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Ajay Bajaj, P.Eng PCB in minutes and other design news
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Transmission Distributors While its focus may stray from CAD, PTC invests
Association (PTDA) Creo 5.0 with powerful CAD design upgrades 8
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Manager, Canada Makes, 22 Motion Control
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Machine builder customizes metal-spinning
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John Lamb 30 Idea Generator
Regional Sales Manager, The latest in industrial products including
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Wainbee Limited;
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Power Association (CFPA)
us
Dr. Ishwar Puri, P.Eng
Features 14
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ean of the Faculty of
D
Engineering; Professor of
Mechanical Engineering,
Jo
McMaster University 18 Slick and Smart
McMaster’s selectively slippery nanocoating to
18
Dr. Mary Wells, P.Eng
up
slash rates of implant rejection
Dean of the
Associate Dean,
College
Outreach;
of
Professor of Mechanical
Engineering and and
Mechatronics
Physical Sciences,
Engineering,
University 20 A Deadly Catch
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of Guelph;ofChair
Waterloo
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37
Wall Street Journal published its first broadsheet. Since 1889,
Assistant Editor
the International Prototype of the Kilogram (IPK), also known Devin Jones (416) 510-5233
38
as Le Grand K by its French keepers, has been locked away, sealed under three glass
bell jars, quietly defining the mass (and weight) of everything. Account Manager
Ron Salmon (416) (905) 713-4362
Problem is, the last time the IPK was checked by the alpha metrologists at the
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International Bureau of Weights and Measures in Paris, it had mysteriously lost Art Director
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weight – approximately 50 millionths of a gram – compared to its “identical” sister Elena Novinskiy (416) 510-6809
cylinders. In fact, all the copies had drifted, albeit microscopically, in one direction Account Coordinator
Cheryl Fisher (416) 510-5194
or another.
03
That may mean little to the price of apples, but such fluctuations are unacceptable Circulation Manager
to the high priests of measuring things. To be fair, when measuring mass on a nano Beata Olechnowicz (416) 442-5600 ext. 3543
#
or astronomical scale, small discrepancies stack up quickly. So, in 2005, the Inter-
national Committee for Weights and Measures (BIPM) agreed that the kilogram, Vice President/Executive Publisher
us
Tim Dimopoulos
like all the other International System of Units (SI), should be based on an immu-
table constant of nature rather than a physical object.
President & CEO
in
For the kilogram, that law of nature is Planck’s constant (h), a proportional value Mike Fredericks
that describes the ratio between the energy in one quantum of electromagnetic
Jo
Design Engineering, established in 1955, is published
radiation – aka a photon – and the frequency of its associated electromagnetic wave. by Annex Business Media, 6 times per year except for
occasional combined, expanded or premium issues,
All well and good but in order for h to become the basis for kg, the BIPM required which count as two subscription issues.
that three separate measurements of test masses agree within an infinitesimal level
up
Printed in Canada
Publications Mail Agreement #40065710
of uncertainty. That, it turned out, was a bit of a challenge. ISSN: 0011-9342 (Print), 1929-6452 (Online)
Pulling that off required the use of a Kibble balance (or Watt balance), named
ro
Subscriber Services: Canada: $56.50 for 1 year;
for its British inventor, Bryan Kibble, that measures mass by placing an object on $106.00 for 2 years; $10 for single copy.
Outside Canada: $113.50 for 1 year; $22 for single copy.
G
an electric coil suspended in a magnetic field. Measuring the amount of current, in Directory/buyer’s guide: Canada $28; Outside Canada
Watts, needed to keep the coil in balance allows physical mass to be quantified in $46.
Add applicable taxes to Canadian rates.
purely electrical terms – in other words, mathematically determined SI units.
p
While highly precise, the scale’s accuracy depends on the extent to which Planck’s
ap
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email:
constant is pinned down. Expressed in terms of energy multiplied by time, the Tel: 416-442-5600 ext. 3552
constant had been determined, up until recently, with an uncertainty of approximately Fax: 416-510-6875 or 416-442-2191
ts
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70 parts per billion. Unfortunately, that was too squishy for the BIPM, so scientists From time to time we make our subscription list available
ha
to select companies and organizations whose product or
in more than a dozen countries did their best to refine the constant’s value. service may interest you. If you prefer not to receive this
It was small team of Canadian metrologists at the National Research Council information, please contact our circulation department in
any of the four ways listed above.
W
Canada (NRC), however, who gradually sharpened Planck’s constant down to a
smidge over 9ppb. To do so, the NRC scientists had to progressively upgrade their Annex Privacy Officer:
Kibble balance’s hardware, while also factoring in fluctuating gravitational pull due
si
Tel: 800-668-2374
to the motion of the moon, the few layers water molecules any surface and even No part of the editorial content of this publication may
ba
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Ab
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Technology, the BIPM officially voted to accept the new kilogram definition in re-publish, distribute, store and archive such submissions
November with official adoption scheduled for May 20, 2019. The hope is that the in whole or in part in any form or medium whatsoever,
without compensation of any sort. DE accepts no
Q
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or service reported or advertised in this issue. DE is
the coming century and beyond. Even better, everything, including me, will be
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