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Thursday, 1 December 2011

Coming soon!

Dear Friends,
Soon i am going to teach you how to make the Wangdu Chair like my chair! You can contact me at 7620959702! If foreingners want to call me they can dial the code for india and can call me at this no.! Thankyou!
Yours Faithfully,
Rishabh Mishra

Tuesday, 22 November 2011

Some Pictures of Wangdu Chair!



Sunday, 20 November 2011

Wangdu Chair!



Hello friends,
"Wangdu Chair" is an invention done by me! I was learning and working on this project since 2 months! Now let me tell you abut this chair! This chair is capable of taking decision on its own! It has its own brain! I have made this chair for the future and the present Senior Citizens Of India and other Countries! If a senior citizen cannot walk on his leg, he can use this chair! Like, if any obstacle comes in between this chair while the Senior Citizen is sitting on it, it will avoid the obsatcle! It can even be operated from a computer! It even has a horn! If someone comes in middle of its path, it will give horn or the person sitting on it can press the horn! It can even walk like a snake! It can even rotate 360 degrees on D.C. Motors without the help of an A.C. Servo Motor! And if the person sitting on it wants to go somewhere the chair will take him or her to his or her destination! It can even trace a line! This is an Unique chair in this world! No chair has been created as this chair is! It can even be used for security and in many large industries! One more feature of this chair is that it is an energy efficient chair! The whole chair is works on 10v (volts)!.
Thats all from my side and i hope you all like this project and you also create such projects! Incase of any doubts or quaries related to such things you can contact me at rishabhm242@gmail.com!

Saturday, 20 August 2011

Build a Bubble-Powered Rocket!

Build your own rocket using paper and fizzing tablets! Watch it lift off. How high does your rocket go? Print this page for the instructions.
Suggestion:
Find a grown-up to do this activity with you.

Materials:


  • Paper, regular 8-1/2- by 11-inch paper, such as computer printer paper or even notebook paper.
  • Plastic 35-mm film canister (see hints below)
  • Cellophane tape
  • Scissors
  • Effervescing (fizzing) antacid tablet (the kind used to settle an upset stomach)
  • Paper towels
  • Water
  • Eye protection (like eye glasses, sun glasses, or safety glasses)
Hints:
Cartoon of film canister with inside fitting lid.
The film canister MUST be one with a cap that fits INSIDE the rim instead of over the outside of the rim. Sometimes photography shops have extras of these and will be happy to donate some for such a worthy cause.
Keep in mind:
Just like with real rockets, the less your rocket weighs and the less air resistance (drag) it has, the higher it will go.

Making the Rocket

You must first decide how to cut your paper. You may cut it the short way or the long way to make the body of the rocket. There is no one right way to make a paper rocket. Try a long, skinny rocket or a short, fat rocket. Try a sharp nosecone or a blunt nosecone. Try it with fins or without fins. Experiment!
Here's just one idea for how you might cut your whole rocket from one piece of paper:
Drawing of one way to cut out rocket parts.
Here are the basic steps: Young rocket engineer
  1. Cut out all the pieces for your rocket.
  2. Wrap and tape a tube of paper around the film canister. Hint: Tape the canister to the end of the paper before you start wrapping.
  3. Important! Place the lid end of the canister down.
  4. Tape fins to your rocket body, if you want.
  5. Roll the circle (with a wedge cut out) into a cone and tape it to the rocket's top.

Blasting Off

  1. Put on your eye protection.
  2. Turn the rocket upside down and remove the canister's lid.
  3. Fill the canister one-third full of water.
Now work quickly on the next steps!
  1. Drop one-half of an effervescing antacid tablet into the canister.
  2. Snap the lid on tight.
  3. Stand your rocket on a launch platform, such as your sidewalk or driveway.
  4. Stand back and wait. Your rocket will blast off!
Cartoon Dr. Marc explains at a chalk board.

So, Dr. Marc, how does the pop-rocket work?

When the fizzy tablet is placed in water, many little bubbles of gas escape. The bubbles go up, instead of down, because they weigh less than water. When the bubbles get to the surface of the water, they break open. All that gas that has escaped from the bubbles pushes on the sides of the canister.
Now when you blow up a balloon, the air makes the balloon stretch bigger and bigger. But the little film canister doesn't stretch and all this gas has to go somewhere!
Eventually, something has to give! So the canister pops its top (which is really its bottom, since it's upside down). All the water and gas rush down and out, pushing the canister up and up, along with the rocket attached to it.
We call this wonderful and useful fact the law of action and reaction. The action is the gas rushing out of the rocket. The reaction is the rocket taking off in the other direction. In other words, for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. The rocket goes in the opposite direction from the gas, and the faster the gas leaves the rocket, the faster the rocket gets pushed the other way.
Source :http://spaceplace.nasa.gov/pop-rocket/

Tuesday, 19 July 2011

How to be in two places at the same time

An ambitious experiment to make a glass sphere exist in two places at once could provide the most sensitive test of quantum theory yet. The experiment will place a sphere containing millions of atoms – making it larger than many viruses – into a superposition of states in different places, say researchers in Europe.
Physicists have questioned whether large objects can follow quantum laws ever since Erwin Schrödinger's thought-experiment suggested a cat could exist in a superposition of being both alive and dead.
The idea is to zap a glass sphere 40 nanometres in diameter with a laser while it is inside a small cavity. This should force the sphere to bounce from one side of the cavity to the other. But since the light is quantum in nature, so too will be the position of the sphere. This forces it into a quantum superposition.
The experiment will have to be carried out in high vacuum and at extremely low temperatures so that the sphere is not disturbed by thermal noise or air molecules, says lead author Oriol Romero-Isart from the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics in Garching, Germany.

