Experimental and theoretical studies are made of a typical snap-action rocker switch, to establish the wear mechanisms in the pivoting contact. The rocker switch, used extensive~ in consumer goods, operates in the medium duty current range, (1 30 Amps). Highspeed photographic studies have shown that the main cause of wear is arcing, occurri~ during separation and bounce at the pivot contacts. T...

Smart DR, Van den Broek C, Nishi R, Cooper PD, Eastman D. Field validation of Tasmania’s aquaculture industry bounce-diving schedules using Doppler analysis of decompression stress. Diving and Hyperbaric Medicine. 2014 September:44(3):124-136.) Introduction: Tasmania’s aquaculture industry produces over 40,000 tonnes of fish annually, valued at over AUD500M. Aquaculture divers perform repetitiv...

A proposal is made for the quantum state of the universe that has an initial state that is macroscopically time symmetric about a homogeneous, isotropic bounce of extremal volume and that at that bounce is microscopically in the ground state for inhomogeneous and/or anisotropic perturbation modes. The coarse-grained entropy is minimum at the bounce and then grows during inflation as the modes b...

This paper presents a new nonlinear time series model that captures a postrecession “bounce-back” in the level of aggregate output. While a number of studies have examined this type of business cycle asymmetry using recession-based dummy variables and threshold models, we relate the “bounce-back” effect to an endogenously estimated unobservable Markov-switching state variable. When the model is...

In an ideal elastic bounce of the body, the time during which mechanical energy is released during the push equals the time during which mechanical energy is absorbed during the brake, and the maximal upward velocity attained by the center of mass equals the maximal downward velocity. Deviations from this ideal model, prolonged push duration and lower upward velocity, have found to be greater i...