TRNSHD — a program for shading and insolation calculations

Shading Calculations for the Big Dish

The Australian National University has re-engineered its Big Dish design for commercialisation and mass production [1], building the 'SG4' 500m Big Dish solar paraboloidal concentrator for solar-thermal to electric energy conversion using direct-steam generation. The SG4 Dish implements two-axis tracking and may be incorporated into a dish-array for large-scale power production. A program has b...

passivity in waiting for godot and endgame: a psychoanalytic reading

this study intends to investigate samuel beckett’s waiting for godot and endgame under the lacanian psychoanalysis. it begins by explaining the most important concepts of lacanian psychoanalysis. the beckettian characters are studied regarding their state of unconscious, and not the state of consciousness as is common in most beckett studies. according to lacan, language plays the sole role in ...

Emissivity: A Program for Atomic Emissivity Calculations

PRAXIS: A Program for Reproducing Proforma Design Calculations

PRAXIS embodies a computer language for reproducing design calculations in a paginated and tidy layout suitable for submission to a checking authority. Some calculations reproduced by PRAXIS are illustrated in Fig. 1. From the calculations alone it would be impossible to tell whether the page came from a typewriter (being copied from a designer's hand-written calculations) or from a computer, b...

ris3: A program for relativistic isotope shift calculations

An atomic spectral line is characteristic of the element producing the spectrum. The line also depends on the isotope. The program ris3 (Relativistic Isotope Shift) calculates the electron density at the origin and the normal and specific mass shift parameters. Combining these electronic quantities with available nuclear data, isotope-dependent energy level shifts are determined.