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A Cryogenic Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Gyroscope

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 November 2009

Susan P. Potts  and
John Preston
Susan P. Potts
Affiliation:
(Admiralty Surface Weapons Establishment)
John Preston
Affiliation:
(Admiralty Surface Weapons Establishment)
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Any device having a property which varies as a result of its being rotated in space can, in principle, be used as the primary sensor of an inertial navigation system. A wide range of devices and properties has received attention with this aim in view. The spinning-wheel gyroscope has, to date, proved the most fruitful but a number of ‘exotic’ types of gyro show promise. The discovery that the atomic nucleus can, under certain conditions, behave like a spinning mass gave birth to ideas of a nuclear gyro of some sort. The further discovery that some nuclei possess magnetic properties opened the way to nuclear magnetic resonance and offered a method of communicating with the minute spinning masses.

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The Journal of Navigation , Volume 34 , Issue 1 , January 1981 , pp. 19 - 37
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Navigation 1981

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