Bart H. McGuyer

For curious people with similar interests... If you really like technical notes, don't miss Kirk McDonald's archives. Questions, comments, or ideas? Want to share if you found any of these useful? Feel free to contact-me (at) reyugcmtrab (dot) com.

Atomic, molecular, & optical (AMO) physics

• 📌 Light shifts and their spherical-tensor properties (2020)
• Dipolar traveling-wave tube amplifiers (2025)
• Fit functions for the nonlinear hyperfine pressure shifts of alkali-metal atoms (precursor to this paper from 2023)
• Images of photodissociation angular distributions using single-J approximation (related to this paper from 2016)
• Linewidth broadening from magnetic fields (related to this paper from 2015)
• Linewidth broadening from short laser pulses (2014, updated 2020)
• Notes on integrating sphere paint (2011)

Circuits, inductors, & transmission lines

• Visual shortcuts for Lewin's circuit paradox (2025, builds on this letter from 2012)
• Exploring the self-capacitance of single-layer solenoid inductors with the TSSP's VSD (2021, updated 2024)
• Transmission-line models for single-layer solenoid inductors (2021, updated 2024)
• Test of the Miller self-capacitance of a solenoid inductor (2021)
• (Dataset) Measured self-resonant frequencies of an air-core single-layer solenoid inductor (2020)

Mathematical & miscellaneous

• Affine transformations and 2D Fourier transforms (precursor to an appendix in this paper from 2023)
• Nonharmonic Fourier series (2020, updated 2024)

Tesla transformers (Tesla coils) & related

• 📌 For a guide to things here that'd interest Tesla coilers, see this post (2024)
• Can a Marx generator produce sparks like a Tesla coil? (introduction to this paper from 2018)
• An old puzzle about reciprocity and Tesla coils (introduction to this paper from 2014)
• Deriving the equivalent circuit of a Tesla coil (2021, updated 2024)
• Deriving the equivalent circuit of a Tesla magnifier (2024)
• Normal modes of a Tesla magnifier (2024)
• Deriving the LTR primary capacitance formula for NSTs (2018)

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