THE DESIGN OF A LABORATORY EXPERIMENT TO STUDY THE EARLY HISTORY OF A NUCLEAR EXPLOSION ABOVE THE EARTH'S ATMOSPHERE BUT WITHIN THE EARTH'S MAGNETIC FIELD. VOLUME II.

Abstract

Contents: Thermalization of counterstreaming plasmas; Electric probe experiments; The use of magnetic probes to measure the field in a magnetic piston; Calibration of a magnetic probe; Liquid-metal instability experiments.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 16, 1960
Accession Number
AD0430531

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Atmospheres
  • Calibration
  • Explosions
  • Instability
  • Laboratory Procedures
  • Liquid Metals
  • Liquids
  • Magnetic Fields
  • Nuclear Explosions

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Combustion and Flow Dynamics.
  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Plasma Physics / Magnetohydrodynamics