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- From: jcarroll@ferris.cray.com (Jeff Carroll)
- Subject: Re: Short Shamefull Physics
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.102320.21554@walter.cray.com>
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- References: <1992Nov19.015926.4572@nmsu.edu>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 10:23:20 CST
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- In article <1992Nov19.015926.4572@nmsu.edu>, sabbott@nmsu.edu (SDA) writes:
- >
- > Mark Joseph Delano <md4y+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
- >
- > > There was a standing wave in my orange juice this morning.
- > >
- > > I counted the nodes.
- >
- > thats what you get for drinking out of waveguides, dielectric
- > properties of orange juice notwithstanding . . .
- >
- > speaking of waveguide, what would happen if you made a moebius
- > waveguide and excited a standing wave in it?
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- I presume you mean a Klein bottle waveguide. A waveguide in the
- shape of a Moebius strip would be topologically equivalent to a
- toroidal cavity, and would resonate in pretty much the same way.
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- There are practical difficulties associated with building a WG
- in the shape of a Klein bottle.
-
- jkc (count the nodes on *this*...)
-