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Chapter 435

the original intention of the Institute of mathematics and physics of Cambridge University is to enable those experts in mathematics and physics to devote themselves to scientific research for a period of time in addition to their busy teaching tasks.

Most of the members in the institute undertake the key projects of Yingguo teaching fund, general projects, Youth Science Fund and other scientific research projects.

Over the past decades, numerous scientific researchers have done a good job in the Institute. They have been supported by various mathematical and physical institutes, organized various forms of international and domestic academic seminars, invited famous mathematicians and physicists at home and abroad to give lectures and hold academic frontier lectures.

It can be said that 80 of the 100 papers on Mathematics and physics published by Cambridge University will come from the Institute of mathematics and physics of Cambridge University.

Different from the small research office set up by Professor Fresnel in MIT, the Institute of mathematics and physics at Cambridge University has accumulated such a detached status through the joint efforts of more than 100 researchers in the Institute.

Last year alone, the Institute of mathematics and physics completed more than 30 first-class scientific research projects under the Royal Academy of Sciences of Yingguo.

The research group sent by Aldin, the director of the Institute, is one of the 100 first-class scientific research projects of the whole discipline issued by the Royal Academy of Sciences at the beginning of this year.

There are only four floors in the Institute of mathematics and physics. In addition to the fourth floor for office use, the other three floors are all large and small laboratories.

Unlike mathematics, which only needs to write and calculate in a book, most physical research needs experimental data as support, so most of the laboratories on the whole three floors are physical laboratories.

Although Aldin is a member of the Department of mathematics, he has not suppressed the power of the Department of physics since he became the director. Instead, he has invested 80% of the annual fund into various physics research projects.

Compared with mathematics, the high investment in physical research is terrible.

To do a math project, you only need a simple pen and paper, plus a computer at most.

Physical projects can be different. If you want to do a project, you must do experiments. If you want to do experiments, you need to buy equipment.

An experimental equipment may cost several hundred thousand pounds, but the expensive one can reach hundreds of thousands of pounds. The research fund granted by the Royal Academy of Sciences alone is not enough, and the institute does not need to put it on its own.

If you add the failure of the experiment, it will be even more blood loss!

At present, there is a physics project in the Institute. The research progress is stuck. A person from the Department of mathematics is needed to help. Aldin had no idle people under him, so he let Cheng Nuo, who had just joined the job, hold on for a while.

Aldin called Professor clay and asked him to take Cheng Nuo to the physics team to report.

Professor clay took Cheng Nuo to lab 203 on the second floor.

”Electrohydrodynamic laboratory” was written on the doorplate.

Clay pushed the door straight in.

The area of the electrohydrodynamic laboratory is not large, about 100 square meters. After all, it is only an interdisciplinary subject between fluid mechanics and electrodynamics, and does not need super large experimental equipment.

At this time, two professors were doing experiments in the laboratory.

Two people, dressed in white lab clothes, stood in front of the toughened glass in the vacuum chamber, one operating the instrument and the other recording the data.

In the vacuum chamber, the capillary nozzle will heat the melted Bi ~ Zn alloy. After adjusting the intermediate distance between the cathode and anode torches, the super high voltage will be released. Cheng Nuo can see the jumping electric flowers.

When a research institute presses the button on the instrument, it drives the crucible nozzle to spray liquid flow. The dispersed droplets are cooled in the process of descending and fall onto the chassis of the cold trap.

The chassis was removed from the vacuum chamber by the robotic arm. Another research institute took samples and observed it under an electron microscope for a while, and then gently shook his head at another person.