Bart H. McGuyer

For curious people with similar interests... If you really like technical notes, don't miss Kirk McDonald's archives.

Atomic, molecular, & optical (AMO) physics

• Light shifts and their spherical-tensor properties (2020)
• 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 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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