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The good news is that the solenoid is only approximately .2 meters in diameter, and is encased in a dewar that is approximately .5 meters in diameter. Leaving approximately .3 meters at a minimum of playing, but I'm thinking that this is way too small. My professor didn't give me the design...

My professor has given me a project, figure out how to magnetically shield some detectors which surround a solenoid. Now, we have mumetal tubs which fit the detectors, but he wants numbers. The solenoid outputs a maximum of 6 Tesla, and it's in a dewer, so there's no way for me to perform actual...

Yes, I have been looking online. For the past couple of months on and off. It's possible I just don't know what I'm looking for. I have been able to find some undergraduate research papers, but none that specifically deal with physics demonstrations.

I was wondering how much graduate admissions look at your research experience. I have worked with two projects with a professor, and I am going to be working with him on another project this summer. Two of these things were not "new" physics, but they were either new for our department, or were...

Awesome. Thank you. I kind of feel dumb for asking such a simple question now. And I understand that α and l have to be known to reconstruct the energy, you never forget the first time you calibrate detectors, do you?

I've done that and got the following result, but I'm not sure how it reads as the total energy. What I get is E_{T}^{\prime}=\widetilde{E}_{T} \cdot e^{-\alpha \cdot \frac{\ell}{2}} However, how I don't see how the relative positions to each photo tube take effect, since they cancel out when...

I have a question about energy reconstruction. I'm writing up a paper, and I'm trying to understand why this is the reason, before putting it in my paper. I know from experimental evidence that it is the case, though I would like to know if there is a reason. Let's say you have a sufficiently...

If you could recommend one into to Nuclear & Particle Physics book, what would it be? I looked in the textbook section, though there are no reviews of the books so I don't know which one would be best. I'm a college student, I'd LOVE to get all of them, but I can't :-/. Any suggestions?

I'm trying to understand all the properties of the Jeans instability, the Jeans mass and the Jeans length. I understand the mathematics behind it, though not all the variables. There is a [itex]m_{H}[\itex] or I've also seen it as [itex]m_{p}[\itex] in the Jeans length and Jeans mass. The...

I'm trying to write up an experiment that I have done on single photon interference. The design is as follows: Class 2 HeNe laser 25 micron pinhole double slit output via CCD I have all the data, but I cannot find anything that says that having a small pinhole about 80cm from the double slit...

I'm confused on what classes to take next semester. I've talked to my adviser but they're kinda useless as they don't want me to take upper level courses (past calc 3 and ODE). However, I want a dual math and physics degree which would be helpful in gradschool. Right now I have the following...

Here is one (http://www.phy.anl.gov/gammasphere/pub/2005/ANL/PLB_Zhu.pdf) I know it starts off with their role in this research article, but I don't know what it means by that, and that only tells me their purpose, not what they are.

I'm looking through my professors research articles and he has stuff on Octupole correlations for certain elements. I'm not sure what they are, so I did a Google search and it only comes up with more research articles about people doing their own research with Octupole correlations for different...

The syllabus can be found here: http://www.cs.fsu.edu/~asriniva/courses/IntUnix07/ Anyways, it basically is shell scrips and then, for 2 lectures, we get into Perl. Shouldn't be too bad then to take online, right?

So, I'm majoring in Physics and I got an email from my adviser saying that "Intro to Unix" was one of the most helpful classes. They only offer them during 2 times. One is Tuesdays 5:15pm to 6:30pm while the other is online. I've dabbled in Linux distros and use them from time to time, so I'm...