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Exploding Wires

Volume 4

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Table of contents (26 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
  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. Time-Resolved Emission and Absorption Studies of Exploding Wire Spectra

    • Esther C. Cassidy, Stanley Abramowitz
    Pages 109-124
  7. Kerr-Cell Time-Resolved Spectra of an Exploding Wire

    • Robert P. DeSieno, Charles P. Nash
    Pages 125-135
  8. Interaction of High-Powered Focused Laser Beam with Exploding Wire

    • Victor E. Scherrer, Philip W. Davis, Matthew J. Hillsman, Dick Manser
    Pages 137-145
  9. High-Temperature Plasmas Produced by Exploding Wires

    • David P. Ross, O. H. Zinke
    Pages 147-160
  10. Current Distribution for Wire Exploded in Vacuo

    • D. C. Chern, T. Korneff
    Pages 173-183
  11. Time-Resolved Spectroscopy of Exploding Wires

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

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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