Talk:Magnetometer

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[edit] ESR and NMR Sections

The electron spin resonance sections of this article has absolutetly nothing to do with magnetometers. The NMR section was also way beyond the scope of this article, and in the context of this article made very little since. The last part of the NMR section had some relevance to magnetometers, and so was merged with the previous section.

It seems though that it's a bit redundant -- so perhaps someone should just remove that passage too.

Anyone interested in ESR and NMR can certainly visit the respective articles.


[edit] Space probe?

Since I reached this article by way of an article on a space probe, it would seem that the description should be amended to say that a magnetometer measures magnetic fields associated with planetary objects. Perhaps a linkage to other articles about space probes would be a good idea too.

[edit] Metal detector

Isn't a Magnetometer the basis for the airport metal detectors? If so, shouldn't that be included within this article? Vegaswikian 09:10, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Magnetogram

If you're reading this article and know about magnetograms, would you be able to expand that article? Rob 17:08, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Attitude control and magnetometers

The open source apeliotes project uses 3 magnetometers mounted orthogonaly to determine an aircrafts attitude about 2 axis. While this seems obvious they don't seem to have been used to determine 2 angles in this way before. They are normally used to just determine heading, not pitch or roll.

[edit] Copyright violation?

Text from this article was found verbatim here: http://en.allexperts.com/e/m/ma/magnetometer.htm I don't know who stole from whom or what the rules are; I'm not an active member of Wikipedia...

They copied us - if you scroll all the way down to the small print at the bottom of the page there's a credit. Natalie 03:48, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
That's one of the many sites that lives by copying wikipedia content and adding advertisements. All perfectly acceptable; ignore them. Dicklyon 03:57, 26 March 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) reference

Proton Precession Magnetometers and Overhauser Magnetometers both utilise NMR effects. I suggest updating the article to reflect this, and tying in with the NMR article, which does not mention the relationship either. GilesW 10:53, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

Done, but Wiki article on EFNMR is needed, can anyone help please? GilesW 08:44, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
EFNMR article started and link added. GilesW 22:32, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Laboratory magnetometers

This article deals only with survey applications. Magnetometers are also used for laboratory measurements in rock magnetism studies, engineering, etc. I don't know enough about the various lab applications to write about them, but perhaps someone out there can. Tapatio 16:49, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] SI Notation

Is there a preference for quoting the proton magnetogyric ratio as: 0.042576 Hz / nT rather than 42.576 Hz / μT, in accordance with SI standards?

Or is this a work-around to avoid the use of the symbol μ? GilesW 13:55, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Incorrect comment about atomic magnetometers?

Under the Cesium vapor magnetometer section, it says "when removed from an isolated environment, the cesium vapour can never be 'perfectly' calibrated and the system is subject to environmental interference as are all scalar magnetometers," which seems to completely go counter to what I know about magnetometers that use optical pumping in one way or another.

I am more familiar with magnetometers with modulated pump light(I worked on ones based on amplitude-modulated NMOR effect one summer), but as I understand it, atomic magnetometers do not need to be calibrated---it measures the true local magnetic field, measured as the Larmor precession frequency of the atom (which can be calculated, if the gyromagnetic ratio of the particular isotope species is known).

As I understand, this is a completely different case with other magnetometers like fluxgates or SQUIDS that actually measure flux, rather than magnetic field and do need to be calibrated to the magnetic field somehow.

So, which is right---what I thought I knew, or what a section of the article seems to be saying about all atomic (and usually scalar) magnetometers? novakyu (talk) 06:11, 15 December 2007 (UTC)