TABLE OF CONTENTS
Personnel
viii
Publications and Reports
xvi
xxii
Introduction
GENERAL PHYSICS
I.
Molecular Beams
Square-Wave Phase Modulation in Molecular Beam
Resonance Experiments
Search for a Shift in the Transverse Electromagnetic
Mass of the Electron
1
2
9
II.
Molecular Collisions
13
III.
Microwave Spectroscopy
Work Completed
15
16
Electric Field Effects in the Nuclear Magnetic
Resonance of Fluids
Expansion of Velocity Surfaces in Spherical Harmonics
16
Ruby Cross Relaxation
26
17
IV.
Atomic Resonance and Scattering
27
V.
Electron Magnetic Resonance
31
VI.
Radio Astronomy
Haystack-Millstone OH Interferometer
Millstone-Agassiz OH Interferometer
33
34
K-band Spectrum Measurements of the Sun
Inference of Atmospheric Attenuation near 61. 15 GHz
from Balloon Flight Results
Observations of Microwave Emission from Atmospheric
Oxygen: Balloon Flights, Summer 1966
Observations of Microwave Emission from Atmospheric
Oxygen: Balloon Experiment Results, Summer 1965
VII.
Solid State Microwave Electronics
Work Completed
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VIII.
Optical and Infrared Spectroscopy
51
Work Completed
53
Temperature Dependence of the Raman Spectrum of
KTaO 3 and SrTiO 3
53
IX.
Ultrasonic Properties of Solids
61
X.
Geophysical Research
63
High Magnetic Fields
63
Upper Atomospheric Physics
64
Possible Relation between Dust and Rainfall
XI.
Gravitation Research
66
69
Experimental Test of the Freundlich Red-Shift Hypothesis
70
Measurement of Metastable versus Ground-State Electron
Exchange Cross Sections for Helium and Neon
70
XII.
Noise in Electron Devices
75
XIII.
Magnetic Resonance
77
XIV.
X-ray Diffraction Studies
79
XV.
Physical Electronics and Surface Physics
81
XVI.
XVII.
XVIII.
Contact Potential Measurements of the Adsorption of 02
on (110) Ta
82
Desorption and Migration Kinetics of Molecules Adsorbed
on Nonuniform Surfaces: Steady-State Analysis
89
Single-Phonon Energy Transfer between Molecular Beams
and Solid Surfaces
94
Theory of Atom-Metal Interactions
94
Physical Acoustics
97
Electric Field Associated with a Sound Wave in a Weakly
Ionized Gas
97
Viscous Effects in a Hydrodynamic Plasma
98
Interference of Light with Light in a Plasma
103
Electrodynamics of Media
113
Nonlinear Amplification
113
Physical Optics of Invertebrate Eyes
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PLASMA DYNAMICS
XIX.
XX.
123
Plasma Physics
Far Infrared Spectrophotometer for Plasma Studies
123
Experimental Study of Electron Plasma Oscillations
129
137
Gaseous Electronics
Electron-Electron Relaxation Rates as Determined
from the Observed Time-Dependent Electron Velocity
Distribution
XXI.
141
Plasmas and Controlled Nuclear Fusion
141
Active Plasma Systems
System C:
142
Ion-Cyclotron Wave Generation
Beam-Plasma Discharge:
137
142
System D
Cross-Field Beam-Plasma Experiment
144
Sheet Models of the Beam-Plasma Discharge with
Plasma Density Gradients along the Beam
145
Sheet Model of a Plasma Slab
149
Stability Criteria for Dispersion Relations Containing
Branch Points
Finite Larmor Radius Effects in the Interaction of
Electrons with High-Frequency Acoustic Waves
Applied Plasma Physics Related to Controlled Nuclear
Fusion
Oscillations in the Hollow-Cathode Discharge Arc
Plasma Magnetohydrodynamic
Instabilities
Flows,
Waves,
151
155
157
159
and
Electron Beam Interaction with a Spatially Inhomogeneous Temperate Plasma
164
164
XXII.
Energy Conversion Research
171
XXIII.
Spontaneous Radiofrequency Emission from Hot-Electron
Plasmas
159
Interaction of Laser Radiation with Plasmas and Nonadiabatic
Motion of Particles in Magnetic Fields
1-61
XXIV.
Nonadiabatic Trapping in Toridal Geometry
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COMMUNICATION SCIENCES AND ENGINEERING
XXV.
XXVI.
XXVII.
XXVIII.
XXIX.
XXX.
XXXI.
Statistical Communication Theory
Transfer Functions for a Two-State Modulation System
184
A New Approach to Echo Removal
194
Processing and Transmission of Information
203
Low-Rate Upper Bounds on Error Probability for Fading
Dispersive Channels
207
Optical Propagation through a Turbulent Atmosphere
212
Detection and Estimation Theory
225
Equalization of Dispersive Channels Using Decision
Feedback
227
State-Variable Estimation in the Presence of Pure Delay
243
Speech Communication
253
Real-Time Spectral Input System for Computer Analysis
of Speech
253
Children's Perception of a Set of Vowels
254
Articulatory Activity and Air Flow during the Production
of Fricative Consonants
257
Linguistics
261
Initial Clusters in English
263
Esquisse a propos d'Une Classe Limitde d'Adjectifs en
Frangais Moderne
275
Cognitive Information Processing
287
Reproduction of Graphical Data by Facsimile
291
Image Transmission by Two-Dimensional Contour Coding
Fourier-Transform Representation of Pictures
294
302
Effect of Multipath Hologram Television Systems
304
Optical Spatial Filtering for Simultaneous Delay and
Doppler Estimates of Radarlike Signals
307
Communications Biophysics
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311
Circuit Model for the Cat's Middle Ear
320
Multichannel Time-Domain Filtering Employing TimeDivision Multiplexing and a Magnetic Delay Drum
327
Deterministic Nature of Arterial Pressure Receptors
331
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XXXII.
Neurophysiology
On a Calculus for Triadas
333
335
XXXIII.
Computer Research
347
XXXIV.
Computation Research
349
XXXV.
Updating of the Computer Indexing Program
A Simple Method for Finding the Roots of an Analytic
Function
Roots, a Root-Finding Subroutine Using Muller's Method
350
Linearizing the Roots of a Polynomial. II
Development of Private Library to Be Searched by TIP
355
Stroboscopic Light Research
Author Index
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