Abstract
Several decades ago, when working in the field of magnetism, we had to use a balance the sensitivity of which was limited only by Brownian motion. This balance was a very slow one and to calculate the moment of force measured by it we used its equation of motion, T=Jα+kα+Cα, where we measured the values of all the quantities present on the right-hand side of this equation. At the 21st Conference on Vacuum Microbalance Techniques in Dijon, we suggested that, with the help of a computer, this procedure could also be made applicable to the handling of fast balances. The present paper contributes to this topic by presenting a computer simulation of such a fast balance.
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Massen, C.H., Swüste, C.H.W., Robens, E. et al. Computer Simulation of Balance Handling. Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry 55, 367–370 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1010134727746
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