A rigorous treatment of the phase rule

Summary After a critical analysis of the literature, the traditional formulation of the phase rule proposed by Gibbs is stated in a different form and is proved rigorously, together with Gibbs' conjecture on the maximum number of coexisting phases. A new statement of Gibbs' phase rule is proved for closed systems. Then, Hatsopoulos-Keenan's formulation of the phase rule is restated and proved, both for open and for closed systems. The whole treatment of the phase rule presented in this paper holds both in the presence and in the absence of chemical reactions.     

Comments on the mean spherical approximation for hard-core and soft potentials and an application to the one-component plasma

The thermodynamic properties of the mean spherical (MSA), Percus-Yevick (PY), and hypernetted-chain (HNC) approximations are derived by a simple and unified approach by considering the RPA free-energy functionalF and employing an Ewald-type identity. It is demonstrated that with decreasing relative contribution of the hard-core insertion to the thermodynamic functions, the MSA changes its nature from PY-like to HNC-like, withF changing its role from excess pressure to excess free energy, respectively. It is found that the condition of continuity of the MSA pair functions is equivalent to a stationarity condition forF and leads to thermodynamic consistency between the virial and energy equations of state for the (thus defined) soft-MSA (SMSA), withF playing the role of the excess free energy. It is shown that the PY-compressibility and virial equations of state forD-dimensional hard spheres may be simply obtained one from the other without knowing any details of the solution of the model. Using this relation we find an indication that the PY approximation for hard spheres becomes less accurate with increasing dimensionality. A general variational formulation is presented for the application of the MSA for soft potentials, and results for the one-component plasma are discussed and extended.On sabbatical leave from the Nuclear Research Center-Negev, P.O. Box 9001, Beer Sheva, Israel.     

Nonlinear distribution function for a plasma obeying Vlasov-Maxwell system of equations

The nonlinear distribution function of Allis, generalised to include the transverse electromagnetic waves in a plasma, is used to set up the coupled wave equations for the longitudinal and the transverse modes. These are solved, keeping terms up to the cubic order of nonlinearity, by using the method of multiple scales. The equations of wave modulation are derived, which are solved to discuss the nature of the modulational instability and solitary wave propagation. It is found that the solutions so obtained satisfy conditions which are very similar to the well known Lighthill criterion for stability, appropriately modified due to the coupling of the two modes. The role of the average constant current due to any flow of the resonant and trapped electrons in determining the stability, is also discussed.     

弹簧摆动力学行为演示仪

在非线性保守系统中,弹簧摆结构简单,运动特性较为典型.本文通过拉格朗日方程对弹簧摆系统进行理论分析解得运动方程,并在径向和切向将运动分解,运用图像处理技术设计制作了弹簧摆演示仪和实验软件,对运动轨迹与时序图进行可视化.软件绘制的弹簧摆轨迹与理论结果具有较好的一致性.     

KrVI离子能级和振子强度的理论计算

利用组态相互作用理论和参数外推法,计算了KrVI离子4s~24p—4s4p~2、4s~24p—4s~24d和4s4p~2—4p~3跃迁的能级、谱线波长和振子强度。与已有实验结果比较表明:波长的理论计算值与观测值在0.7A内很好符合,振子强度的理论计算值较大的跃迁均是实验中观测到的跃迁。     

Euler characteristic and related measures for random geometric sets

By an elementary calculation we obtain the exact mean values of Minkowksi functionals for a standard model of percolating sets. In particular, a recurrence theorem for the mean Euler characteristic recently put forward is shown to be incorrect. Related previous mathematical work is mentioned. We also conjecture bounds for the threshold density of continuum percolation, which are associated with the Euler characteristic.     

自集成透镜InGaAsP／InPDHLED及其离子束铣技术

本文报道在国内首次采用离子束铣技术研制自集成透镜InGaAsP/InP DH LED的实验结果。采用烘烤正性光致抗蚀剂来形成球状掩膜适合于离子束铣,且重复性很好。为了获得光洁的刻蚀表面,刻蚀条件均已最优化。     

Power-mode theorems for guided acoustic waves in piezoelectric media

Relationships between complex power flow pseudo energy, propagation constant and complex frequency are presented for acoustic waves in piezoelectric media. These relationships are essentially energy-power equations which apply to anisotropic, nonconservative, dispersive, linear systems, analogous to those obtained by Chorney and Penfield for guided electromagnetic waves. At vanishing piezoelectric coupling the powermode theorems split into a proper electromagnetic set and a proper mechanical set. By differentiating the power-mode equations with respect to the complex frequency further results are obtained linking the group velocity with power flow and energy storage. Conclusions may be drawn from these expressions regarding the signature of the dispersion (forward or backward waves). The equipartition of pseudo energy is established at cut-off, and the vanishing of the complex power flow at resonance. Examples including wave propagation in lossless and lossy media are included.