case where the system can be described by one relaxation time.

ISSN:0002-9505    

DOI:10.1119/1.1934107

出版商:American Association of Physics Teachers    

年代:1955

数据来源: AIP

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A simple, straightforward derivation is given for the speed of a transverse wave along a stretched string. It is free from the many limitations and assumptions which are generally found in other derivations. The only assumption which has to be made here is that the wave travels with a constant speed and small amplitude.

ISSN:0002-9505    

DOI:10.1119/1.1934108

出版商:American Association of Physics Teachers    

年代:1955

数据来源: AIP

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This paper gives a survey of the theories (Part I) and phenomena (Part II) of cosmic magnetism, extending from geomagnetism over solar and sunspot magnetism to stellar and interstellar magnetic fields. The theoretical treatment is purely classical and Maxwelliam. Most cosmic fluids, being highly ionized, are excellent conductors; this implies that the displacement current can always be neglected. The fundamental equations of hydromagnetism are the electromagnetic field equations together with the hydrodynamic equation, both containing coupling terms between magnetic field and motion. Among other theoretical developments, the “dynamo” theory which ascribes the cosmic magnetic fields to amplifying processes in the moving fluid is described and it is shown that it is well suited to represent the observed phenomena of the generation and maintenance of cosmic magnetic fields.

ISSN:0002-9505    

DOI:10.1119/1.1934109

出版商:American Association of Physics Teachers    

年代:1955

数据来源: AIP

ISSN:0002-9505    

DOI:10.1119/1.1934110

出版商:American Association of Physics Teachers    

年代:1955

数据来源: AIP

摘要:

The application of discoveries made in pure science to engineering problems is described and illustrated by incidents in the history of submarine telegraph cables, radio communication, and electronics.

ISSN:0002-9505    

DOI:10.1119/1.1934111

出版商:American Association of Physics Teachers    

年代:1955

数据来源: AIP

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Calorimetry is the measurement of quantities of heat. Temperature scales are usually involved. The General Conference on Weights and Measures adopted the International Temperature Scale (practical scale) in 1927 and its first revision in 1948. This scale is nearly parallel to the thermodynamic scale, proposed by Kelvin in 1854. In 1954 the General Conference redefined the Kelvin Scale, in the manner which Kelvin originally said “must be adopted ultimately,” by assigning a value for the temperature of a single fixed point,viz.273.16° for the triple point of water (ice point=273.15°). Several calories have been used in the past but the joule was adopted for the unit of quantity of heat in 1948. The need is stressed for using units of heat which are unambiguous.

ISSN:0002-9505    

DOI:10.1119/1.1934112

出版商:American Association of Physics Teachers    

年代:1955

数据来源: AIP

ISSN:0002-9505    

DOI:10.1119/1.1934113

出版商:American Association of Physics Teachers    

年代:1955

数据来源: AIP