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How does a fan work?
Everywhere I turn, all the talk is about the coronavirus, and it’s exhausting because I already deal with news of the coronavirus as part of my day-job. It’s impossible to catch people having conversations about anything else at all. I … Continue reading
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Tagged AC motor, aerodynamics, airfoils, Bernoullis principle, brush comutator, capacitance, capacitor regulator, continuity equation, convection, DC motor, drag, electric current, Electromagnetism, electromagnets, graphite, induction motor, Lenz law, lift, Lorentz force, magnetization, split-ring commutator, steel, synchronous motor, three phase current
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Getting started on superconductivity
After the hoopla surrounding and attention on particle physics subsided, I realized that I’d been riding a speeding wagon all the time. All I’d done is used the lead-up to (the search for the Higgs boson) and the climax itself … Continue reading
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Tagged condensed matter physics, Cooper pairs, Electromagnetism, Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Large Hadron Collider, Leon Cooper, Lorentz force, superconductivity
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