Doklady Physics -- March 2003 Volume 48, Issue 3, pp. 103-158 PHYSICS Modified Darcy Laws Allowing for Electromagnetic Fields Kh. Kh. Imomnazarov pp. 103-104 Full Text: PDF (30 kB) Rotation of the Speckle Pattern in an Absorbing Optical Fiber When Changing the Circular-Polarization Sign of Propagating Light N. R. Sadykov pp. 105-107 Full Text: PDF (39 kB) On the Nature of Ball Lightning V. P. Torchigin pp. 108-111 Full Text: PDF (60 kB) Determination of the EAS Cascade-Curve Shape by the Radio Method V. A. Tsarev and V. A. Chechin pp. 112-115 Full Text: PDF (59 kB) Interface Between Direct and Reverse Flows Inside a High-Frequency Inductive Discharge A. V. Gerasimov and A. P. Kirpichnikov pp. 116-118 Full Text: PDF (36 kB) Stimulation of the Partial Oxidation of Methane in a Microwave Discharge V. D. Rusanov, A. I. Babaritskii, E. N. Gerasimov, M. A. Deminskii, S. A. Demkin, V. K. Zhivotov, A. S. Moskovskii, B. V. Potapkin, R. V. Smirnov, and M. I. Strelkova pp. 119-122 Full Text: PDF (65 kB) TECHNICAL PHYSICS Mechanical Properties of a Material at Ultrahigh Strain Rates Induced by a Laser Shock Wave D. Batani, V. I. Vovchenko, G. I. Kanel, A. V. Kilpio, I. K. Krasyuk, I. V. Lomonosov, P. P. Pashinin, A. Yu. Semenov, V. E. Fortov, and E. V. Shashkov pp. 123-125 Full Text: PDF (50 kB) MECHANICS Physical Features of High-Velocity Interaction of Elongated Technogenic Fragments with Constructions A. V. Radchenko, V. E. Fortov, and I. E. Khorev pp. 126-130 Full Text: PDF (81 kB) Developing the Concept of the Strain Rate Intensity Factor in Plasticity Theory S. E. Aleksandrov, R. V. Goldshtein, and E. A. Lyamina pp. 131-133 Full Text: PDF (45 kB) Method of Factorizing a Solution to Some Boundary-Value Problems V. A. Babeshko and O. M. Babeshko pp. 134-137 Full Text: PDF (58 kB) Global Optimality and Uniqueness in the Problem of Minimizing Loss of Total Pressure V. N. Malozemov and A. V. Omel'chenko pp. 138-141 Full Text: PDF (47 kB) Vibrations of an Elastic Half-Space with a Set of Rigid Inclusions O. D. Pryakhina, A. V. Smirnova, A. A. Evdokimov, and M. S. Kapustin pp. 142-145 Full Text: PDF (53 kB) Launching and Impact of a Group of High-Velocity Bodies I. E. Khorev, V. K. Yakushev, S. A. Zelepugin, V. N. Sidorov, and V. E. Fortov pp. 146-150 Full Text: PDF (535 kB) Partial-Equilibrium Positions of Nonlinear Dynamic Systems: Their Stability and Stability with Respect to Some of Variables V. I. Vorotnikov pp. 151-155 Full Text: PDF (76 kB) Two Integrable Systems on a Two-Dimensional Sphere I. S. Mamaev pp. 156-158 Full Text: PDF (46 kB)