THE compensation method of obtaining the birefringence of an object seen in a polarizing microscope requires the evaluation of the optical path-difference produced by a known thickness. In elongated ...

Step inside a modern steel rolling mill and discover how advanced engineering, automation, and precision shaping turn raw ...

Fill a narrow glass capillary tube with water, then turn it horizontal. Conventional wisdom says that the water will remain inside the tube. But a group of scientists in Spain and the UK has found ...

Most wire or string is made with a circular cross section of some particular radius and diameter. The area of that cross section is the well known A = pi*R² which is colloquially pronounced as “pie ...

Particle size analysis is an effective tool having myriad applications in almost all industries. There are a variety of automated techniques available to measure particle size distribution. Particle ...