TABLE OF CONTENTS
Personnel
vi
Publications and Reports
xv
Introduction
xix
GENERAL PHYSICS
I.
1
Atomic Resonance and Scattering
Magnetic Moment of the Proton
II.
7
Electron Magnetic Resonance
On Geometry of Excited Molecules
III.
IV.
V.
Long Baseline Interferometer Experiments
19
Radio Interferometer
22
MIT-NRAO Recombination Line Survey
22
K-band Observations of Stratospheric Water Vapor
23
Statistical Inversion of Radiometric Data
25
Solid-State Microwave Electronics
29
High Dynamic Range Mixers
29
Low-Noise Solid-State Receiver
29
35
Optical and Infrared Spectroscopy
Geophysical Research
IX.
Physical Electronics and Surface Physics
47
49
Molecular Beam Apparatus for Investigations of GasSolid Interactions
49
Equilibrium Model of the Reaction of a Gas with a
Solid to Form Volatile Products: Steady-State
Oxidation of Tungsten
57
Electrodynamics of Media
65
Closed-Form Solution of Steady-State Electromagnetic
Shock
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47
Magnetic Resonance
High Resolution Nuclear Magnetic Resonance in Solids
VIII.
35
43
Anisotropy of the Electron Velocity Distribution in a
Reflex Discharge Measured by Continuous-Wave
Laser Scattering
VII.
7
19
Radio Astronomy
Impurity-Induced Absorption in Perovskite Fluorides
VI.
1
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PLASMA DYNAMICS
X.
XI.
Plasma Physics
71
Nonlinear Coupling of Low-Frequency Ionization Waves
74
Refractive Attenuation of Radiation in a Cylindrical Plasma
76
Stochastic Acceleration in Bounded Plasmas
85
Gaseous Electronics
Continuum Probe Studies of a Positive Column in Flowing
Argon Gas
XII.
Plasmas and Controlled Nuclear Fusion
Active Plasma Systems
111
111
Minimum-B Mirror Magnetic Field in System A
116
Beam-Plasma Discharge: System D
118
Oscillations in an Inhomogeneous Cold Plasma
123
Computer Simulation of an Inhomogeneous Plasma
127
Further Discussion on Electron Beam Space-Charge-Wave
Interaction with the Backward Wave in a Cold-Plasma
Waveguide
131
Growth of the Lossless, One-Dimensional Beam-Plasma
Interaction in Space and Time
137
Active Plasma Effects in Solids
141
141
151
Effects of Contacts on Low-Field Microwave Emission from
Indium Antimonide Loops with Induced Electric Fields
151
Acoustic Wave Amplification at Microwave Frequencies
156
Collisional Effects on Acoustic-Wave Amplification at
Microwave Frequencies
161
Acoustic Wave Amplification- Transport Theory
164
Criteria for Negative-Energy Helicon Waves
168
Spontaneous Radiofrequency Emission from Hot-Electron Plasmas
Experimental Study of Enhanced Cyclotron Radiation from an
Electron-Cyclotron Resonance Discharge
Interaction of Laser Radiation with Plasmas and Nonadiabatic
Motion of Particles in Magnetic Fields
Resonant and Near-Resonant Wave-Particle Interactions in a
Transverse Plasma Wave
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111
Radiation Damage in Thermonuclear Reactors
XIV.
99
Ion Energy Analysis in a Beam-Plasma Discharge
Applied Plasma Physics Related to Controlled Nuclear Fusion
XIII.
71
Nonlinear Coupling of Low-Frequency Oscillations in an
Electron-Cyclotron Resonance Discharge
177
177
183
183
CONTENTS
COMMUNICATION
XV.
SCIENCES AND ENGINEERING
Processing and Transmission of Information
Error Bounds for the Turbulent Optical Channel
XVI.
Speech Communication
Acoustic Correlates of Place of Articulation for Stop
and Fricative Consonants
XVII.
XVIII.
Cognitive Information Processing
193
193
199
199
207
Cubic Corners
207
Surface Reconstruction from Contour Samples: Some
Computer Simulation Results
Field Shading and Noise in the SCAD Scanner
215
Biological Image Processing - Automated Leukocyte
Recognition
231
Differential Leukocyte Analysis by Optical Methods
243
Reading Machine for the Blind
245
Communications Biophysics
227
249
Sound-Pressure Transformation by the External Ear
of the Cat
250
Investigations on the Abdominal Stretch Receptor System
of Crayfish
250
Cumulative Behavior of Averaged Potentials
253
Hybrid Simulation of Hodgkin-Huxley Model for Nerve
Membrane
258
Author Index
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