No overlap

Last year Aaron O'Connell and colleagues at the University of California, Santa Barbara, demonstrated that it should be possible to create superpositions in a 60-micrometre-long metal strip. However, the physical separation associated with the two different states of the strip was only 1 femtometre, about the width of the nucleus of an atom.
The new experiment, in contrast, would put the glass sphere in two entirely distinct places at once, with no overlap. "In our proposal the centre of mass is put into a superposition of spatial locations separated by a distance larger than the size of the object," Romero-Isart says.
Atom interferometer experiments have previously achieved good separation, putting fullerene and other molecules containing up to a few hundred atoms into distinct superposition states, but the new scheme will do this with truly macroscopic objects.
This will be particularly valuable in providing tests for quantum mechanics, the researchers say. Observing the behaviour of such very large objects obeying quantum laws offers our best hope of finding ways in which quantum theory breaks down.
The Romero-Isart experiment would take us "substantially beyond the current state of the art", says Anthony Leggett of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. "Neither the fullerene experiments nor that of O'Connell and his team are able to test well-developed competitors to quantum mechanics."


Sunday, 17 July 2011

Latest Technology News-Bendy solar cells that can be printed onto paper

BendySolar.jpg
(Image: Patrick Gillooly)
Imagine decorating your bedroom walls with paper made from the same solar cells that now power your home.
That's the tantalising possibility thrown up by the development of lightweight solar cells that can be printed on paper, be scrunched up like an accordion and still conduct electricity. Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology printed them on untreated copy paper using a technique that could help slash the cost of producing solar cells.
The glass or plastic backing typically used for solar cells accounts for 25 to 60 per cent of the total cost for materials and so lightweight paper-based cells could significantly reduce photovoltaic production, transportation and installation costs.
A team led by Vladimir Bulović and Karen Gleason changed an ingredient in the material sandwich that makes up a solar cell. They used a flexible conducting polymer as the bottom electrode in the sandwich instead of a transparent metal oxide.
The researchers constructed the solar cell using a dry fabrication process, depositing each layer as a vapour dispersed in a vacuum. A thin mask patterned with holes restricted the placement of the five separate layers of material into cells: the polymer electrode, three energy-collecting materials and the metal electrode at the top of the sandwich. The fact that the vapour was deposited at a relatively low temperature means that the technique allows solar cells to be created on fabric, plastic, tissue paper and even printed newspaper.
At the moment, these paper solar cells are only about 1 per cent efficient. But that's still enough to run small electronics like an alarm clock. A lightweight solar cell could be used for wallpaper or window shades and simply installed using staples or glue.

Source:http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/onepercent/2011/07/green-machine-printing-solar-c.html

Thursday, 14 July 2011

Todays Game!

Try to break the record of this science game (circuit game-Electric Box)  in 2hrs and 15mins! A very interesting game please play it, you'll just love it! This game will improve your practicality things and will increase your logical ability!
Click on the link to start the game-http://www.candystand.com/play/electric-box

Monday, 11 July 2011

HOW TO MAKE A METAL DETECTOR!

Wikipedia

Links to this site from Wiki have now been removed by the socialist brothers there. You will find little else of any use on Wiki regarding metal detectors.


See it working on Youtube here

There are three or four Youtube videos of the project if you can find them.

Building your own metal detector is an ideal school, college, or hobby project. Requiring very little skill or equipment. 

Build with confidence this project  is completely free, costs nothing, is guaranteed to work, and has been built by thousands worldwide.



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Simple BFO metal detector 

BFO ( beat frequency oscillator ) metal detectors use two oscillators, each of which produces a radio frequency. One of these oscillators uses a coil of wire that we call the search loop. The second oscillator uses a much smaller coil of wire, and is usually inside the control box and is called the reference oscillator. By adjusting the oscillators so their frequencies are very nearly the same, the difference between them is made audible as a beat note, this beat note changes slightly when the search loop is moved over or near to a piece of metal. It has been found in practice best to make the search oscillator fixed say at 100khz and to arrange for the reference oscillator to be adjustable 100khz plus or minus 250hz. This gives a beat note of 250hz to 0 to 250hz. The beat note disappears or nulls when the two oscillators are about equal. This type of detector is most sensitive when the beat note is close to zero, about 5hz ( motor boating ) any slight change being noticeable.

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Parts list

Power source:
Any 9v battery PP3 is ideal.

Capacitors:
2 off  220uF 16v electrolytic.
5 off  .01uF polyester.
5 off  .1uF polyester.

Resistors:
All resistors 1/4 watt 5%
6 off  10k
1 off  1K
1 off  2.2m ===== 2.2 Mega ohm
2 off  39k

Transistors:
All BC 184B, or 2N3904, or 2N2222A. Just about any small signal npn with a gain of 250+ will do. There are hundreds to choose from.

Audio output:
A 2.5 inch 8 ohm speaker will work but headphones or earpiece are preferable the higher the impedance the better.

Many of the above parts could be salvaged from a broken transistor radio, or purchased from companies like RS Components, Maplin Electronics, Radio Shack, or Digikey who's adds often appear at the top of this page..

