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1982

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Evidence For Coupling Of Velocity And Composition Fluctuations In A Binary Liquid Mixture, James V. Maher, Nalini Easwar, W. I. Goldburg, M. Joshua Dec 1982

Evidence For Coupling Of Velocity And Composition Fluctuations In A Binary Liquid Mixture, James V. Maher, Nalini Easwar, W. I. Goldburg, M. Joshua

Physics: Faculty Publications

A critical mixture of isobutyric acid and water was quenched from the one-phase region into the two-phase region and, after the spinodal ring was well developed, a reverse quench returned the system to the one-phase region. Light-scattering measurements for this process exhibit a clearly nondiffusive relaxation which, at least for early times after the quench reversal, is in good agreement with Ruiz's scheme for the coupling of velocity and composition fluctuations.


Fine Structure Of Rydberg States. V. N=5 And 6f And G States Of He4, John W. Farley, Doreen A. Weinberger, Shin Sheng Tarng, Nancy D. Piltch, William H. Wing Jan 1982

Fine Structure Of Rydberg States. V. N=5 And 6f And G States Of He4, John W. Farley, Doreen A. Weinberger, Shin Sheng Tarng, Nancy D. Piltch, William H. Wing

Physics: Faculty Publications

We have made 17 new high-precision measurements of the nF-nG intervals (n=5,6) of neutral He4 using the microwave-optical method. The rms one-standard-deviation experimental uncertainty for the transitions reported here is 188 kHz (14 ppm). The new measurements agree with the predictions of a least-squares fit to previous experimental data, and are up to 40 times more precise. The nF-nG manifold is now known experimentally to better than 1 MHz for all values of the quantum numbers. The precision of the experimental measurement exceeds that of the best currently available theory by approximately three orders of magnitude.