MATHEMATICS PANEL QUARTERLY PROGRESS REPORT FOR PERIOD ENDING JULY 31, 1952

Technical Report · Mon Oct 27 00:00:00 EST 1952

OSTI ID:4342036

Perry, C.L. ed.

The background and status of the following projects of the Mathematics Panel are reported: test problems for the ORAC arithmetic units errors in matrix operations; basic studies in the Monte Carlo methods A Sturm-Liouville problems approximate steady-state solution of the equation of continuity; estimation of volume of lymph space; xradiation effects on respiration rates in grasshopper embnyos; temperature effects in irradiation experiments with yeast; LD/sub 50/ estimation for burros and swine exposed to gamma radiation; thermal-neutron penetration in tissues; kinetics of HBr-HBrO/sub 3/ reaction; isotope effect in reaction rate constants; experimental determination of diffusivity coefficientss Dirac wave equationss fitting a calibration curves beta decay (field factors); neutron decay theorys calculation of internal conversion coefficients with screening; estimation of alignment ratios; optimum allocation of counting times calculation of coincidence probabilities for a double-crystal detectors reactor inequalities; heat flow in long rectangular tubes; solving an equation by numerical methods; numerical integration; evalvation of a functions depigmentation of a biological dosimeter. (L.M.T.)

• Research Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab., Tenn.
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-26
• NSA Number: NSA-12-008588
• OSTI ID: 4342036
• Report Number(s): ORNL-1360(Del.)
• Resource Relation: Other Information: Decl. with deletions Feb. 22, 1957. Orig. Receipt Date: 31-DEC-58
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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