Electromagnetic induction of ultrasonic waves is restricted to conducting materials – like eddy current testing – because it involves inducing eddy currents in the surface of the part by a nearby coil of wire. A magnetic field supplied by a nearby magnet interacts with this eddy current to produce a mechanical force on the surface to excite ultrasonic vibrations. The same configuration of coil ...

We propose to apply Ramsey’s method of separated oscillating fields to the spectroscopy of the quantum states in the gravity potential above a horizontal mirror. This method allows a precise measurement of quantum mechanical phaseshifts of a Schrödinger wave packet bouncing off a hard surface in the gravitational field of the Earth. Measurements with ultracold neutrons will offer a sensitivity ...

In this paper we review optical methods suitable to generate and to detect elastic waves in solids without any mechanical contact. The mechanisms underlying elastic wave generation by the impact of a pulsed laser beam are outlined. The principles of optical techniques able to detect surface displacements of amplitude less than one angstrom are described. Examples of applications in domains such...

The propagation of surface waves in a fluid- saturated porous isotropic layer over a semi-infinite homogeneous elastic medium with an irregularity for free and rigid interfaces have been studied. The rectangular irregularity has been taken in the half-space. The dispersion equation for Love waves is derived by simple mathematical techniques followed by Fourier transformations.  It can be seen t...

recordings of ambient noise or microtremors are increasingly used to find valuable information on soil in one dimension at a given site. ambient vibrations, which are assumed to be mainly composed of surface waves, can be used to determine the surface wave dispersion curve in order to retrieve shear wave velocity profile. in this regard, microtremors are usually recorded simultaneously in an ar...

On the basis of see-saw mechanism, possible generation structure is investigated. Assuming that right-handed neutrinos are realistic particles below GUTs mass, it is shown that there is a choice of new scheme of generation, where the combination of leptons and quarks is different from the ordinary one. Our scheme predict a new proton decay mode. 1 typeset using PTPTEX.sty §

I. Introduction During the past three decades, there has been a paradigm shift from import substitution strategies towards export‐oriented industrialization. It is in this context that countries saw the need to create special economic zones (SEZs) and export processing zones (EPZs), so‐called ecozones, to cope with the increasingly competitive environment of the global market.

We investigate the requirement of the existence of two degenerate vacua of the effective potential as a function of the Weinberg–Salam Higgs scalar field norm, as suggested by the multiple point principle, in an extension of the Standard Model including see–saw scale physics. Results are presented from an investigation of an extension of the Standard Model to the gauge symmetry group SU(3)C ×SU...

An ocean surface wave retrieval algorithm, Parameterized First-guess Spectrum Method (PFSM), which was initially developed for C-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), is modified to extract wave parameters from X-band TerraSAR-X (TS-X) images. Wave parameters, including significant wave height (SWH) and mean wave period (MWP) were extracted from nine TS-X HH-polarization images and were compared...

Two experiments demonstrate that 5-month-olds are sensitive to local redundancy in visual-temporal sequences. In Experiment 1, 20 infants saw 2 separate sequences of looming colored shapes that possessed the same elements but contrasting transitional probabilities. One sequence was random whereas the other was based on bigrams. Without any prior exposure, infants looked longer at the random seq...