Sentences with phrase «of photoelectric»

The Nordeast Nest's roofline is ideally suited for the future addition of photoelectric solar panels, and the infrastructure throughout the home — including the garage — is already set up for it, too.

The success of the photoelectric photometry of asteroids with the buoyant interest in visual work encouraged Council to create a new Section so, in June 1984, the Minor Planets Section was formed with Andrew Hollis as Director and Richard Miles as Assistant Director.

Ultraviolet radiation is detected by photographic plates and by means of the photoelectric effect in photomultiplier tubes.

The scientists focused on bismuth vanadate, a thin - film semiconductor that has emerged as a leading candidate for use as a photoanode, the positively charged part of a photoelectric cell that can absorb sunlight to split water.

Two years later, Einstein won the Nobel Prize in Physics, not for general relativity, but for his discovery of the photoelectric effect.

His successful theory of the photoelectric effect was a key step in establishing the correctness of quantum mechanics.

But this year there was one nomination — from Carl Wilhelm Oseen — not for relativity, but for the discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect.

Not exact matches

TNR's high - speed aluminum security door, for example, boasts a photoelectric sensor to detect vehicles and can open at a rate of 54 inches per second.

In addition, he also explained the photoelectric effect (for which he won the Nobel Prize) and the physics of diffusion.

From the rugged, moisture - proof photoelectric sensor, glass identification via intelligent image sensors, and checking the position of packaging elements through to protecting robotic loaders with safety laser scanners — SICK sensors and systems meet the requirements of the packaging industry.

No matter how complex your requirements, SICK photoelectric sensors are the reliable solution for a wide and demanding range of applications in which a whole variety of challenges have to be faced.

BEST: Install two types of working smoke alarms in your home: ionization and photoelectric alarms.

And physicists have turned down the light source in Young's experiment to the point where individual photons pass through the experimental set - up one at a time and hit a photoelectric detector put in place of the second screen.

Other papers that year were on Brownian motion, suggesting the existence of molecules and atoms, and the photoelectric effect, showing that light is made of particles later called photons.

From downtown Munich to the fields of Bavaria, those panels exploited the photoelectric effect (in which light expels electrons to create an electric current) to crank out the equivalent of 16 nuclear power plants operating at full capacity.

Dr Bell and Dr Ramachers re-investigated ideas about the photoelectric effect dating back to Nikola Tesla and Albert Einstein when they considered whether these ideas could be used for modern solar power generation — leading to the development of this new process.

The center's goals include the development of advanced water treatment techniques such as photoelectric catalysis.

The most famous one, which won Albert Einstein the Nobel Prize, is the quantization of the photon energy in the photoelectric effect — the observation that many metals emit electrons when light shines upon them.

The resulting cycle, called the photoelectric instability (PeI), can work in tandem with other forces to create some of the features astronomers have previously associated with planets in debris disks.

A skillful visual observer he was one of the pioneering few during the 80's in applying photoelectric photometry to the study of stars, asteroids and planetary satellites.

Ten of these reports were from observers using electronic equipment - video cameras and photoelectric photometers.

The photoelectric work of the Section has enabled us to provide data for the catalogue of asteroid rotation periods held at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena and at Uppsalla Observatory.

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While he worked throughout his life in drawing, painting, and graphics, he began exploring new technologies in the»60s, creating electronic sculptures in which photoelectric cells activated sound and light with the movements of spectators.

Maybe a simple «infrared security camera» or even an infrared photoelectric security beam device, or an infrared TV remote control, would demonstrate the difference between 5 feet and 10 feet of CO2.

Raypierre pointed out that a simple photoelectric cell sensitive to the long - wavelength infrared can be used to measure how much IR gets through a column of gas (attach the output to a voltmeter).

and very soon afterwards the pesky Einstein started to investigate the photoelectric effect which led to the discovery of the completely revolutionary world of quantum physics.

If light wasn't transmitted as discrete packets of energy (photons) then there would be no frequency boundary where the photoelectric effect stopped working.

Just know that there are two types of smoke detectors and consider getting a photoelectric as these in most cases will provide adequate early warning while the ionic may not even go off.

The two kinds of smoke detectors are photoelectric and ionic.

Photoelectric sensors are less prone to nuisance alarms and are generally better than ionization at catching smoldering fires that put out bigger particles of smoke.

Unlike most photoelectric alarms that only use one wavelength of light to look for smoke, the Split - Spectrum Sensor uses two.

From releasing the first battery powered smoke detector that received an Underwriters Laboratory (UL) listing, to being the first to retail market with a battery - operated smoke alarm, to developing the first dual photoelectric / ionization alarm and beyond, we've had a long legacy of firsts.

Measuring a fraction of the size of a traditional smoke alarm, the First Alert P1010 Micro Photoelectric Smoke Alarm with 10 - Year Battery delivers ultra-reliable smoke detection in a sleek, compact design.

The First Alert P1010 Photoelectric Smoke Alarm features a built - in 10 - year lithium battery that provides continuous power for the life of the detector.

Based on the results of this test series, IoPhic based smoke and fire alarms are observed to have nominally equivalent nuisance alarm immunity to photoelectric smoke alarms in kitchen scenarios, and are more resistant to nuisance sources near bathrooms than photoelectric smoke alarms.

The First Alert P1010 alarm comes equipped with a photoelectric sensor to provide the earliest possible warning of fire.

One of the reasons that the Nest Protect is our favorite smart smoke detector is that its photoelectric sensors can detect both smouldering and fast - burning fires, as well as carbon monoxide.

There are two main types of smoke detectors: ionization and photoelectric.

The home - inspectors group cited a Texas A&M University risk analysis that found that in smoldering - ignition fires, the probability of fatality because of alarm failure was 55.8 percent for ionization versus 4.06 percent for photoelectric.