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Autor:
T S Aurora, C Tabaresh
Publikováno v:
Physics Education. 30:143-150
The weightlessness experienced by astronauts in space has significant effects on the human body. Those discussed in some detail here are changes in the circulation of body fluids and changes in the structure of muscles and bones.
Autor:
Michelle Kirk, T. S. Aurora
Publikováno v:
Physics Education. 30:163-170
The repairs to the Hubble Space Telescope performed by NASA astronauts last year were a spectacular success. The article describes the objective of the telescope, the equipment on board, how repairs have been made and gives examples of the main resul
Publikováno v:
Journal of Applied Physics. 76:2122-2128
Temperature variation of the coefficients of linear thermal expansion and optical length was measured with an interferometer using 632.8 nm wavelength light from a He‐Ne laser over the temperature range of 300–1300 K. The experiment was carried o
Autor:
Harry K. Hobbs, T. S. Aurora
Publikováno v:
Physics Education. 26:99-103
Low back pain is a common problem and it involves different kinds of injury to the spine. In this article the forces and torques experienced by the spine are examined in order to understand, and possibly avoid, low back pain.
Autor:
T S Aurora
Publikováno v:
Physics Education. 29:105-106
In introductory physics courses the problem of an object sliding along a curved path under the action of gravity, such as a child sliding down a slide, is often considered. This article describes a solution to the problem using calculus and without t
Publikováno v:
Review of Scientific Instruments. 55:149-152
A simple laser interferometer has been utilized to measure the thermal expansion and optical‐length variation with temperature of highly reactive fluorides at high temperatures. The interferometer is a modification of the Jamin interferometer in wh
Publikováno v:
Solid State Ionics. 13:325-328
Thermal expansion and the optical length variation have been measured for a single crystal sodium β-alumina, along the c-axis. A laser interferometer has been used in the measurement. The measurements of the length and optical length variation do no
Publikováno v:
Solid State Ionics. 5:625-628
Divalent metal fluorides exhibit many anomalous properties as a result of their high anionic conductivity at temperatures characterized by a heat capacity peak at T c which occurs several hundred degrees below the melting temperature. Measurements of
Autor:
T. S. Aurora, S. M. Day
Publikováno v:
Review of Scientific Instruments. 53:1152-1154
A nuclear‐magnetic‐resonance probe has been developed to investigate the behavior of solid electrolytes at high temperatures. The probe will fit in a 44‐mm‐wide magnet pole gap while allowing orientational studies. The sample chamber may be e
Publikováno v:
MRS Proceedings. 172
Linear thermal expansion and refractive index variation have been measured in lead fluoride with a laser interferometer as a function of temperature. Data has been analyzed using the Lorentz-Lorenz relation. Molecular polarizability, band gap, variat