Theoretical and experimental investigations of the Kerr Effect and Cotton-Mouton Effect.

Mr T. J. Sono, an MSc student during the period January 2001 to January 2003, developed an apparatus to measure the pressure and temperature dependence of the electric-field induced birefringence (or electro-optic Kerr effect) in gases. Mr Sono obtained experimental results for dimethyl ether at a w...

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Main Author: Janse Van Rensburg, Angela Louise.
Other Authors: Couling, V. W.
Language:en
Published: 2010
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10413/168