Author: ROYAL SOCIETY
Title: Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A. Mathematical and Physical Sciences. Volume 363 1978 (Numbers 1712-1715)
Description: London: The Royal Society, 1978. First Edition; First Edition. Library Buckram. Iv, 600 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 363NUMBER 1712 1 November 1978Scientific aspects of the 1975-76 drought in England and Wales. A Discussion organized by Sir Charles Pereira, F. R. S, H. L. Penman, P. R. S, O. Gibb and R. A. S. Ratcliffe on behalf of the British National Committee on Hydrological SciencesÑ Meteorological aspects of the 1975-76 drought. By R. A. S. RatcliffeÑ Some detailed water balance studies of research catchments. By R. T. Clarke and M. D. Newson Ñ The effect of the drought on British agriculture. By E. S. CarterÑ The effects of the 1975-76 drought on groundwater and aquifers. By J. B. W. Day and J. C. Rodda Ñ The effects of drought on the river systems. By M. J. Hamlin and C. E. Wright Ñ Pollution problems arising from the 1975-76 drought. By A. W. DaviesÑ Planning for development of groundwater and surface water resources. By O. Gibb and H. J. Richards Ñ Concluding remarks. By Sir Charles Pereira, F. R. S. Ñ The dynamics of neutral mutation. By J. F. C. Kingman, F. R. S. Ñ W. K. B. Approximation and scaling. By K. BanerjeeNumber 1713 1 November 1978 Ñ Exciton-phonon coupling in molecular crystals : absorption band profiles in the first singlet system of anthracene. By D. P. Craig, F. R. S. And L. A. DissadoÑ The evolution of a small inviscid disturbance to a marginally unstable stratified shear flow; stage two. By S. N. Brown and K. Stewartson Ñ Finite amplitude two-dimensional convection in a finite rotating system. By P. G. DanielsÑ On the flow of polythermal glaciers. I. Model and preliminary analysis. By A. C. Fowler and D. A. Larson Ñ Evolution in space and time of resonant wave triads. I. The +pump-wave approximation+. By A. D. D. Craik and J. A. Adam Ñ Evolution in space and time of resonant wave triads. II. A class of exact solutions. By A. D. D. CraikÑ A transformation of the acoustic equation with implications for wind-tunnel and low-speed flight tests. By K. Taylor Ñ Re-evaporation of condensed matter during the formation of the solar system. By J. M. Herndon Ñ A class of self-dual solutions of Einstein+s equations. By R. S. WardNUMBER 1714 22 NOVEMBER 1978Ñ Review Lecture. Recent advances in the numerical prediction of weather and climate. By B. J. Mason, Treas. R. S. [Plate 1] Ñ Oscillatory flow through constricted or dilated channels and axisymmetric pipes. By P. W. Duck Ñ Boundary layer over spinning blunt body of revolution at incidence including Magnus forces. By K. C. Wang Ñ The theory of molecular two-photon spectroscopy in the gas phase. By F. Metz, W. E. Howard, L. Wunsch, H. J. NeusserandE. W. Schlag Ñ An X-ray photoelectron spectroscopic study of the interaction of oxygen and nitric oxide with aluminium. By A. F. Carley and M. W. Roberts Ñ A complex ray tracing study of ion cyclotron whistlers in the ionosphere. By P. D. Terry Number 1715 27 November 1978Ñ The metric and curvature properties of H-space. By R. O. Hansen, E. T. Newman, R. Penrose, F. R. S. And K. P. Tod Ñ On the existence of a wave of greatest height and Stokes+s conjecture. By J. F. TolandÑ Diffraction of elastic waves by the periodic rigid boundary of a semi-infinite solid. By J. T. Fokkema Ñ The mechanism of the pyrolysis of 2, 2, 3, 3-tetramethylbutane. By R. M. Marshall, J. H. Purnell and P. D. StoreyÑ The effects of randomness on the stability of two-dimensional surface wave trains. By I. E. Alber Ñ Nonlinear behaviour of a finite amplitude electron plasma wave. IV. Decay to ion cyclotron waves. By R. N. Franklin, P. D. Edgley, S. M. Hamberger and R. W. Motley Ñ On the dynamics of wave-power devices. By B. M. Count Ñ Vacuum solutions for a twisted scalar field. By S. J. Avis and C. J. Isham. Good .

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