What I used to do in physics

I found a report online from the physics lab that I used to work at, at the University of Washington Energetics Lab. It's pretty cool, since it actually has my name on it, as having worked on it! Click on the picture to see the thing.

If you want an explanation of what it actually does, however, you're pretty much out of luck. Even I didn't understand it completely after having worked there for a year. In a nutshell, there are three metal conductors at the end of each of the long green rods, and they measure the voltage inside a stream of plasma that moves across the tips. Because the plasma is several million degrees hot, the rods had to be made out of a special chalky material, and they could only be inserted in the very edge of the plasma stream, since it's "cooler" there -- only a few thousand degress there!

For more check out the report, since it also has a few graphs that I made while I was there.