An annotated panorama view of the outer wall of the DIII-D National Fusion Facility. DIII-D is a tokamak; an experimental fusion reactor that uses magnetic fields to confine plasma. The 82 systems shown are managed by universities, national laboratories, and General Atomics.
Well, I guess this is my life now.
That’s as far you go, silly bear.
First trip to the zoo as parents, and the kids were more impressed by the tour buses than the animals 🙂
Kinetic and Radiative Energy of a Falling Electron
A charged particle that is accelerating emits radiation. Through the study of electrodynamics we often encounter moving charged particles without considering the issues of radiation. For example, the energy of a collection of charges may be calculated in part by solving for the energy involved in bringing those charges together from infinity. Radiation that they […]
Why Not to Use Aluminum in Your Langmuir Probes
I have made a fair number of Langmuir probes during the time I have been running experiments for my thesis. Some of the plasma facing material is aluminum, which I used because it was easy enough to machine that I could do it myself. The benefit of being able to do this myself is that […]