Once the components have been obtained the circuit can be built in a few hours using copper clad stripboard, or if you the facilities make a printed circuit board using the layout below. The original layout as below should print out at about 50mm x 100mm. Coils
This is the only tricky part. The search loop is best wound on to a plywood former. Method 1: Cut three circles from some 3mm plywood, one 15cm diameter and two 16cm diameter. Using wood glue make a sandwich with the 15cm circle in the center. When the glue has set you can wind 10 turns of . 25 mm  enameled copper wire around the groove in the edge of the former. Connect this coil when finished to the points marked coil 1 on the schematic.  Method 2: Cut a 16mm diameter circle from some 10mm plywood. Then with this circle clamped in a vice run a saw around the edge of the circle so as to make a slot about 5mm deep and 2mm wide around the edge to accommodate the windings. If you have access to an oscilloscope or frequency counter make a note of the frequency. Ideally This coil will be oscillating at about 104khz, with an amplitude of about .5v p to p.  The second or reference oscillator needs to be made much smaller and if possible attached to the control box so it can be adjusted as the detector is used. To make a really good adjustable reference oscillator you will have to visit a DIY store, what you need are  some plastic water fittings, two examples are shown below. The smaller one is the inlet pipe to a plastic ball valve assembly fitted with a brass nut. The larger one is a plastic tank connector fitted with a brass nut from an old tap. Both of these work well and are glued to the control box in a position where they can be adjusted. The reference coil itself is wound on a piece of wood or plastic about 10/12mm diameter and about 50mm long  The actual number of turns of this coil depends on the diameter of the former and can only be found by experiment. Start with about 125 turns . 25 enameled copper wire ( this coil when finished has to fit inside the plastic tube ) and remove turns until the two frequencies are close. This coil is attached to the circuit board at points marked coil 2. If all is well the detector should be howling at this point. When the two oscillators are well matched it should be possible by adjusting the brass nut in or out to bring the beat note to a halt or null.

** BFO FITTING **

Note. On the working detector shown in these pictures we wound 10 turns on to the searchcoil which then oscillated at 104 khz Then we wound on to a piece of 12mm dia x 50mm long  wooden dowel ( taken from a bird cage ) 120 turns of wire. This was pushed inside a  threaded plastic tube from a ball valve assembly. This oscillated at 96 khz without the brass nut and increased gradually as the brass nut was screwed on up to 106 khz. This was perfect for tuning the detector.

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Searchcoil  made from 10mm thick plywood
** BFO REFERENCE COIL **

The reference coil is wound on to a piece of wooden dowel about 12mm diameter x 50mm long. This has to fit inside the Plastic pipe fitting above, and is tuned by moving the Brass nut. Drill a very small hole 1mm through each end of the wooden dowel so that you can pass the beginning and end of the wire through these holes to keep the windings in place.

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This large coil is 30cm wide by 60cm long ( 12 inches by 24 inches ) and is made from 10mm plywood. It has 5 turns of wire in a 3mm deep groove cut around the edge with a saw. it oscillates at 104 khz . If you want to make different size coils start with the big one, as with only 5 turns you can only alter it in big jumps eg. 4 turns = 115 khz and 6 turns = 85khz . next make the reference coil to match. next make the next smallest coil and so on. The smaller coils  are easier to match up as adding or removing a turn at a time only alters the frequency in small amounts

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Building a practical detector.

Building a practical detector for outdoor use will depend on the skills and materials at your disposal. The golden rule is keep it lightweight, avoid using heavy materials such as hardwood or perspex. The round search loop needs to be glued to some sort of handle, with the circuit board inside a small box at the other end for balance. You will need to adjust the reference oscillator from time to time when in use. 

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Coil A = Search coil:   Coil B = Reference coil:    B+ = Battery + 9V PP3 or similar :       B- = battery -

Notes for the electronics beginner.

2 off 220uf / 16v Electrolytic : These are 220 microfarad / 16v working voltage. You can use a higher working voltage but not less. Higher working voltage capacitors work just the same but they get physically bigger. They have a negative lead that must be connected to the battery - track. These components must go in the correct way round.

5 off .1 and .01 polyester : These also have a working voltage. 63 volt in quite common and will be ideal. If you want to use the pcb layout above you will need capacitors with 5mm lead spacing.     .1 can be marked as .1 or 100n or sometimes 104 :   .01 can be marked as .01 or 10n or sometimes 103. These components can go in any way round.

All resistors 1/4 watt 5%: These are general purpose carbon film resistors with a 5% tolerance and rated at 1/4 watt. You could use resistors of a higher wattage as this does not affect the working they just get bigger. 1 watt or bigger will not fit on the board. These components can go in any way round.

Transistors: The bc 184b transistor is described has Audio, low current, general purpose NPN . These are quite easy to get in the UK but may be difficult to get in other countries. There are hundreds of types of small plastic NPN transistors available around the world and just about all will work in this circuit. You will have to be sure of the pinouts though. You can get the pinouts for most transistors from manufacturers websites. This will be the most likely problem area when building this project. These components must be connected correctly. PNP types won't work.

Other Transistors: 2N 3904 --2N2222A --BC183--most small npn transistors will work

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Frequently asked questions.

Q. I know nothing about electronics, but like to make things, and have always been fascinated by those little electronic components that look like sweets. I have no equipment, but I am prepared to sod about with this for days on end until it works. Do you think I will get it going .

