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littlebirdie  ·  4315 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: I'm a crummy poet, but I'm writing a poem a day for 2013

Poem for 12 January, 2013

Invisible

Designing magnets might sound complicated, but it’s a simple art. First you collect the experimental specifications. Scientists want their magnetic fields to act certain ways.

Sometimes they need a steep field profile, one that hits ions with brute Gaussian force.

Sometimes they need something more subtle, a gentle rise of magnetic power that coaxes particles in desired directions.

You start by estimating what your magnet might look like, taking into consideration the specifications desired and your past experience with similar specifications. Specifications are the shit.

You feed the parameters of your design into a computer program that calculates a field map, and out spits a topographical chart showing the magnetic field at any point near your magnet.

You make adjustments and do it again, and again, and again, finally reaching something that approximates the desired outcome, but never quite matches it.





JakobVirgil  ·  4314 days ago  ·  link  ·  

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littlebirdie  ·  4314 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Oh, I like this!