enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Thermal expansion - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_expansion

    A number of materials contract on heating within certain temperature ranges; this is usually called negative thermal expansion, rather than "thermal contraction".For example, the coefficient of thermal expansion of water drops to zero as it is cooled to 3.983 °C (39.169 °F) and then becomes negative below this temperature; this means that water has a maximum density at this temperature, and ...

  3. Mercury-in-glass thermometer - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury-in-glass_thermometer

    In principle, thermometers made of different material (e.g., coloured alcohol thermometers) might be expected to give different intermediate readings due to different expansion properties; in practice the substances used are chosen to have reasonably linear expansion characteristics as a function of thermodynamic temperature, and so give ...

  4. Linear particle accelerator - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_particle_accelerator

    If the device is used for the production of X-rays for inspection or therapy, then the pipe may be only 0.5 to 1.5 meters long. [18] If the device is to be an injector for a synchrotron, it may be about ten meters long. [19] If the device is used as the primary accelerator for nuclear particle investigations, it may be several thousand meters ...

  5. Dilatometer - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilatometer

    The pipe warms up to the temperature of the water and the relative expansion can be determined as a function of the water temperature. For the measurement of the volumetric expansion of liquids one takes a large glass container filled with water. In an expansion tank (glass container with an accurate volume scale) with the sample liquid.

  6. Rocket engine nozzle - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_engine_nozzle

    The ratio of the area of the narrowest part of the nozzle to the exit plane area is mainly what determines how efficiently the expansion of the exhaust gases is converted into linear velocity, the exhaust velocity, and therefore the thrust of the rocket engine. The gas properties have an effect as well.

  7. SERN - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SERN

    Linear nozzles are not axially symmetric, but consist of a 2D configuration of two expansion ramps. A SERN could also be seen as a single sided aerospike engine . Many designs for space planes with scramjet engines make use of SERNs because of the weight reduction at large expansion ratios, or the additional lift at under-expansion.

  8. Compressor - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compressor

    A linear compressor is a reciprocating compressor with the piston ... (or expansion) of a gas into a ... Refrigeration and air conditioner equipment use compressors ...

  9. Beamline - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beamline

    Elements that are used in beamlines by experimenters for conditioning the radiation beam between the storage ring and the end station include the following: Windows: windows are used to separate UHV and HV vacuum sections and to terminate the beamline. They are also used between UHV vacuum sections to provide protection from vacuum accidents.