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Thomson South-Western Financial Accounting In An Economic Context 3Rd Edition 1996 by Jamie Pratt
1 Introduction: Charles Townes as I Have Known Him.- 2 Methane Optical Frequency Standard.- 2.1 Introduction.- 2.2 Two-mode He-Ne Laser with a Methane Absorption Cell.- 2.3 Absolute Frequency Measurements.- 2.4 Determination of the Unperturbed Transition Frequency(? = 3.39 ?m).- 2.5 Theoretical Estimates of Methane Standard Accuracy.- 2.5.1 Second-order Doppler Effect.- 2.5.2 Detuning of the Active and Absorption Line Centers.- 2.5.3 Transverse Inhomogeneity of the Gain.- 2.6 Future Possibilities.- 3 Mid-infrared Lines as Astrophysical Diagnostics: Two Decades of Problems and Promise.- 3.1 Youthful Enthusiasm.- 3.2 General Confusion.- 3.3 Maybe We Know What We're Doing After All.- 3.4 Conclusion.- 4 The Laser Stabilitron.- 4.1 Background.- 4.2 Method of Intensity Stabilization.- 4.3 Coupled Field Equations and Photon Noise.- 4.4 Possible Systems for Realizing a Stabilitron.- 5 Self-Regulated Star Formation in Molecular Clouds.- 5.1 Introduction.- 5.2 Structure and Stability of Molecular Clouds.- 5.2.1 Gravitational Stability.- 5.2.2 The Dissipation Problem.- 5.3 Self-Regulated Star Formation.- 5.3.1 Energy Gain: Low-Mass Star Formation.- 5.3.2 Equilibrium Star Formation Rate.- 5.3.3 Photoionization-regulated Star Formation.- 5.3.4 Self-regulated Equilibrium States.- 5.4 Discussion.- 5.5 Summary.- 5.6 Acknowledgments.- 6 Long-baseline Interferometric Imaging at 11 Microns with 30 Milliarcsecond Resolution.- 6.1 Introduction.- 6.2 The Infrared Spatial Interferometer.- 6.3 Highlights of Recent Results from the ISI.- 6.3.1 Broad Conclusions on Dust Shell Characteristics.- 6.3.2 Masers.- 6.4 Direct Inversion of Visibility Data.- 6.4.1 Methodology.- 6.4.2 Results.- 6.5 Conclusions.- 6.6 Acknowledgments.- 7 Ammonia in the Giant Planets.- 7.1 Introduction.- 7.2 The Upper Atmospheres of Jupiter and Saturn.- 7.3 The Collision of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 with Jupiter.- 7.4 Acknowledgments.- 8 Collision Broadening and Radio-frequency Spectroscopy.- 8.1 Prehistory.- 8.2 Emission Spectroscopy.- 8.3 Laboratory Measurements of Microwave Absorption.- 8.4 The Inversion Spectrum of Ammonia.- 8.5 Further Studies of Collision Broadening at Oxford.- 8.6 High Resolution Microwave Spectroscopy.- 8.7 The Switch to Electron Paramagnetic Resonance.- 8.8 Atomic and Molecular Beams.- 8.9 Conclusion.- 8.10 Postscript.- 9 Meeting Charles H. Townes.- 10 Population Inversion and Superluminality.- 10.1 Introduction: The Ammonia Maser Revisited.- 10.2 Historical Review of Some Faster-than-Light Phenomena.- 10.3 Theory of Wave Packet Propagation in Transparent, Population-inverted Media.- 10.4 The Kramers-Kronig Relations Necessitate Superluminality.- 10.5 Considerations of Energy and of Superposition.- 10.6 Einstein Causality, and Sommerfeld and Brillouin's Wave Velocities.- 10.7 An Experiment in an Optically Pumped Rubidium Vapor Cell.- 10.8 Concluding Personal Remarks.- 10.9 Acknowledgments.- 11 The Autler-Townes Effect Revisited.- 11.1 Introduction.- 11.2 Dressed-atom Approach to the Autler-Townes Effect.- 11.3 The Autler-Townes Effect in the Optical Domain.- 11.3.1 Case of Two Optical Transitions Sharing a Common Level.- 11.3.2 Single Optical Transition-The Mollow Triplet.- 11.4 The Autler-Townes Effect in Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics.- 11.5 Doublets of Dressed States with a Position-dependent Rabi Frequency.- 11.5.1 Gradient (or Dipole) Forces.- 11.5.2 High Intensity Sisyphus Effect.- 12 Parity Nonconservation in Atoms and Searches for Permanent Electric Dipole Moments.- 12.1 Introduction.- 12.2 Parity Nonconservation in Atoms.- 12.2.1 General Background.- 12.2.2 PNC Experiments.- 12.3 Search for Electric Dipole Moments.- 12.4 A Brief Personal Note.- 13 Stark Dynamics and Saturation in Resonant Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Spectroscopy.- 13.1 Introduction.- 13.2 Weak Ground State Coupling Limit.- 13.3 Pure Raman Saturation.- 13.4 Full Resonance.- 14 A Raman Study of Fluorinated Ethanes Adsorbed on Zeolite NaX.- 14.1 Introduction.- 14.2 Experimental.- 14.