... vehicles, etc. are familiar terms. There is some variation among them relative to the electronics
embedded in the systems and the options available to the driver. The same is true for railroads, ... vehicles coupled together in a train. The vehicles may be identical or they may each lack
a major subsystem (such as propulsion), whose functions may be handled by another vehicle in...
... coefficients in
the same manner as the coefficient of utilization. The room position multiplier is a function of the room cavity
ratio and of the location in the room of the point where the illumination ... both.
b.Reduce the area of high luminance causing the glare condition.
c.Increase the angle between the glare source and the line of vision.
d.Increase the lumina...
... tensile stress in the x-direction, for example, will strain the lattice in the xy-plane
and destroy the three-fold symmetry, thereby lifting the degeneracy of the energy minima. However, the
four-fold ... LLC
According to the deformation potential theory, the strain will shift the energy of all the states in a given band
extremum by the same amount, i.e., the valley...
... (52.7) can be solved for
g
(
k
), then expressions can be obtained for both the
E
H
and the magnetoresistance
(the electrical resistance in the presence of a magnetic field). Solutions ... characterization of the latter. Some authors choose to discuss the Hall effect
in terms of the Hall angle,
f
, shown in Fig. 52.1, which is the angle between the net...
... superconductor. The
correlations of the electrons in the superconductor must lower the overall energy of the system or else the
material would not be superconducting in the first place. Because the critical ... from the boundary, the energy of the material
is lowered (because it is superconducting), and more than a distance from the boundary the energy of the
ma...
...
G
T
is the thermal conductance from the element to the environment,
t
T
is the thermal time constant of
the element,
t
E
is the electrical time constant of the element, ... element,
R
G
is the electrical resistance across the element,
h
is the emissivity of the element for the radiation being detected, and
A
is the sensiti...
... assumed
not to disturb the trapped charge; the received electrical signal is then correlated with the acoustical wave to
determine the profile of the trapped charge. Errors in the measurement would ... times at stresses in the vicinity of the
operating stress should yield the value of the effective service life under the operating stress. The slope of the
line deter...
... employed. The mercury thermometer
was mentioned in the Introduction as a nonelectrical sensor. The most commonly used electrical temperature
sensors are thermocouples, thermistors, and resistance thermometers. ... temperature.
As the electrons in the metal gain thermal energy, they move about more rapidly and undergo more frequent
collisions with each other and the atomic nuclei...
... data, the same thermal process can be applied while reversing the direction of
the bias magnetic field.
To read the stored information optically, the Kerr effect is used to detect the presence of these ... another 45 degrees through the Faraday material, and,
because its polarization is now 90 degrees from the incident beam, is deflected by the first calcite prism. The
four p...
... on the glass, and the time of arrival of the
waves at the receivers is known because the wave velocity
is known. The placing of a finger on the glass weakens
the signal and the location of the ... the substrate. The Y axis is scanned in the same fashion after the X wave dies
out. Then, when the finger touches the substrate, its water content absorbs some of the...