The Controversial Cec Pepper and the Australian Services Cricket Team: The Test Career That Never Was

The Australian Services cricket teams of both WWI and WWII played an important role in the immediate post-war period. A number of the players involved went on to forge successful Test cricket careers. This paper mentions the exploits of some of the players involved in these matches with particular focus on Cecil (Cec) Pepper. Cec Pepper represented the WWII Australian Services Team with distinction during the exhausting schedule of matches played in England, India and Australia from June 1945. However, in the match between the Australian Services Team and South Australia played at the Adelaide Oval over the Christmas–New Year period of 1945/1946, Pepper was involved in a controversial incident with the South Australian captain Donald Bradman and umpire Jack Scott. The incident and its subsequent ramifications were to have a huge impact on Pepper's cricket career. Pepper should have been in contention as a future Australian Test player. Instead, his career took another direction completely. This paper discusses Pepper's career and traces further links between the three Adelaide protagonists, Bradman, Scott and Pepper. A comparison is also made between Cec Pepper and other Australian spin bowlers of the era.     

IDENTIFYING SCANVENGING EFFECTS OF ANTIOXIDANTS ON ACTIVE OXYGEN BY A NEW SYSTEM

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冯金福教授半导体电子输运研究工作评述

从空间调制微分反射光谱、介观电路的量子力学处理、量子点和DNA的量子输运性质、量子点的自旋特性四个方面介绍了冯金福教授开展的在半导体电子输运领域所做的工作.     

排球发球中侧旋球的理论与实效性研究

本文运用刚体转动定律及流体伯努利方程对排球发侧旋球的弧线飞行原理和侧旋速度对飞行轨迹以及着地点进行理论分析研究,结果表明击球点于球体重心右侧1/3处、击球挥臂出手方位面向球网方向右转30度,用中等力量击球实效性较高。     

Snippets of physics

Thomas precession is a curious effect in special relativity which is purely kinematical in origin and illustrates some important features of the Lorentz transformation. It also has a beautiful geometric interpretation. We will explore these in this and the next installment. T Padmanabhan works at IUCAA, Pune and is interested in all areas of theoretical physics, especially those which have something to do with gravity.     

磁场作用下的磁性流体行波泵研究

磁场作用下的磁性流体行波泵研究是行波泵设计的基础。通过分析了行波磁场作用下的磁性流体的运动方程,从而进一步推导了行波磁场作用下的磁性流体的速度方程、旋转速度方程和单位时间内的流量方程,并通过实验进行了验证。研究表明：行波磁场作用下的磁性流体会产生流动现象;行波磁场作用下的磁性流体流量与磁极旋转的角度有直接关系,磁极旋转的角度越大,其流量也越多;行波磁场的强弱对磁性流体流量也会产生影响,磁场越强,其流量越大;行波磁场的频率只能影响磁性流体的流速,对流量不产生任何直接影响。     

含有DM相互作用的混合XXZ模型的临界性质

利用平均场近似的方法,研究了立方晶格上具有DM相互作用的混合XXZ模型的相变和临界性质.在Ising极限下,在不同的DM相互作用参量D下做出了系统的自发磁化强度m随约化温度T=1/K的变化,得到了系统的临界温度,分析了DM相互作用对系统临界温度的影响;在不同的各向异性参数△下作出了系统二级相变线,结果表明混合自旋XXZ系统只存在二级相变,系统没有出现三临界点.     

Anisotropic Open Cosmological Models of Spin Matter with Magnetic Moment

We have derived a set of field equations for a Weyssenhoff spin fluid including magnetic interacton among the spinning particles prevailling in spatially homogeneous,but anisotropically cosmological models of Bianchi type V based on Einstein-Cartan theory.We analyze the field equations in three different equations of states specified by p=1(1/3)ρand p=0,The analytical solutions found are non-singular provided that the combined energy arising from matter spin and magnetic interaction among particles overcomes the anisotropy energy in the Universe,We have also deduced that the minimum particle numers for the radiation(p=(1/3)ρ) and matter(p=0) epochs are 10^88 and 10^108 respectively.the minimum particle number for the state p=ρ is 10^96,leading to the conclusion that we must consider the existence of neutrinos and other creation of particles and anti-particles under torsion and strong gravitational field in the early Universe.     

Giant magnetoresistance

The 2007 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Albert Fert and Peter Grünberg for the discovery of giant magnetoresistance (GMR). GMR is achieved in metallic multilayers, where the resistance of the multilayer changes considerably by the application of a magnetic field. This has paved the way for high density data storage in magnetic media. (left) Debakanata Samal is a research scholar at the Deaprtment of Physics at IISc, Bangalore. His research interests are in magnetotransport in oxide multilayers, spintronics. (right) P S Anil Kumar is an Asst. Professor at the Department of Physics, IISc Bangalore. His research interests are in spintronics, magnetic nano-structures, surface-and thin-film magnetism, magnetotransport in metallic multilayers and oxides, and spin-polarized electron scattering.