A. Well if you have little knowledge of electronics, and no equipment it will be difficult, but hundreds of people like you have done it. You need to keep to the plans exactly and have a bit if luck with it. Resist the temptation to alter things and add stuff like a meter or a pilot light. Whatever happens it won't cost you much and at the end you will know something about electronics.

Q. I am making this detector for my school course work project can you send me a detailed explanation with diagrams how it works.

A. Would love to but don't have the time.

Q. How many meters down can I detect a single Gold coin with this detector.

A. None. For a single coin its about 120 mm if you are lucky. A bit more for larger objects.

Q. I built it but I cant get it to work.

A. Well it does work and usually straight away. The most likely reasons for not working would be. Transistor of the wrong type eg. PNP, or connected wrong. Wrong pinouts. Stripboard  can be used but be careful not to get solder bridges across the tracks. If the search coil and reference coil are way off frequency you won't get any sound.

Q. What is the best size for the searchcoil.

A. The bigger the coil the deeper it goes. But big coils are no good for small objects like coins and rings. The 16 cm coil is just about perfect for coins and rings.

Q. Is it OK to use a metal shaft and bracket down to to searchcoil.

A. Any metal near or on the coil will effect the frequency, you must take this into account when you wind the coil. A small ally bracket will not make a lot of difference. If you use a metal pole and it moves as you are detecting it will alter the tuning.

Q. Can I buy a kit of parts from you for this project.

A. No we don't sell anything to do with this project.

Q. Our son wants to build this detector for a school exam project, could you build it for him and send it to us.

A. No tell him cheats never prosper.    ( trouble is cheats do prosper ) .

Email           Saxons#Easytreasure.co.uk   Please include name and location e.g.  John from Alabama
Please put Metal Detector in the subject box
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If you are successful with this project send us an email, small picture would be nice but not essential.
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Saturday, 9 July 2011

Making a hydroelectric generetor!


We all know that scientists are in a constant search for alternative energy sources and this happens because in recent years conventional energy sources have started to decrease significantly.

They have developed various systems that convert the energy from nature in electricity and many of these systems could be built at home, on a smaller scale, in order to reduce electricity consumption.  After we saw how to produce electricity using magnets or wind power, it is time to talk about those people who live near a river. In this case, the best way to produce electricity is represented by a small-scale hydroelectric generator made at home. Often called as a low-impact hydro, micro-hydro or run-of-stream hydro generator, this system is not very hard to build.
To build such a micro-hydro generator you must follow these steps:
A. Preparing Disks
micro hidro turbine stator rotor How to Build a Small Scale Hydroelectric Generator
Our generator will consist of two main parts:
-The stator (this part is not moving and it is equipped with coils of wire to collect electricity)
-The rotor (the rotor is the part that moves and has some powerful magnets that will induce electricity in the coils)
First you need some templates and a cardboard. The two templates that contain the rotor and stator scheme must be cut and attached to the front and back of the cardboard. After these templates are well glued to cardboard make a hole (1 cm) at the center of the stator disk.
B. Attaching the Stator
Now, you have to make 4 coils that will be attached on the cardboard. This requires you to use a cardboard with an oval section. Then, start winding the wires on this cardboard to form a tight coil (200 turns). Remove carefully the coil from the oval section and then, repeat this procedure to make three more coils.
Arrange the coils on the cardboard according to the template scheme (their windings have to alternate between clockwise and counter clockwise). You must be sure that an electron would follow the path shown by the arrows in the template, begining from the left counterclockwise coil.
Connect the ends of coils and use insulation tape to prevent any errors. Use a multi-meter to cehck electrical resistance (ohms). If the wires are properly connected the meter should produce a reading of about 10 ohms.
C. Attaching the Rotor
At this stage you need 4 strong magnets to be attached on the stator template. Check the magnets, mark the south pole on two of them and the north pole of the remaining two. The magnets should be arranged on the template so that their polarity alternates (N-S-N-S).
Then you need a cork and 8 plastic spoons. You have to shorten the spoons so that the handle will not measure more than 1cm. Look at the rotor template and insert the spoons into the cork (1cm depth).
D. The Turbine
Make a 6mm hole through the cork (make sure the hole is centered), fix again the geometrical position of the spoons and add some hot glue to each spoon to secure it.
micro hidro generator2 How to Build a Small Scale Hydroelectric Generator
E. Generator body and Final Assembly
Find a plastic tank or a bottle to attach the rotor, the stator and the small turbine. After you find the center of the tank, make a hole in that place (6mm) and fix the stator with its coils just above the hole. Then, attach on the same shaft the turbine and rotor (the spoons have to face the neck of the bottle and the magnets should be close to the coils (3mm between the coils and magnets)).
It seems that our micro-hydro generator is almost ready to use. All we need now is a stream of water so that the turbine to spin continuously as long as there is water to drive it. If the turbine is properly connected to the generator this stream should produce enough electricity to power our utilities or charging batteries.
You may also want to find how to produce free energy at home.

Wednesday, 6 July 2011

Computer Science Projects

Digital Image Watermarking

This is a suite of algorithms implemented in delphi that demonstrate simple high-capacity fragile watermarking algorithms and how they can be implemented on loss-less format images. The algorithms implement LSB watermarking on 1st, 2nd and 3rd bits, and have been optimised to be run in parallel. Due to the high data storing capacity of the algorithms they can also be used as steganographic tools for storing hidden data.
Watermark Image - Copyright Arash Partow


FastGEO

FastGEO Image - Copyright Arash Partow
FastGEO is a library written in object pascal that contains a wide range of highly optimized vector based geometrical algorithms and routines for many different types of geometrical operations such as geometrical primitives and predicates, hull construction and triangulation, clipping, rotations and projections.


