TABLE OF CONTENTS
Personnel
Publications and Reports
Introduction
I. Physical Electronics
Aids for the Analysis of Thermionic Energy Converters
II. Plasma Dynamics
Plasma Physics
Arc Discharge in Cesium Vapor
Magnetoambipolar Diffusion
Plasma Electronics
Thermal Noise from Plasmas
Power along a Circuit
Interaction of an Electron Beam with Plasma
Backward-Wave Oscillations in a Beam-Plasma System
An Ultrahigh Perviance Electron Gun
The Magnetic Pump A Device for the Mechanical
Generation of High Magnetic Fields
Two-Meter Plasma Experiment
Helical Resonant-Beam Trapping
Superconducting Niobium-Tin Solenoid
Plasma Magnetohydrodynamics and Energy Conversion
Parametric Generator
Experimental Study of the Oscillations Observed in
Cesium Thermionic Converters
Temperature Distribution along a Strut That is Losing
Heat by Conduction and Radiation
Magnetically Driven T-type Shock Tube of
Rectangular Geometry
III. Solid State Physics
Soft X-ray Photoionization
IV. Microwave Spectroscopy
Spin-Lattice Relaxation
A Quantum-Mechanical Study of Spin-Spin Interaction
Negative L and C in Broadband Masers
A Circularly Polarized Maser Oscillator
Mode Control in Ruby Optical Masers by Means of
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Nuclear Magnetic Resonance and Hyperfine Structure
Nuclear Relaxation in Various Ferroelectric Crystals
Parity Conservation in Molecules
Mercury 197-199 Hyperfine -Structure Anomaly
A Compact Magneto-optic Scanning Apparatus
Anode Design for Mercury Vapor Discharge Tube
Microwave Electronics
Exact Solution of the Small-Signal, One-Dimensional Gap
Interaction for Neutralized, Relativistic, Electron
Beams
Gap Interaction in the Presence of a Potential Depression Thin-
Beam Two-Dimensional, Space-Charge Theory
Molecular Beams
Measurement of the Velocity of Light
Resumption of Measurement and Objectives
Straightness of Travel of a Moving Piston in the 10
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Radian Domain
Cavity Diameter Measurement
Pneumatic Detection of Small Motions in the Microinch
Domain
VIII. Statistical Communication Theory
Measurement of the Kernels of a Nonlinear System by
Crosscorrelation with Gaussian Non-White Inputs
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Processing and Transmission of Information
Picture Processing Research
New Systematic Decoding for Memoryless Channels
Physical Acoustics
A Low Resonant Frequency Barium Titanate Transducer
The Damping of Mechanical Oscillations by Flow
Acoustics of Inhomogeneous Moving Media
Bifurcation Instability of a Liquid Conductor in an Axial
Magnetic Field
Search for a Stable Pinch in a Horizontal Mercury Column
Oscillation of a Ferromagnetic Body Inside a Liquid
Conductor
XI. Speech Communication
Automatic Matching of Vowel Spectra
Errata
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XII. Linguistics
Determiners
Note on Cyclically Ordered Rules in the Russian
Conjugation
Some Remarks on Chomsky's Context-free Languages
XIII. Communications Biophysics
Evoked Cortical Responses as a Function of "State"
Variables
Joint Probabilities in Firing Patterns of a Single Neuron
Short-Time Aftereffects of Noise on Auditory Nerve
Responses
XIV. Neurophysiology
Computation in the Presence of Noise (Reliable Machines from Unreliable Components)
Ultimate Periodicity of Real-Time Computation by a
Turing Machine without Outputs
An Inelegant Solution to the Problem of Realizability of
Boolian Functions by the Formal Threshold Type of
Neuron
XV. Neurology
Servoanalysis of the Pupil of the Owl
Dynamical Response of the Movement Coordination
System of Patients with Parkinson Syndrome
Computer Analysis of Handwriting
Digital Computer Simulation of a Neurological System
Instrumentation for Processing Neural Signals
XVI. Computer Components and Systems
Fundamental Physics of the Thin-Film State
Magneto-optic Effects in Ferromagnetic Thin Films
The Transverse Kerr Magneto-optic Effect in Thin
Magnetic Films
Measurement of the Kerr Effect in Thin Nickel-Iron Films
Crystal Algebra
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