Mechanized manipulating devices

To get complete coverage of the surface, the gun is moved about and directed to various areas by the sprayman in case the operation is a hand spray one. When arranged as an automatic application, the gun or guns may be mounted on a mechanical manipulation device to produce the desired motion over the surface. The part is often carried on a conveyor to be moved past the spray gun position to further create the desired relative movement of the surface with respect to the spray. 

In general, optically, electrically or chemically triggered switches would seem to be preferable to mechanically activated ones, as are photo-, electro- and chemo devices with respect to mechano devices and electronic or photonic computing with respect to mechanical computing. The ultimate in (nano)mechanical manipulation of a molecular device is represented by the realization of a bistable switch based on the motion of a single atom by means of the scanning tunnelling microscope [8.295] (see also Section 9.9). 

Energy input is required to extract the powder from its packaging, generate the fine particle cloud, and dilute it with air. Historically, this energy comes from the patient s inhalation effort (Table 2). In some cases, the energy for extracting/metering the powder comes from the mechanical manipulation of the device by... 

AC Dielectrophoresis Lab-on-Chip Devices, Fig. 5 An illustration of a dielectrophoretic microsystem that can selectively sort particles (top view). Recall that the electrodes are on the top and bottom surfaces of the microchannel and to not mechanically manipulate the particles... 

While micromanipulators and micropipettes are routinely used for in vitro fertilization studies, they are bulky, suffer from low throughput and are not amenable to integration with a sealed microfluidic device. Other mechanical manipulation techniques include microfilters, dams, and sandbag structures. We note that these techniques are often used to capture, dock or sort many cells simultaneously without specificity and thus are limited in their use for single cell analysis where selecting a particular cell is a key goal. 

Never use mouth pipetting mechanical pipetting devices should be used for the manipulation of all liquids. 

Planimetry. The planimeter is a mechanical device which enables the peak area to be measured by tracing the perimeter of the peak. The method is slow but can give accurate results with experience in manipulation of the planimeter. Accuracy and precision, however, decrease as peak area diminishes. 

III. Experimental observation of Quantum Mechanics. Only this final section should address the rules that govern interpretations of experiments measuring properties of QM systems with macroscopic devices. This includes probability interpretation, uncertainty relations, complementarity and correspondence. Then experiments can be discussed to show how the wave functions manipulated in section I can be used to predict the probabilistic outcome of experiments. 

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