Radiation From an Electric Charge

The conditions in which electromagnetic radiation is formed are discussed. It is found that the main condition for the emission of radiation by an electric charge is the existence of a relative acceleration between the charge and its electric field. Such a situation exists both for a charge accelerated in a free space, and for a charge supported at rest in a gravitational field. Hence, in such situations, the charges radiate. It is also shown that relating radiation to the relative acceleration between a charge and its electric field, solves several difficulties that existed in earlier approaches, like the energy balance paradox, and the relativistic nature of the observation of the emitted radiation.     

Conductometric titration of metal acetates in aqueous medium

Fifteen metal acetates in aqueous medium have been conductometrically titrated with trichloro-acetic acid. The method has been applied to the titration of mono- and bivalent metals and angles at the equivalence point are sharp enough to allow accurate results to be obtained. Metal salts of acids weaker than acetic can be determined following solution in an excess of acetic acid and titration, because the weaker acid which is displaced does not interfere.     

Glauber dynamics on trees and hyperbolic graphs

We study continuous time Glauber dynamics for random configurations with local constraints (e.g. proper coloring, Ising and Potts models) on finite graphs with n vertices and of bounded degree. We show that the relaxation time (defined as the reciprocal of the spectral gap |₁–₂|) for the dynamics on trees and on planar hyperbolic graphs, is polynomial in n. For these hyperbolic graphs, this yields a general polynomial sampling algorithm for random configurations. We then show that for general graphs, if the relaxation time ₂ satisfies ₂=O(1), then the correlation coefficient, and the mutual information, between any local function (which depends only on the configuration in a fixed window) and the boundary conditions, decays exponentially in the distance between the window and the boundary. For the Ising model on a regular tree, this condition is sharp.Research supported by Microsoft graduate fellowship.Supported by a visiting position at INRIA and a PostDoc at Microsoft research.Research supported by NSF Grants DMS-0104073, CCR-0121555 and a Miller Professorship at UC Berkeley.Acknowledgement We are grateful to David Aldous, David Levin, Laurent Saloff-Coste and Peter Winkler for useful discussions. We thank Dror Weitz for helpful comments on [19].