Recent content by Murdock

Thank you all who have replied. I have some numbers to crunch now. I think I'll ditch the aluminum strap, knowing that winding density is important, and instead use 18awg magnet wire. (I have maybe enough for one coil). I was thinking, since the only way I currently know of to measure beta...

Disclaimer: I may not know what I'm talking about. I would appreciate it if someone more knowledgeable than I could correct any errors. I recall reading somewhere, I have no idea where, that the majority of heat comes from, compression, rather than friction. I would imagine that the heating...

This is the core. I would like to wind the magnet such that the maximum power I would reasonably put through it would be very close to the saturation of the core. It is made of mild steel, and is 3" deep. The coils go around the circular parts and will be wound with aluminum strap. The mean...

I would like to build an electromagnet to accelerate electrons into a circle (a precursor to a mass spectrometer). I would like to calculate the field strength, but I don't know how because I would like to wind it out of aluminum strap salvaged from a welder, and I can only find formulas for...

I was wondering because a commonly used neutron source is to use high voltages to accelerate protons into a target to produce neutrons for breeding medical isotopes. It just seemed to me you should be able to skip the "middle man" and get a higher efficiency out of it.

What do you think the probability of it occurring would be compared to a a proton or gamma ray doing the same?

I know that sufficiently energetic protons and photons (1.7MeV) can knock a neutron out of a beryllium nucleus. Can an electron do the same?

I am a 16 year old male in high school. My main interest and skills are in electronics, but I am becoming more and more interested in practical application of particle physics.