Sentences with phrase «movement of magnetic fields»

The control and movement of magnetic fields in a material can be exploited for high performance in electronic applications.

Not exact matches

The trick was performed using a strong magnetic field that distorts the movement of electrons in water molecules, which in turn produces a magnetic field opposing the one applied.

After correcting the logs for errors in location, Gubbins compared the directions of captains» compass needles with the magnetic properties of rocks from the same period, allowing him to construct a time line of movements in the magnetic field.

The moon has no global magnetic field today, but early in its life, it probably had a core hot enough to churn violently, with the movement of this electrically charged fluid creating a magnetic field.

The movement of iron, which can carry a charge, generates a strong magnetic field that can protect a planet's atmosphere from being ravaged by solar wind (SN Online: 8/18/17).

Also, each spacecraft is equipped with sensors to measure particle energy and position and determine pitch angle — that is, the angle of movement with respect to Earth's magnetic fields.

Researchers in Spain have discovered that if lead atoms are intercalated on a graphene sheet, a powerful magnetic field is generated by the interaction of the electrons» spin with their orbital movement.

As each cycle progresses, the movement of this plasma (black loop) shifts the solar magnetic fields (gold strands)-- from which sunspots erupt — from the sun's midlatitudes to its equator.

Professor Kim and his research team used a magnetic field in order to overcome the drawback that the movement of biomolecules such as proteins and DNA is slow when the transport only depends on diffusion.

To monitor the movements of the cats, Williams and their colleagues developed collars equipped with GPS and devices that measure changes in acceleration and magnetic fields.

Physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory compared similar materials and returned to a long - established rule of electron movement in their quest to explain the phenomenon of extremely large magnetoresistance (XMR), in which the application of a magnetic field to a material results in a remarkably large change in electrical resistance.

The new data should help scientists better model the movement of liquid iron in the outer core, which gives rise to Earth's magnetic field, says Duncan Agnew, a geophysicist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego, California.

Other data indicate that Jupiter's magnetic field is nearly 50 % stronger than previously suspected in some places, hinting that the movement of electrically charged particles deep in the planet's atmosphere may rise closer to the cloudtops than previously presumed.

Dynamos are possible because mechanical energy — in this case the movement of the fluid in the outer core — can generate a magnetic field.

Here we report that hatchling loggerheads, when exposed to magnetic fields replicating those found in three widely separated oceanic regions, responded by swimming in directions that would, in each case, help keep turtles within the currents of the North Atlantic gyre and facilitate movement along the migratory pathway.

These magnetic imprints on the ocean floor can be used as a sort of time machine, allowing past field changes to be reconstructed and showing the movement of tectonic plates from hundreds of million years ago until the present day.

Re 122 — also, if a magnetic pole where nearby, small movements could cause large directional changes in the horizontal component of the magnetic field, although the horizontal component should be quite small in that case.

Spicules may also follow along magnetic field lines of the sun, which are made by the movements of gases inside the sun.

A diagram on graph paper for the movement of light on eight Plexiglas beams floating in a magnetic field, Art and Technology Proposal: Beams and Intensity of Lights, 1968, was on view in this long - overdue survey, which originated at KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin and was organized by its chief curator, Ellen Blumenstein.

Scientists now are teasing out the secrets of complex multi-scaled layers of turbulence in plasmas, the movement of particles through those plasmas, their interaction with magnetic fields, and numerous other phenomena that impact the plasma's ability to be harnessed as an energy source.

The magnetic fields produced as a result of the spiral movement of the magnet within the component is that which produces electricity.

Early this year I came across this: Jean Dickey of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena: One possibility is the movements of Earth's core (where Earth's magnetic field originates) might disturb Earth's magnetic shielding of charged - particle (i.e., cosmic ray) fluxes that have been hypothesized to affect the formation of clouds.

Observation by NASA scientist: One possibility is the movements of Earth's core (where Earth's magnetic field originates) might disturb Earth's magnetic shielding of charged - particle (i.e., cosmic ray) fluxes that have been hypothesized to affect the formation of clouds.