Mike Violette

This issue of In Compliance magazine presents the annual ode to Test Equipment. In...

Olfactory nerves lie at the top of your nasal passages and their associated axons...

The next couple of installments of Reality Engineering will carry a spacey theme, in recognition of the ongoing efforts of rocket scientists and engineers in our community. Testing and verification of space-borne systems are critically important, you don’t get “do-overs” in space shots (we found that out in an earlier post “The Ringing Rocket"). Here we visit some NASA facilities that proved out Apollo-era designs and are being maintained for the next phase of space engineering.

The C-47 Skytrain banked sharply left and the runway came into view, a slash...

This article pays tribute to James Clerk Maxwell, highlighting his journey from a teased schoolboy to a revolutionary physicist, describing his curious nature, visualization skills, and groundbreaking electromagnetic field theories that transformed physics.

I love fools’ experiments. I am always making them. To discover anything new, one...

Voiceless it cries, Wingless flutters, Toothless bites, Mouthless mutters. Radiometers are cool. Some are...

It rolls out in acres and covers millions of square meters of the planet....

We examine the size of things that move and shake, from the whisper of a lover to the crunch of tectonics. Barely audible, a whisper at the threshold of human hearing produces a “zero dB” sound pressure level (SPL), according to convention.