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Article #3307Re: Trying to build a fluxgate magnetometer -- help!
From: John Sahr
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 1989 14:53
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 1989 14:53
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In article <28601@buckaroo.mips.COM> vaso@mips.COM (Vaso Bovan) writes:
>In article <1914@sactoh0.UUCP> mahaun@sactoh0.UUCP (Mark A. Haun) writes:
>>
>>I would like to measure changes at least as small as
>>10 gammas (.001 Gauss), and if possible, even smaller.
>>
>
>? You mean of course, nanotesla (nT), since 1954. :-)
Well, I don't know about the "official" state of "gamma" vs "nT", but
both are in common usage in "the business." For earth-based mags, the
_only_ unit I have heard used is "gamma".
How many of you circuit dweebs use the "right" term for inverse ohms?
I thought so.
(yearning for the days of furlongs per fortnight :*)
--
John Sahr, Dept. of Electrical Eng., Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853
johns@{alfven,calvin}.ee.cornell.edu, {rochester,cmcl2}!cornell!calvin!johns
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!calvin!johns From: johns@calvin.EE.CORNELL.EDU (John Sahr) Newsgroups: sci.electronics,rec.ham-radio,sci.astro,sci.space Subject: Re: Trying to build a fluxgate magnetometer -- help! Message-ID: <1363@calvin.EE.CORNELL.EDU> Date: 2 Oct 89 14:53:54 GMT References: <1914@sactoh0.UUCP> <28601@buckaroo.mips.COM> Reply-To: johns@calvin.spp.cornell.edu.UUCP (PUT YOUR NAME HERE) Organization: Cornell Space Plasma Physics Group Lines: 21