Author: ROYAL SOCIETY
Title: Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A. Mathematical and Physical Sciences. Volume 361 1978 (Numbers 1704-1707)
Description: London: The Royal Society, 1978. First Edition; First Edition. Library Buckram. Iv, 532 pages. With plates, diagrams, tables & illustrations. Original wrappers bound in. With library stamps & labels. Slight wear & slight soiling to spine, covers & corners. ; Ex-Library; Quarto; SERIES A VOLUME 361NUMBER 1704 3 May 1978Ñ Random partitions in population genetics. By J. F. C. Kingman, F. R. S. Ñ Optical caustics in the near field from liquid drops. By J. F. Nye, F. R. S. [Plates 1-8] Ñ Transverse impact of ideal fibre-reinforced rigid-plastic plates. By Linda Shaw and A. J. M. Spencer Ñ Radiation of sound from an unflanged rigid cylindrical duct with an acoustically absorbing internal surface. By A. D. Rawlins Ñ Induction flow-measurement theory for poorly conducting fluids. By R. Al-Rabeh, R. C. Baker and J. Hemp Ñ Partial dissociation of nitrogen aggregates in diamond by high temperature- high pressure treatments. By M. R. Brozel, T. Evans and R. F. StephensonNumber 1705 11 May 1978MATERIALS BEHAVIOUR IN LOW GRAVITY CONDITIONS. PAPERS FROM A DISCUSSION ARRANGED BY THE BRITISH NATIONAL COMMITTEE ON SPACE RESEARCH UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF SIR HARRIE MASSEY, SEC. R. S, E. G. C. Burt, J. A. Champion, J. W. Christian, F. R. S, and R. F. RissonÄI Experiments in the SPACELAB project . Ñ Spacelab and material processing facilities and experiments. By G. Seibert Ñ Why and how is the Federal Government of Germany promoting the utilization of Spacelab ? By G. Greger II CRYSTAL GROWTHÑ Priorities in the initial use of Spacelab for crystal growth. By D. Elwell Ñ Materials behaviour in low+ gravity environment. By H. Weiss. [Plate 1]III METALLURGYÑ The proposed French metallurgy programme for Spacelab. By Y. MalmejacÑ The production of powder-filled/metal composites in space. By H. M. Rosenberg Ñ Comment from the general discussion. E. A. BoucherÑ Determination of the dynamic surface tension of liquids from the instability of excited capillary jets and from the oscillation frequency of drops issued from such jets. By Maria Ronay. [Plates 1-3] Ñ Divergent low-Froude-number series expansion of nonlinear free-surface flow problems. By J. -M. Yanden Broeck, L. W. Schwartz and E. O. Tuck Ñ Stratification effects in boundary layer flow over hills. By R. I. SykesÑ Complexities of compression failure. By K. KendallNumber 1706 1 June 1978Ñ The similarity solution for the Korteweg-de Vries equation and the related PainlevÄ transcendent. By R. R. RosalesÑ On the second PainlevÄ transcendent. By J. W. MilesÑ General estimates for linear functionals in nonlinear problems. By M. J. Sewell and B. NobleÑ On the mechanism of tensile fracture in notched fibre reinforced plastics. By R. T. Potter. [Plates 1 and 2]Ñ Impact damage in brittle materials in the elastic-plastic response regime. By A. G. Evans, ? . E. Gulden and M. Rosenblatt. [Plates 1-4] Ñ The structure of electron cyclotron resonance absorption signals in gases. By J. N. Bradley and E. MetcalfeÑ The absorption spectrum of Ag I in the vacuum ultraviolet. By J. P. Connerade, M. Aslam Baig, M. W. D. Mansfield and E. Radtke Number 1707 16 June 1978Ñ High resolution electron microscopic and X-ray studies of non-random disorder in an unusual layered silicate (chloritoid) . By D. A. Jefferson and J. M. Thomas, F. R. S. [Plates 1-6]Ñ Solitons as particles, oscillators, and in slowly changing media: a singular perturbation theory. By D. J. Kaup and A. C. Newell Ñ Repeated elastic reflexions of a particle in an expanding sphere. By G. Klein and H. P. MulhollandÑ A calculation of orientational relaxation in nematic liquid crystals. By M. G. Clark and F. M. LeslieÑ The spin Hamiltonian for electron spin resonance of radicals in doublet states: calculations in the energy weighted maximum overlap model. By Esper DalgaardÑ The application of adiabatic regularization to calculations of cosmological interest. By N. D. Birrell Ñ Corrigendum. Good .

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