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http://www.mrsec.wisc.edu/edetc/MFM.html
Refrigerator Magnets have a complex and ingenious magnetic structure,
according to a Web site from the nanostructured materials and
interfaces group at the University of Wisconsin—Madison. The magnets
are educational, too. The Madison group uses the devices in lab
demonstrations of such physical phenomena as self-assembly, salt
cleavage, metal deformation, and magnetic force microscopy.
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http://www.bekkoame.or.jp/~khirata/indexe.htm
Japanese naval engineer Koichi Hirata’s job and hobby is the Stirling
Engine, a fuel-efficient method for converting thermal to mechanical
energy that was invented in 1816 by a Scottish minister named
Robert Stirling. Hirata’s comprehensive site contains tutorials
on the operating principles of the Stirling engine, a gallery
of working engines, instructions on building your own engine,
and descriptions of the more than 40 model engines that he has
built.
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http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/music/flute
On their Web site Flute Acoustics, acousticians John Smith, John
Tann, and Joe Wolfe of the University of New South Wales describe
how a flute produces sound. The site offers not only general information
about musical acoustics, but also, for each of the standard flute
fingerings, the corresponding sound and impedance spectra and
an audio file of the note.
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Compiled by
Charles Day
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1999 American Institute of Physics
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