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where. This volume covers a variety of topics with the single thread of Draper's wide-ranging activities to connect them, The material will be of use and interest to research workers and practicing engineers working in areas where Draper's contributions have been most outstanding. Areas such as the Polaris missile, nuclear submarine guidance systems, aircraft engines and instruments, gyroscopes, and inertial navigation systems are covered. Topics range from adaptive control systems to forest fires and their control.
its relations to some problems in space physics. The last lecture, Magnetic Resonance and Its Applications, by N. Bloembergen, includes a short description of the principles of magnetic resonance as well as examples of its use in research in chemistry, solid-state physics, metallurgy, and biology.
AN INTRODUCTION TO PLASMA PHYSICS, b y W. B. Thompson. 256 pages, diagrams, 6 X 9 in. Reading (Mass.), AddisonWesley Publishing Co., Inc., 1963. Price, $10.00.
Delays in queues with one server and order of arrival service are treated in this work, b o t h from theoretical and practical viewpoints. The author, in aiming his work at b o t h mathematicians and engineers, first establishes formulas and equations describing probabilities of delay and then applies these to specific models. The six chapters cover virtual delay, a direct approach to delay fornmlas (for example, Poisson arrivals), the transform approach to delay formulas (Tak£cs' equation and a Volterra equation), weak statlonarity, convergence theorems, and weak Markov assumptions.
This text is directed to graduate students in physics and is an expanded version of a course of lectures given a t Harwell. I t is designed to give the physicist and mathematician a comprehensive introduction to the modern theory of the dynamics of a fully ionized gas. The work is primarily devoted to the theory of the motions and includes the electromagnetic response of such a gas. A chapter on the partially ionized arc plasma, three chapters on magnetohydrodynamics, and two chapters on kinetic theory are included in the book. LECTURES IN MATERIALS SCIENCE, edited b y Paul Leurgans. 109 pages, illustration, diagrams, 6 X 9 in. New York, W. A. Benjamin, Inc., 1963. Price: $7.00 (cloth) ; 153.95 (paper). This book is the result of four lectures given a t the Cornell Materials Science Center in the spring of 1962. The first lecture, Macromolecules in Solution, b y P. J. W. Debye describes his research on the characterization of polymer molecules by measurements of light scattering. P . J . Flory discusses the theory of the interactions of large molecules and the implications of some simple models in a lecture on Macromolecules in the Solid State. F. Bitter lectures on Flows in a Steady Plasma. He tells of his research on low-pressure mercury discharges and indicates
GENERAL STOCHASTIC PROCESSES IN THE THEORY OF QUEUES, b y V~clav E. Bench. 88 pages, 5} X 8} in. Reading (Mass.), Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., Inc., 1963. Price, $5.75.
OPERATOR TECHNIQUES IN ATOMIC SPECTROSCOPY, by Brian R. Judd. 242 pages, diagrams, 6 X 9 in. New York, McGrawHill Book Co., Inc., 1963. Price, $9.95. The author's aim is to provide a theoretical background for the modern theory of atomic spectroscopy, particularly for physicists working with atoms or ions of the rare earth or actinide series. The book makes use of continuous groups, extending the work originally developed by Racah. Judd stresses the applications of the theory, of continuous groups, not only in atomic spectroscopy, b u t also in nuclear and molecular physics. The reader is assumed to be either a professional physicist or a graduate student planning to specialize in a field in which atomic spectroscopy is used. The final chapter on applications of the theory of configurations of more t h a n two equivalent electrons contains much original material not previously published.
BOOK NOTES
[J. F. I.
where. This volume covers a variety of topics with the single thread of Draper's wide-ranging activities to connect them, The material will be of use and interest to research workers and practicing engineers working in areas where Draper's contributions have been most outstanding. Areas such as the Polaris missile, nuclear submarine guidance systems, aircraft engines and instruments, gyroscopes, and inertial navigation systems are covered. Topics range from adaptive control systems to forest fires and their control.
its relations to some problems in space physics. The last lecture, Magnetic Resonance and Its Applications, by N. Bloembergen, includes a short description of the principles of magnetic resonance as well as examples of its use in research in chemistry, solid-state physics, metallurgy, and biology.
AN INTRODUCTION TO PLASMA PHYSICS, b y W. B. Thompson. 256 pages, diagrams, 6 X 9 in. Reading (Mass.), AddisonWesley Publishing Co., Inc., 1963. Price, $10.00.
Delays in queues with one server and order of arrival service are treated in this work, b o t h from theoretical and practical viewpoints. The author, in aiming his work at b o t h mathematicians and engineers, first establishes formulas and equations describing probabilities of delay and then applies these to specific models. The six chapters cover virtual delay, a direct approach to delay fornmlas (for example, Poisson arrivals), the transform approach to delay formulas (Tak£cs' equation and a Volterra equation), weak statlonarity, convergence theorems, and weak Markov assumptions.
This text is directed to graduate students in physics and is an expanded version of a course of lectures given a t Harwell. I t is designed to give the physicist and mathematician a comprehensive introduction to the modern theory of the dynamics of a fully ionized gas. The work is primarily devoted to the theory of the motions and includes the electromagnetic response of such a gas. A chapter on the partially ionized arc plasma, three chapters on magnetohydrodynamics, and two chapters on kinetic theory are included in the book. LECTURES IN MATERIALS SCIENCE, edited b y Paul Leurgans. 109 pages, illustration, diagrams, 6 X 9 in. New York, W. A. Benjamin, Inc., 1963. Price: $7.00 (cloth) ; 153.95 (paper). This book is the result of four lectures given a t the Cornell Materials Science Center in the spring of 1962. The first lecture, Macromolecules in Solution, b y P. J. W. Debye describes his research on the characterization of polymer molecules by measurements of light scattering. P . J . Flory discusses the theory of the interactions of large molecules and the implications of some simple models in a lecture on Macromolecules in the Solid State. F. Bitter lectures on Flows in a Steady Plasma. He tells of his research on low-pressure mercury discharges and indicates
GENERAL STOCHASTIC PROCESSES IN THE THEORY OF QUEUES, b y V~clav E. Bench. 88 pages, 5} X 8} in. Reading (Mass.), Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., Inc., 1963. Price, $5.75.
OPERATOR TECHNIQUES IN ATOMIC SPECTROSCOPY, by Brian R. Judd. 242 pages, diagrams, 6 X 9 in. New York, McGrawHill Book Co., Inc., 1963. Price, $9.95. The author's aim is to provide a theoretical background for the modern theory of atomic spectroscopy, particularly for physicists working with atoms or ions of the rare earth or actinide series. The book makes use of continuous groups, extending the work originally developed by Racah. Judd stresses the applications of the theory, of continuous groups, not only in atomic spectroscopy, b u t also in nuclear and molecular physics. The reader is assumed to be either a professional physicist or a graduate student planning to specialize in a field in which atomic spectroscopy is used. The final chapter on applications of the theory of configurations of more t h a n two equivalent electrons contains much original material not previously published.