Talk:Z-pinch

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Ocean's Eleven

In Ocean's Eleven (2001), a Z-pinch system is used to disrupt power in Las Vegas so that the gang could break into the casino vault without tripping the alarm.

I've removed this text from the article because I do not believe it is accurate. Based on the little technical information available in the movie it sounded like they were describing an explosively pumped flux compression generator. In the movie they called it a "pinch" as I recall, but that would also accurately describe the operation of a EPFCG... and a EPFCG would actually have a chance of doing what they claimed the device did. --Gmaxwell 04:52, 9 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Holy crap, thats not red-linked?!!@#! cool! --Gmaxwell 04:54, 9 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Back in, but with your proviso and under a trivai banner --Snori 06:20, 24 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Further regards Ocean's Eleven, see:

http://groups.google.com/groups/search?q=%22visually+believable+for+the+camera%22&qt_s=Search

--Snori 06:37, 24 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

First z-pinch device - perhapsatron - was at Los Alamos

Hi,

According to the Fusion power page and this article the first z-pinch device was the perhapsatron. I'm changing the text to state this.

-kg

Physics?

I find the explanation in the "Physics" section somewhere between incomprehensible and wrong. Is somebody going to holler if I throw it out? Of course it would be better to rewrite it, but I'm wondering if that might not be better done in Pinch (plasma physics). Or can we merge this whole article into that one? --Art Carlson 12:59, 17 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe it is trying to describe a theta pinch rather than a z pinch? --Art Carlson 13:21, 17 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The explanation definitely did not agree with the description in the rest of the article or elsewhere on the web; everything I've seen seems to indicate that the plasma contracts due to the Lorentz force-- moving charges experiencing a force in a magnetic field (and here, the magnetic field is created by the current also.) There is no mention anywhere that a current induced by a time-changing magnetic field has a role. I rewrote the physics section to express the Lorentz force explanation. Dreadengineer (talk) 04:42, 24 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Z-pinch or z-pinch?

Usually this is written as z-pinch, following the convention of lower case for the x-y-z coordinate system. Possibly Z-pinch is OK in the page title and after a full stop, but in the rest of this page shouldn't it be written as z-pinch? Aarghdvaark (talk) 02:32, 20 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Could mention Fusion Z-pinch Experiment (FuZE)

Could mention Fusion Z-pinch Experiment (FuZE) [1] with a few more sources. - Rod57 (talk) 12:51, 30 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]