Do you know of any promising concepts for small scale fusion reactors (for electric power production)?
I'm thinking of something the size of, say, a train car or even smaller.
I'm trying to have it both ways by assuming a very low pressure, a very large chamber, and a very long spontaneous emission time. Then I think I could maintain a non-equipartitioned state.
Another way might be to assume that the other precursor (transparent to my pump energy) is present in...
Arrhenius equation may be adaptable...
Temperature: Temp is the average kinetic energy of all energy modes (translational, vibrational, and rotational). I probably could find an equation for calculating the new temperature, after photon absorption, assuming that the energy was equipartitioned...
I have a molecule with a certain kinetic, vibrational, and rotational energy.
It absorbs a photon which excites a vibrational mode.
I want to find an equation that describes how the molecules reaction rate with another molecule might change given the added vibrational energy.
Is there a name...
Is rate of reaction simply a function of a scalar "total available energy" or is it more nuanced i.e. certain energy modes contribute more than others to increasing reaction rate?
If the latter then what equations would quantify the contribution of each energy mode to overall reaction rate?
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Let me ask it this way.
Shortly before Species A encounters Species B, Species B absorbs a photon which excites one of its vibrational modes. Is it then just as likely to react with Species B as if it didn't absorb the photon at all, or does the added vibrational energy increases reaction...
So reaction rates (and probability of reaction when two molecules encounter each other) is solely a function of kinetic energy?
The amount of energy needed to disassociate is probably excessive for this application.
Assume no equilibrium. Say I have 5 eV of rotational, 5 eV of one mode of vib and 3 eV of another, 10 eV of kinetic. Just throwing out numbers I have no feel for what an eV is. My question is does there exist an equation I can input all of these various forms of energy into and get reaction...
They are actually two rarified gases in a chamber and I do have absorption spectra.
I'll pose the question this way: when the molecules collide each has various kinetic, vibrational, and rotational energy. I want to know how determine how these energies "add" to total the activation energy...
I want to pump energy into a chemical species to increase its reaction cross section with another.
Typically these species react upon collision when their relative kinetic energy exceeds the activation energy. I want to find a way to increase the reaction rate for interactions at slower...
I am looking at the same object with two detectors. The SNR on each is 2, which is a low probability of detect given a single sensor. However, if I fuse the two what would be the SNR then? Would it be additive (SNR=4) or rss (SNR=2×sqrt(2)) or something more complicated?
Other than Rayleigh and to a lesser extent Mie scattering what other mechanisms might exist that would contribute to backscatter for a high energy laser propagating through the lower atmosphere?