The authors introduce a radiative transfer model CLOUD for reflection, transmission, and absorption characteristics of terrestrial clouds and discuss the accuracy of the approximations used within the model. A Fortran implementation of CLOUD is available for download. This model is fast, accurate, and capable of calculating multiple radiative characteristics of cloudy media including the spheri...

Amir H. Safavi-Naeini, 2, ∗ Simon Gröblacher, 2, ∗ Jeff T. Hill, 2, ∗ Jasper Chan, Markus Aspelmeyer, and Oskar Painter 2, 4, † Kavli Nanoscience Institute and Thomas J. Watson, Sr., Laboratory of Applied Physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125 Institute for Quantum Information and Matter, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125 Vienna Center for Quantum S...

The late trends in special education policy aim to maintain in the same school system students with and without special needs. In the case of students with visual impairment, one of the main problems they face, particularly in physics, is the lack of instructional materials adapted to the experimental laboratory. In this paper we present strategies, activities and resources for instructional us...

Whilst large scale noise-mapping techniques have been applied extensively in practice, as required by the EU Directive on environmental noise, they are often not applicable for microscale urban areas such as a street or a square. This talk will discuss a series of simulation techniques as well as related acoustic theories for accurately calculating the sound field for micro-scale urban areas. T...

In industrial production, the orientation of facility components can indicate whether is on a regular operating track. For example, when component get loose, variation would exceed normal range. A common approach for measurement to attach an inertial unit (IMU) target device. However, IMU requires additional power maintenance. This paper presents LightGyro, cheap and efficient batteryless schem...