The goal of this project was to develop the signal sensing and measurement circuitry needed for the implementation of a portable proton precession magnetometer capable of measuring a surrounding magnetic field by detecting precession of protons in a body of distilled water surrounded by a coil that polarizes the protons. The front end of the system comprises a low noise analog amplifier and a narrow-band digital filter. The back end of the project was a frequency counter with display to show the frequency of the signal coming from the front end. All required circuits were designed, constructed, and characterized during the course of the project.

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Creator

• Reddy, Shukanth Motkar
• Thampi, Jacob
• Kobayashi, Kotaro

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• 04D021M

Advisor

• Cyganski, David

Year

• 2004

Date created

• 2004-01-01

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Electrical & Computer Engineering

Rights statement

• In Copyright