Browsing Magister Scientiae - MSc (Physics) by Author "Faculty of Science"
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Radiometric study of soil: the systematic effects
Joseph, Angelo Daniel (University of the Western Cape, 2007)The natural 238U, 232Th and 40K radioactive content of vineyard soil was measured with an in-situ gamma-ray detector. The activity concentrations measured with the in-situ detector are normalized using the laboratory-determined ... -
Radon escape from water
Mvelase, Mashinga Johannes (University of the Western Cape, 2010)This thesis aims to measure the rate of radon loss from water in a systematic way. The dependence on surface area, temperature and concentration will be investigated. The experiments were done at UWC by creating radon using ... -
Radon in the Cango Caves
Nemangwele, Fhulufhelo (University of the Western Cape, 2005)Radon is a naturally occurring radioactive element in the 238U decay series that is found in high concentrations in certain geological formations such as Caves. Exposure to high concentrations of radon has been positively ... -
Signature splitting and inversion in the 186-194 Au Nuclei predicted by the total routhian surface (TRS) and cranked shell model (CSM) calculations
Shirinda, Obed (University of the Western Cape, 2007)The nearly oblate deformed Au nuclei show rotational bands built on multi quasiparticle excitations [Bou89, Bou92, Gue03, Gue01, Ven92]. Several of these bands are built on rotationally aligned high-j proton and neutron ... -
Study of magnetic properties of nanostructures on self-assembled patterns
Malwela, Thomas (University of the Western Cape, 2010)In the current study, we give a report when oxalic acid was used as an electrolyte to synthesize an AAO template with hexagonal pore array. Optimum parameters were observed as 0.4 M of oxalic acid, anodizing voltage of 45 ... -
A theoretical study of stellart pulsations in young brown dwarfs
Okeng'o, Geoffrey Onchong’a (University of the Western Cape, 2011)This thesis reports the results of a twofold study on the recently proposed phenomenon of ‘stellar pulsations’ in young brown dwarfs by the seminal study of Palla and Baraffe (2005) (PB05, thereafter). The PB05 study ... -
Three dimensional thermal modelling of high temperature proton exchange membrane fuel cells in a serpentine design
Maasdorp, Lynndle Caroline (University of the Western Cape, 2010)The aim of my work is to model a segment of a unit cell of a fuel cell stack using numerical methods which is classified as computational fluid dynamics and implementing the work in a commercial computational fluid dynamics ... -
The use of FLUENT for heat flow studies of the hot-wire chemical vapor deposition system to determine the temperatures reached at the growing layer surface
Zhou, En (University of the Western Cape, 2009)The overall aim of this project is to study the heat transfer inside the reaction chamber of the Hot-Wire Chemical Vapor Deposition (HWCVD) system with a commercial software package FLUENT6.3; it is one of the most popular ...