Particle Engine System (P.E.S)

This is a fully scalable particle engine, that has the capabilities of running on clusters that run MPI and Open-MPI protocols. Currently the system simulates mass-spring systems, and visualizes the result via OpenGL 3D graphics and GLUT windowing interface.At the moment the system uses very primitive ODEs such as Euler, Extended Euler and Runge-Kutta algorithms. PES has been successfully compiled and run under both Unix and Windows systems, however under Windows MPI capabilities are not available.
PES Image - Copyright Arash Partow


N-Mice Simulation

N-Mice Simulation - Copyright Arash Partow
This is a simulation of the N-Mice problem, which is presented as the paths that "N" mice which are standing evenly distributed around a circle with a particular radius would take if they were all trying to reach the mouse on their right hand side. It turns out that mathematically they never reach each other, however physically they do. The paths they create are in spiral form, This application can simulate up to 20 mice, in theory it could do much more, however the visual effect of the nice spirals really begin to dissipate after about 20 mice. The simulation assumes each mouse as being an independent particle in 2D space, each particle (mouse) follows the particle on its right hand side, with an attraction force that is calculated via Newton's formula of matter to matter attraction. There are many other ways to implement this problem, a full mathematical definition of the problem and other possible solutions can be found at mathworld.


Polynomial Signal Rectification

This is a signal generation and processing application. It is capable of producing many different types of commonly used wave forms such as square, saw-tooth and triangular wave forms, it can also take an algebraic expression representing a continuous analog signal and turn it into a useable digital wave form. The application also has a rendering system which applies different types of smoothing and noise reduction algorithms. I hope to add Fourier and Hadamard transformations to future versions of this application. (If I get the time...)
PSR Image - Copyright Arash Partow


Equation Evaluator

Equation Evaluator Image - Copyright Arash Partow
This is my contribution to the plethora of mathematical applications on the web. I wrote this to prove to myself I could write and implement a grammar, and once I had achieved that I saw many different areas in which I could use the grammar. The application does function graphing, solution to expressions, integration in 2D and 3D and it also does simple series calculations. Its a very simple program and was only intended on demonstrating the speed and capabilities of the parser engine I had developed. A note on the parser engine is its unique ability to simplify expressions and re-order them so that they are executed as a list of sequential operations rather than a tree of prioritized expression this functionality leads to great decrease in time needed to evaluate a particular expression which makes it ideal for repetitive evaluations of expressions where only the variables change value and not the expression itself, such as graphing a function or integrating an area.


Virtual Particle Flame

This is a particle simulation with a cooling algorithm implemented as the particles move within the 2D space. The particles follow a very simple parametric equation and the space that they have traveled on begins to cool down with regards to Newton's differential equation for the cooling of matter. What is interesting here is if another particle intersects the path of a particle which has just passed the space where the intersection occurs heats up more than what the second particle would have heated it up normally. This is due to the remaining heat that was already there being summed up by the new heat that is arriving. This simulation makes for some very interesting eye-candy .
Virtual Particle Flame Image - Copyright Arash Partow


Simple Java Paint Brush

Simple Java Paint Brush Image - Copyright Arash Partow
This is a simple java applet implementation of a paint-brush style program. It has the basic drawing tools such as pen, line, filled and non-filed rectangles and ellipses and color manipulation options, other than that its really boring, but a good example of how to use java's graphics libraries.


C++ Galois Field Arithmetic Library

A simple library written in the C++ language for performing arithmetic over Galois fields. The arithmetic can be in the form of either elements or polynomials over a specified Galois field. The library is optimised to run in one of two modes, normal or LUT mode. In the LUT mode performance is increased dramatically at the cost of large consumption of memory. The library can be used in but not limited to such fields as cryptography, error correcting codes and computational analysis.
C++ Galois Field Arithmetic Library Image - Copyright Arash Partow

To read more:http://www.partow.net/projects/index.html

Monday, 4 July 2011

What is Vedic Mathematics?

Vedic Mathematics is the name given to the ancient system of Indian Mathematics which was rediscovered from the Vedas between 1911 and 1918 by Sri Bharati Krsna Tirthaji (1884-1960). According to his research all of mathematics is based on sixteen Sutras, or word-formulae. For example, 'Vertically and Crosswise` is one of these Sutras. These formulae describe the way the mind naturally works and are therefore a great help in directing the student to the appropriate method of solution.
Perhaps the most striking feature of the Vedic system is its coherence. Instead of a hotch-potch of unrelated techniques the whole system is beautifully interrelated and unified: the general multiplication method, for example, is easily reversed to allow one-line divisions and the simple squaring method can be reversed to give one-line square roots. And these are all easily understood. This unifying quality is very satisfying, it makes mathematics easy and enjoyable and encourages innovation.
In the Vedic system 'difficult' problems or huge sums can often be solved immediately by the Vedic method. These striking and beautiful methods are just a part of a complete system of mathematics which is far more systematic than the modern 'system'. Vedic Mathematics manifests the coherent and unified structure of mathematics and the methods are complementary, direct and easy.
The simplicity of Vedic Mathematics means that calculations can be carried out mentally (though the methods can also be written down). There are many advantages in using a flexible, mental system. Pupils can invent their own methods, they are not limited to the one 'correct' method. This leads to more creative, interested and intelligent pupils.
Interest in the Vedic system is growing in education where mathematics teachers are looking for something better and finding the Vedic system is the answer. Research is being carried out in many areas including the effects of learning Vedic Maths on children; developing new, powerful but easy applications of the Vedic Sutras in geometry, calculus, computing etc.
But the real beauty and effectiveness of Vedic Mathematics cannot be fully appreciated without actually practising the system. One can then see that it is perhaps the most refined and efficient mathematical system possible.

