Doklady Physics -- October 2004 Volume 49, Issue 10, pp. 549-616 PHYSICS A New Method of Producing Subnanosecond High-Current Electron Beams S. B. Alekseev, V. P. Gubanov, V. M. Orlovskii, V. S. Skakun, and V. F. Tarasenko pp. 549-552 Full Text: PDF (55 kB) Manifestation of Optical Quadratic Nonlinearity in Gas Mixtures V. P. Torchigin and A. V. Torchigin pp. 553-555 Full Text: PDF (44 kB) TECHNICAL PHYSICS Characteristics of Shock-Wave Loading of AMg6M Aluminum Alloy under Spall Conditions V. I. Vovchenko, I. K. Krasyuk, P. P. Pashinin, and A. Yu. Semenov pp. 556-558 Full Text: PDF (172 kB) Pulse-Shape Synthesis Using the Best-Filtration Criterion for Signals Emitted by Super-Broadband Antennas M. Ya. Izrailovich and L. D. Bakhrakh pp. 559-563 Full Text: PDF (58 kB) Orientation Dependence of gamma–epsilon–alpha[prime] Martensitic Transformations in Single Crystals of Austenitic Stainless Steel with a Low Stacking-Fault Energy I. V. Kireeva, Yu. I. Chumlyakov, V. A. Kirillov, and S. P. Efimenko pp. 564-569 Full Text: PDF (174 kB) Relaxation Mechanisms and Different Paths of Defect-Structure Evolution under Severe Plastic Deformations A. M. Glezer and V. A. Pozdnyakov pp. 570-572 Full Text: PDF (39 kB) ASTRONOMY, ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY Natural Phenomena and the Substance in the Ablation Trail of the Vitim Meteoroid (September 25, 2002) V. S. Antipin, S. A. Yazev, M. I. Kuz'min, A. B. Perepelov, S. V. Efremov, M. A. Mitichkin, and A. V. Ivanov pp. 573-577 Full Text: PDF (216 kB) A Model for Scattering of Small-Size Cosmic-Body Fragments in the Planetary Atmosphere A. G. Ivanov and V. A. Ryzhanskii pp. 578-582 Full Text: PDF (72 kB) MECHANICS Stability of Kolmogorov Flow in a Channel with Rigid Walls E. I. Oparina and O. V. Troshkin pp. 583-587 Full Text: PDF (53 kB) On the Rigidity of Nearly Periodic Paths in the Joukowski Sense and Properties of Ultimate Motions in Dynamic Systems O. V. Druzhinina and A. A. Shestakov pp. 588-592 Full Text: PDF (72 kB) Stability of Motion of a Solid in the Steklov's Case A. P. Markeev pp. 593-597 Full Text: PDF (69 kB) A Model of an Asymmetric Weakened Zone in Problems of Interaction Between Cracklike Defects in an Elastic Medium I. V. Simonov pp. 598-602 Full Text: PDF (63 kB) Invariant Integrals in Problems of a Crack at the Locus of Inhomogeneity and in Contact Problems A. M. Khludnev pp. 603-607 Full Text: PDF (72 kB) Blocking of a Rayleigh Wave by a Subsurface Crack E. V. Glushkov, N. V. Glushkova, and E. M. Shapar pp. 608-613 Full Text: PDF (269 kB) On Conclusions of the Action-Inversion Equation in the Case of Heat Removal in the Nozzle of a Liquid-Fuel Jet Engine L. E. Sternin pp. 614-616 Full Text: PDF (36 kB)