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Calculation of the free-free transitions in the electron-hydrogen scattering S-wave model
The S-wave model of electron-hydrogen scattering is evaluated using the
convergent close-coupling method with an emphasis on scattering from excited
states including an initial state from the target continuum. Convergence is
found for discrete excitations and the elastic free-free transition. The latter
is particularly interesting given the corresponding potential matrix elements
are divergent
Factors influencing tolerance to wind shears in landing approach
Flight simulator studies were conducted to examine the piloting problems resulting from encounters with unusual atmospheric disturbances late in landing approach. Simulated encounters with disturbances, including examples derived from accident data, provided the opportunity to study aircraft and pilot performance. It was observed that substantial delays in pilot response to shear-induced departures from glide slope often seriously amplified the consequences of the encounter. In preliminary assessments, an integrated flight instrument display featuring flight path as the primary controlled element appeared to provide the means to minimize such delays by improving tolerance to disturbances in landing approaches
Visual and motion cueing in helicopter simulation
Early experience in fixed-cockpit simulators, with limited field of view, demonstrated the basic difficulties of simulating helicopter flight at the level of subjective fidelity required for confident evaluation of vehicle characteristics. More recent programs, utilizing large-amplitude cockpit motion and a multiwindow visual-simulation system have received a much higher degree of pilot acceptance. However, none of these simulations has presented critical visual-flight tasks that have been accepted by the pilots as the full equivalent of flight. In this paper, the visual cues presented in the simulator are compared with those of flight in an attempt to identify deficiencies that contribute significantly to these assessments. For the low-amplitude maneuvering tasks normally associated with the hover mode, the unique motion capabilities of the Vertical Motion Simulator (VMS) at Ames Research Center permit nearly a full representation of vehicle motion. Especially appreciated in these tasks are the vertical-acceleration responses to collective control. For larger-amplitude maneuvering, motion fidelity must suffer diminution through direct attenuation through high-pass filtering washout of the computer cockpit accelerations or both. Experiments were conducted in an attempt to determine the effects of these distortions on pilot performance of height-control tasks
Vertical motion requirements for landing simulation
Tests were conducted to determine the significance of vertical acceleration cues in the simulation of the visual approach and landing maneuver. Landing performance measures were obtained for four subject pilots operating a visual landing simulation device which provides up to plus or minus 40 feet of vertical motion. Test results indicate that vertical motion cues are utilized in the landing task, and that they are particularly important in the simulation of aircraft with marginal longitudinal handling qualities. To assure vertical motion cues of the desired fidelity in the landing tasks, it appears that a simulator must have excursion capabilities of at least plus or minus 20 feet
Survival of a diffusing particle in an expanding cage
We consider a Brownian particle, with diffusion constant D, moving inside an
expanding d-dimensional sphere whose surface is an absorbing boundary for the
particle. The sphere has initial radius L_0 and expands at a constant rate c.
We calculate the joint probability density, p(r,t|r_0), that the particle
survives until time t, and is at a distance r from the centre of the sphere,
given that it started at a distance r_0 from the centre.Comment: 5 page
Wave Dark Matter and the Tully-Fisher Relation
We investigate a theory of dark matter called wave dark matter, also known as
scalar field dark matter (SFDM) and boson star dark matter or Bose-Einstein
condensate (BEC) dark matter, in spherical symmetry and its relation to the
Tully-Fisher relation. We show that fixing the oscillation frequency of wave
dark matter near the edge of dark galactic halos implies a Tully-Fisher-like
relation for those halos. We then describe how this boundary condition, which
is roughly equivalent to fixing the half-length of the exponentially decaying
tail of each galactic halo mass profile, may yield testable predictions for
this theory of dark matter.Comment: 19 pages, 4 figure
Anomalously slow relaxation in the diluted Ising model below the percolation threshold
The relaxational behaviour of the bond-diluted two-dimensional Ising model
below the percolation threshold is studied using Monte Carlo techniques. The
non-equilibrium decay of the magnetization,M(t), and the relaxation of the
equilibrium spin-spin autocorrelation function, C(t), are monitored. The
behaviour of both C(t) and M(t) is found to satisfy the Kohlrausch law of a
stretched exponential with the same temperature-dependent exponent. The
Kohlrausch exponent does not appear to depend on the bond concentration. The
results indicate that we are not yet in the asymptotic regime, even when C(t)
and M(t) are less than 10^{-4}.Comment: 33 pages, including 10 figures, tex; hard-copy available on request
from [email protected] To appear in Physica A (Statistical and Theoretical
Physics
On the number of metastable states in spin glasses
In this letter, we show that the formulae of Bray and Moore for the average
logarithm of the number of metastable states in spin glasses can be obtained by
calculating the partition function with coupled replicas with the symmetry
among these explicitly broken according to a generalization of the `two-group'
ansatz. This equivalence allows us to find solutions of the BM equations where
the lower `band-edge' free energy equals the standard static free energy. We
present these results for the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick model, but we expect them
to apply to all mean-field spin glasses.Comment: 6 pages, LaTeX, no figures. Postscript directly available
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