To read more: http://www.vedicmaths.org/introduction/What%20is%20VM.asp

Sunday, 3 July 2011

IIT Bombay Student Satellite Project

The IIT Bombay Student Satellite Project is a landmark project taken up by IIT Bombay students. The objective of this project is to make IIT Bombay a respected centre for advancement in Satellite and Space Technology in the world. The project aims at launching at least 5 satellites within the next few years. These Satellites could be test-beds for new technology that is being developed in the institute and also a method for space qualification. Click here to view enlarged image













'Pratham' is the first satellite under this project. The plan is to build a fully functional microsatellite in less than three years which would then be launched by Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). This is entirely a student initiative with mentorship provided by ISRO scientists and IIT Bombay Faculty. The satellite will fit in a 30*30*30 cm cube and will weigh less than 15 kg. Click here to view the Mission Statement of 'Pratham'.

To read more:http://www.aero.iitb.ac.in/pratham/

Thursday, 30 June 2011

Einstein

1905: "Annus Mirabilis" - Einstein's "Miracle Year"
Year
Theory
Description
1905 Ph.D. Einstein received his doctorate from the University of Zurich for a theoretical dissertation providing a new way of calculating the size of molecules.
1905 Brownian Motion In 1827 the botanist Robert Brown observed under the microscope the movement or motion of plant spores floating in water and moving about randomly all the time.
The explanation for this was already thought to be the random motion of molecules "hitting" the spores.
But the first satisfactory theoretical treatment of the Brownian motion was made by Albert Einstein in 1905.
Einstein's theory enabled significant statistical predictions about the motion of particles that are randomly distributed in a fluid. These predictions were later confirmed by experiment.
1905 Photoelectric Effect It was known that when light was shone on certain substances, the substances gave out electrons, but that only the number of electrons emitted, and not their energy, was increased when the strength of the light was increased.
According to classical theory, when light, thought to be composed of waves, strikes substances, the energy of the liberated electrons ought to be proportional to the intensity of light.
In other words, the energy emitted by the irradiated substance is changing in a discrete quantities rather than in a continuous manner.
Einstein proposed that under certain circumstances light can be considered as consisting of particles, but he also hypothesized that the energy carried by any light particle, called a photon, is proportional to the frequency of the radiation.
This proposal, that the energy contained within a light beam is transferred in individual units, or quanta, contradicted a hundred-year-old tradition of considering light energy a manifestation of a continuous processes or of its wave nature.
Virtually no one accepted Einstein's proposal until a decade later when the American physicist Robert Andrews Millikan experimentally confirmed the theory.
This Einstein's efforts helped out with the development of the quantum theory (mechanics).
For this contribution, Einstein was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics for 1921 (see below).
1905 Special Theory of Relativity This theory provides a consistent explanation for the way radiation (light, for example) and matter interact when viewed from different inertial frames of reference, that is, an interaction viewed simultaneously by an observer at rest and an observer moving at uniform speed.
Einstein based this theory on two postulates: the principle of relativity, that physical laws are the same in all inertial reference systems, and the principle of the invariance of the speed of light, that the speed of light in a vacuum is a universal constant for all observers regardless of the motion of the observer or of the source of the light.
He was thus able to provide a consistent and correct description of physical events in different inertial frames of reference without making special assumptions about the nature of matter or radiation, or how they interact.
Among the theory's main assertions and consequences are the propositions that the maximum velocity attainable in the universe is that of light; that objects appear to contract in the direction of motion and vice versa; that the rate of a moving clock seems to decrease as its velocity increases; the results of observers in different systems are equally correct; and that mass and energy are equivalent and interchangeable properties according to Einstein's famous formula:
E=mc²
Though Einstein did not invent the atomic bomb, this equation laid the theoretical background for it.

Think Like Einstein
After 1905
Year
Theory
Description
1911 Why Is The sky Blue? The case, "Why is the sky blue?", was finally settled by Einstein in 1911, who calculated the detailed formula for the scattering of light from molecules; and this was found to be in agreement with experiment.

