Theoretical analysis of the motions of an aircraft stabilized in roll by a displacement-response, flicker-type automatic pilot (open access)

Theoretical analysis of the motions of an aircraft stabilized in roll by a displacement-response, flicker-type automatic pilot

Report presenting a general analysis that allows the rolling motions of an aircraft using a displacement-response, flicker-type automatic pilot to be determined. The system is not ideal for many stabilization problems due to inherent residual oscillations, but it offers a simple and economical solution in situations in which steady state oscillations are not a problem. Results regarding some general remarks, transient and steady states, stabilization boundaries, amplitude equations, and period equations are provided.
Date: July 7, 1948
Creator: Curfman, Howard J., Jr. & Gardner, William N.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Stars in Photographic Emulsions Initiated by Deuterons Part II. Theoretical (open access)

Stars in Photographic Emulsions Initiated by Deuterons Part II. Theoretical

The theory of high energy nuclear stars depends on a theory of nuclear transparency and on a theory of nuclear evaporation. The transparency can be computed on the basis of a model proposed by R. Serber as soon as the interactions between the nucleons and the incident particle are known. The evaporation can be computed on the basis of the statistical model of the nucleus as soon as the nuclear entropy and binding energies of the evaporated particles are known. With approximate values for the above interactions, entropies, and binding energies, a probability distribution has been computed for the number of prongs per star. The results are in qualitative agreement with the observations on photographic emulsions described in Part 1.
Date: September 7, 1948
Creator: Horning, W. & Baumhoff, L.
System: The UNT Digital Library