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Assessment of effects on vegetation of degradation products from alternative fluorocarbons
Concern with the effects of fluorides on plants has been devoted to that resulting from dry deposition (mainly with reference to gaseous HF and secondarily with particulate forms). The occurrence of precipitation as rain or mist and the presence of dew or free water on the foliage has mainly been considered with respect to their effects on the accumulation of air-borne fluoride and not with fluoride in wet deposition. That is, precipitation has been viewed primarily with respect to its facilitation of the solution and subsequent absorption of deposits by the foliar tissues or its elution of deposited fluoride from foliage. Accordingly, our evaluation of inorganic fluoride from fluorocarbon degradation rests upon a comparison with what is known about the effects of industrial emissions and what could be considered the natural condition
Hot-wire anemometry in hypersonic helium flow
Hot-wire anemometry techniques are described that have been developed and used for hypersonic-helium-flow studies. The short run time available dictated certain innovations in applying conventional hot-wire techniques. Some examples are given to show the application of the techniques used. Modifications to conventional equipment are described, including probe modifications and probe heating controls
Symplectic Microgeometry II: Generating functions
We adapt the notion of generating functions for lagrangian submanifolds to
symplectic microgeometry. We show that a symplectic micromorphism always admits
a global generating function. As an application, we describe hamiltonian flows
as special symplectic micromorphisms whose local generating functions are the
solutions of Hamilton-Jacobi equations. We obtain a purely categorical
formulation of the temporal evolution in classical mechanics.Comment: 27 pages, 1 figur
Equilibrium Configuration of Black Holes and the Inverse Scattering Method
The inverse scattering method is applied to the investigation of the
equilibrium configuration of black holes. A study of the boundary problem
corresponding to this configuration shows that any axially symmetric,
stationary solution of the Einstein equations with disconnected event horizon
must belong to the class of Belinskii-Zakharov solutions. Relationships between
the angular momenta and angular velocities of black holes are derived.Comment: LaTeX, 14 pages, no figure
Thermionic research program, volume I Final report
Design, fabrication, calibration, instrumentation, and operation of test converter to generate parameters in thermionic converter operatio
The Maslov Gerbe
Let Lag(E) be the grassmannian of lagrangian subspaces of a complex
symplectic vector space E. We construct a Maslov class which generates the
second integral cohomology of Lag(E), and we show that its mod 2 reduction is
the characteristic class of a flat gerbe with structure group Z_2. We explain
the relation of this gerbe to the well-known flat Maslov line bundle with
structure group Z_4 over the real lagrangian grassmannian, whose characteristic
class is the mod 4 reduction of the real Maslov class.Comment: 8 page
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