TABLE OF CONTENTS
Personnel
vii
Publications and Reports
xiv
Introduction
xix
RADIO PHYSICS
I.
II.
III.
IV.
Molecular Beams
1
Cesium Beam Tube Investigation
1
Ammonia Maser with Separated Oscillating Fields
8
Microwave Spectroscopy
13
Ultrasonic Attenuation in Superconducting Metals at Radio and
Microwave Frequencies
13
Cross Relaxation in Ruby
14
Energy Conservation of Hypersonic Waves in Semiconductors
15
Radio Astronomy
25
A 22-Gc Balanced, Canonically Tuned Varactor Quadrupler with
50-mw Output Power
26
Discovery of the Interstellar 18-cm Lines of the Hydroxyl (OH)
Radical
28
Far Infrared Spectroscopy
31
Far Infrared Reflectance and Transmittance of Potassium Magnesium
Fluoride and Magnesium Fluoride
31
Infrared Absorption Spectra of Crystalline K2PtC14
38
V.
Elastic and Thermal Properties of Solids
43
VI.
Geophysics
45
VII.
VIII.
Transition from Predominantly Electric to Predominantly
Magnetic Binding in the Hydrogen Atom in a Magnetic Field
45
An Interpretation of Some Optical Radar Results
48
Noise in Electron Devices
53
Analysis of Noise in Optical Maser Oscillator
53
Optimum Noise Performance of Multiterminal Amplifiers
56
Magnetic Resonance
59
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance of Polar Liquids in Electric Fields
61
Nuclear Relaxation in Xenon Tetrafluoride
64
Electron-Spin Resonance of Metal-Ammonia Solutions
64
IX.
X-ray Diffraction Studies
67
X.
Soft X-ray Spectroscopy
69
XI.
Mechanism of Enzymatic Reactions
71
CONTENTS
XII.
Physical Electronics
73
XIII.
Physical Acoustics
75
Sound Emission from Karman Vortices
XIV.
Electrodynamics of Moving Media
Interpretation of Relativistic Force Density in Moving
Polarizable and Magnetizable Media
75
77
77
PLASMA DYNAMICS
XV.
Plasma Physics
Scattering of Microwaves from "Collective Density
Fluctuations" in Plasmas
81
Scattering from Plasma Oscillations in the Presence of an
Inhomogeneous Magnetic Field
94
Electromagnetic Compression
99
Anomalous Pulsed Emission and Absorption by a Xeon Plasma
at the Electron-Cyclotron Frequency
XVI.
Plasma Electronics
Beam-Plasma Discharges
System A: Radiofrequency Signals Radiated by Beam-Plasma
Discharge
System B: Rotational Instability in the Beam-Plasma Discharge
XVII.
81
102
113
117
117
121
Rotating Plasma Instabilities
1 25
Instabilities and Amplifying Waves in Beam Plasma Systems
125
Beam-Excited Ion-Plasma Oscillations
125
Coupling of Empty-Waveguide and Quasi-Static Modes in
Waveguides Loaded with Gyrotropic Media
126
Turbulent Diffusion across a Magnetic Field
131
Plasma Magnetohydrodynamics and Energy Conversion
Work Completed
Large-Signal Behavior of a Parametric Magnetogasdynamic Generator
Alfv6n Wave Studies
139
144
144
144
Some Properties of Magnetohydrodynamic Waveguides
144
Experiments with a Liquid-Metal Magnetohydrodynamic
Waveguide
149
Magnetohydrodynamic Power Generation with Liquid Metals
155
Experimental Study of Induction-Coupled Liquid-Metal Magnetohydrodynamic Channel Flow
156
Neural Patterns in Blood-Pressure Regulation
163
Penetration of an Ion through an Ionic Dipole Layer
at an Electrode Surface
166
CONTENTS
COMMUNICATION SCIENCES AND ENGINEERING
XVIII.
XIX.
XX.
Statistical Communication Theory
175
Generalized Superposition
176
Energy Distribution in Transient Functions
183
Process Analysis and Synthesis
187
Handwriting Simulation
187
Processing and Transmission of Information
Picture Processing
193
194
The Subjective Effects of Pictorial Noise
194
Coding Color Pictures
195
Experimental Facility for Sequential Decoding
196
An Error Bound for Fixed Time-Continuous Channels with
Memory
198
XXI.
Artificial Intelligence
209
XXII.
Speech Communication
211
XXIII.
Mechanical Translation
213
XXIV.
Linguistics
215
XXV.
The Prosodic Questions of Slavic Historical Phonology Restated
216
Description of Deviant Language Production
218
Communications Biophysics
223
Further Observations of Response Characteristics of Single
Units in the Cochlear Nucleus to Tone-Burst Stimulation
XXVI.
Neurophysiology
224
233
Algorithmic Theories of Growth and Differentiation
236
Measures on the Computation Speed of Partial Recursive
Functions
237
Olfaction
253
XXVII. Neurology
257
Nonlinear Operator in the Pupil System
258
Double Oscillations in the Pupil Servomechanism
260
Accommodation Tracking
262
Experiments on Error as a Function of Response Time in
Horizontal Eye Movements
267
Optokinetic Nystagmus in Man:
269
The Step Experiment
Remote On-Line Computer Diagnosis of the Clinical
Electrocardiogram: Smoothing of the Electrocardiogram
272
CONTENTS
XXVIII.
Sensory Aids Research
279
XXIX.
Circuit Theory and Design
281
Recent Developments in Parametric Multipliers
XXX.
Network Synthesis
Non Series Parallel Realization for Lossless Driving-Point
Impedances
281
295
295
XXXI.
Computer Research
301
XXXII.
Advanced Computation Systems
303
XXXIII.
Stroboscopic Research
305
Author Index
307