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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Personnel
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Publications and Reports
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xviii
Introduction
GENERAL PHYSICS
I.
Vapor Pressure of He
II.
1
Molecular Beams
4
0
1
below 1. 5 K
Electron Microscopy
2
Microwave Spectroscopy
3
Electromagnetic Waves on High Dielectric Constant Ribbon
III.
7
Radio Astronomy
Preliminary Results from the 1970 Airborne Meteorology
Expedition
IV.
7
Water-Vapor Emission from Variable Stars
13
Measurement of Thermal Emission from Mesospheric 02
17
Search for Interstellar Sulfur Monoxide
25
Observations of Pulsar Spectra
26
35
Solid-State Microwave Electronics
Theoretical Small-Signal Analysis of an Avalanche Diode
in the s-Plane
V.
35
47
Physical Electronics and Surface Physics
Experimental Measurements of the Speed Distribution of D 2
Desorbed from a Nickel Surface
VI.
Nonlinear
Surface
61
Interaction between a Sound Field and a Liquid
Techniques for Measuring
62
Density
Fluctuations
in
63
Jets
65
Electrodynamics of Media
An Experimental Determination of Cross Relaxation in CO
Investigation of Nonlinear Effects in High-Pressure CO
QPR No. 99
47
61
Physical Acoustics
Observation of Interaction between Acoustic Surface Waves
and Electron Surface Waves
VII.
3
iii
2
Z
Lasers
65
70
CONTENTS
PLASMA DYNAMICS
VIII.
77
Plasmas and Controlled Nuclear Fusion
77
High-Temperature Toroidal Plasmas
77
Model for the Turbulent Ion Heating in Tokamak TM-3
IX.
83
Applied Plasma Research
83
Active Plasma Systems
83
Interaction of a Heavy Ion Beam with a Plasma
90
Plasma Effects in Solids
Further Studies of a Model for Microwave Emission
from the Bulk of n-Type Indium Antimonide
90
Electron Plasma Surface Wave in Crossed Electric
and Magnetic Fields
96
Dispersion Characteristics of the Electron Plasma
Surface Wave
101
COMMUNICATION
X.
SCIENCES AND ENGINEERING
Relationships between Random Trees and Branching Processes
109
Finite Memory Decision Schemes
111
Detector Statistics for Optical Communication
Turbulent Atmosphere
XI.
109
Processing and Transmission of Information
through
the
114
Direct Detection Error Probabilities for Optical Communication
over a Rayleigh Fading Channel
123
Weakly Coherent Quantum Channels I
130
Cognitive Information Processing
135
Estimation of the Impulse Response of Image-Degrading
Systems
135
Generating Statistically Independent Gaussian Pseudo-Random
Numbers
140
Text-to-Speech Conversion
146
Some Syllabic Junctural Effects in English
149
Tactile Pitch Feedback for Deaf Speakers
160
Proposed Automatic Leukocyte Differential Analyzer
174
QPR No. 99
CONTENTS
XII.
XIII.
Communications Biophysics
177
A Gain-Bandwidth Theorem for the Middle Ear
177
Organization of the Posterior Ramus and Ganglion of the VIIIth
Cranial Nerve of the Bullfrog, Rana catesbeiana
180
Auditory-Nerve Firing Patterns for Repetitive Pseudo
Noise-Burst Stimuli
183
Digital System Design Automation
Register-Transfer-Language to Boolean- Level-Description
System
Author Index
QPR No. 99
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