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Exploding Wires

Volume 4

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  • © 1968

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Editors:
  1. William G. Chace

    1. Office of Aerospace Research, Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories, Bedford, USA

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  2. Howard K. Moore

    1. Lowell Technological Institute Research Foundation, Lowell, USA

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Table of contents (26 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Vaporization Waves in Metals

    • F. D. Bennett, G. D. Kahl
    Pages 1-25

  3. Initial Behavior of an Exploding Wire

    • T. S. Chang, M. L. Chang
    Pages 27-34

  4. Similarities in Spark and Exploding Wire Discharges

    • Ihor M. Vitkovitsky
    Pages 35-40

  5. Exploding Wires as a Light Source for Quantitative Spectroscopy

    • H. Jäger, W. Lochte-Holtgreven
    Pages 41-50

  6. An “Electrical Equation of State” of Metals Determined by an Exploding Wire Technique

    • W. G. Chace, M. A. Levine, C. V. Fish
    Pages 51-62

  7. Effect of Applied Magnetic Field on the Exploding Wire Phenomenon-II

    • A. Sakurai, T. Takao, T. Taira
    Pages 63-69

  8. New Evidence for Standing Waves in Electrically Exploded Iron Wires

    • Moody L. Coffman
    Pages 71-85

  9. Spectroscopic Investigation of the High-Density Plasma from Exploded Lithium Wires

    • B. Ya’akobi
    Pages 87-92

  10. Faraday Rotation Measurements of the Precursor Ionization from an Exploding Wire Discharge

    • Donald L. Jones
    Pages 93-108

  11. Time-Resolved Emission and Absorption Studies of Exploding Wire Spectra

    • Esther C. Cassidy, Stanley Abramowitz
    Pages 109-124

  12. Kerr-Cell Time-Resolved Spectra of an Exploding Wire

    • Robert P. DeSieno, Charles P. Nash
    Pages 125-135

  13. Interaction of High-Powered Focused Laser Beam with Exploding Wire

    • Victor E. Scherrer, Philip W. Davis, Matthew J. Hillsman, Dick Manser
    Pages 137-145

  14. High-Temperature Plasmas Produced by Exploding Wires

    • David P. Ross, O. H. Zinke
    Pages 147-160

  15. Influence of Adsorbed Gases on the Emission of X-Rays from Exploding Tungsten Wires in Vacuum

    • S. K. Händel, B. Stenerhag
    Pages 161-172

  16. Current Distribution for Wire Exploded in Vacuo

    • D. C. Chern, T. Korneff
    Pages 173-183

  17. Correlated X-Ray and Optical Streak Photographs of Exploding Wires

    • K. S. Fansler, D. D. Shear
    Pages 185-193

  18. Time-Resolved Spectroscopy of Exploding Wires

    • Roger S. Case Jr., Arthur H. Guenther
    Pages 195-209

  19. Exploding Wire Detonators: Threshold Burst Current Dependence Upon Detonator and Environmental Parameters

    • T. J. Tucker
    Pages 211-232

  20. The Electrical Conductivity of Metals at Very High Temperatures

    • H. Knoepfel, R. Luppi
    Pages 233-252
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Office of Aerospace Research, Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories, Bedford, USA

    William G. Chace

  • Lowell Technological Institute Research Foundation, Lowell, USA

    Howard K. Moore

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Exploding Wires

  • Book Subtitle: Volume 4

  • Editors: William G. Chace, Howard K. Moore

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-7328-3

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1968

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-7330-6Published: 13 December 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4899-7328-3Published: 08 July 2014

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 348

  • Number of Illustrations: 79 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Electrical Engineering

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