Doklady Physics -- January 2003 Volume 48, Issue 1, pp. 1-55 PHYSICS Features of the Electrode Erosion for Discharge-Current Amplitudes above 105 A A. A. Bogomaz, A. V. Budin, V. A. Kolikov, M. É. Pinchuk, A. A. Pozubenkov, and Ph. G. Rutberg pp. 1-4 Full Text: PDF (145 kB) Possible Relation between Optical Breakdown and Metallization of Extremely Pure Transparent Dielectrics S. V. Karpenko, A. P. Savintsev, and A. I. Temrokov pp. 5-8 Full Text: PDF (51 kB) Novel Designs of Semiconductor Lasers V. A. Gelovani and V. I. Shveikin pp. 9-12 Full Text: PDF (57 kB) The Critical Point of an Exothermic Reactor A. Yu. Dovzhenko, M. Dovzhenko, L. B. Mashkinov, and É. N. Rumanov pp. 13-17 Full Text: PDF (300 kB) Self-Similar Rotation of a Toroidal Plasma Configuration N. D. Naumov pp. 18-20 Full Text: PDF (41 kB) Production and Properties of Europium Polytantalate Single Crystals V. S. Vasil'ev, M. M. Pinaeva, and G. F. Pinaev pp. 21-23 Full Text: PDF (141 kB) Cavitation and Thermonuclear Fusion. Estimates of the Parameters and a Possible Method of Obtaining Positive Energy Balance V. A. Namiot pp. 24-29 Full Text: PDF (255 kB) TECHNICAL PHYSICS Solid-State Synthesis and Martensitic Transformations in Thin Films V. G. Myagkov, L. E. Bykova, and G. N. Bondarenko pp. 30-33 Full Text: PDF (58 kB) Features of Thermoelastic Martensitic Transformations in [001] Titanium–Nickel Single Crystals E. Yu. Panchenko, I. V. Kireeva, Yu. I. Chumlyakov, V. B. Aksenov, S. P. Efimenko, I. Karaman, and H. Sehitogly pp. 34-37 Full Text: PDF (56 kB) MECHANICS Conditions of Stability in the Sense of Joukowski for the Orbits of Equations of Celestial Mechanics O. V. Druzhinina pp. 38-41 Full Text: PDF (51 kB) Some Properties of the Set of Homogeneous Solutions of Elasticity Theory G. G. Sebryakov, M. D. Kovalenko, and N. N. Tsybin pp. 42-45 Full Text: PDF (56 kB) Description of Dynamic Effects Accompanying Vibrations of Strings Near T-Beam Stops V. L. Krupenin pp. 46-50 Full Text: PDF (77 kB) Sound Scattering in a Wake beyond a Vortex Ring in a Continuously Stratified Liquid V. E. Prokhorov and Yu. D. Chashechkin pp. 51-55 Full Text: PDF (436 kB)