Why Is the Sky Blue?
1916 General Theory of Relativity Einstein expanded the special theory of relativity into the general theory of relativity that applies to systems in nonuniform (accelerated) motion as well as to systems in uniform motion (like in the special theory of relativity).
The general theory is principally concerned with the large-scale effects of gravitation and therefore is an essential ingredient in theories of the universe as a whole, or cosmology.
The theory recognizes the equivalence of gravitational and inertial mass. It asserts that material bodies produce curvatures in space-time that form a gravitational field and that the path of a body in the field is determined by this curvature. In other words, according to this theory, space becomes curved in the vicinity of matter (this is the meaning of gravity); the greater the concentration of matter, the greater the curvature and the greater the gravity. The geometry of a given region of space and the motion in the field can be predicted from the equations of the general theory.
1922 Nobel Prize On December 10, 1922, Einstein received the Nobel prize in physics for the year 1921, especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect (see above).
1924 Bose-Einstein Condensate The Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) is a phase of matter, in the sense that solid, liquid, gas and plasma are phases of matter.
In 1924 the Indian physicist Satyendra Nath Bose sent Einstein a paper in which he derived the Planck law for black-body radiation by treating the photons as a gas of identical particles. Einstein generalized Bose's theory to an ideal gas of identical atoms or molecules for which the number of particles is conserved and, in the same year, predicted that at sufficiently low temperatures the particles would become locked together, or overlap, in the lowest quantum state of the system. The result of Einstein's and Bose's efforts is the so called Bose Einstein statistics. We now know that this phenomenon, (BEC), only happens for "bosons".
What does it mean to say that atoms overlap? The coins in a stack of pennies don’t overlap, and neither do the gas molecules in the air we breathe. As a gas becomes colder and colder, quantum mechanics tells us that the wavelike behavior of the atoms becomes more and more important. At the lowest temperatures, within a few hundred billionths of absolute zero (-273.15°C), the waves of the atoms in a gas can overlap and create, in effect, one super-atom. In this state, it hardly even makes sense to talk about individual atoms because they all behave as one collective object. This is much like the output of a laser, since all the light is the same wavelength (same color) and the waves are all in step and you can’t tell one light particle (a photon) from another.
In recent developments, BECs are being used to create atom lasers, the equivalent of a laser made of light; in the study of superconductivity (the ability of some materials to conduct electrical current without any resistance); superfluidity (the ability of some materials to flow without resistance) and in refining measurements of time and distance.
1926 Einstein Refrigerator Only few know that Albert Einstein was also a practical man and invented a refrigerator. The Einstein refrigerator is an absorption refrigerator which has no moving parts and requires only a heat source to operate - it does not require electricity to operate, needing only a heat source, e.g. a small gas burner, suitable for poor countries and outdoor activities. It was jointly invented in 1926 by Albert Einstein and his former student Leó Szilárd and patented in the US on November 11, 1930 (U.S. Patent 1,781,541).
1945 The First Atomic Bomb Was Dropped The first atomic bomb, nicknamed "Little Boy", was dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945.
Although Einstein did not invent the bomb and did not participate in the Manhattan Project, his theories laid the foundation for it.
The Relativity Theory showed that mass could be converted directly into energy (E=mc²), and that a minute piece of mass could release a vast amount of energy.
In 1939 Einstein collaborated with several other physicists in writing a letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, pointing out the possibility of making an atomic bomb and the likelihood that the German government was embarking on such a course. The letter, which bore only Einstein's signature, helped lend urgency to efforts in the U.S. to build the atomic bomb, but Einstein himself played no role in the work and knew nothing about it at the time. Source:http://www.juliantrubin.com/einsteininvent.html

New five finger mouse – Amenbo concept!

Double Research & Development Co. has developed a five finger input device for complete hand recognition. Called "amenbo". This new five finger mouse has the capability of tracking each and every minute movements of fingers and thumbs along with the capacity to recognize the pressures exerted on mouse by fingers and sending the same to the computer.  The fingers are all linked by a flexible printed mesh base, that is made stretchable to accommodate a variety of different sizes of hands. A special sensor is attached to each finger, so it can identify which finger on whose hand it is, and even if you lift your fingers off it can follow them from beginning to end. Amenbo enable us to utilize entire hand simplifying the process. One can integrate major operations and finish at one click of Amenbo.  Amenbo -  innovative  input device for sci-fi style computing


 Source:http://itechfuture.com/new-five-finger-mouse-amenbo-concept/#more-3883


Sunday, 26 June 2011

Ununoctium-A synthetic element with atomic no118

Ununoctium  is the temporary IUPAC name[9] for the transactinide element having the atomic number 118 and temporary element symbol Uuo. It is also known as eka-radon or element 118, and on the periodic table of the elements it is a p-block element and the last one of the 7th period. Ununoctium is currently the only synthetic member of Group 18. It has the highest atomic number and highest atomic mass of all discovered elements.
The radioactive ununoctium atom is very unstable, and since 2002, only three atoms (possibly four) of the isotope 294Uuo have been detected.[10] While this allowed for very little experimental characterization of its properties and possible compounds, theoretical calculations have resulted in many predictions, including some unexpected ones. For example, although ununoctium is a member of Group 18, it may possibly not be a noble gas, unlike all the other Group 18 elements.[1] It was formerly thought to be a gas but is now predicted to be a solid under normal conditions due to relativistic effects.[1]


Unsuccessful attempts

In late 1998, Polish physicist Robert Smolańczuk published calculations on the fusion of atomic nuclei towards the synthesis of superheavy atoms, including ununoctium.[11] His calculations suggested that it might be possible to make ununoctium by fusing lead with krypton under carefully controlled conditions.[11]
In 1999, researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory made use of these predictions and announced the discovery of ununhexium and ununoctium, in a paper published in Physical Review Letters,[12] and very soon after the results were reported in Science.[13] The researchers claimed to have performed the reaction
86 36Kr + 208 82Pb293 118Uuo + n.
The following year, they published a retraction after researchers at other laboratories were unable to duplicate the results and the Berkeley lab itself was unable to duplicate them as well.[14] In June 2002, the director of the lab announced that the original claim of the discovery of these two elements had been based on data fabricated by principal author Victor Ninov.[15]

