TABLE OF CONTENTS
vi
Personnel
xiv
Publications and Reports
xviii
Introduction
RADIO PHYSICS
I.
1
Molecular Beams
Ammonia Maser with Separated Cavities
II.
3
Microwave Spectroscopy
Cross Relaxation in Ruby
III.
IV.
Microwave Properties of the Atmosphere and Surface of Venus
5
K-band Radiometry
9
11
Far Infrared Spectroscopy
Perturbation of a Plasma by a Probe
15
Plasma Diffusion in a Magnetic Field
15
19 9
Observations of the Aerosol Layer at 20 km
VII.
11
15
Geophysics
Level Crossing in Hg
VI.
3
5
Radio Astronomy
Dielectric Behavior of BaTiO 3 Single Crystals in
the Infrared Region
V.
1
17
20
23
Physical Acoustics
Investigation of Ultrasonic Coupling and Relaxation Effects at
a Corona-Neutral Gas Interface
23
Acoustic Radiation from Moving Point Multipoles
24
Studies of Shock Structure
27
Electrodynamics of Moving Media
29
Force Density in Polarizable Matter Obtained from the
Principle of Virtual Work
29
PLASMA DYNAMICS
VIII.
Plasma Physics
35
Further Observations of Anomalous Cyclotron Radiation in
Xenon and Krypton
35
Ion Confinement with Static and Rotating B Fields
40
Effect of Gas Flow on a Spiral Instability in a Plasma Column
43
Cyclotron Radiation of a Plasma Generated by an Electron Beam
Cyclotron Radiation from an Electron Beam in a Mercury Discharge
44
50
CONTENTS
IX.
Plasma Electronics
Beam-Plasma Discharges
57
The Kitzeltron
57
Observation of Long Confinement Times of Hot Electron
Plasma in System C
58
Radiofrequency Spectrum Radiated by Beam-Plasma Discharge
62
Rotational Instability in the Beam-Plasma Discharge
65
Beam-Excited Ion-Plasma Oscillations
70
Electron-Cyclotron Resonance Discharge
72
Wave Propagation in Hot Electron Plasmas
81
Computer Analysis and Display of Wave Instabilities
85
Fusion Reactor Blanket Experiment
87
Model for Anomalous Radiation in Thomson-Scattering Experiments
Field Configurations in the Stuffed Cusp
X.
57
Plasma Magnetohydrodynamics and Energy Conversion
98
106
109
Free-Surface Waves Modified by a Magnetic Field
109
Effect of Some Imperfections on Liquid-Metal Hydromagnetic
Waveguide Performance
114
Friction-Factor Measurements in Liquid-Metal Magnetohydrodynamic
Channel Flows
121
Dipole-Dipole Interactions between a Polarizable Particle and
an Adsorbed Layer of Discrete Dipoles
126
COMMUNICATION SCIENCES AND ENGINEERING
XI.
Statistical Communication Theory
Systems of the Class Nonlinear No-Memory Followed by
Linear with Memory
XII.
Process Analysis and Synthesis
Rectangular Wave Generator
XIII.
XIV.
Processing and Transmission of Information
131
131
135
135
141
An Improved Low-Rate Error Bound for Fixed Time-Continuous
Channels with Memory
141
Laboratory Simulation of a Time-Variant Multipath Channel
147
An Error Bound for Gaussian Signals in Gaussian Noise
149
A Bound on the Distribution of Computation for Sequential Decoding
- An Example
155
Speech Communication
165
Analysis of Formant Transitions for Consonants
165
Note on Palatalization in Russian
167
CONTENTS
XV.
Linguistics
On NP wa NP ga Predicate Constructions in Japanese
XVI.
XVII.
Communications Biophysics
Binaural Unmasking and "Echolocation"
186
Neurophysiology
189
Machine Dependence of Degrees of Difficulty
189
Some Results on Rabin's Probabilistic Automata
194
Project Reports
197
General Instrumentation
197
Experimental Results
197
General Considerations
202
The Nature of Biological Membranes
204
Neurology
A Markov Analysis of Adaptive Tracking Behavior
XX.
181
181
Work Completed
XIX.
173
Acoustics Stimulator for Use in Acute Experiments on Cats
New Method for Testing Cameras and Lenses
XVIII.
173
209
217
217
217
Visual Suppression during Voluntary Saccadic Eye Movements
217
Visual Suppression during the Fast Phase of Vestibular Nystagmus
221
The Scientific Translating System
223
Dynamic Process Identification of Postural Control System
224
Topical Corticosteroids and Pupil Diameter
227
Cognitive Information Processing
231
Perceived Order in Different Sense Modalities
231
Electronic Combination Lock
232
Mobility Aid Simulator
233
Experiments on Machine Recognition of Connected
Handwritten Words
235
Artificial Intelligence
239
Stereoscopic Synthesis as a Technique for Localizing
Visual Mechanisms
239
Regularities in the Time Courses of Some Visual Processes
244
Author Index
248