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Fast Flash Photography
Author: Tim I have tried a few fast-motion capture experiments with a long open shutter in a dark room, where some event triggers a fast flash, thereby only briefly illuminating the subject. These are preliminary. All triggered by the breaking of a wire and interrupting a circuit. FWHM flash durations were about 10us. Here…
Schlieren Photography
Author: Luke & Tim After slowly gathering the parts Tim and Luke setup a Schlieren Photography system. Both for static as well as dynamic imaging. Here are a few photos of our first, successful tries. The following is a Schlieren video of a pocket butane torch: Lets watch the lighting, burning, and extinguishing of…
AVCO Rotating Mirror
Author: Tim The following is a video of the mirror spinning up from the flow of high pressure dry nitrogen: An advertisement for the Avco rotating mirror camera in the March 1963 issue of Physics Today:
Photography
Heisenberg Cube
Authors: Tim & Mimi What gift do you get the guy who already has everything (nuclear at least)? In 2013 Tim was gifted an incredibly rare and fascinating item by a friend: a Heisenberg Cube. This cube of natural uranium metal once hung along side 663 others, as components in Nazi Germany’s final failed…
History
Deuterated Target Preparation
Author: Tim Several of the cyclotron experiments have been based on its ability to generate neutrons from the D-D reaction. This paper has more details about cyclotron’s neutron production, however this page outlines the details in making the deuterated targets.
Neutron Diffusion Time Measurement
Author: Luke, Scott & Tim INTRODUCTION The question has been asked if typical 3He detectors or other pulse-based electronic radiation measurement systems are appropriate or even capable of directly measuring neutron production in pulsed systems while being insensitive to the transient havoc created by the pulsed system. The answer is yes. Many amateur nuclear…
Alpha Spark Detector
Author: Jay HowsonDate: September-2018 The Concept of an Alpha Spark Detector is simple; High voltage is applied between a thin wire or mesh grid and and parallel ground plane a few mm below it. The voltage is set such that a breakdown does not occur. However, if an alpha particle ionizes the air between…