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Aim:

The aim of this experiment was to observe the different factors that influence the effective pumping speed of a rotary pump.
Background:

The very first pumps were used for raising water and mining, as they still are today, but nowadays pumps have many more applications, other than just moving fluids around (although that’s still essentially all they [...]

The modern picture of the electronic configuration of atoms takes the form of the ‘atomic shell model’ whereby the configurations of all atoms are considered as modified versions of the configuration of the hydrogen atom, the simplest atom in the periodic table. The atomic shell model states that the electrons orbit the nucleus of the [...]

When a charged particle is accelerated in a uniform magnetic field it will move along a circular path in a plane perpendicular to the direction of the magnetic field. This is due to the fact that the magnetic force acting on a charged particle in a uniform magnetic field is always perpendicular to the velocity [...]