This has been determined
using magnetometers and spectrometers on the Galileo Spacecraft, which has been in orbit out there for a long time.
Budker, who works on sensitive magnetic field detectors, and Folman, who builds «atom chips» to probe and manipulate atoms, focused in this work on
using these magnetometers to study new materials.
Ren's system
uses the magnetometer in a phone, which is there for the phone's compass, to detect a magnetic field.
That means as you swing your phone around, the map on screen shifts to show exactly which way you're facing (
using the magnetometer inside your iPhone or Android device).
Not exact matches
The only protruding features beyond the shield are a 10 - metre electric field antennae and an 11 - metre
magnetometer boom (
used to make magnetic observations).
Similarly, the PBA also agreed to drop its formal grievance against the town for
using the constables to monitor those entering the courtroom through recently installed
magnetometers which screen for weapons.
Tarduno and his team
used a unique superconducting quantum interference device, or SQUID
magnetometer, at the University of Rochester that provides a sensitivity ten times greater than comparable instruments.
A more recent application
used a whole fleet of smartphone sensors — including the gyroscope, accelerometer, light sensor and magnetism - measuring
magnetometer — to guess PINs.
Radio telemetry from minuscule
magnetometers and gyroscopes on the deployed Sprites would then be
used to track the spacecraft as they shift, spin and tumble, to better understand their orbital dynamics.
Jarillo - Herrero's group grew chromium triiodide crystals and flaked off single - and multi-layer sheets, while Xu's lab studied the samples
using a sensitive
magnetometer.
Traditionally, such atomic
magnetometers are
used to measure naturally occurring magnetic fields, but in this NIST project, they are being
used to receive coded communications signals.
For these studies, NIST developed a direct - current (DC)
magnetometer in which polarized light is
used as a detector to measure the «spin» of rubidium atoms induced by magnetic fields.
Magnetometers have been
used to detect submarines since the second world war.
The researchers,
using ground - based
magnetometers, found a signature of what's known as a substorm current wedge — one of the major features of a classic substorm.
The new
magnetometer, built by Xiaoming Xie and colleagues at the Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology,
uses not one SQUID but an array of them.
Then the xenon flows into the smaller chamber, where its polarization is measured,
using the rubidium atoms in the same chamber as
magnetometers.
The research entitled «Network analysis of geomagnetic substorms
using the SuperMAG database of ground - based
magnetometer stations» has just been published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics by a team of researchers from the Centre for Fusion, Space and Astrophysics in the Department of Physics at the University of Warwick; The Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway; and The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Maryland, USA.
The research team
used data from over 100 individual
magnetometers located at high latitudes in the northern hemisphere.
The
magnetometer sitting in your smartphone can do more than just tell which way to go: it can also be
used to receive messages
The team
used a sensitive
magnetometer to confirm that a powder of the new oxide can absorb EM waves of up to 182 GHz at room temperature.
SQUIDs are also of considerable
use in the research laboratory in specially designed voltmeters, in
magnetometers and susceptometers and in scanning SQUID microscopes.
In a study published in Physics Review Letters, and highlighted by APS Physics, ICFO researchers demonstrate a new technique for the coherent the detection of radio frequency magnetic fields
using an atomic
magnetometer.
Now,
using gravitometers and
magnetometers, which measure fluctuations in gravity and magnetic fields, as well as deep - earth measurements from seismometers embedded in the ice, Bell is closing in on answers.
He and Kent
used a bandsaw to trim the samples into sugar cube - size blocks and inserted them into a
magnetometer, which measured the polarity of tiny grains of the minerals hematite and magnetite contained in the sediment.
To Green, the
magnetometer Narod described «looks like something we could
use,» as Narod tells the story.
magnetometer A scientific instrument
used to measure a magnetic field (usually Earth's magnetic field).
To help answer this question Juno will determine the content and mass of Jupiter's core
using its Gravity Science and
magnetometer instruments to measure Jupiter's gravitational and magnetic fields.
In this activity, students will build and operate a simple
magnetometer using a soda bottle and a bar magnet.
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using the built - in compass (
magnetometer) to support augmented reality applications
«For example, gyroscopes,
magnetometers and other motion sensors can provide angular displacements, angular rates and magnetic readings with respect to a reference coordinate frame, and that data can be
used by a real - time onboard rendering engine to generate 3D imagery of downtown San Francisco,» Apple said.
Many players don't know that you can get data or
use hidden inputs like the
magnetometer inside the mobile phone.
To top it all off, it also has something called a
magnetometer which is
used to correct any cumulative errors that might build up in the other sensors.
One is measured with
magnetometers and the other is counted
using a telescope.
By marking out a surveyed grid (with altitudes) and
using a sensitive
magnetometer, the natural field was mapped, usually at an area where airborne survey showed a discrete anomaly.
Though, that's not it, as company has also activate the
magnetometer, therefore allowing developers to make full
use of the Open SDK, which company provides since the Pebble Steel came into existence.
It's limited to pressing the screen by
using the phone's
magnetometer (which is normally
used for the compass) but gets the job done; it must be mentioned that the magnet only works for certain phones.
United States Secret Service (Washington, D.C.) 04/1996 — Date Uniformed Division Police Officer • Serve as a member of the Presidential Protective Division at the White House • Responsible for the protection of the President, First Family, and Staff • Provide security for the White House Grounds via fixed observation points and patrols • Oversee vehicular security,
magnetometer support, and post security for official travel • Control public, press, and guest access points ensuring the safety and security of the First Family • Function as the protective driver for foreign dignitaries and visiting Heads of State • Highly proficient in the
use of various firearms for protective and tactical purposes • Possess and maintain Top Secret Clearance