 Discovery claims

The first decay of atoms of ununoctium was observed at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) by Yuri Oganessian and his group in Dubna, Russia, in 2002.[16] On October 9, 2006, researchers from JINR and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory of California, USA, working at the JINR in Dubna, announced[7] that they had indirectly detected a total of three (possibly four) nuclei of ununoctium-294 (one or two in 2002[17] and two more in 2005) produced via collisions of californium-249 atoms and calcium-48 ions:[18][19][20][21][22]

In 2011, the IUPAC has evaluated the 2006 results of the Dubna-Livermore collaboration and concluded that they did not meet the criteria for discovery.[23]
Because of the very small fusion reaction probability (the fusion cross section is ~0.3–0.6 pb = (3–6)×10−41 m2) the experiment took 4 months and involved a beam dose of 4×1019 calcium ions that had to be shot at the californium target to produce the first recorded event believed to be the synthesis of ununoctium.[6] Nevertheless, researchers are highly confident that the results are not a false positive, since the chance that the detections were random events was estimated to be less than one part in 100,000.[24]
In the experiments, the alpha-decay of three atoms of ununoctium was observed. A fourth decay by direct spontaneous fission was also proposed. A half-life of 0.89 ms was calculated: 294Uuo decays into 290Uuh by alpha decay. Since there were only three nuclei, the half-life derived from observed lifetimes has a large uncertainty: 0.89+1.07
−0.31
ms.[7]
294 118Uuo290 116Uuh + 4He
The identification of the 294Uuo nuclei was verified by separately creating the putative daughter nucleus 290Uuh by means of a bombardment of 245Cm with 48Ca ions,
245 96Cm + 48 20Ca290 116Uuh + 3 n,
and checking that the 290Uuh decay matched the decay chain of the 294Uuo nuclei.[7] The daughter nucleus 290Uuh is very unstable, decaying with a half-life of 14 milliseconds into 286Uuq, which may experience either spontaneous fission or alpha decay into 282Cn, which will undergo spontaneous fission.[7]
In a quantum-tunneling model, the alpha decay half-life of 294Uuo was predicted to be 0.66+0.23
−0.18
ms[25] with the experimental Q-value published in 2004.[26] Calculation with theoretical Q-values from the macroscopic-microscopic model of Muntian–Hofman–Patyk–Sobiczewski gives somewhat low but comparable results.[27]
Following the success in obtaining ununoctium, the discoverers have started similar experiments in the hope of creating unbinilium from 58Fe and 244Pu.[28] Isotopes of unbinilium are predicted to have alpha decay half lives of the order of micro-seconds.[29][30]


Hey friends Einstein had suggested that if we purify uranium-235 worlds best atomic bomb would be created but i suggest that if un-unoctium is purified worlds best atomic bomb would be created but it being a synthetic element the chances are too low


Source::http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ununoctium

Repeating Galileo's Experiment: Gravity and Acceleration

Objective

To research the experiments Galileo performed to calculate the acceleration due to gravity.

Difficulty

Procedure: Medium
Concept: Hard

Concept

Ancient mathematicians had to perform all of their experiments without the aid of high-tech equipment. This generally means that the experiments they performed were fairly simple in nature. Galileo's gravity experiments were no exception. By rolling different balls down a ramp from various heights, he was able to discover that the length the ball rolled was directly proportional to the square of the time taken.
Now, here's the trick - since Galileo didn't know exactly how much gravity affected objects, he wasn't just checking his results against some formula. He actually had to find a relationship between distance and time himself. This is the angle that we'll be taking during this experiment, because it's a lot more interesting than an experimental proof of a formula we already know.

Materials

  • Grooved ramp (e.g. smooth cardboard)
  • Ball
  • Measuring stick/tape measure
  • Stop watch or water clock

Procedure

  1. Roll the ball down the ramp and measure the time it takes to roll from top to bottom.
  2. Repeat a statistically significant number of times (>3) for different lengths (half way up the ramp, quarter, etc.) and different ramp angles. Make sure the ramp angle is shallow enough for measuring the time, but not too shallow such that friction dominates. Record the time for each trial.
  3. In case a stop watch is not accessible, measure the time with water dripping into a cup, measure volume (or mass) of water, time will be proportional to water volume/mass. (Galileo actually measured time with heartbeat!)
  4. Remark: this experiment (as well as Galileo's experiment), is known to ignore the friction and the fact that the ball is spinning and therefore losing some potential energy. If there is access to an air track (e.g. physics lab), friction could be significantly reduced.

 
 
         

Analysis

  • Holding the distance constant, plot the distance (d) vs. time (t) and then the distance (d) vs. time squared (t2).
  • Holding the ramp angle constant, again plot the distance (d) vs. time (t) and then the distance (d) vs. time squared (t2).
  • Expected outcome: if we plot d vs. t, we find a parabola; d vs. t2 would give a straight line. (Why?)
  • Using the formula d = 1/2 at2, calculate acceleration for each trial. Does this number seem high or low? Why is that, do you think?
  • Using the formula g = a / sin(i), calculate gravity from experimental data. How much error do you have in your experiment? What are some possible sources for error?

Extensions

Does the mass of an object affect its acceleration due to gravity (i.e. do heavy objects accelerate faster than light ones)? What effect would the mass of an object have on this experiment, if any? How about size? Try a ball or two with a different radius to find out!

Source::  http://sciencefair.math.iit.edu/projects/galileo/