- How does bending a particle's path into a spiral let it reach higher speeds without a longer machine?
Magnetism
The physics of magnetic materials and phenomena.
- How does adiabatic demagnetization actually cool a sample to near absolute zero?
- Why do atomic nuclei absorb and then re-emit radio-frequency energy when placed in a strong magnetic field?
- What is the difference between an antiferromagnet and a ferrimagnet in Louis Néel's classification of magnetism?
- How did Néel's ferrimagnetic materials become the basis for magnetic data recording?
- How did Van Vleck's earlier work explain how magnetic moments arise and interact within matter?
- How did de Gennes adapt the mathematics of magnetism to describe liquid crystals and polymers?
- How can a magnetic field levitate a living frog without harming it?
- What does it mean for water to be diamagnetic?
- How does varying the magnetic field in a gradient allow different points in a sample to be located precisely?
- How can a mechanical 'breaking-in' process irreversibly increase the strain-sensing gauge factor of a 3D printed continuous carbon fiber beam?
- What role does thermal residual stress from the 3D printing process play in causing the local progressive fiber failure that boosts sensitivity?
- In what ways can piezoresistive carbon fiber reinforcement let a 3D printed structural part also function as its own strain gauge?