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James Van Allen journal, 1951?-December 1954
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Sir James Jeans "Dynamical Theory of Gases" Cambridge (1930) L. B. Loeb "Kinetic Theory of Gases" McGraw Hill (1927) E. H. Kennard "Kinetic Theory of Gases" McGraw-Hill, New York (1938) R. B. Lindsay "Introduction to Physical Statistics" [publisher:?] John Wiley (1941) --------------------------------------------------------------- 11 July 1951 [red pencil mark here:] Idea for a way to beat the Landau fluctuation of energy loss (and hence fluctuation of pulse height and of Z identification in a scintillator telescope : [sketch/picture] drawing of two squares ((S sub 1) and (S sub 2)) on a line (Having in mind high altitude experiments on high Z and other high energy loss particles) The Landau spread is for each [sketch/picture] graph of N(S) versus increasing S, tall bell-shaped data, with "relatively sharp" start, and "long tail off" end N(s)dS = probability of size in [8th Std S?]
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Sir James Jeans "Dynamical Theory of Gases" Cambridge (1930) L. B. Loeb "Kinetic Theory of Gases" McGraw Hill (1927) E. H. Kennard "Kinetic Theory of Gases" McGraw-Hill, New York (1938) R. B. Lindsay "Introduction to Physical Statistics" [publisher:?] John Wiley (1941) --------------------------------------------------------------- 11 July 1951 [red pencil mark here:] Idea for a way to beat the Landau fluctuation of energy loss (and hence fluctuation of pulse height and of Z identification in a scintillator telescope : [sketch/picture] drawing of two squares ((S sub 1) and (S sub 2)) on a line (Having in mind high altitude experiments on high Z and other high energy loss particles) The Landau spread is for each [sketch/picture] graph of N(S) versus increasing S, tall bell-shaped data, with "relatively sharp" start, and "long tail off" end N(s)dS = probability of size in [8th Std S?]
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